TheCollector: This case has nothing to do with patches. It is practically a new game. Content wise, sound wise, graphic wise, control wise. I get your point and think likewise, but in this case you have judged too early.

drealmer7: Except Grim Fandango was changed. Simply changing the music means the game has changed significantly enough to warrant my disinterest in a game I've been wanting to play since it was originally released and still haven't gotten to.

toxicTom: Downfall is from 2009. That's 7 years ago. Remigiusz Michalski probably didn't have the money and resources and even skill to make the game as perfect as he wanted it to be. Now he has, and with new possibilities he decided to remake the game.

Like a painter who couldn't afford expensive color who decides to remake an earlier piece of "cheaper" material value into something more elaborate after his first successes, because this piece of art is important to him, and he want to show it to the audience they way he envisioned it. A lot of film directors went that way too - remaking their own early works, but with a better budget.

And, actually, the developer is taking a greater risk that way. Michalski's games are works of art, they're NOT Call of Duty, Yearly Edition. He put all the effort of creating a new game from scratch into something that most of his target audience will probably already have. And all those people will either not buy the remake (don't like it, whatever) or pay only half the price.
Had he instead put that effort into a new game "by the creator of The Cat Lady and Downfall" I'm pretty sure he would make more money out of it.

I don't know if the remake is good (I'm glad the original is included (and free here: http://www.quiethavenhotel.co.uk/)) - directors often failed to capture that made the original work. But to allege greed in this case is stupid and malevolent.

Dalthnock: That's it, I'm drawing the line here on this latest fad.

And what's more, I was beginning to purchase new games, but now that's over.

I will just wait until the game is really, really old to make sure there are no "redux" or "definitive" or whatever else.

I guess supporting developers is a mug's game? You give them an inch, they'll ravage your wallet.

Pity it was an apparently independent developer that broke the camel's back for me, but I refuse to support this ridiculous concept any more.

I'm tired of being dick-slapped in the face. Paying for patches is just retarded.

m0ds: Thank you! and thanks GOG!!

I think it's worth noting that many of the reasons behind this "remake" are because of the partnership between Screen 7 and Harvester Games. If you remember, the original Downfall had nothing to do with Screen 7. Since the partnership began with the release of The Cat Lady, we wanted to bring our product range in line and Downfall seemed like a good step for the developer to continue, as others have said, the vision for the "TCL Universe" or whatever you might call it.

If anyone is to blame then it's Screen 7 for asking Harvester Games to make a brand new edition of Downfall. Michalski had no intention of that initially, but as I explained to him, Screen 7 has nothing to do with the original so it doesn't reflect our partnership at all, we could not fix it, update it or modify it in anyway to reflect our working together, so he embraced the decision to remake it so we could further our work together (and maybe vision, we like making games!)

Downfall now sits properly within a trilogy (the third game will be underway soon enough). The original Downfall 2009 version is not forgotten, but fans of that need to understand it's a product that has very little weight with Screen 7, who now pretty much represent Harvester Games and their works. This is not a cash grab, this is ensuring our partnership works. And hopefully for players, it means experiencing new and interesting things, even if in some ways they are "old" or have existed in some ways before.

Just wanted to put that out there, I think it's fine that some people may be concerned about this as a simple makeover or a marketing strategy or something, but it isn't supposed to be like that. Perhaps it's more enjoyable than the original and perhaps its not to some people, but if you enjoyed The Cat Lady, the redux here is an important step if you're on board with this trilogy. If you are just going to hold onto the original, that's also fine, but please understand it had its time and its place, Screen 7 and Harvester Games have moved on, working with what we've got and what we've learned from The Cat Lady experience, and I think it's for the better - even if it seems like we are creating some kind of Downfall DLC... ;)

Hope you enjoy it though!

Cyraxpt: Not interested and still not buying gog games but kudos for the sound of silence reference, i absolutely love that song.

m0ds: Hope you enjoy it though!

Nesoo: I think you mean [utl=https://youtu.be/iqODbP1T3nk?t=4m13s]Hotel California[/url] ;-)

Unless there's another reference that I missed...

drealmer7: "Hello darkness, my old friend. "

not seeing the hotel california similarity

Nesoo: I think you mean Hotel California ;-)

Unless there's another reference that I missed...

Nesoo: Oh geeze, I didn't even notice the first line of the post. Yes, yes indeed :-D

drealmer7: one of the SSs provided makes me less interested in this game because it makes me think it has not-good writing:

"go and smoke in the bathroom"

this means you are telling the person to do 2 things "go in the bathroom" and "smoke in the bathroom"

That's not even telling the person to go INTO the bathroom, but to "go in" the bathroom, which to me means do #1 or #2...what, does this person have a history of "going" in the kitchen?

if they want to tell the person to do 1 thing it would be "go smoke in the bathroom."

I'm really tired of poor writing everywhere.

Primo_Victoria: The ironing will kill me one day.