Laziness and lack of passion

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SirYandi@reddit

FXAA (Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing) and TAA (Temporal Anti-Aliasing) usually

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RedOtta019@reddit

FXAA : OFF TAA : OFF Motion Blur : OFF Textures : Maximum

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tukatu0@reddit

https://imgsli.com/Mzc1Njc4/1/2 temporal aliasing. Upscaling basically.

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awesomea04@reddit

I can't tell which is the remake and which is the original.

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RedOtta019@reddit

You can tell the bottom is the remake by the fuckass fog/blur that plagued every game at the time

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Top is the original. The original release had far more stylistic shadowing and hard edges, partly cause at the time it was a common way to make graphics look more gritty/realistic without having high visual fidelity.

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ConscientiousPath@reddit

The lighting in the 2nd image isn't more realistic. It's just brighter so it washes out the scene.

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Eranaut@reddit

It looks like they cranked up the Bloom effect

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CorvusGriseo@reddit

And made the contrast waaay lower, so now blacks/shadows are lighter and whites/lights are darker = grayslop

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ConscientiousPath@reddit

yeah, outside of light sources like streetlights at night or glaring reflections of the sun, bloom almost always makes things worse.

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Level3pipe@reddit

On top of all that look at the faces. The top has some nuance and expression but the bottom just looks like badass bros. It's weird that the remake looks less expressive lol

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Frequent_Dig1934@reddit

Oh what the fuck. I assumed the bottom was the original and top was remastered and was about to say something like "oh well guys, it's not a massive upgrade but at least you can tell they spent some time on improving it". Wtf do you mean the remaster is the shittier one?

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glaynus@reddit

Yea the OG is fire. Remaster is buns and only serves to play gow 1 mp with matchmaking.

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NAUGHTIMUS_MAXIMUS@reddit

The cutscenes in original played like a horror movie

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Squirrel_Bacon_69@reddit

Lighting and sound design can hard carry an otherwise mid game into something great.

Good thing remasters usually botch both

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axemexa@reddit

The one that is uglier and worse is the remake

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Kiwi_Doodle@reddit

It's always the washed out version. Why the fuck do every remaster or remake kill the feel og the original now?

Aside from FF7R though, fantastic remake.

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Chumbuckeneer@reddit

I havent played it or ever watched a full playtrough and I can tell the top is the og.

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RoxaSoraa@reddit

Rockstar really knew to not do this what a shame

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Takerofpiss@reddit

I call it “corporate greed”, rhymes with grug.

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daedas33@reddit

My guess is that most remakes/remasters are just testing ground for new studios or workers.

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UpsetPhilosopher4661@reddit

it's because game companies decided to brainwash gamers into thinking realism > stylization in an attempt to bloat file sizes with detailed "realistic" graphics in order to make pirating games harder/more demanding on the device

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arbiter12@reddit

Play Halo 2 remastered

button allows you to switch between original and remaster

"Wow, game is ugly af...we kids sure were dumb"

press the button for the newer version

It's nicer/cleaner, but clearly older.

Much older.

like 360 era.

mfw the older version is objectively better looking and readable.

pic of halo 1 for reference.

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bardfaust@reddit

"bro this pistol is just like the halo 1 pistol i swear bro just trust me please bro"

I'm so tired of the LIES

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slasher1337@reddit

What are you talking about

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Blibbobletto@reddit

The pistol (magnum) in halo 1 was pretty broken. Super high damage and accuracy, 1 shot headshots, but it also had a scope and was basically a mini sniper at the same time. Basically no downsides. It was heavily nerfed in halo 2, basically turned into a sidearm (crazy for a pistol I know) and some people have been salty about it for two decades.

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slasher1337@reddit

What dpes that have to do with remakes/remasters
No it wasn't broken it just filled the role of a dmr

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Blibbobletto@reddit

Idk dog you asked what he was talking about I don't really care

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SubstituteCS@reddit

It also one shot kills hunters on any difficulty.

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Immortal_Merlin@reddit

To remaster a halo one must master it first, and no halo game was good enough to pass as decent

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PrrrromotionGiven1@reddit

Halo 2 remastered looks great. Halo 1 remastered looks like shit.

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StormR7@reddit

You aren’t wrong but halo 2 remastered has some of the cleanest cutscenes I’ve ever seen in a game

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ChoiceFudge3662@reddit

Fr, I think we’re too the point where we can stop focusing on making graphics better and require more expensive hardware to run, and start focusing on making games run better, please for the love of god, the last thing we want is to feel like we can’t even run new games because we don’t have a 6090-Super-TI-ultra-fart-tracing-DSLL7.0 graphics card

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Snazzysnaj@reddit

FR. I hate how most AAA studios nowadays always use unreal engine and refuse to do any optimzation so you need 100 gb of desk space and a 2000$ PC to play a mediocre game that looks like every other AAA game.

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dragoslayer1327@reddit

mfw when every 100gb game runs perfectly fine at max settings, but trying to fight Gaping Jaw with my monitor turned off sets the entire house on fire

(What the actual fuck did FromSoftware do to that guy)

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Slight-Bedroom-8655@reddit

His phase transition calls a lighting strike right into your computer as well as player character

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dragoslayer1327@reddit

I wish it were just the transition, but I've had freezes during his first phase too. Hell, a bit earlier I even had it freeze during DarkDrift's phase transition

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_Ganoes_@reddit

Why do i see Uma musume everywhere these days?

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Hanza-Malz@reddit

Anime slop.

The first half of the above sentence is the sole reason it is popular.

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_Ganoes_@reddit

Nah dont get me wrong, im here for the slop i watched every single Uma Musime anime out there xD. Im just wondering why its everywhere these past few days

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dragoslayer1327@reddit

The EN release was rather recent, and people have been absolutely falling in love with Haru and Agnes as of last week (would've been say 1 had there not been so many people resetting their accounts for SSR supports the first week)

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Frequent_Dig1934@reddit

Agnes? I didn't see anyone talking about agnes, only the usuals like gold ship and haru and whatnot. Also, which agnes?

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dragoslayer1327@reddit

Anges Tachyon. I've been seeing posts about her on my feed anyways, and I've not even gotten her to 3 star yet

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Specialist_Okra2231@reddit

> huh. wha?

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Snazzysnaj@reddit

It's feet need to be rendered in 4k

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f0rm4n@reddit

I fucking love how Clair Obscur looks, sounds and plays better than 90% of modern AAA games and uses up like a third of space that they do(the whole game is 55 GB) while also being playable on mid-tier PC’s. It’s such a breath of fresh air ngl

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untakenu@reddit

I'm convinced the decision that realism is the absolute goal of games' graphics is just a way to artificially pad budgets for money laundering and embezzlement purposes, while also then allowing the company to charge more.

Play Assassin's Creed 1. It could be made today with a lower budget, looking better. Because the technology has streamlined it all. But if they did make it today, you can bet it would cost them 10x the amount.

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Electronic_Cut2562@reddit

Lmao no, they're just dumb, and enough gamers think the same way for it to pay off.

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5Ping@reddit

Whats your thoughts on rdr2, which is the best example for this type game, selling 70million copies? And also what will your reaction be when gta 6, a game that will absolutely hammer on ultra realism like rdr2, selling 30+ million copies the first month or even more?

The reality is a lot of people like this type of stuff rather than a good art style. I prefer both, but realism always sells, especially for casuals. Theres no brainwashing at play here.

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ConscientiousPath@reddit

Realistic graphics are better if they're realistic, but too many companies are just throwing things in UE5, turning TAA blur up to max, and then saying it's the best ever because the lighting engine is 1% more accurate.

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No_Philosophy5284@reddit

the original is made because people wanted to make a cool game that others would enjoy. A remake is made for money.

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DoubleSpook@reddit

Looks good. What’s the problem?

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SweetTooth275@reddit

Well, if the game was shit to begin with it's gonna need more than just upscaling. Also there's no difference

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cyberstealth999@reddit

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AntiPiety@reddit

Is there hate against the SH2 remake?

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Sercotani@reddit

an oldie youtuber (Pat from SBFP) liked it, and he expected the worst cos its from Bloober Team and SH2 was his favourite Silent Hill game.

Idk, I just get my opinions from people I respect (which is fucking hilarious if you actually know the guy).

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shluttynubkins@reddit

Is this the one where he threw his axe into a hole?

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PeachesGuy@reddit

Ok but come on, Bloober Team knows how to create the atmosphere, at least that's what I felt while playing The Observer and Layers of Fear 1

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Sercotani@reddit

I have no experience with their games aside from Layers of Fear 1, and I'm REALLY bad at walking-sim horror games (survivol horror where u get to fight back is fine tho).

The only thing that stuck to my head about them is how they apparently have a "if you're feeling s*cidal, it's better for everyone else if you're gone" approach to their stories.

Which, if false, then I'll gladly give their games a chance, but if its true then you understand my feelings on them.

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PeachesGuy@reddit

Damn that's harsh, I've never heard of that about their stuff. The only thing I could tell you is that the Observer has some heavy stuff and the endings are "bad Vs worse", typical finales you'd find in every cyberpunk story.

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TDoggy-Dog@reddit

I remember the clip where he just in the middle of playing just stopped and went “Fuck it’s really fucking good, shit” so annoyed.

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Daddywitchking@reddit

I love the guys, and find I usually agree with them through the years. SH2R is good, they can be separate, the audience has changed and grown, considering those things 9/10.

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Enjutsu@reddit

Yahtzie from fully ramblomatic(previously zero punctuation), wasn't very enthusiastic about the remake(seemed to dislike it, but it's hard to judge his opinion).

He is a huge fan of the original and in his opinion it's the best horror game ever.

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slasher1337@reddit

Yahtzee*.

Also its not really suprising, he is very anti remakes

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RegalToaster@reddit

I think this would be more considered a remaster, they took the same old game, tweaked it a little and released for new consoles

SH2 was a whole remake, made it from the ground up using better technology and graphics

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slasher1337@reddit

They chaned the gameplay, puzzles and slightly mixed up exploration, so its a remake.

A remaster is when the only thing that changes are the graphics.

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atoma47@reddit

any youtuber who is passionate about survival horror hated on it (well i watched like 3). Plus one guy played the original after for the first time and thought it was better. I never played the remake but i think it’s unnecessary and doesn’t live up to the original artistically.

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slasher1337@reddit

Huh. Weird, the people i watch who are also very passionate about survival horror liked it. One of them even played the remake right after replaying the original.

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Neon_Ani@reddit

idk why you got downvoted cause this is pretty much spot on

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Zeus78905@reddit

They censored Marias outfit and yes that ruins the experience

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Hanza-Malz@reddit

If I can't goon to my video game what is even the point?

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Zeus78905@reddit

If you won't respect the source material then dont bother making a remake

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Hanza-Malz@reddit

Making an outfit less skimpy isn't disrespecting the source material you cave goblin

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Letters_to_Dionysus@reddit

if you can't goon to a video game it's cuz you ain't trying hard enough

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AbsoluteDungus@reddit

Not really, barring the usual internet culture war nonsense. It's generally been well-received across the board. The most negativity you'll see towards it are from people like me who simply prefer the original, but will typically acknowledge that the remake is still an objectively good game. If anything, I was pleasantly suprised the remake was as good as it was, given Bloober Team's prior track record.

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thoughtlow@reddit

The ps5 pro version has visual bugs and looks worse than the normal ps5 version.

Devs won’t fix it. Basically waste of money.

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RubenKuch@reddit

Yes, I'm a hater

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Thanag0r@reddit

Yes, the "everything is woke" crowd claims that the remake made Angela "ugly and not sexy enough", and that it changed Maria's outfit to a less slutty one.

So the game is woke = bad.

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Vintodrimmer@reddit

My complaint is that its unnecessarily long. I didn't finish the remake and I replayed the original every couple years before.

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SpeechPill@reddit

Sure is, game is made by polaks and was working like shit on release

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genokrad360@reddit

Went from harsh to soft

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SuspiciousPine@reddit

I think a lot of remakes get a relatively small staff and lower budget to essentially make a new game that mimics an original. Like if you're making new models and textures but have half the staff of the original, they're going to look bad.

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AbsoluteDungus@reddit

Anyone have examples of remakes/remasters that they prefer over the originals?

For me, I'd say Dead Space. The original wasn't my cup of tea, but the remake from a couple years ago is fantastic.

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slasher1337@reddit

System shock.

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Xaynerd@reddit

To be fair the devs probably didn't give a shit about making a remake for GoW :/

This was a choice made by higher ups, not devs

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rycerzDog@reddit

It still pisses me off how they did the Silent Hill 2 remake. An entire fucking city is fully rendered in crisp ultra hd just for it to get hidden by fog.

The fog was there in the OG for the precise reason of NOT having to render an entire city. Developers are literally REFUSING to utilize optimization techniques.

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sputnik67897@reddit

Yeah except you would also complain if the fog wasn't there because then "it's not the same"

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rycerzDog@reddit

Man I didn't say anything about removing the fog. I said that the SH2 Remake devs literally chose to not optimize the game USING this fog, like they did in the OG.

A whole city that you can't even see is rendering and using up your resources. You need a more detailed explanation?

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sputnik67897@reddit

Actually yes I did cause I completely misunderstood your first comment. My bad

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tukatu0@reddit

Basically your fps is much lower becuase the computer is spending electricity on things that don't appear on your screen.

So instead of the game running at 1440p 30fps or whatever. It could run at 1440fps 50fps if they do more work

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Brunopunck49@reddit

Ok but

Counterpoint: The fog looks cool and adds to the atmosphere

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tukatu0@reddit

Thats the point.

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tukatu0@reddit

https://imgsli.com/Mzc1Njc4/1/2

Zoom in. Notice how glint goes away.

Devs add this to modernize. Then they add some color filters.

This is why upscaling is so called better than native (it isn't).

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2Rome4Carthage@reddit

Washout any color, blur any edges, overcomplicate everything, add realism where it doesnt make sense etc,

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mrnivclones@reddit

I really thought the top one was the remastered because I found it better

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csupihun@reddit

Both of these look like ASS.

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SpellingEra@reddit

Really wish we could just leave the color contrast alone. The remake is so washed out.

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Outside-Ocelot-5525@reddit

Macus has eyelaces for days in the remake

FABULUS QUEEN!!! SLAY!

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6spd993@reddit

Because of the liberals.

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ReturnRadio@reddit

The whole point of a remake is to make money without having to create something original. It would defeat the point if they had to spend a ton of money making it actually better

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CubingGiraffe@reddit

Capcom may be the exception to this. RE2make and R3make are basically brand new games, at least.

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wortwortwort227@reddit

TAA and shity UE5 slop

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tomtthrowaway23091@reddit

Just look at their facial expressions lmao. One shows how the world was a hopeless nightmare full of fear. The other one they look like they are just going on a regular trip.

I never understood taking the gritty dark world and pumping it with so much light you get a small sun tan from playing.

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