Original Joel always looked like a weird monkey man to me.
It’s literally a brand new, true current generation release. $70 is definitely justified.
I doubt they're going to change the story too much, if at all, we've been told that all the cutscene performances/voice lines are pulled directly from the first game, what's going to change here is going to be the gameplay, level design and enviroments which will take full advantage of their new engine and be just like Part II but the original game still holds up extremely in terms of graphics however the gameplay is dated by today's standards, which is fine since the game came out nearly a decade ago for the PS3 but the remake will definitely be a more enjoyable game to play.
Rose tinted glasses, $70 price tag and hatred for Part II are the main reasons, I do agree that the price for video games has gotten ridiculous but so has the price of pretty much everything, taking into account this is an actual remake that fully utilizes new gen hardware and gives us much better gameplay and graphics the price is easier to accept, I mean it's not like they just ported the game yet again and sold it for the same price like many other studios have done in the past and most importantly it's coming to PC, I feel like everyone forgets that, a title like TLOU finally coming to PC is huge and I can't wait to play it with maxed out settings on my RTX 3090, it's going to be a treat!
They’re not gonna change the story, it’s just a remake to update the visuals and gameplay.
The remastered version looks really good already, but for a 1st experience the remake will be pretty special.
The game was completely remade on the TLOU2 engine so it's new graphics, new enviroments, new gameplay, new accessibility options, etc, it's basically TLOU1 story with TLOU2 gameplay and graphics, cutscenes are extremely faithful because they were remade using the old performance mocap and voice lines, the bulk of the difference is going to be just the gameplay and some enviroments will likely change to fit the new gameplay style, so it's not just a lazy reskin of the original, technically it's a brand new game it's just not a true "remake" in the sense it changes a lot of the story I suppose that's one of the reasons they called it "TLOU Part I" instead of "TLOU Remake".
There's really nothing from the first game that they can change that would make it fit better into part 2. You already know Joel dies, his death is a ramification for a choice he decides to make during the first game and that sets part 2 into motion. It's explored heavily in part 2 in some flashbacks that bridge the gap. So if they changed anything in this new version, it would likely contradict the sequel.
$70 is the new industry standard. There's more and more money going into gaming now than ever. Talent and actors cost more than ever, modern technology is more expensive, these games take a tremendous amount of man hours to make. And this game is essentially a brand new video game. We know the story and the music and audio lines will be the same, but everything else will feel brand new. So it actually is an RE2 situation where it is a brand new game.
It's a full remake from the ground up, it's not just a remaster. They're updating the AI, gameplay, everything. It is essentially a brand new game with the same story.
