News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal Engine 5. Parent comment

Re:CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal E... by bravetraveler on Thursday October 27, 2022 @03:08PM (#33362466)
While it's surely a constant, I think the entertainment industries at large have really started to milk the nostalgia cow hard

I could say a bunch of soft science things like, go with a sure thing in an uncertain market, blah blah. I think it's simply easier

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal E... by conductr on Thursday October 27, 2022 @03:25PM (#33362725)
The start was about 20 years ago, but I do agree
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal E... by ska on Thursday October 27, 2022 @03:28PM (#33362769)
It seems the start is always ~20 years ago from when you talk about, regardless of when you talk about this sort of thing.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal E... by conductr on Thursday October 27, 2022 @03:39PM (#33362939)
It’s when it’s ready for a reboot! I strongly associate it with the movie industry running out of new ideas after the 90s. Episode 1 was 1999 for example, before that most people thought Star Wars was over. Then the marvel stuff.

But maybe that’s just me being nostalgic since that’s also around the time I began being an adult. It does seem convenient how it’s usually timed out so that parents can geek out with their kids; so the industry inherits a new generation of fans. My recent example of that is how apparently Pokémon is very popular again. I was too old to care in the 90s but those kids now have kids of similar age as they were at the time.

[ Parent | on HN ]