Well, they could still apply an extra motion blur, to give you the illusion that it runs faster.
Of course that would look like a runny nose tilted sideways, but you get the point, right?

This reminds me of the time Mars tried to convince everyone that "Three Musketeers" were "improved" because they had slightly changed the wrapper.

Well, at least the originals will still be here, rather than being removed entirely.

I'd rather have 4 back than these two games.

I have no nostalgia for the games, but man does this look terrible. Sorry, but whoever is responsible should be ashamed to advertise the use of some bad filter as HD.

So this crappy company, MojoTouch, has seen that you can acquire the rights to an old game and then re-release a 'remastered' version with minimal effort. This is potentially going to be a real problem, because there are many old games that aren't worth much to their owners but which are worth something to the players. We could be seeing the start of a wave of 'remaster-camping' for old games, fueled by the successes of more serious remastering companies such as Beamdog and Double Fine.

Crazy to me they think that kind of garbage filter is a selling point. Look at all the successful retro games the past handful of years, they have sharp pixels. That's what the vast majority want.

Anyway, I already own these here and as long as they still come with the originals I don't see a real problem. Just ignorance of a selling point.

My first thought was that a new version would be great. Then I watched the trailer and well... I hope you all buy the originals before these come out. It doesn't look all that impressive sadly.

I'd rather nail my testicles on a chair than play either 4 or 5.

Heads up: Flight of the Amazon Queen and Inherit the Earth may well be up next to suffer such a terrible fate. The company who created these ugly abominations of PC-to-mobile-to-PC ports also has those two titles, and Feeble Files, in their iOS and Android portfolio.

I really can't fathom how anyone, developer or player, old and used to low-res games or new and unfamiliar with pixel art, could ever even get the idea that this upscaled mush looks better than the original art.

These filters were an interesting experiment/joke in emulation scenes a couple of decades ago. Fun to implement and see what you could do. But nobody is likely to have ever used them to actually play a game. You turn them on for two minutes of giggles, and then go back to something you can actually look at.

Details get lost, proportions are distorted, straight lines turn into zig-zags and squiggles, animation artifacts lead to strangely fluctuating sprites... there are so many problems why these filters don't work in real life, that are immediately obvious to anyone who watches two seconds of a screen recording, that I really can't believe anyone could be serious in activating them by default. Has this company ever actually looked at their games?

One would think that a remastered edition should look better than the original one... the comparison to the screenshots from the originals tells a very different story; originals win, hands down.

*looks at the classics in library (and CDs) with affection*

As many others have said all that can be said about this sorry excuse of a re-release, I'll just say this - fine way to shit on the original games, and make money; what a sad industry trend.



Well, they already got their hands on Flight of the Amazon Queen, and gave it a mobile 20th Anniversary Edition...

Peeps who haven't gotten it yet, should add the game to their libraries before it gets tucked away in a remastered edition as a free bonus.

Bloody hell, this looks awful. An HQ2X filter? Are they serious? Have the devs behind "remasters" of old games still not figured out how butt ugly these filters look? I didn't like the HD visuals of Double Fine's LucasArts remasters but at least they could be arsed to actually redraw the sprites and backgrounds.

What a lazy cynical cash grab. If their real intention is to get me to buy the original Simon 2 at full-price before it's taken off the store, then mission accomplished. I'll get around to doing exactly that.

By all means buy it. The first two are fantastic hilarious games. Just as good, if not better than Monkey Island in my opinion.

What is the difference if the original will be a bonus goodie of the remaster?

My god, i was fooled, i've just watched trailer and it's unspeakable, how could they be so cheap!