Well, if the original company isn't producing or preserving, then there's massive reason to remake.

Nintendo's Virtual Console sucks [REDACTED] especially in the value department compared to GOG, and even more so on terms of price. GOG may not be the best price model, but as far as bars go, its a pretty good standard.

As for Capcom, I haven't a bloody clue what they're up to these days.

To me what makes games good is if they provide solid entertainment. Graphics are a tool, but they are not the be-all end-all of what makes a game work. Take the Spiderweb games here. Those are great games! They are entertaining, they tell good stories, and they bring back memories of pencil-and-paper role playing games more than any of the new graphically impressive RPGs now. I admit, I do love the Elder Scrolls series, but that's more because of the worlds and stories in the games.

I think many people are getting fed-up with the repetitive game play and the attitudes of some of the developers who insult the intelligence of anyone who doesn't like their games by resorting to name-calling and attacking other games for having no imagination.

Good luck in your game endeavor, and as long as you put your heart into what you are doing and do a good job, I'll gladly buy your game.

I am not claiming it is not also a design choice, more that there is a tentative point of no return once the technical possibilitys have developed as far as they have by now and complaining that games are not made in that manner anymore seems odd under that perspective.

Are you sure Hotline Miami can be considered 8 bit look? it's more like 16 bit look.

Right now I miss Wii Points because I tried getting Star Fox 64 with credit and they don't recognize Puerto Rico.

It's more like an "8 year old drawing in MS paint" look.
Unless someone started a trend by making a brilliant new game that looks like those games. And the thing about 8/16 bit style is that people just are more sentimental about it. I for one prefer the style of 2.5D shooters (like Doom and Duke 3D) and even early full 3D games like Quake and Tomb Raider over 16 bit JRPG stuff. >.<

They've whored out a Strider remake to an inept NA studio.

This. I've been developing games on my own for years now, and the biggest thing that keeps me from finishing projects is the fact that I'm not a very good artist. I can program, I can compose, I can write, I can design mechanics, but when it comes to art I'm just not good enough to do anything more than pixel art, if that. I CONSTANTLY have to come up with creative, fitting ways of disguising my lack of artistic skill. Interesting, minimalist art styles and the like. Why? Because my wife and I both work minimum wage jobs, and I simply cannot hire someone to do art for me. What's more, adding another person into the mix complicates the development process immensely. It takes away artistic freedom, as well as practical freedom (to do what projects you want when you want on your own schedule).

Also, I happen to really like the look of pixelated visuals. I think of them as a sort of videogame form of visual impressionism.
What sort of music are you looking for? I'm an experienced composer, and I have the resources for doing some midi tracks (although if you're looking for lush orchestral stuff, I simply don't have the libraries for that yet).

PM me if you're interested. I can send you some samples if you like. And as a fellow game designer, I wouldn't bleed you dry :)
Where do people get the idea that RE's horror came from the fixed camera? Although I've only played the gamecube remake (so the originals might be very different), I found that most of the tension came from resource limitations and the limited saves.

Unique settings don't sell so they are rightfully scared of them.

A Retro Release I am totally OK with ;-)

So basically you want Indie games to look like AAA games?

Yeah I'm sure they can pull the time and money needed for that while working their day jobs as an IT helpdesk

Here comes the green feces!

I don't know who and which post you're replying to exactly but OP complained about all games looking like 8/16 bit games. And hopefully you *are* aware that there's more than just 16 bit JRPG style visuals and AAA nextgen 3D stuff, including styles which are just as easy or only slightly harder to pull off than this friggin' boring 8/16 bit shit. Just take a look at some original visual styles of the DOS or Amiga era or later 90's stuff. Not to mention that people can also try actually being original and trying something new.

You can still buy the cards, locating them is another matter, but I'd rather see them sell the original Star Fox. I can understand why they may not have been able to get it working on the Wii, due to a laughable array of system limitations, including one of the dumbest size limitations that prevented many games from coming to the digital store because they all had to be under 50 megabytes.
...You mean that obscure looking Strider arcade game I might have watched on a longplay channel?
[Edit: Removing redundancy.]

Retro is getting old, or are we getting older? I just ordered Twin Famicom w/ Rock Man 5 for 170€ and i wish GOG would get those Sega Classics here as well :)