I am very much hoping the remake is not a broken mess.

I pre-ordered it, mostly because I would have bought it anyway, even if it was completely unplayable, and I figured I might as well get it early and preload it :P

One can only hope.

So yes, RE:R seems to be getting good reviews. I just hope there's an obscure game (maybe Powerslave?!?!) that passed under our noses...

If it has bugs we'll harass Tim for fixing them... >:)

Don't you mean Exhumed? Being from Europeland and all ;)

Well, i guess... But the version i had back in the day was from a Shareware CD that had the "Powerslave" version. Being an Iron Maiden fan, i cannot think of any other name!

Let's cross our fingers!

Well the Reviews for Resident Evil have appeared and that appears fine, so it's looking more and more like it's Grim Fandango.

As to whether a reviewer should say what the game is, they can only do that once and they'll never get a review code again from any publisher, not just for the game they expose.
This way it's warned about so you can wait until after the game is released and if another warning is needed Tomorrow it can still be given, remember most reviewers say nothing at all.

Frankly you should never pre-order any game or buy as soon as released, if you do, don't complain it was rubbish afterwards. Sure no game should be released broken, but they are. Knowing that and especially after the last two years where indie games are better releases than so called AAA trash, I have no sympathy for those who buy before release.

Full Disclosure, I have Pre-ordered one game, Witcher 3 from GOG, I consider that an investment in GOG and though I expect a great game, I will not complain if it's not, because I bought it before release.

Crowdfunding is different, because you are investing in the game, not buying it. Sure it may never be finished, that's the risk of investing and the return of your good investments is, a great game that may never have been made without that investment.
Choose carefully and bad ones may never happen. So far I've made good investments, Enjoying Wasteland 2 and Divinity Original Sin. Dreamfall Chapters is releasing in parts and so far is good. Obduction is yet to come.
Star Citizen is my last outstanding Investment, it's open developement model is one I hope other Devs follow and as the model of how to crowdfund a project it is already a huge sucess, it could change PC gaming for ever.
Currently at $70 Million and still going strong, with no need to spend huge amounts on Marketing Hype that's at leat £150 Million for a Publisher if not more.

People lack prudence, like buying way too much into new tech and machinery. Its simply not cost effective most of the time what with the initial bugs and cost of buying the new hotness. My buddy runs a graphic design shop and invested into Zip drives way back when.Long story short they lost like 10 grand due to problems.

well apart from your rule (that most games that have a review embargo are bad), review code was given to review sites today regarding Grim Fandago : Remastered. As far as i know at least.

There's a talk about Resident Evil Remastered's "slow motion bug" in the Steam community.
Maybe that's what critic mentioned in OP was aiming at.

That's probably because they never played the original, the original made it awkwardly slow to control the character by design and they've kept that mechanic in. Reviewers are most likely returning to an old friend and consider that canon.
Total Biscuit said a simarlar thing to Jesse Cox when Cox said he wished for smoother controls on the latest podcast.

So though I GF to not be a bad Remaster I'll just wait until release, one thing said in the podcast from my original post, was something like

"Just because the original had no problems, doesn't mean the Remaster will not."

We'll know soon enough.

My understanding is that the slow motion but is legitimately a bug, not just part of the game. I haven't researched it very much, since it's not effecting me, but my guess would be that it's similar to the slow motion problem that occurred/occurs in the RE4 PC release, where the game speed is tied directly to the framerate, so instead of things becoming choppy, everything just gets really slow. I guess when they coded it, they didn't have to worry about dealing with framedrops since they knew what hardware would be running it.

Also, I am consistently baffled by people who diss the RE controls. It takes about five minutes to get used to them, and after that they work perfectly fine. In fact, I'd say they are even more satisfying to use than normal "good" controls, simply because it takes a little finesse to do things that you don't think about in normal games (like perfectly rounding a corner).

I am definitely a tank control convert.

Yeah, the biggest problem with not using the tank controls is when you transition from one screen to the next, you are have to reorient which direction you are pushing sometimes. Its so much easier to just use the tank controls. That's what I used originally and anything else just feels funky in these particular games.

Agreed.