I find myself playing a grumpy old man a lot these days, and it's not a role I'm particularly fond of... but I still feel I have to ask: do we really need all these remakes?

Guess I'll wait a year or so until the price has dropped to -50%. Then I'll consider buying it. Good thing the old version still runs fine on Windows 10 with the "XIII All-In-One Installer" added on top.

I personally liked two parts of the trailer -- 1) Nothing from the trailer is actually in the game (acknowledged by the "Not actual gameplay footage" text at the beginning of the trailer), and 2) "November 2019" at the end of the trailer.

For the price they're asking, you'd think they could at least make an updated trailer.

49,89€?

Yeah, pass. XP

Yeah, it's pretty weird that they've done what they've done. It's not that the new game doesn't look good in isolation, because it is quite pretty -- but put the old and the new side-by-side and the original graphical style is dramatically better. I expect the new game is just as much fun to play, but abandoning the iconic look makes no sense at all to me.

XIII captured its BD ( bande dessinée ) aesthetics extraordinarilly well, and I believe remains one of the best examples of cell-shading in video games. Even at its present age, and for sure of its time.
As its first step this remake takes away all that style and replaces it with a very conventional one that just has some cartoony coloring on top.
In the original the in-game art was simple not as a mistake, or for lack of computational resources of the time, it was the way it was because it looked (and acted, via the cut scenes and some actions the player took) exactly like a graphic novel.

I think the change of artstyle may be illustrative of the type of changes the game may be composed of: The kind that removes the fog in a remake of Silent Hill 2.

I may be wrong, but I think I will take the pessimistic road on this one. It does not bode well.

Any chance for the extra materials getting re-added to the original?
Or the remake, when the original gets consolidated with the remake?

Things like the manual or the soundtrack which for some reason didn't make a return when the original XIII got re-released here one or two years ago.

Looks good, althought that price is a little steep for a remake.

Is there a chance of good discount if we already owned the original XIII?

Considering the style was nearly ageless, i don't know what was wrong with the original game.

Certainly you could probably enhance certain areas, models, textures, and update the executable to work better on different systems, but from what i remember of XIII it was fine. Annoying in certain sections where i quit, but it was otherwise just fine.

If it wasn't marketed as the remake of XIII I'd never have guessed it, this looks like a generic, overpriced shooter.
Here's a comparison. I bet the art directors and designers are very proud of themselves for butchering the style of the original. :P

Edit: The models look like they are from 2011, saying they don't have too look realistic is no excuse for 'muddy' textures.

I agree with most users here, the new art is the worst of both worlds. I don't understand why they kept some parts looking like the original and some others like you average new game, the result is... not pretty.
Go either for realism or for comic book style, not both!

This is certainly up there, but I don't think this is the pinnacle of overpricing. That honor belongs to Baldur's Gate 3, for which the developers/publishers expect people to pay $60 for an early access (in development) game which may change significantly after purchase (or may never be finished).

Well, Padarox titles like CK2 and EU4 are 100€+ if you want to have all content, but they provide thousands of hours. BG3 will probably provide hundreds of hours.
This here is a 5-6 hour shooter, with a multiplayer that will probably not gonna be popular. You get the point now.