Thanks a lot for elaborating! I get your point, in fact recently I tried playing BioShock and the combat was unbearable. I don’t think it was bad, but I simply had to stop after 30 minutes. I think for most old games, if you didn’t play it at the time, you are gonna have a hard time to get into it.
I disagree about FF7 however. I think making a ‘safe’ remake like RE4 or Dead Space is fine to bring the game to the modern audience. But to use a remake as a smokescreen to reimagine the original and in some strange convoluted way make it a sequel as well is so much more up my alley. In the end if you love the original it’s still there.