The Remaster Paradox: The Issue with Remasters & Remakes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.พ. 2025
- This seems like it's been the generation of remasters, remakes and reboots. Both good and bad attempts have been made to bring old games into a new light. In this video, we'll be taking a look at some examples and discuss what separates a good remaster from a bad one.
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I definitely made some mistakes with this one and wanted to address them here
1. I honestly had no idea that the SpongeBob BFBB Rehydrated was a full-on remake. It was just so convincingly similar to play that I was sure it was just a remaster. I should have looked into that more. Though that doesn't change how much I really do enjoy that game and how much I like the style of remake that tries to pass as a remaster in how similar they get the new version of the game. An example I should have used of a good remaster would be the Halo 2 remaster from 2014. It corrected everything what was wrong with the Halo CE remaster. A massive graphical improvement that really kept the spirit of the original art direction intact. (Though I know there are issues with its multiplayer, I'll leave that alone here)
2. I enjoyed and purchased the new Last of us Part 1 on PC. My criticism was of the way they made committed PlayStation players pay full price for the same game three times. I think my issue more lies with the 2014 remaster coming out at full price just a year after the original game, rather than this new remake of the gameplay being full price ten years after that.
Edit: Also, a WEEK after releasing this video, Rockstar dropped a massive update to the GTA: Definitive Collection that is supposed to fix a large amount of the game breaking bugs and terrible visual issues players were having. While it's great that they didn't give up on the games, I still believe that this is the bare minimum for something that they released and sold for two years at full price. It's crazy the timing I had on posting this video lol
The Mafia remake was pure cinema
One of the few times where I was a "new gen" fan of something, but ended up liking the original most. Before the Definitive Edition came out, Mafia II to me was the face of franchise.
I really like the screen writing the most, the way Tommy's clothes got all messy in the beginning, how Sam's hand got all shaky in the ending when Tommy confronted him. Pure cinema, just as Scorcese wanted.
Loved Mafia Remake. I hate GTA definitive editions, The resident evils have been awesome.
@@dropped_sk8 I just got the Definitive Edition for GTA and Vice City is actually really stable and fun. It’s way better now than it was at release
@@CalamariPlaysStarfield it was kinda funny tho compared to the Mafia 2 remaster because when compared side by side you could easily tell which remaster had more effort put into it
To me:
Remaster = port of the original with updated graphics, controls, qol, etc
Remake = new game that aims to be the same as the old, but by modern standards
Reboot = Same idea and possibly story but completely new game that is very distinct from the original(s)
@@jj_1edzep this is the correct definition. GTA Trilogy and Mafia 1 and 2 are remakes. Remasters often still use the same engine but with patches to them while remakes need porting to a new or improved engine and updating to these new libraries.
GTA trilogy wasn’t a remake..
@@nicksparrow009 What gta trilogy is more like remaster so is mafia 2 and mafia 1 is remake
@@noocan6232 gta trilogy is a remake! But I was wrong about Mafia 2. Mafia 2 is a remaster
Another great remaster to me. COD MWR. I began my COD journey in cod 4 and I was blown away with how much care was put into the remaster. That tease at the end of the Infinite warfare trailer sent shockwaves through the community. What a time to be alive.
We gotta get one for WAW
Zero originality, nothing but "polishing" older games. Pretty boring time to be alive.
@@Disconnect350 wrong, it was good remaster
Like movies.... We mostly keep getting sequel after sequel after sequel, remake after remake after remake, remaster after remaster after remaster, reboot after reboot after reboot, reimagining after reimagining after reimagining and so on
@@Teh69thSpartan and then we got no Disco Elysium 2
@@Teh69thSpartan so many people ask for sequels to classic games so it's not surprising that we get so many
to be fair though this has been the case since the dawn of the film industry. And some of the best and classic films are remakes. Like The Thing, The Departed, Ben Hur (twice), A Bug's Life, The Magnificent Seven (also twice and both a remake of The Seven Samurai).
People always say that but it's not really true. We get new IP constantly and a lot of people are begging for classics to come back. This is one of those opinions/complaints that people just mindlessly repeat
I always thought a remaster was building onto the game using the code already there, a remake making an old game completely from scratch, and a reboot as a reset of everything in that franchise
It is but you need to work on your definition of "remade from scratch" you cant, by definition, remake something from nothing. So you have to separate terms in either physical ways (engine and code) or the direction behind the game.
@@thechugg4372You know exactly what they meant by "remade from scratch" it's not a term to be taken literally, similar to when people call early builds of games "the beta/alpha version"
RockStar is a really bad example. They always half ass their ports and "remasters." GTA Trilogy and RDR1 were bad because RockStar gets away with being shitty in that regard because they do every major release right. If GTA Trilogy was on par with GTA 5 and RDR1 was on par with RDR2, then people wouldn't be complaining. Sadly it doesn't seem like Rockstar gives a fuck enough about their older games to give them a proper remake or remaster.
And their prices too, like RDR1 is like 50 dollars on PC and PS4 and Nintendo Switch
Which is so weird to me because if they did a full remake like mafia they’d literally make a killing but i guess Rockstar being who they are make big profit either way
RDR1 is just a port and not a remaster. I rather have a simple port than remaster like the GTA Definitive Edition Trilogy. That alone makes the port great because it’s the same classic game without any stupid changes that would ruin it. People just say it is bad because they wanted it to be remade using RDR2 assets.
Exactly. It's why they're a GREAT example of how not to do remakes or remasters lol
Just let me put my OG xbox vice city disc in my series X and give me a framerate boost. I'd have way less to complain about
@DeadBeat_Dave Yeah. Say what you will about Sony's remakes and remasters, but at least they all do the job well. They're pretty substantial upgrades to the previous version, like the first Last of Us. Part 2 was a little less ambitious as it was just the same game with some extra content added. Even the Horizon remaster made the first game better. But it's arguable that the remasters of GTA 3, Vice City and San Andres are far worse versions than the originals, and while RDR1 wasn't "bad" per say, it was the most pathetic excuse for a re release imaginable lol.
The only issue with TLOU1 remake was the price on PS5. It was excellent and really made the game seem as if it came out today with all the fancy graphics, smoothness, etc, but full price was pushing it. Should've been $50 USD.
@@NoCluYT And the performance
The meaning of these words also lose meaning because even publishers are insisting on labelling remakes with the word "remaster", as "remaster" has a less negative meaning.
And no, Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated is not an example of a remaster, even if it plays very close to how the original played: All of its assets have been redone with wholly different pipelines, even if some of the underlying code is the same.
Just because it gives "the same experience" (with huge quotation marks here), doesn't mean it has not been made again; If a movie was filmed again, recreated shot for shot with the same dialogue, cinematography editing, pacing... You wouldn't call that a remaster, it is a remake because it was literally made again.
Hmm, I hadn't thought to get that technical with it. It makes sense at that point to realistically call the game a remake. It being JUST SO similar to the original really had me convinced that it just had the graphical uplift that developers accomplish in a remaster.
Yeah. The GTA Definitive Edition games are technically remakes done in UE4. If it was in the same engine but running at higher res and fps then yeah, a remaster. But running on a completely different engines wiry new assets sounds like remakes to me...albeit a little rushed and incomplete (in some parts) remakes.
@@DoctorZombo I keep saying this, but I’m certain that Activision kicked this whole semantic change off with Crash and Spyro, then with THPS. They marketed them all to be experiences that look and play exactly how you remember them - and then slapped ‘remastered’ on their branding probably to encourage sales, because ‘remake’ implies change and is therefore too much of a risk - despite the fact that they ARE remakes.
Now we’re seeing publishers left, right and centre do it. Tomb Raider Remastered? Remake. Metroid Prime Remastered? Remake. Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster? Remake. In fact hardly any of the remasters we see these days are actually remasters at all.
If you’re making a game to recreate an original, and aren’t using the same assets down to the last pixel on a blade of grass, then it’s a remake.
Like a Dragon: Ishin! Is called a remake by people and the devs but it’s just a really good remaster.
I had never thought of it that way, it makes sense because these terms come from movies but people who are only in the gaming community will see it very differently.
The rule is if the remake is good it was needed if it was bad it wasn’t
We win when we win and we lose when we lose
depends, all the sony exclusive remake are a banger so far but we dont need them, their engines were not limited and still hold up to this day. you cant remake something that barely came out 2 years ago and call it a day
@@ArinaSarina-v2i Silent Hill 2 remake missed the mark entirely
great vid, the halo ce remaster is garbage. All the artistic taste just sucked out of that game with the remaster. OG CE has soul.
I thought it had the option to play with thr original graphics? I might be getting confused with halo 2.
Main issue is brightness and busyness, rooms that were completely dark and ambient were turned into florescent light shows and anything that had a "Less is more" design was replaced with somebody's $5k rgb pc build
Now I hear they are about to do a halo CE remake.
But at the same time, the newer graphics are optional. And it's an overall improvement, for the most part. The controls and frame rate is so much better than the original.
The ones that weren't improved are a few things. The load screen isn't as atmospheric and I found a consistent glitch. Certain sections would just not have plasma pistol glow or Hunter shot glow show. So you can't anticipate when they will shoot. It only happens in small sections. But it's consistent
@@teneesh3376 I love the remaster for that and the new aspect ratio, 343 did do a lot to make it more accurate after mcc launched too, and it is fun to switch back and forth if only to make me appreciate the original, and getting to drop into matchmaking is great.
The only real issue is that someone who never played CE might assume the remaster is the defacto way to play and have a more generic experience.
I hate how Rockstar has neglected GTAIV 😢 Its a total betrayal of (imo) the best story telling in a video game,ever. I really want to play it again before i draw my last breath. But on my ps5 at 60fps. Id be elated just to get a rdr style port. Please Rockstar 🙏
For real. Justice for my man Niko 🙏
I clicked on the video then chucked it down and listened to it while I was folding washing, half way in I had to have a gander as the Quality of what I was listening to was so high, and too no surprise, you are a small channel creator! Literals its the small channels keeping TH-cam alive in my opinion (Not channels like mine though lol, mines just a Clip dumping ground 95% of the time lmao).
Great video man, highly enjoyed. I love the Mafia games too, I always remember buying (again) another xbox at the time just for that Halo remaster, and was so dissatisfied by the 3D effect (3D TV) compared to other games with the same feature.
Forgot Demons Souls... Its a clear remake with 99,9% identical playability from original game
Ohhh I've heard that's a good one. I've personally haven't played any of the Souls games, so using that one as an example didn't come to mind.
Should I get around to playing them at some point...?
@@DeadBeat_Dave the PS5 Demons Souls is actually a great place to start, imo. It's not as difficult (or annoying) as some parts of some latter entries get, and it's a great version even if some changes do rub dedicated fans the wrong way. The term I've heard used for games like it and the PS4 Shadow of the Colossus etc is 'Visual Remake' - complete visual (sometimes audio) overhaul, but minor or no changes to content or mechanics.
It’s funny, a lot of people feel the same way about Demon’s Souls PS5 that he feels about Halo, but I felt like the atmosphere was great. I’m almost glad I never played the original because my experience with the remake was so enjoyable.
@@DeadBeat_Dave
I don’t get why you call this one good while criticizing The Last of Us remake?
Both are literally identical in how much they “remade” from the original. Both even had gameplay improvements.
You already mentioned the Mafia remake, but another favourite from-the-ground-up remake is Outcast: Second Contact. They completely redid that one several years ago and it looks great. Remakes and remasters should be reserved for old games like these that can no longer be played on current hardware. One example of a terrible remake would be XIII. The original game scaled up very nicely to modern systems, and its cel-shaded simplicity was part of the charm. The remake fundamentally misunderstood what made the original release a fun game, removed everything unique about it and looks just like every other FPS out there.
The Definitive Edition GTAs, at their core, are STILL GTA and that gameplay shines through. Recently they updated to let you run AND gun with weapons in 3 & Vice City that originally forced you to stand still whilst firing which actually affects combat in a significant way. That alongside adding a classic lighting mode helps better recapture the original feel and vibe of these old games. Completely fixed? No, but serviceable enough that you can still have a lot of fun with them. Get them on sale when it goes for $30 and that is well worth the money.
Mafia did make some disappointing story decisions.
In defense of GTA Trilogy they just MASSIVELY overhauled and fixed the shit out of many issues with the latest patch from Rockstar themselves. Also Grove Street Games seemingly no longer have involvement in the GTA series.
It shouldn't be a broken mess to begin with. These are games that are 20+ years old. The source that Grove Street Games used were the broken mobile ports. Instead of using the original or even the XBOX version. No excuse for the mess they released back in 2021. The games are 'playable' The vast majority of bugs sadly still remain.
Yeah, they used the fixes on the Netflix version for PC/consoles with the last update. I think it was also for last gen too (ps4, xbox one) and for the switch. I was pleasantly surprised because I honestly thought Rockstar wouldn't update the games anymore to try and tempt people to play the "fixed" Netflix version instead. But unfortunately I don't think they're gonna update the games anymore, even though there's still room to improve. But yeah, Grove Street isn't working with Rockstar anymore. Rockstar basically replaced them with Netflix. It also makes me wonder if the Trilogy would've been any better if Netflix worked on it from the beginning instead.
Other really great Remasters are Crash Bandicoot Trilogy, Spiro Reignated Trilogy and the original Tomb Raider Trilogy. All great and exactly the same content, as they used to be, just way better looking now. Although i'm not quite sure, if they cold be called "Remasters", because all of those were completly redone faithfully in a new engine, not just slapped new textures onto the old game. So how are these called then? They're kind of a remake/remaster mixture.
Same goes for Day of the Tentacle and Monkey Island Remasters, where you can even choose between old and new graphics ingame, that's quite a fun option to compare, same with the Tomb Raider trilogy.
I can't speak to Tomb Raider Trilogy. But, I know for a fact that Crash Bandicoot and Spyro Reignited would be remakes. While the story and levels are the exact same. The game was completely remade from scratch. Vicarious Visions discussed having to go back to old levels; to faithfully recreate them.
So, i think the difference is less of a mixture. But, that the term remake has broader appeal, than it previously had. With their being faithfully recreated remakes (i.e. Crash Bandicoot trilogy. Last of Us Remake); and reinterpretations remakes (i.e. Resident Evil 2).
Really enjoyed this video, you made so many points I agree with. I think the Yakuza remakes are some very fine examples of breathing life into an older game, allowing people to see the beginnings of the series with a modern coat of paint and the improved combat of the modern series.
(Also, I appreciate the Alan Wake on display in the background!)
Honestly you must play the OG Mafia City of Lost Heaven
ive played it once it came out and became my all time favourite.
The remake characters, their personality and motivations, the world got absoluetly butchered.
We had public transportation in the OG game
Tommy had a dilemma that he got stuck in the Mafia but really cant say no anymore, and he has an internal battle justifying the whole thing, and it boils down trough the whole game. Every character had morals and motivations that you can understand as a human
In the Remake, they are just typical "forrgetaboutit" Italian mobsters from Holywood, its absoluetly terrible.
I'm with you, brother! The original and the remake are just from a different nature. One had the ambition and the soul, the other is a superficial imitation.
I agree with a lot of your point in this video. I find myself hunting down original versions of games to keep the authenticity of the experience. A lot of remasters and especially remakes fiddle too much with the original vision of the games and or cut corners or content (resident evil remakes 2 ,3 and 4 come to mind)
I think Resident Evil 2 for the most kept everything very nicely or made it better without massive changes. 3 and 4 changed too much, specially 3 which is a totally different game.
Great video mate.
Thank you! Glad my rambling didn't put you off 🤣🤣
The mafia remake was good graphics but they removed a lot of features and side missions of the original. The strangest thing is that all traffic lights were removes so you end up stuck behind cars that are stopped for no reason.
As someone who was a massive fan of The Last of Us, I will say I ABSOLUTELY hated the idea of The Last of Us Part 1 on the PS5, and I HATED how they marketed it as a "remake" when it was a remaster at its very best. Nothing has changed about it gameplay wise, and it did not deserve the title of remake in the slightest. The second thing about it that really irked me was the price. They wanted to sell it as if it were a brand new game when not much has really changed since the PS4 remaster. If it had been sold at $30 USD, I'd be fine with it, but no way was it worth the $70 or whatever new games go for nowadays. Additionally, what pissed me off so much about it was the diehard Sony fanboys would defend its existence as a remake. As you have said, The Last of Us pt 1 was a remaster of a remaster, but no way was Sony going to market it as such because they know it wouldn't sell.
In the GTA3 remaster, I failed the mission where you drive a guy to the dogfood factory to be killed, because he died in the dogfood factory.
Whut?
Yakuza Kiwami 1 and 2 great examples of remakes as well.
RDR2 needs something. Wether that be a remaster or simply a re-release on modern consoles, it’s a crime that it is still stuck at 30fps on modern consoles
TBH the Mafia remake was good and all, but it made me want to replay the original as they put some of the mission game play (e.g. assinating Sergio) into cutscenes which was gameplay before. Even a QTE would have been nice, and TBH I preferred the more Hollywood voice acting over the gruff, possibly more realistic voice acting. I suppose good thing about most remakes is that we still have the original. Also RE4 Remake there was stuff I liked (looks great, knife durability is both good and bad) and didnt like (Salazar was a downgrade presence wise) Glad to have the OG in my collection too.
Some of the best remaster/remakes we get are:
Mafia definitive edition remake
Dead space remake
Uncharted remaster
Resident evil remakes
Perhaps best one was Battlezone 98 Redux. Original was completely broken, remaster fixed it with wide screen support and some upscale to graphics.
you should add shadow of the colossus to the list of remasters that completely miss the artistic intent of the original
Shoutout to the Crash N. Sane and Spyro Reignited Trilogies. Two other great examples of a remake that weren't mentioned!
True! I’ve just recently started the Spyro games and they seem really well done
I agree with the Spongebob game, it was one of the best remakes i've seen. Also, the Alan Wake copy on the back ♥ Great video, man!
Ive seen it mentioned by a few sources that say Oblivion is getting a remake out this year
That would be one I’d be super excited for lol
Wild that Skyrim has seen SO MUCH support and they just left oblivion in the dust 😂
Like that meme with the kids in the pool with the lonely skeleton under the water
GTA trilogy definitive edition will never be worthy of a purchase because of the soundtrack removals alone
A good example of this is the Yakuza Franchise. RGG wanted to have the entire mainline game series on new gen consoles, and so they remade Yakuza 1 and 2 into Kiwami and Kiwami 2, which are both phenomenal games. But after those two, they simply remastered 3, 4 and 5. 4 and 5 are pretty good, but feel very dated, and 3 remaster was awful, looked fine enough but there was a significant issue with the combat. The remaster had increased the frame rate significantly to run smoother, but it appears that the block function of enemies is tied directly to the framerate, and so every fight is awful with every enemy being almost impenetrable. Made me almost give up on the entire franchise, which is a shame cause it actually had a good story too.
Visual quality of the video wasn't that great in places (don't know if that was Firefox acting up or something), but the audio balancing, the format and the structure of the video made up for that. So, good video overall
Medievil was fantastic, while remaining true to original it added many QOL features and optional side content that unlocks the original game from the menu, wish we got that DLC that adds in cut levels from the original
I'm not 100% sure if I agree with the breakdown of definitions here. I think it's important to delineate if the game is using a different engine or not, much like distinguishing if a film merely touched up old footage or had new filming take place. To bring an existing game to modern systems with a new engine and maybe some graphical tweaks is simply a port. We have seen those since then Atari era, and a port can go up or down depending on the hardware it's ported to (think Persona 5 being a PS3 game at its core. It got ported to the PS4. It then got an enhanced re-release. That re-then got ports to PC, Xbox, switch and PS5) I would argue most things branded as remasters that are targeting new hardware platforms are mostly ports.
SpongeBob/crash/spyro then would be a remake. Similar framework but an entirely new engine with all but the fundamental design redone. Persona 3 Reload and Resi 4 falls under this. A reboot should be used when the title of a previous game is used and the franchise is attempting a rebrand. Tombraider, Doom, Sonic the hedgehog (06) etc.
and then we have what Square is doing with FF7 which I think is where much of the modern confusion stems from.. that's a sequel marketed as a remake.
The Mafia remake is probably the best remake of all time. THATS how a remake should be done.
Love the Mafia Trilogy, all games are awesome but wish all three could’ve been done better. 👍🏻
They're all great in their own ways. But yeah, none are exactly 10/10 games (Though Mafia 2 is def pretty close in my book)
Very much looking forward to this new prequel though!
Imo, the Mafia games are mid games that have a really great story
What they should do is remake all the games from the ground up like that and fix the issues plaguing the current ones. After all that, enough time should have passed where Mafia 4 can be a 70s Vegas based story & all or most of the music would be public domain.
I think the real great one was the original Mafia 1. If you haven't played it, i recommend it (play a non-Steam PC version, with a Draw Distance mod so you can really see the city).
Mafia 2 was pretty good and had some of the things that made the first one great, but less. For me, as a fan from the first one, when it came out, it was kind of dissapointing.
Mafia 3 pretty much forgets about it. Is a different kind of game.
And the Remake of 1 is just a superficial imitation of the original. It also forgets about almost everything that made the original great.
That is: ambition; realism; car physics and damage; challenging combat; a more solid story; different options to beat the missions; and more features like public transport.
@@santiagorojaspiaggio fair enough but at the end of the day, all 3 games are pretty solid. 👍🏻
I mean this in the nicest way possible, you have a funny face. the funny type where when you pull up, you make all the homies happy. everyone’s in a good mood when they see u.
@@3elawi wtf
@ihatedinonuggets you never had that one friend who’s existence and presence is just funny. He walks in and everyone starts laughing. He’s a core piece in the friendgroup
Great work has been done with Mass Effect Legendary Edition. They remastered the Mass Effect trilogy and all the DLCs they possibly could. I got all that content discounted just for 4€
That's incredible. It deserves more recognition
I loved Resident Evil 4 as an RE game...not so much as a RE4 remake. They made too many changes in my opinion, many of them not for the best, but just for difference's sake.
you really didnt like RE4 Remake.
@hgmd3284 I thought it could've been a better standalone RE game and not a remake of 4. It's a great game, but imo it jumbles the story and sequence of events too much.
@@moonfrostgaming1988 the story and sequence of events are literally better in the remake
@@moonfrostgaming1988 that's kinda how i feel about the current remakes, good games on their own but as remakes they are mediocre af, it would have been so cool if their gameplay was used for RE8-9 onwards instead.
Ngl loved that he put Mafia 3's theme into the video
It’s quickly becoming one my my favorite tracks to put down a somber tone 😂
@@DeadBeat_Dave Same dude
The term you’re looking for is "reimagined." A well-known example of this is the 2003 reboot of Battlestar Galactica. Same themes, different approach.
Great video, just subbed
Thanks! Glad you liked the video!
Love hearing that halo ce is your favorite game, its my favorite halo game too! I loved it even more when i went back and played it on the OG graphics, there was a great video explaining how the game was “ruined” in a sense by the new graphics. Ever since i saw that video about 3 years ago, i always try to play the original version of a game rather than a remake or remaster, as i like to think its the developers vision if that makes sense
An excellent yet flawed remaster was Mass Effect Legendary Edition. It gave us the trilogy as a whole package without a break, but some of the moments were broken by the new "4k visuals".
Mafia definitive edition isn't remaster, its a remake
@@JimmysVendetta did you even watch the video before posting this comment? He literally said "the mafia remake" 5 seconds in
@@1111kila I’m more confused how he got 43 likes.
Great video bro, keep it up 👍
Mafia was a good remake but the voice actor for that one guy sounded like sponge bob ffs
I know insomniac remastered spiderman ps4 just so everyone can get used to the new apeter parker face going forward. Instead of just showing it in miles and 2.
The new face thing still really bugs me. Was there ever like, an official reason for the change? Because I liked the original character model much more. It felt more like it fit the voice, as that's how the game was originally made and designed. The change felt SO forced.
Peter looks like a Ubisoft side quest character in the remaster
Wasnt the first game remaster/remake cod mw? (Cod #4)?
The Wolfenstein reboot was released in 2014, NOT 2019.
Even Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus was 2017.
The only Wolfenstein game that released in 2019 was Young Blood.
Yeah haha I messed that up
I wrote 2019 as it was the first year that popped into my head as I was typing up the script. I meant to actually look it up later and forgot 😬
The RE remakes are by far the best and most trustworthy when they release them. No one else really treats their old games with much respect anymore but RE
I've heard so many good things about these new RE games. I really need to try them out one of these days
Another category would be game we want on new platforms, instead of having to deal with console limitations like the Original Infamous.
Mafia 1 would’ve been amazing if they kept everything the same but with upgraded graphics and the new voice actors. The Free Ride mode on the Definitive Edition feels so lifeless. Mafia on the PS2 is only unplayable because of the terribly long loading times. The PC version is the best version of it.
atleast the GTA definitive edition games are playable now
I like to think that this video in particular pressured them to fix the damn game 🤣
MAN I LOVE ALAN WAKE XBOX 360 EDITION.
you know what's crazy, i am barly a gen z i was born in 2010 i was a baby when the xbox 360 was still pouplar,
yet i love retro games, and the xbox 360, i have one.
I just started the OG Alan Wake on 360, pretty good intro. Need to find more time to continue playing it lol
@@DeadBeat_Dave last game(I think) my dad beat! I love alan wake so much
you know i have only played alan wake 2, but i am excited to play the first one,
it looks good and i also just really like retro gameing.
I was born in 2012 I had a 360 but I only played it 2017 onwards and I had alot of fun my core memories were forza motorsport 4, and minecraft the 360 edition
but I have a series x now so I'm playing a mix of xbone or series x games with 360 backwards comp(halo mcc), fallout 3, new Vegas and 4 etc
chil lil vid i like it. worst part abt gta trilogy was how quick they unlisted all the original games, damn shame
The mafia 1 remake for me is very good and im glad they did it, i finished it first on pc and then on ps5 for the platinum, loved it. Gta san Andreas when it came out i was seeing the videos and was disappointed but i can actually say that if you play it now on ps5 its very good almost no bugs and its so awesome to actually read the signs and the texts that they had made back in 2004, i have finished gta san probably 10 and more times in different consoles,pc,ps2,ps3 and now ps5 and mobile original and ps5 is very good edition
Mafia remake was fun but the voice acting was better in OG. Particularly Sam, Salieri and especially Pauly. God they butchered him with that high pitch voice, that was painful.
Reworks, as you put it, can be done great if it's not a cash grab and made by people who know what they're doing and actually care. Great video bro.
Also gotta include destroy all humans, Tony hawk and yakuza remakes
How can a remaster be the same price as a remake, which is often the same price or even more for when the game got released...
WTf?
fire vid bro! keep it up!
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
I had no problem with the GTA trilogy apart from San Andreas. I didn't find them too buggy.
11:30 Mutahar Paaji explains it really well
Re4 remake is a remake because it changes parts of the story and gameplay. My litmus test is the gameplay changed significantly (not just a minor quality of life difference) and/or major story changes make it a remake. You can have remakes that don’t do much of newer games and remasters of very old games. I wouldn’t consider the mafia games remakes but remasters since the core gameplay and story is the same. Sure it’s a major graphical overhaul but drink very much a remaster just a massive remaster. If re4 didn’t change the gameplay like to be able to move and shoot and modify the story and just kept the amazing new graphics it would’ve been a remaster not a remake.
Also people for years want a NFSU2 and Most Wanted remake, although I think what they (and I) want is a remaster, but the chances of EA screw up are frightening to be honest 😬
Like TDU SC in this case a remake (not remaster) would be more than enough to sell well, much more than what they are selling. Can't understand how they screw up
I think that remaster shouldn’t really be made for games that are only one generation old such as until dawn or horizon zero dawn. Remasters or remakes for games older than one generation can be extremely fun such as the mafia definitive edition as the original isn’t available on modern consoles and it is also extremely outdated. I wish that there would be more remakes and remasters like that as some of my favourite video games series are still stuck on the ps3 such as the Motorstorm trilogy
Wolfenstien: The New Order was released in 2014 not 2019.
Yeah, In my script's rough draft, I threw the 2019 date in, mistaking it for that Wolfenstein: Youngblood's release date, but never looked into it to correct my placeholder.
Whats the song at 5 minutes in?
I’ve been playing the silent hill remake and I have to say as someone who’s never played silent hill, it’s amazing and highly worth it for the eerie story
You didn't play the original but if you did you'd understand how garbage the remake actually is
@ITZCHELSEA2244right? Like the combat is worse than than original, the voice acting sucks it’s almost like they just got a guy off the side of the street, and the graphics are 10x worse. Wait…I think I got that backwards
I feel like the truly remarkable remasters/remakes are few and far between. Most of the time they are either sloppily made cash grabs that prey on nostalgia, or they are too different from the original game and change the overall artistic vision. All remasters should be like Halo MCC where you can switch graphics to the OG whenever you want. If devs are worried the graphical difference between old and new isn't large enough to include this feature, maybe they shouldn't be remastering it in the first place.
Yeah, I love the way the Halo remasters let you switch back and forth. I can't believe more games don't include that feature.
I disagree, gamers are in no way fatigued from reworks as you call them, they just don't like bad or unfisnished games. It doesn't matter if they're original or rework, they don't like them. Some of the best games you can get nowadays are reworks of classic games like the the Mafia games, Resident Evil 1-4, Yakuza Kiwami 1-2 Remasterd 3-5, Like a Dragon Isshin, Mass Effect Legendary, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Tomb Raider 2013 and Rise, Uncharted Nathan Drake Collection, Assassin's Creed 3, Persona 3 Reload, Metro Redux, Doom, Wolfenstien, and many others. And while yes, not every rework is handled well or necessary, gamers who are happy with the original don't have to get the new version, I have Horizon Zero Dawn on PC and I haven't bought the $10 upgrade to the new remastered version. As for Halo, I played the original on PC back in 2003/2004 but I wasn't huge into the game as Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 were just much better games and took my attention, really wanting to see a rework of those games, so I prefer the Anniversary version in the MCC, just like I prefer the Halo 2 Anniversary edition when I picked up the collection and played though the series on Steam. If nothing else, reworks expose old games to new audiences who haven't played the original and gets them working on modern hardware or operating systems.
Metal Gear Solid Delta is gonna be one hell of a remake for MGS3 and I hope they remake the others.
The only remake I’ve got that’s disappointed me was Resident Evil 3. RE2 and RE4 were so good and 3 just felt half baked in terms of story and content. Didn’t do the PS1 version justice
The fact that you complain about Grand theft, Auto trilogy being too expensive and then you go and complain about The last of Us on PS5 for $60 doesn't make any sense because you just wait for it to go on sale on a PS5 like you would for the trilogy. I mostly play on PC so I couldn't justify buying The last of Us part 2 until it went on sale for $10 on my old dusty PS4
Can you give me a list of the background music used in the video?
"Under Cover" from the Halo Infinite Soundtrack
"New Bordeaux Theme" from Mafia 3 Soundtrack
"Peril" From Halo 2 Soundtrack
Custom song made by my brother "Arrival"
"Deference of Darkness" ODST Soundtrack
"Under Cover" again
"Let me drown" Another custom one as the outro plays. My little brother makes some dope stuff
@@DeadBeat_Dave Thank You so much! Your bro is amazing for making music.
Im actually glad i picked up last of us part 2 with naughty dog track record it was only a matter of time before a remaster or a ps5 upgrade and waited to play it
Yeah, I did like the fact that the New Part II had new content. The unreleased levels were a really cool inclusion.
Pretty sure the people behind mafia got shut down after mafia 3 no?
I hate how Capcom handled RE2 & RE3 REmakes. Especially RE3
The halo remaster is not what bad. Yes the graphics are changed. But at the end of the day its still OG Halo:CE
subbed, very good video!
I appreciate that! It was a fun one to put together, I'm glad you liked it!
11:03 well you can play the original games without the remasters
Also the reason (which is shockingly not hard to find) is that they hired a 3rd party to make these games but the only code they had was the mobile game version which sucks and you shouldn’t play btw
I think reprise would be a good general term.
Isn't Doom 2016 a sequel? I know the Slayer is the same man as the Marine from 93, 2 and 64.
In the same way that halo remaster pisses you off, Majora's Mask remake makes me extremely sad... They butchered my boy!!
Uhhh Spongebob Rehydrated is a remake built from the ground up, they just used some of the basics to feel like the original game
So I've been told lol
To me, they did such a good job, I didn't really realize that it wasn't just a fresh "Coat of paint"
Knowing this, I do really like this style of remake, where it's so convincingly similar to the original that it can be mistaken for a just a remaster.
GTAIV deserves a remaster. A PC, PS4 and PS5 version.
A remake but with the original colour grading as it fit the tone.
@@S.O.M-l5i I feel like they can still match the tone without that piss colour. It's honestly my least favourite thing about the game.
I thought the yellow color was ugly too, but trust me. Someone modded it without the yellow tint, and it definitely made the game feel a lighter tone. I couldn't believe that I missed the yellow tint myself.
And series s and X and Xbox one
Mafia 1 remake was the gold standard a game that really needed it and extremely well done where as the mafia 2 remaster was ok but it was free as I owned the original on steam so 2k did great with that and I still have the original in my library and they gave me all the dlc for mafia 3 for free so 2k gave us a masterclass in how to do it …. Rockstar that is owed by the same parent company as 2k take 2 shows us how not to do it the gta difnitve trilogy took 3 years to get them to an almost fixed level that it should have been at release and as great as it to have the original red dead redemption in my steam library to play on my steam deck it was the same price I payed on ps3 14 years ago then there’s the final fantasy 7 reamake changing the story a bit for new experience in a familiar world only played the first one so far so good
Although Halo CE had a trash remaster but 343 managed one good thing and that is converting to older graphics by just pressing a button which R* at least should've done!
Yes. That feature is absolutely amazing and should be included in every remaster made. It's so cool to be able to take a good look at the original within the package of the remaster.
They should just call them 'resuscitations'.
Oh boy i am tired of too many remasters and remakes nowadays.
Klonoa: Phantasy Reverie Series was really disappointing for a Klonoa fan like me who has been there before it, sure, Klonoa is back was a cool thing, but it felt very short-lived with the remaster being just, okay at best and not living up to the originals, and even suffer with your points with the Halo remaster mentioned in the video, though people were saying all sorts of positive things about it, because it was a hostage situation kind of game so people DID NOT want to criticize because they were really desperate for a new game so they don't want to say issues afraid to look like a fake fan, but as a fan, i think the series deserved better, specially when it was dead for so long, but even then, it just sort of completely lost its steam, and it's also because they are remasters, mediocre at that, both Door to Phantomile and Lunatea's Veil are not very good games at keeping the talk going for so long, and artistically they are butchered in the remasters.
We need a game of the new 2020 dune movies
I've heard that those movies are really good. (I still need to see them)
Isn't there a Dune game that just came out? Or at least set to come out soon?
I was sceptical about the last of us part 1, but when I played it through ps plus, I got it. Rewatching scenes from the original game really showed the effort they did. It's not a full remake though more of a visual remake. I think it was overpriced but it's perfect as a subscription game. I think you've dismissed this one a little too quickly.
Reboot. Tokyo Goul, was supposed to be evil within 3, but tuened into its own ip
Best remaster is Tomb raider now :-)
I haven't played them, the originals or the new remasters. But I've been hearing good things about them for sure
The Last of Us Part II Remastered feels like a joke, it's essentially the same game as on PS4, with only minor additions and DualSense support.