So in some videogame related news, Atlus just announced and posted a trailer for a remake of Persona 3. Pretty normal gaming news right? Yet the response I've seen on reddit and elsewhere has literally been batshit crazy.
They announced that it was gonna be a straight up remake and not include any of the portable content (Which added a female main character route). This has people I guess losing their fucking minds calling it misogynistic and "heteronormative" or other crap about how they're gonna boycott Atlus and not buy the game and yada yada yada.
Like who cares? It's a remake, they can make it however they want. Not to mention the female mc they're creaming over was only in the portable remake and never mentioned in any of the official works. Yet these people are foaming at the mouth over it? Have videogamers always been this crazy, like is a portable spinoff character from 14 years ago worth to sperg over? I just don't understand it and wonder if I'm alone in it.
For those wondering, the ENTIRE cast is being recast in English, not just "certain actors deemed evil by progressives."
I have always wondered why remakes do this so often. Is it like a government agency trying to justify their budget? Generally the quality of voiceovers isn't what needs to improve. Now in cases like System Shock some of the original voice acting was atrocious and redoing everything is a good idea. For something like Dead Space why can't they literally use the same audio clips? Are people going to criticize them for that? Another one that comes to mind was Metal Gear The Twin Snakes, the remake of MGS for Gamecube. I thought the original voices were fine.
The amount of screaming over the MGS 3 remake I saw for using the same dialog leads me to believe a ton of people actually want it. That's just the screaming I came across trying to learn about the mouse cursor showing on Ground Zeroes. I haven't looked up anything specific on that remake, I'm not even sure I'm interested in it.