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Video games are the one thing I wouldn’t mind a straight remake with modern graphics. I hate it with movies, but I’m surprised it hasn’t been mined more often with games.

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I thought the relaunched The Secret of Monkey Island on Steam actually lost something with it's remade graphics

You can switch to/from the original form any time with F10.

Thanks. I was also disappointed with the change in graphics, but I will try this.

I know, but it still doesn't look right on high dpi monitors! I also found a psychological barrier where I knew I could have modern graphics just by pressing f10 again. Silly I know.

The point remains true, the old graphics made beautiful use of meagre resources

I thought the remade graphics were as insulting as the Indiana Jones 4 movie, and thus decided they never existed. EDIT: Typo

I have the sneaking suspicion that if they'd remake ONLY the graphics, you'd hate it. The reason is that those hold games usually have horrendous gameplay/controls. You kind of accept it because they look old. But if they didn't, I think you'd notice it.

Not all old games had horrendous gameplay nor control... For example, on an Amstrad CPC, Gryzor or Titan schools most games released these days ;).

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