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The Fan HD Remakes Yet To Be Banned (redbull.com)
An anonymous reader writes: While companies like Valve have given their seal of approval to HD fan remakes and re-imaginings of their classic games, many more are all too eager to wield the ban hammer and shut down these homebrew projects with legal threats. Not all, though, as one writer points out in a new article taking a look at the most promising unofficial remakes underway right now. Some companies see these projects as an opportunity — the creator of Shen Mue HD was recently hired by Yu Suzuki to work on Shen Mue 3 — while others choose to ignore them entirely. Surprisingly, one of these appears to be Konami, which despite a controversial 2015, has shown no interest in shutting down Outer Heaven, a remake of the very first Metal Gear game. As the author points out however, given "the fact that Konami shut down a similar project not long ago – one which had the involvement of original Solid Snake voice actor David Hayter – [it] doesn't bode too well for Outer Heaven's long-term prospects...but we're crossing our fingers that it makes it to the finish line."
Hey, if you believe in a major project enough to work on it, knowing that at any time it could be quashed and never see the light of day--then I salute your passion.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
The correct spelling is whatever the official American publisher (Sega of America) decides it is, and it was released as Shenmue here.
Maybe, but coming down like a ton of bricks on a bunch of fans improving your old games in their spare time would be just about the dumbest thing these game manufacturers could do.
And yet they've done it countless times and people keep buying their games by the droves. So in the real world, it seems like the nerd outrage doesn't extend to most gamers.
From what I understand, one of the problems that game companies face in these situations is that they're often not the only party involved. Many games have assets that require royalties be paid to third parties (music compositions, voice performances, etc.). So even if they want to "look the other way" and tolerate these remakes, they face legal action and sanctions from third-parties (like SAG-AFTRA and other representatives) if artists get wind that the publisher is allowing the unauthorized distribution of their game without proper royalty payments.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.