Gaming doesn’t really have a The Godfather. There is no shorthand for ‘the best game ever’ that everyone just agrees on. I wouldn’t have The Godfather in my personal top ten, but I recognise that it just is, in the annals of folklore, the best movie of all time, just as The Beatles are the best band of all time. It doesn’t really matter if you personally agree, what matters is it’s a shared cultural understanding. Gaming lacks this – technology in our industry moves so fast, and in many ways we’re still finding our feet in terms of storytelling and maturity. If you were to pick a game to stand as a representation of our industry’s best though, someone would raise a shout for Resident Evil 4. So now that they’re remaking it, why are they changing everything?
