TLOU Part 1 is way better than TLOU Remastered, which was, until the remake was released, the best game ever made.
I have said it before, but if you want to put out a remake and you're thinking "should we do this", if by releasing said remake you will have immediately published the best video game that has ever been released, go ahead. They could remake it again when the HBO show is done, for all I care. Until someone else makes a better piece of storytelling in this medium and takes the crown, anyway. I mean, it's been ten years - you'd think someone else would have managed it.
In fairness it absolutely is a money grab to try to capitalize on an HBO show but I don't really care. It's a game worth paying for multiple times at full price, as far as I'm concerned. Of all the brazen money-grabs that game developers go for this one is, to me, completely innocuous - it's not like they added loot boxes or pay to win mechanics. As for the "time could have been spent elsewhere", it apparently didn't take THAT long, given how short the window was from announcement to release.
I want more remakes in the AAA space... most new AAA games are aggressively mediocre.
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