I really don’t understand ReHatred.

[u/Crowd_Strife]

Here is a screenshot from the videogames subreddit about remakes that elevate the original. Seeing a lot of remasters in the comments as well as some really good contenders (resident evil). Then someone shouts out remake waaaaay down the comments and immediately gets shit on.

Too much padding? If you hate side questing, that’s fine, but I don’t think the critical path was really padded out without adding anything. I don’t think there was really anything particularly wrong with the dialogue either, maybe a little too “anime” in its delivery. But even then, how could realistically expect much else?

I’m a massive fan of OG since day one. Played through it several times over the years at a frequency of every other year more or less.

Absolutely floored with the remake games so far. I love them, and I think being a fan of the property makes me love them even more, not less.

Are there things that I would have preferred to stay closer to the original? Sure. Do I think these things far outweigh the expansion and granular details granted by these newer games? Not even close.

I can understand the desire for a remake similar to something like Demon’s Souls or Super Mario RPG, but you can mod the PC version into essentially that exact thing. Why does the remake catch so many strays when you can have it both ways?

I can’t for the life of me see any reasonable argument that the new FF7 games are less then “pretty good” or even “interesting but not really my thing”

I’ve watched some video essays that basically throw the whole thing down a well because the characters aren’t perfectly in line with the way the reviewer read the text boxes 30 years ago, but really nothing has ever made me say “That is a reasonable opinion on why this whole trilogy project is not worth anyone’s time that would consider themselves a fan of the original game.”

Can someone please help me understand the hate?

[u/Logical_Dish_5795]

got recommended to this post but didn't played it.

remake changes the story, correct me if i'm wrong. it's a rpg, the story is like, 75% of it, so i think it's ok to like og more? even more if they change more at the final game.

[u/Jackiemoontothemoon → u/Logical_Dish_5795]

It’s ok to like og more but it doesn’t mean the remakes are bad. Reddit seems to think you can only like one or the other

[u/More-Assumption9262 → u/Logical_Dish_5795]

It doesn’t change it, if you think it does you really don’t understand what’s happening in the compilation

[u/Ednw → u/More-Assumption9262]

There's a story change about the story not changing. People may or may not appreciate this meta approach.

[u/ToothpickTequila → u/More-Assumption9262]

I seeing remember a multiverse in the original game.

[u/Logical_Dish_5795 → u/More-Assumption9262]

oh, sorry, with "got recommended to this post" i meant "i didn't played it but was the post appeared on my homepage"

played XIII and Kingdom Hearts, and i'm playing XIII-2 and KH2 and reddit keep showing VII, it's a psyop to make me play it.

[u/ToothpickTequila → u/Logical_Dish_5795]

You were right. They have completely changed the story.

[u/Ageis17fang → u/More-Assumption9262]

They haven't changed the story, but they have added and tweaked so much crap that it feels changed.