BrianSim: Sadly it already isn't the case for Broken Sword remasters, ie, the 2010 Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut removed / censored some death scenes, and randomly cut out animations like waving flags, as well as ambient sounds and even certain dialogues and scenes then added a whole new scene that felt out of place (different writing style vs the main story) and messes up the pacing. I'm still playing the original for that reason. It "enhanced" it the same way VGA Loom "enhanced" EGA Loom - look beyond the surface gloss pretty graphics and there's bits missing...
So it'd be interesting to see if "Broken Sword: Yet Another Cash-In" version is based on the original 1996 game or the censored 2010 version. But even if the former, I see zero value in rebuying it if it works flawlessly in ScummVM. The old-school games I want to see remastered are those that have serious playability issues, eg, games like Dark Fall where ALT-TAB is broken and can't be fixed by ScummVM, or those with a plethora of unfixed game-breaking bugs (Divine Divinity), not all the ones that already work perfectly...
mdqp: Charles Cecil already made some comments about wanting to make changes. Since he didn't go into specifics, it's hard to know exactly what he had in mind. I wasn't particularly happy about the Director's Cut removed content, so I tried asking around in the Steam forums if people knew more, but no info so far.
Anyway, in an interview with Polygon (
https://www.polygon.com/23842925/broken-sword-6-bs1-remaster-charles-cecil), Charles Cecil said that he wanted to change things which "...culturally, have slightly worried him" (below is the relevant excerpt from the interview).
"But Cecil is not above making a few changes to “some of the things, which, culturally, have always slightly worried me” about the 1996 game to make it “a little bit more culturally appropriate for 2023.” He cites the examples of a Syrian carpet seller character, changed to be less “stereotypically mean, he’s slightly more jovial,” and an awkward moment between the game’s pair of heroes, American patent lawyer George Stobbart and French journalist Nico Collard. “There’s another point where Nico is tied up, and George can kiss her when she’s tied up. And you know, that’s just a little bit strange. [...] It’s just three or four very, very minor things. But, you know, the example of that character, I’d been embarrassed about it pretty much from the beginning. So it’s just wonderful to be able just to tweak it [...] but without losing the core charm that existed."
On the plus side, In their christmas video (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC6_rrIIg7I) they mention doing something with lines they had recorded in the past, but never used (which I assume means adding/restoring some cut content).
I am a big fan of the original games, so I don't know how to feel about yet another return to the first. Admittedly, the new graphics do look good, from what little they have shown.
If they really will add in additional PC into the next remaster I will have to pass. Was hoping that they would correct the Director's Cut mistakes ... not making new ones.