7 Worst Remasters That Ruined Beloved Games 

The worst part about a lot of these remasters, especially GTA "Definitive Edition", is that it's active cultural erasure. Often the original versions are delisted from online stores once the remasters come out. It's the video game equivalent of if someone repainted the Mona Lisa and then took away the original painting so all anyone could see going forward was the repaint. Utterly reprehensible.

One of the most influential things that the original Monkey Island games did was give us countless list items from Andy

Honestly, Monkey Island games get a pass from me for including the option to just toggle to the original on the fly. That was a solid move, and from there, they can take whatever licenses they want with the "upscaled" version. It still lets you enjoy the old game the way it played on the old systems without having to figure out how to configure DOS Box or the like, and that's honestly a win in my books.

Think Conker's Bad Fur Day should get an honourable mention, for implementing censorship into a game that's about being vulgar. That and some of the animations were completely butchered/non-existant in the reloaded version.

Kudos to GTA for releasing such a disastrous remaster it inspired a whole list to be compiled

Man, I wonder what possible recent events could have inspired this list? It could have been… Oh. I literally didn’t get finished writing this comment before Andy outright said it…

Surprised there was no mention of the music purged from the GTA remasters. Listening to classic songs while cruising in your car is an essential part of these games. To be fair that's nothing new, it happens every time a game with licensed music is updated -- but it's obviously not an improvement.

Personally I thought the Monkey Island remasters were really good. The art had a good Lucasarts quirkyness to them that reminded me of the likes of Full Throttle and the control scheme made a lot of sense. Also that grog puzzle wasn't difficult as you could just press "I" to open the inventory. Anyway, replayed them both this year. Both still great games.

Can’t believe you didn’t mention the GTA remastered bug that made cars get progressively wider if you fishtailed them back and forth

_“Imagine if, when they rebooted_ Robocop, _they also made it so you could never stream the original movie.”_ _[Transition to a segment about “Special Editions” of LucasArts games]_ I can think of three _non-hypothetical_ film examples that would lend themselves to a segue here. _[Andy mentions the ghost of Hayden Christensen.]_ There they are.

Honestly, I really liked the new art style on the Monkey Island remasters. It was a really nice fit for the tone of the games. Plus, given that you could toggle back to the original pixel art (which i frequently did because i wanted to see how everything looked in the original), it's a total non-issue.

"Monkey Island was facing the threat of sinking into obscurity due to it's old graphics and clunky style.Despite including an option to play with the classic look in the new game, The secret of Monkey Island remake has somehow ruined this classic by updating the graphics." ...what?

Wind Waker HD showed how to update a cel-shaded, stylized game, and Telltale has several examples of those games, so it's not like the XIII developers have any real excuse. Some people think they were going for the Fortnite look, because that game's audience are well-known for their love of single-player thriller-inspired FPSes from 2003. /s

The Monkey Island remakes aren't as bad as you're making them out to me, and at least they had the courtesy to let you switch to the old games if you wanted to.

10:37 you know what Nintendo could probs do to fix this, is add a function to turn this on and off and give players a choice of whether they wanna breeze through the game or have a challenge. The Xenoblade chronicles definitive edition did something like this by adding Casual Mode, which makes the game easier for players who wanna just go through the story and not have to grind levels

I personally thought the new Monkey Islands were very well done and thought the art was excellent. The only bit I do agree with was the grog puzzle which I did have to switch back to the classic mode to complete

All they had to do is include an off button for the exp share. It's so wierd that they didn't do that.

As a warcraft 3 fan, let’s just say that even the new textures were pretty hated. There was one particular professional tournament where they had to play the same game three times because one of the computers just kept crashing. Pros hated the graphics for the strain it put on the computers, fans hated watching the cheesy animations, and now the entire professional scene is also dead because blizzard pulled funding. F.

The issue I had with BDSP is that it was missing quality of life features from Platinum. You know, the game that improved on Diamond and Pearl. The Poketch (touch screen apps) in Platinum gained a "previous app" button in addition to the next button, and that's missing from the remaster. Also imagine my surprise when trying to pick combat moves on the touch screen to learn that it wasn't an option. Somehow when porting a game from a half-touch-screen console to a full touch screen console, they removed touch support as part of their menu redesign!

“When you gran’s been pressing buttons on her tv remote, and you have to go round and fix it” this is extremely relatable to me 😂🤦‍♀️

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” -Sweet

Let's not forget Skyrim Anniversary Edition, which added in all the Creation Club extras, improved graphics for current gen users, and made it impossible to play the game via the black screen loading glitch. I got to experience this personally and, while the black screen glitch was patched, that same patch now causes graphical glitches that regularly crash the game, rendering it equally unplayable. Bethesda finally did it. They managed the perfect Skyrim re-release: One that doesn't let you play Skyrim.

The one good thing I can say about the XIII remake is that I never knew how many other people enjoyed the original until the remake was out.

Im glad Jane brought up the Silent Hill 2 remaster video that you watch towards the end of the game. I personally played the remaster because the original was asking for outrageous prices off eBay. When I watched that video, I was incredibly confused what was supposed to have happened. The only reason I figured out that it shows James killing his wife is because I read that somewhere

The worst thing about GTA? There already was a great remaster, but taketwo sued the heck out of modders to get all of it removed (because it was better). And afterwards they sued the game "it takes two" Scumbags

I always thought that oxbox's obsession with the number 7 was just a ploy to have one of the hosts work more than the others.

The thing about the gta definitive edition is, well I played the original games with my brother when we were younger. But it was mainly his game, I never did the story, I’d just mess about in the sandbox on his save. So I never kept up with the series. When I recently visited him and he got the definitive edition, I thought they had just released the ability to download the original game onto new consoles (I didn’t realize that you used to be able to do that already). And my first thought was, “I know it’s an old game, but these graphics don’t hold up well at all.”

The worst thing about the EXP Share in BDSP is the code is in the game for it to be an option to have it on or off, but they made it so the player can't see that and it's always on instead of being a choice.

The "definitive" GTA Trilogy was handled by Grove Street Games, the same group of incompetents that handled the ports of GTA San Andreas to the Xbox 360 and mobile. And they used these garbage ports that were already known to be notoriously bad as the base for the "Definitive" Trilogy, seemingly without fixing any of the problems those ports had. I'm not saying Rockstar is blameless though, in fact, I'm saying the opposite because the trash tier studio they put on this project already had the track record to prove that they either didn't have the ability to deliver a good game, or simply didn't care to do so. It's ALL their faults, so screw them.

Bully: Scholarship Edition was pretty irritating, especially the PC version. You have to mod the game for it to even be playable, the controls feel a lot clunkier than the ps2 version, the dialog for NPCs will constantly loop during missions and mini-games, and one of the new missions has a glitch where about 50% of the time one of the mission targets won't spawn in, meaning you have to repeatedly try and fail the mission until he does appear.

The mobile version of Final Fantasy VI. For some reason, character sprites look like gaudy stickers and the ATB battle system is reduced to some very ugly mobile friendly rising blocks with character sticker faces pasted on them. It is really hard to tell when it will be their turn. Also: the mobile 3D remake of Final Fantasy IV: the After Years. Somebody really dropped the ball with the animations- especially the running/walking animations- they look like the character is gliding with their torso unmoving and fixed. It looks really uncanny.

"EXP Share makes BDSP too easy" Meanwhile Cynthia still has perfect IVs and is curb stomping EVERYONE at the end XD

I would hardly call grinding in Pokèmon a challenge. Personally I welcome a tool that saves time as I simply don't have the free time I once had when I was young. This being said they should have added an option to disable the XP share for those who like the grind even if I personally find such a thing too boring to be making an issue out of it.

For all it's weird visuals, Monkey Island Special Edition is still Monkey Island. And you can toggle the original graphics. Also, Monkey Island 2 SE looks a lot better than the first game SE.

playing through Pokemon BDSP multiple times the EXP share did not make it overly easy. through out the game when fighting most encounters and trainers pokemon were still on target for the game to be challenging, but not a grind. if you aren't grinding levels a you will end up about the appropriate level to take on the elite 4 and champion and still have it be a challenge. It's not that the game is easier, it's just less of a grind. where it is actually easier is we are spoon fed all the type advantages in battle and pokemon have a high chance of just shaking off status effects or living with 1 HP

my immersion of thinking you guys record the voice overs for each entry whilst sat in that white room directly have been shattered, thanks andy for the immersion break (but I hope your score was high in tony hawk)

Just remember it was Grove Street Games that did the remaster it was also them who did the terrible anniversary edtions on PS3/360. This definitive edition is the mobile port and they patched the bridge but it didn't actually fix it it was still missing.

The most annoying thing about the Exp. Share issue in Pokémon is it's so easy to solve the problem, by just making it a toggle-able option like in gen 6-7. I hope Game Freak/ILCA get the memo and add the option in an update, but it's probably a pipe dream. Also bring back mega evolutions.

BDSP: EXP share makes the previously tough battles too easy Elite 4 + Cynthia: Allow us to introduce ourselves

Having recently played through the MI games, I thoroughly enjoyed the special edition. Loved all of them, really. Except for the hand sign puzzle in 2.

I honestly like the exp share function on the modern Pokemon games. But I understand it should be a toggle thing.

Real corner case, but the Bubble Bobble remaster they released for modern consoles was completely broken. There is a level you reach where you have to bubble hop out of a tall column you start in to get to the rest of the level, and in the remaster they slightly changed the hitbox of the characters (as part of mucking with the sprite graphics to make them "better" of course) which changed the bubble blowing/jumping dynamics just enough so that you can't effectively bubble hop any more. So once you get to this level, you are essentially stuck right where you start and die over and over again until game over. Love it when they don't playtest their own games properly.

"You'll be racking up exp for all your little monsters, without even trying" That sounds like the opposite of a problem

If you guys do an Audience Version of this video, please include Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D. They changed all the boss fights for the worse, they changed the mechanics of some of the masks, changed movement to make it more clunky, and they changed where you got some of the masks. It was one of the things that I was proud of, having the stone mask before the Great Bay unlike my brother, and not having to worry about stealth.

Kinda wish you had used "What the fog?" instead of "Fog of who" for Silent Hill 2

What really gets me about Pokémon's EXP share mechanic is that the option to turn it off would not only fix most of that games problems, but has already been implemented in X and Y and ORAS. So we know the option exists and works, but they actively chose to get rid of it. Seriously, just the option to turn off the EXP share would help make both BD and SP and sword and shield so much better and would be super easy to incorporate.

I feel like a bigger complaint for Diamond/Pearl would be the altering of the Underground and secret bases. Mostly the bases, as they were amazing in The Ruby/Sapphire remakes on an older system and five years earlier. Those bases were actually bases that you could find items and dolls and make the place look like somewhere you would actually tell your friends about and hangout. There was a mechanic that if you connected to the internet, you could find other people's bases, which had flags. If you found someone else's base you could take a flag, and find enough flags and you can update your base. This was a mechanic in the original but could now do on a much larger scale. But is now not an option in BDSP. The underground is nice, slightly better even, but the bases took a hit.

The remake of Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask plays so badly! Deku Link's hops on water didn't go as far but they kept the swamp's scale the same. Then they completely changed how Zora Link swam making what use to be a fun experience into a bad one by attaching swimming to your magic!

2014: Yayyyyy remasters of 90s Era games start 2021: OH no they are remastering another 90s Era game lemme go buy the old.pne before they delete it

You forgot all of the remasters where most of the content has been brutalized from the original in order to sell it to you again in a micro transaction.

i like the exp share, but I agree it could have easily been made into option for those who wanted easier leveling.

Majora's Mask 3D. Controls for certains forms have changed without altering the level design to compensate. Bosses made actively worse. Unnecessary fishing holes when they could've focused their energy on not breaking the game. Had to mod my 3DS just to be able to play it without losing my mind

"Machines that are only a few stages more technologically more advanced than an abacus" ....As an electrical engineering student who has had to simulate 8bit processors before...screw you man!

Odd to see the secret of monkey island on here. Especially because unlike the other games here you can switch it to classic mode and play it that way if you prefer. I mean I know it's a fave of Andy's but as a Monkey Island fan myself I'll be honest and say that's the most inoffensive one in the entire list. (I don't mind the updated art as much, probably because I think it still has it's own charm.)

“Keep your hands off our dance games, Nintendo.” -Andy 2021

I also really like when they skip the first step and just make new games, though that is rumored to be a forbidden art.

I would say that the monkey island special editions were pretty good, nothing like the garbage the list is otherwise filled with.

I _still_ have my original PS2. I _still_ have my original GTA games. I did *NOTHING* for years, and _still_ have the best versions of those games! Put those dead skunk remasters in the trunk of a crappy car. Drive it up to where they belong.... The Crusher up in Harwood!

11:45 I guess they went back to how the exp share worked in the first game (red and blue). It was changed in silver and gold to one pokemon, as the exp share was a held item. In Red/Blue, no held item so exp for all when the exp share is in the inventory.

I'm surprised you guys found issues with the HD collection I'd never heard of. I knew many other issues that fucked with the game's artistic vision, but the change of guitar and television border are things I'd never seen mentioned.

These 7 remasters are the reason to cherish physical copies. Also- whoever wrote the captions for these, I laughed at the one for the GTA Definitive Edition- here we go again indeed.

Yeah GTA already had a bad track record when they released the "HD" version that replaced the original San Andreas (on Xbox store at least) with a straight up port of the phone version of the game.

I wonder what it would be like if Oxbox went back and remastered some of the original Show of the Weeks? Maybe just add a mysterious fog over the original videos? But I'd like to see Mike being killed by playing drums on a dodgy lighting rig in 4K and maybe a story continuation of what happened to the lips phone? 👄☎️

I don't enjoy having an exp share that only shares exp to one single pokemon, but having it permanently on is also kinda not my style.

Had disagree on Monkey Island! I love the remakes!

"OutsideXbox has a strange obsession with the number 7" Are you sure you guys aren't a subgroup of Bungie...?

No, the reason I haven't played a single Pokemon game in my life is that the last Nintendo console I owned was the SNES. I actually would like to try Pokemon but I won't buy a console or handheld just for one game.

This is why, as much as I love the Ultima series, i don't want EA to do anything with it. Any attempt at a remaster/remake/etc would just screw it all up.

I get people's complaints about BDSP (specifically the exp share), but the thing that disappointed me the most was the new contests. Instead of using strategy to get through the move round, and knowing exactly which Pokemon were best for which contests based on move sets, we are instead stuck with a contest that a half drunk avocado could win with little issue. Assuming, of course, that said half drunk avocado knew which seals had the desired effect when placed on the competing Pokemon's ball capsule. Because the game doesn't even tell you what attribute each seal actually boosts for competitions. Taking away the dress up competition, drastically reducing the dancing competition, and making the move appeal so trivial it might as well not exist was the worst way to do this. Pretty much anything else would have been a better way to remaster this part of the game. And what do you get if you actually win in a competition not worth entering? A single seal for each contest you win. Not even cool seals either, they're super lame, and would only ever look cool if you had about 80 of them to slap onto a single ball capsule.

I missed out on those original Pokemon games so I can't really compare the new ones to them, but that Exp Share thing has been going for a few games now. I enjoy the games a lot, but I do wish there were some difficulty options built into them for players (like me) who like to suffer a bit.

Lemme just say before it’s too late. I’m super glad outside Xbox is still around. I remember seeing one of these videos for the first time on one of the og 360 dashboards. Super glad to see you guys still make content and as far as I can tell still with the original people mostly

Not exactly a remaster, but Sonic Genesis is easily the worst port of a Sonic game ever made. It was a port of the original 1991 game to the Game Boy Advance but was somehow riddled with frame rate issues (the slowdown is TERRIBLE), the smaller screen makes levels harder, and they even managed to screw up the music. It's even more egregious when you realise that the GBA was much more powerful than a Mega Drive/Genesis, so they should have had no issues doing a simple port job

I don't think I'll ever love a RU-vid moment more than I love how honest Andy was about playing a game on another monitor. 🤣

I hated how the Exp Share was always on in Sword/Shield, also how you had to have badges to catch Pokemon of certain levels, instead of them not listening to you...

Here’s some you missed: 1. Half Life Source Not to be confused with Black Mesa, Half Life Source was the official remaster of Half Life 1 by Valve with the key word being it was a remaster unlike Counter Strike Source, Day of Defeat Source, arguably Team Fortress 2 and the aforementioned Black Mesa that were true Source engine remakes of the originals. It took all the original geometry and models of Half Life 1 and ported them directly into Source with some better texture filtering, lighting, water & particle effects, Half Life 2 sound effects here & there, havok physics including rag dolls and true 3D skyboxes. Freeman’s Mind fans will recognise it as the game Ross used for the Half Life 1 arc of the series. It started off just fine albeit merely disappointing with a few bugs. The worst being the gibs system was borked so if anything gibbed at all instead of ragdollising the meat pieces sounded like bricks hitting concrete, some texture effects looked weird especially in the HD pack support that came later, even more Nihilanth lines were missing in Xen, enemies in Xen respawned way too fast not all HL2 particles were used (such as fire when destroying vehicles like tanks) and they ruined the cliff river skybox in Surface Tension, making it look like a Wile E Coyote cartoon. However, come 2013 the game was “updated” for a new build of source which broke many things in the game causing bugs up the arse, especially in Residue Processing. It took a fan made mod called Half Life Source Fixed to make it playable again. This remaster even when it wasn’t completely broken is the reason why Black Mesa even exists. That should tell you all you need to know. 2. Sonic Adventure DX Director’s Cut & Sonic Adventure 2: Battle Pros: Some quality of life improvements like skippable cutscenes in SA1 & more fitting skyboxes for Prison Island and the driving stages in SA2, 60FPS support (even on Gamecube), a proper reward for 100% completion in SA1, slightly higher polygon models (key word: slightly), improved chao gardens and an Adventure Field map screen & unlockable game gear games in SA1 (Gamecube and non Steam PC versions only sans mods). Cons: Worse cutscene quality such as visual effects, voice timing, & animation especially in SA2, graphics downgrades caused by resolution bugs or incompatibility with Dreamcast code (such as rippling seawater and Chaos 4’s water possession in SA1 & robot jet flames, fine model details, pulse alarm effects and realistic meteorite embers in SA2), none of SA1 Dreamcast’s DLC is in the game, no interactive hooker sign in Casionpolis in SA1 (just like the crappy SA1 International build of the DC game), unnecessary and more often than not downright ugly changes to level geometry & textures in both games, tons of bugs in SA1 and getting 100% completion in both games is much harder, even without the annoying chao raising related emblems of the Dreamcast games (such as the memory card mini games). The good news is that the PC versions have Dreamcast Conversion mods to fix all of that (especially for Better SADX on PC) and the retranslated mods using Windii Gitlord’s subtitles but SA2’s DCC mods are incomplete and certain ones may cause crashes on some machines. 3. Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary (original Xbox 360 version) The remastered mode is still awesome like the original game and the MCC versions but the game was made using the awful PC port of Halo 1 by Gearbox Software just to get easy online gameplay, which can be easily seen in Classic Mode. Like the Sonic Dreamcast games’ Gamecube/modern platform ports above it’s full of graphics glitches, Captain Keyes uses a low quality model from the beta, the credits screen sucks compared to the OG Xbox version and there’s even AI bugs too. The graphics glitches even influenced how the remastered graphics were made in some cases. The Master Chief Collection version as well as Halo 2 Anniversary was the same for a while (Halo 2A was based on Halo 2 for Windows Vista) but they don’t count anymore because 343 Industries finally fixed Classic Mode in both games for that version, even on PC. It still has bad credits screens however in that the individual game credits for all MCC versions were removed. 4. Duke Nukem 3D Anniversary World Tour Sounds good on paper: new recorded dialog by Duke with censored swears in the original removed, true 3D rendering allowing cool graphics effects, developer commentary ala Half Life 2 and a brand new 5th Episode by the original level designers with awesome design. However, the intro text menu was taken out, the lighting for the most part isn’t as nice as the Eduke 32 High Resolution/True 3D pack, the commentary does not appear in every level when it’s turned on, with the ones it does have being relatively lackluster compared to Valve games or Tomb Raider Anniversary’s commentary, Duke sounds bored out of his mind in the new lines due to bad voice direction compared to the original. episode 5 has a weak final boss & a crap ending and the expansion packs that came with Megaton Edition were never remastered too. The worst part is that Gearbox purged not just Duke Nukem 3D megaton edition from Steam like with the GTA trilogy, but also the original DOS Duke 3D from GOG as well as Duke Nukem 1+2 and Manhattan Project from all platforms. I had to pirate Megaton edition just to be able to play the expansion packs as well as Manhattan Project. I also backed up my Duke 1+2 installer in case anyone wants it.

I got to say, bold that with all the disagreement around Diamond and Pearl, they chose the exp share. I actually agree a lot with another youtube mandjtv though, that the exp share is annoying but manageable and the gameplay bugs are elsewhere (like with the weird pokedex choices or lack of new things other remakes tend to have)

No Kingdoms of Amalur? Oh wait, that didn't make the game worse, it was just completely identical to the original.

My problem with BDSP was the chibi artstyle. In a time where we had JUST gotten full scale models for the first time in Sword and Shield, ain't no way I'm going back to chibi models. Chibi was something they used in earlier games because the system could render full-scale models. Remember how in every game you would see your full size self and then, as the game began, you would shrink? But today, where full-scale models aren't a problem, we no longer need the inferior chibi ones.

I spent the whole video saying to myself "Where is Dark Souls Remastered?" The remaster could have worked to improve the janky backstab hit boxes, suspect terrain collision, add omni directional rolling, adjust the damage of certain spells and weapons for PvP, and they chose to...add new glitches, as if the original didn't already have enough on its own.

Can we have a “7 remasters that didn’t remaster anything” or something because while it didn’t ruin anything, far from it, Dark Souls Remastered always sticks out to me. Namely because of Lost Izalith. It was infamously, clearly unfinished when the original game released and then TEN YEARS later when the game is rereleased it’s…entirely unchanged. Ten years later they re released the game and it STILL wasn’t finished Unrelated: YOOOO THAT SHADE AT ROCKSTAR CRUNCH. I’m genuinely proud of you guys! We need more people in your positions still willing to make sure that stuff keeps getting brought up.

There are so many things wrong with Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl as remakes that I'm a little surprised you focused on the EXP share.. Regressive Pokedex and weirdly proportioned following Pokemon come to mind pretty quick

I actually have a physical copy of the Warcraft game from before the remastered version came out, so it lacks the update. I wonder how much it would be worth now that it's become harder to get.

Silent Hill HD Collection for the PS3 did get a patch which considerably improved the fog and fixed other issues. Unfortunately, the 360 did not get the patch.

White Wolf tried to ban people from playing the original world of darkness once they did the apocalypse timelines. They actively sent cease and desist letters to groups playing the older games in private online forums. And I had one friend that regularly did the vampire LARP until white wolf rented out their venue for the scheduled event and refused to do anything with it just to prevent the older game being played. This drove many people away from their newer games for years. Eventually they started reselling and updating old world of darkness and renamed their newer timeline as chronicles of darkness and things have been going better.

Funniest thing and also biggest slap in the face from the Reforge launch was Blizzard claiming ownership of any mod/custom map made for the game. They don't want to lose another Dota. Not like there's going to be a scene for this game now.

Worst part is that remasters are essential to introducing old games to new platforms and new audiences. Some people might not have a PS2 lyrics around to play an old game or maybe haven’t heard of them until a remaster comes out. So having a remaster retroactively making a good game bad is just a damn shame. All I can say is thank the gaming pirates for emulators.

Personally, I'd say everything but the Pokemon part was spot on. I think the problem with "always on" exp sharing is that the exp gets divided to the entire team, meaning if you want to level up an individual pokemon faster, you have to remove all the other pkmns from your team. But make no mistake, *the exp sharing doesn't make the game easier.* The only thing I can think of that people mean by "easier" is not having to level each pokemon individually. *But the opposite isn't harder, it just means you're gonna have to change your first pokemon every 20 fights or so to level each one.* It's about the same as the difference between washing, drying and storing dishes each in one go rather than washing all first, then drying all and then storing all together. You could argue the former is more inefficient, but not harder. In any case, they can just make it so it can be turned off and then everyone is happy.

The GTA remasters weren't even developed by Rockstar until after the launch

As someone who always plays a new pokemon game by doing a professor oak's challenge or a nuzlocke, I had ZERO problems with the BDSP exp share

i think brilliant diamond and shining pearl had way worse problems than the exp share like the movement being not restricted to a grid even though the areas are designed with grid movement in mind. and that’s not even mentioning the lack of platinum content which could have added so much more to the game

That exp share was in sword and shield, which is where all pokemon (including your strongest) get exp. So you can technically overpower the elite four

honestly the absolute gutting of contests and horrible micro-dialga/other pokemon is by far more egregious than exp share.

I am also calling for "7 times you should have died but didn't because plot armor" and I would start with Borderlands 2: Initial sequence.

It's worth noting that Blizzard updated their user agreement for Warcraft III Reforged so that they basically own mods that are made with it. It's because many things, like DOTA, were produced from that, and they want their cut if anyone uses it to make anything new.

The most horrifying thing about the Silent Hill 2 remaster was that the creators thought Comic Sans looked good.

Fun fact for everyone around here The metal gear solid HD collection has a glaring glitch where if you use a Bluetooth enabled USB mic headset while playing the game you can corrupt the audio files of the game this WARING THIS IF THIS GLITCH OCCURS IT'S PERMANENT!

"Robs the game of most of it's challenge" Laughs in fully competitive champion team

I am the type that over-leveled and farmed as much as possible in old Poké games, to the point where I'd walk into the water gym with my Fire starter and demolish them without even switching out, so I guess I've just never really been about the challenge

I love EXP share, it saves some time grinding and keeping a fairly level team, rather than getting to a gym, realizing "oh, I don't have a counter for this gym", finding one, training it up... Now you can brute force gyms easier and I'm more tempted to use Pokemon I like rather than what I think will make the next fight easy.

Well brilliant diamond and shiny pearl did give us an amazingly fast speed run with it broken menu.