Remaking games

Game remaking, HD versions and re launching on newer platforms is something I've been hearing quite a lot these days. It's not surprise as there are a huge number of incredibly good games that would have been even better if they had better graphics.

I can personally thinks of many Gameboy titles that I would love to play again such as Advance wars or Final Fantasy Advance tactics. 

In some cases like the recent release of the HD version of Final Fantasy X and X-2, had some improvements including model and textures re touching, better lightning, higher definition on pre rendered scenes, better camera angles, and now it plays on a 16:9 widescreen.

There have been other titles that have got a complete make over, like the case of Kingdom Hearts Chains of Memories, that was originally made for the GBA and was entirely in 2d pixel form. On the release of Kingdom Hearts Final mix it featured as a fully 3D remake along side with the HD version of the first entry and other bonuses.

This entire process for all cases, whether is remake or just enhancing, must be quite a laborious process to keep the fans satisfy. I'm pretty certain that as technology advances, we'll be seeing this scenario more and more often, specially with big franchises.