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It's a little tricky with "Remastered versions of previous titles".

In general, I don't do that, I don't know why, really. For example, the FF7. I bought, played, and still own the very first version that was released for PCs, I even had to upgrade my PC back then because it ran so F* slow that when some in-game movie was played, like the (sic!) opening "train" movie, or when some richer animation (the summons, etc) was played, the game looked like a slideshow and music played several looped notes for a few second, then next several notes looped for a few seconds and so on. Nevermind. What I wanted to say, I played "the original", and it was great. Then I replayed the original on a more-modern computer, and it was ... uh ridiculously quality in many aspects. And paradoxically, most of the bad reception I got was not from the fact that the game, I dont know, "changed" it self, or not that it was really bad, etc, it was that the game did not make the same fun as when I played as a kid. Time did its "damage" and my expectation rose over those years, but also memories play role: the same scenes/plot/mechanics are now nothing new to me, and what was great now is just plain. When I look now at remastered-FF7 versions, heh, I still remember the original and how cool/great it was, and I completely don't remember the "let's replay it on modern machine" failure. I somewhat don't want to end up with similar feeling. I'm not afraid of being disappointed, etc, but it's just waste of time/money.

So what's tricky here? It sometimes happen that I find and play and like some game, only to later discover that this game was remastered version of some older original. I then simply can't hold back and must play the original. Now, that's a case! It's reverse "Remastered versions of previous titles". Like "Original versions of previous remastered titles". It happened a few times already, and I was really very positively surprised how well originals turned out compared to remastered ones.

Similar thing applies to "prequels/sequels". Let's say I got into FooBar-5, I often will also play in foobar-4, 3, 2, 1, and rarely -6. As a notable example, after playing FF7 and FF8 on PC, I think I played every single previous 'chapters' on SNES/etc, while I don't think I ever even saw FFXII or FFXIII.

Now writing this I feel like some retro-maniac, but looking at when I meticulously searched shops and the internet for all those old ones, while ignoring the new ones, I think the most important cause was ... the price. When I had tons of free time, I had no funds to be buying recently-published non-pirated games often. I could afford it once a year, maybe. In comparison, the same budgets allowed to buy/find/obtain 10-20 older games/roms/etc. Now situations's changed. I got some funds, I have no time to play ;)