I guess I’m in the minority in that I find no value in buying the same game again just with a different cost of paint. I love it when remakes do new stuff to really redefine what it was that I liked about the original. Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver are a shining example of it, especially when compared to FireRed and LeafGreen which were basically just graphical updates - they added so many new features, both from older games as well as completely new ones that advanced the series as a whole that not only did it make it feel like an incredibly important addition to the franchise, but also reminded me of why I fell in love with Pokémon in the first place (Gold is where I really got balls-deep into Pokémon, despite liking Red - suck it, genwunners!)

Another fantastic example is Final Fantasy IV DS. Not only did it make the story feel that much more meaningful with a more involved direction in cutscenes etc, but also the impeccable retranslated script, but there’s a bunch of new scenes that give greater weight to pretty much everything, and the changes boss AI really made me feel like I’m fighting for my life again.

So yeah, remakes definitely have a lot of value as a reinterpretation of what came before that goes far beyond what a simple remaster could achieve. If I want to play that same old game in its unchanged form, I still have it - the new one NEEDS to be transformative.