10 Worst Things Gaming Did In 2024

While having love for the original versions and experiences is always valid, many video game remakes and remasters are highly deserved and beneficial. 2024 alone gave players warranted – if not outright superior – new renditions of Silent Hill 2, Persona 3, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and Dead Rising (among others).

However, this year also perpetuated the medium’s increasing affinity for releasing less justified and discernable revisions to make a profit or retain a license.

Some particularly egregious examples are the next-gen versions of 2015’s Until Dawn, 2017’s Horizon Zero Dawn, and 2020’s The Last of Us Part II.

Why? Because – rerecorded audio, graphical tweaks, and minor gameplay enhancements aside – none of them do anything substantial enough to excuse their hefty price tags or render their precursors obsolete. Those initial incarnations still look and play wonderfully, too (especially The Last of Us Part II), so it’s essentially charging consumers close to the cost of a new game for minimal improvements.

Ironically – such as with Until Dawn, Horizon Zero Dawn, and the perplexing Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP – these reissues wind up being worse to their predecessors due to having glitches, inferior visuals, and/or removed features.

Thanks, but no thanks.