Old games for a new audience

[Jagos]

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You know, I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with making old games available to new audiences. There might be something wrong with sprucing up the artwork and adding a ridiculous 3D gimmick and charging full price, mind. And there may be something equally wrong with completely remaking a game (or film) with current technology and a story more fitting of contemporary trends and morals.

I got to thinking about the current game generation along with the emphasis on remaking games. It's going to always be the wrong thing to do. a game company should be moving forward with a franchise, never backwards. Let the fans remember the characters as you progress a story. I think that would work a lot better in solving all of these problems with a company such as Square.

Let's consider a few games they updated. You have the CronoTrigger series that they put onto the 3DS with a few edits. But fans continue to clamor for a new entry into the game (which may never happen).

Then, we have FFXIII -2 that's set to come out, but has had a longer than normal (even for Square) development cycle.

Given this, where are the stories for Vagrant Story (tied to Ivalice), Saga Frontier, or any other game that once made Square a juggernaut in RPGs?

It would seem that most companies should have a way to update what they do with gaming in general. If there could be a system to store old games, so they could be played at one's leisure, then maybe the game companies could focus on newer iterations, leaving someone else to keep the back story intact through the perpetual use of the game.