It honestly just seems like light reflection on certain surfaces made a big jump, but that’s it. I’m no programmer but that’s just what I notice in several games
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 western most likely gonna get triggered if they touch their muh DEI as a point to attack how low quality their "games" are it's not even funny like how many ACTUAL good games was axed for the sake of DEI "games" to pass the greenlight, and ultimately fail miserably
For all of these faults being bad, the thing that bothers me the most is the muting of the colour palette. OG is bright and colourful. Demake is muted grey everywhere.
"Realism" 😂 It's sad cuz any detail they added is washed out or colourless. Which makes it look way worse than the 2016 remaster. That game is so sharp! And the mirrors are still impressive today!
I can actually tell you guys didn't play the first or even this one. What a bad take. lol There IS SO MUCH SEXUAL STUFF STILL it's fucking hilarious. Shut up.
I remember someone said the better graphics got the WORSE the physics got. Like look at the blood section of the video. The splatter is gone from the walls.
@@TheStormbringer8751 It's because back during the Xbox 360/PS3, those consoles made a big focus on their CPUs. After that generation though, gaming has only cared about GPUs while CPUs have just been ignored in the background sadly.
@@Freelancer837 and from the perspective of Sony/Microsoft leadership it would make sense, as 3D rendering is much more computationally taxing and therefore you would think better gpu = better product. Does a higher fidelity picture, realistic lighting and other general graphical improvements lead to a game being a more fun and satisfying experience? Not really.
One thing you missed CrowB - They removed a lot of lines of Frank's dialogue, replacing them with nothing, which leaves some scenes with awkard dead air.
They apparently wanted it to be expressed by the new motion capture's facial animations instead but it just makes it look like its missing something in several scenes.
We should really appreciate the job this guy does for the community, if such things pass unnoticed, companies will feel free to hide "small" details they think the audience won't see.
It's kind of shocking to me just how long it's been since we've had functional mirrors in video games. It's so rare anymore that it's noteworthy when they show up... The Wii could do it. The original Deus Ex had them. Modern computers though? No, just too difficult... too taxing.
@@OuroborosChokedold games cheated by putting another model in an adjacent room. Just mirroring everything inside the game world, not actually raycasting. Modern games want to use RTX but even Cyberpunk doesn't have it, except when you activate it in your bathroom.
@@AllahDoesNotExist yes, but what you talking about (mirrored scene geometry behind mirror) is more like PS2 era. Since X360 is DirectX 9 console with shader units, they probably used Stencil Buffer, that is why it look lowres because it is shader effect per pixel.. very cheap effect on today's hardware.. even X360 had it on full screen mirror with little resolution drop. Definitely easily possible on 50-150 times more powerful hardware today.
What’s worst about these remasters and remakes is that when these fail to meet sales targets the blame is on the consumers and not the outsourcing and crappy development time given to them
@@willypro4949 They'll blame the series and claim no one wants it anymore as an excuse to stop putting resources to it while being able to ignore their own incompetence.
really the mental gymnastics are insane here How are customers at fault if your product failed to meet their standards, labelling standards as racist or mysogynist doesn't helps other than proving you're incompetent
Sean in the original: *insane cult leader going absolutely ham on the lines* Sean in the demake: *Shakespearean actor trying not to wake up his parents in the other room*
And yet, after so many remasters like this one flip-flopped like a dying fish on land, people still think companies like Bethesda can pull of a New Vegas remaster.
@@KnightspaceORGthats probably the only time in the history of gaming when outsourcing produced a product of better quality than the founder company could ever make
Going from 512 mb of ram to 16gb (32 times the ram!) for a game that: -Can no longer handle real time reflections. -1/5th the particle effects, from blood, prop debris, or even bullet shells coming out of guns. -Hastily thrown together ai generated textures that turn 50% of grocery products in a small midwestern town into assorted imports from a random Eastern European country. -Those same AI-textures also imply spell checking is illegal in-universe. -No longer functioning eyelids on seemingly anyone (Seriously what is up with their eyes?). -Makes everything look like a desaturated mess covered in a thin layer of vaseline. -Cuts up areas into smaller chunks because your computer can't handle these improvements. -Likely horribly unoptimized spaghetti code that is the primary culprit for several of these points (at least they managed to keep the download size under 100gb). -Much weaker physics engine, can't barricade yourself anymore, zombies can phase through solid objects don't you know? Definitely taking full advantage of modern hardware for this one.
@@schmecklin377 I hate RE engine too for its extreme overuse in photorealism but, this is just another case of awful devs relying on prettier graphics to hide their awful dev skills
@@inika3 If you played it on PC the reason is probably the port's glitches. Stuff like FPS modify things like zombie spawns, aggression, and damage. Uncapped frame rate can result in some hilarious one-shots (although very annoying when it happens to you).
The veteran's death was genuinely sad once you learn ahout his backstory. If only you could spare him, he probably wouldve made one badass survivor to have follow you around
@@theyatsyspamOnly Blue Castle in OTR actually gave Frank a deserved evolution while keeping his character (A little too snarky and sassy but it made sense, he already lived this once, it stopped being shocking to him) Also Case:West, amazing DLC whit a great dynamic between Chuck and Frank.
@@theyatsyspam I always thought it was because of the game's Japanese charm but to find out it was because of that helicopter cutscene really made Frank and the setting of the original surprisingly grounded. Especially when compared to how out there the sequels and this remaster went.
Dude i love these vids, but i really wish they didnt have to exist. This industry is becoming hollywood in the 2010's where nothing but remakes get released. I hate this industry, it needs another E.T. moment so it can be born again
@@turkish8969 "E.T." moment isn't what you think it is, that was just ATARI having a crash. Overall the market was still fine, arcades still made tons of money and the PC gaming market grew (primarily in Japan) to fill the void left by Atari. In fact, in Japan it is just called the Atari Crash because Japan being the center of gaming at that point knew it was solely Atari that had failed. In other words, we are living numerous "E.T." moments, we are watching numerous major developers fail horribly losing millions. A total market crash has NEVER happened and will never happen.
You'd think with all the technology we have they would make the remaster 100x more gory and bloody but holy shit some how they made it less? incredible...
The original Dead Rising's graphics have obviously aged, but looking back, the devs did a lot with little; the attention to detail was outstanding. Excellent early showcase of the 360's hardware. Here it's like they did little with a lot. The AI textures are just ridiculous. Would it have killed them to hire a few artists to redraw the texture assets?
Seriously the only thing they improve nowadays is like lighting and some textures. The physics, interactions etc. Downgrades from 360 early titles? what!?
@@Over_Toasted That remake is also ass,but the sellout TH-camrs and the consoomer drones who put them on a pedestal rushed to buy that crap. Synthetic Man trashed that awful and the meltdown from the Discord/Reddit/ResetEra/Twitter feminist and LGBHDTV+ was hilariously huge,even right now those sickos are still erupting salt.
Kent taking a "sexy shot" of that woman added to his psychopath profile. It made him come across as a creep who'll do anything for a photo op. Replacing it with his "funniest shot" completely ruins the uneasiness you felt in that scene and instead makes it ridiculous.
@@yomastaza Isn't Frank supposed to be flawed too? He did initially go to Willamete to get a sensational story. The whole game feels like a caricature of American culture, which includes media sensationalism like paparrazi creep shots of celebrities. I think Kent is just supposed to show what Frank could become if he leaves ethics behind in pursuit of furthering his career.
Damn the biggest slap in the face was the mirror and memory comparison. The fact DR1 had to work with half a gig of memory to create so many units and have them reflect in a mirror with 1:1 comparison is really impressive and extremely disappointing that newer devs just give up altogether despite having 32 times the ram size to work with.
I don’t even care about dead rising and never even played it. I’m just glad I can watch a video without a person yelling loudly, or showing me their expensive kitchen they remodeled using the money their fans gave them.
@@AndroidVageta1 just like Patrick Warburton's voice as every big and tough guy, besides Steve Blum doesn't always sound the same gruff guy voice, I recently seen an episode of Harvey Birdman and he played characters Clamhead from Jabberjaw and Yakky Doodle
And it costs as much as the original did adjusted for inflation. It aaaaalllllllllllllll went to the C-suite/Shareholders/CEO. There were no concept artists they had to pay for Frank's design. No writers had to be paid to create a narrative with characters, events, scenes. The music department also got shafted. The only people who really get any kind of employment out of this are the 3D artists who get the privilege of modeling from reference; that sounds soul-crushingly BORING for a creative type, and a MASSIVE waste of their talents. The coders are probably also bored out of their minds, too. These are problems I have with all remakes. They charge so much for the game, and all the profit goes to the C-Suite and shareholders. Talent is either neglected and left to perform mundane tasks, or forced into other industries from a lack of employment opportunity, lost to the gaming industry forever. A lot of people in the industry are extremely talented and we should be grateful to have them. Not just the Miyazakis and John Carmacks, but the people that are guided by those people's creative visions to, you know, create the game in the first place. They could all leave for a wide variety of industries that will happily integrate their skillsets for a much higher compensation. These people are here because they're passionate about video games; wring that passion dry and they'll become passionate about living in a nice condo within walking distance to work. Video games don't have to be art, but they cannot be created without some artistry. Something about these remakes just feels wrong on some level.
Would agree about "for profit", but only idiot would censor stuff because the only kind who knows about the original will buy the remake - for sоybоys it doesn't matter if the remake "better", the original already did "damage" for them
Ahhhhhhhh all games have been made for profit and game devs have always been miserably overworked . They've been since basically forever. When I was young I specifically chose not to go into game development because of that. The price of most goods and services has nothing to do with how much they cost to produce and all the money always goes to the people at the top. That's how it has always been since money has existed.
A big part of that sexiest shot thing with Kent was it was supposed to clue us, the player, into him not being all there right in the head, given the candid nature of it. Without that there’s just an aspect of his character missing
Yeah the funniest shot paints him as a guy with a weird but harmless sense of humor while the sexiest shot is clearly done in a way where he's taking it without her knowing and is unsettling.
I think it just comes off as dumb. The very idea that this dude seriously ran around and put those masks on zombies just to take a "funny" picture is beyond stupid. Are we supposed to assume that Frank actually puts on those dumb outfits aswell? Or does any of the joke stuff?
@@superbrainz2357 i got the impression that he was a redditor with the "This is my funniest shot", like he was trying to get a picture to earn him some sweet sweet updoots
As somebody who grew up with Dead Rising and really enjoyed the hell out of the first two games, I just want to say thanks for your meticulous details in this and your other Dead Rising videos showcasing the quality of the original. It’s a shame the series had the trajectory it did.
And with a lower price as well! That’s why it always baffles me when people say they censored it if they wanted to they could have pulled older versions and truly censored it not drop the price to $10 on steam at least and make it more accessible.
29:01 There’s a huge mixing quality difference between the original and remaster. You hear a lot more reverb and bass in the original’s voices. In the remaster, it literally sounds like you’re just listening to the raw unedited audio file that was recorded in the booth. The vocals sound extremely isolated because of it.
It sounds muffled as hell. I think you hit the nail on the head. It sounds like absolutely no mixing or production work went into the voicework in the remaster.
It's pretty clear that these devs used AI HEAVILY to make this "remake". That's why all the labels, and signs have turned to a bunch of mushy gibberish. What a sad time to live in.
Come to think of it, these days you probably can get better results generating stuff like ''cat food' labels from scratch instead of upscaling old ones.
@@Ryfael It's so bad, I can almost guarantee the map of the mall with all the names was absolutely obliterated by the algorithm, so instead of doing any manual work, they just cut the map out entirely, just deleted it ☠
NO IT DIDNT WHAT! Dude, the whole game was so jarring that's what made things so comical at the same time fucking stressful. Theres a reason 2 and 3 went that route.
The new VO performances aren't bad, but the sound quality is just absolute trash. It's strangely muted, lacking believable echo. It sounds like they screwed up the recording and added a denoise filter to save it.
@@matman000000 The VO is especially bad and their line reads are terrible. Cadences that don't make sense, it shows the VA talent were not given any visual when reading
I’d be really curious to see a direct comparison of the sound design - the audio mix in the remake definitely seems less detailed. I remember being impressed at the time at how much is communicated with sound in the original. It’s so important in a game with so many nooks and crannies, where you’ll miss really important stuff if you’re not listening for it. Getting the space the sounds live in right is a big part of that, and it doesn’t seem like they put much thought into that in the remake.
I agree,your effort and exploration were rewarded. Beating the challenges DR1 had for you gave you such great rewards. Even just base game things like a small chainsaw and finding the books for it made you very formidable.
You also got to do new playthroughs with your current stats so you could replay and start harder missions way earlier combined with knowledge from your last playthrough.
@@superbrainz2357Yeah, I think making the game easier would have been unneccessary if the game somehow made clear "Hey, the first few playthroughs are mainly for exploration, levelling, and dicking around. Try going for the actual story when you've got a feel for the game."
@@TheHeavyshadow I've been replaying the og right now after getting stuck at the bomb section a while back. When I realized your stats carried to ng runs I just did that and I've been enjoying the game a lot more. I learned the value of the book/mini chainsaw combo and knowing about the wonderland shortcut helps a lot. Reminds me of ng+ in fromsoft games. Maybe I'm in the minority but I found dark souls way more fun on the second playthrough where I actually understood some things.
you can tell when companies cared about their game. The level of detail for a almost 20 year old game is amazing. The game still looks great to this day.
The original just feels so much more visceral and real. Like some of the characters actually creeped me out, and I was way more immersed. I felt the sense of urgency and panic. But the demake feels like everything is gonna be fine, and hollow and empty.
@@USSMariner was meant to be critical of the way media will sensationalise everything which ironically makes the original feel more relevant in today's social media hellscape. This remaster doesn't get it.
something DRDR messes up is the clean aspect of the first games mall, one of the reasons why the game was so uneasy and creepier was how completely clean the mall was mixed with the zombies rotting corpses and moans. the fact they made it dirtier by placing trash everywhere ruined not only that feeling but ALSO ruins the whole point of steven cause the store was completely clean cause he was taking care of it, it doesnt make sense to be trash there
Yeah Frank’s age actually felt really important in terms of his motive in the original. He was just old enough to be seasoned and have a little experience, but just young enough to be willing to risk everything for a big break. You got the sense that he was a hungry young professional who hadn’t yet reached the peak of his career, who is caught between helping people and seeing the situation he’s in as his ticket to something bigger. That’s central to some of the drama in the game especially regarding the time mechanic, where the situation becomes more than just a huge opportunity, and crosses over into something he’s personally invested in because he’s genuinely a decent guy. That’s literally a huge source of tension baked into the game design - do I spend my time saving people, or getting to the bottom of all this? It doesn’t work nearly as well when he looks ready for retirement.
The details section really made me appreciate what the developers were able to achieve on the 360. The fact that the 2024 remaster doesn't even include reflections from the original when we have graphics cards and consoles capable of ray tracing is wild. Edit: Also what the hell is going on with the writing on in-game objects?! It looks exactly like what happens when you ask AI to generate a picture with some writing on it.
Crowbcat videos are both somehow funny and depressing. They show how far the industry of video games has fallen just in terms of style, identity, charm, and overall polish. These newfangled fancy pieces of software with tons of reflections and dynamic shadows feel less of themselves than their original counterparts two decades later. Whole legacies and memories just.... waxxed over and desaturated. There is no other word for something like this than "Demake"
im ONLY going to argue that actually real Demakes are pretty cool, unlike this crap. like, you can find a Demake of FF7 for the NES thats pretty awesome. uh but yea, this remake sucks ass.
@DENIS_Biomech he wasn't harassed people really didn't like the video because he took too much wrong comparison from the wrong game versions. The main complaint was that he made it video just to milk on hype
the voice acting thing is so subtle but so noticeable. kinda sounds like they’re falling into the basic acting pitfall of trying to act rather than acting
@@thecatdaddy1981 With Queerguard failing, after Concord, Dustborn, Unknown 9 etc I think we're at the peak of failure. The pendulum is going to swing back. #copium
@@thomasvlund I don't think they're talking about graphic fidelity. They probably mean all the missing details like reflections, animations, particle effects etc.
@@thomasvlundyes, absolutely. Call of duty is the best example. The 360 era games all had visually clear sight lines, which let you actually use your iron sights without issue. The modern CoDs all have issues with visuall clutter. ESPECIALLY with the vignetting and shaders they use.
It actually makes it a perfect study on how much our society had changed over the years. How much people have grown afraid, impulsive, and grossly sensitive to even the little things.
The 21st century has fixed so many problems that people's brains just have to make up new ones in order to stay sane. Conspiracy theories, the NFT market from a few years ago Etc etc
I think THQ did it best with "Destroy all humans". They just put warning at the start being like "some of the content in this game hasn't aged all that well, but want it to be as accurate to the orginal product as possible". Hard to be mad at that IMO
warner bros did the same thing when they released a box set of old looney tunes episodes. it’s just good business really. begging for somethin like this to be done when you start censoring.
The warning is already stupid. The fact that you say it's hard to be mad at that just shows how much the overton window has shifted. Normally we SHOULD be mad at these patronizing warnings, but since it's the least stupid among what we get we welcome these with a smile.
How to remake a game "for modern times": (1) Make it more serious, less over the top or goofy fun (2) Remove reflections, make the physics more stiff and rigid (3) Make the lighting darker so you can't make out the fine details (4) Make what is effectively the same game overall, but multiply the file size by thirty or more (5) Instead of making textures and compressing them, take compressed textures and AI upscale them (6) Make the environment less interactive as a whole - but keep or specifically make some things interactive to try and keep the illusion of being up to par in terms of interactive environments
@@mightyfineincredible2252 I count that under the umbrella of point 1, as it tends to be that any form of fun even in an overtly exaggerated manner can be divisive or controversial - so instead the aim becomes to be a sort of "minimum viable fun" video game.
(3) and (4) especially annoy me so much. (3) in RE2 Remake where everything was so dark you couldn't see sh*t, which is a shame given how beautiful the RPD is designed. I love me some neat architecture in my video games. Always prefer OG RPD because of this. (4) is what leads to every modern game eating up half of your External Hard Drive storage.
Imagine adding censorship and making a family-friendly remaster of a fucking R-rated game Edit: The game is actually M-rated, but I hope you still get the point
Thank you for making this. It perfectly demonstrates the difference between how games are and how they used to be. Stripped of all their charm and character, we zombify our memories to relive them, but in a lesser form. Why bother when the original is still around? Who asked for a remake?
It's upscaling, not reconstruction. They tried to make blurry images hi-def with a simple click of a button, like how photoshop tries to do the same and even try to fill in some blanks.
Like, even if they remade all the sticker and product designs just to have higher res assets it'd be fine. No need to perfectly copy the originals (even though it'd be better, but not necessary). Instead they just put it through a lazy AI and didn't even bother touching it up to make it *at least* make sense. Like, even if they left the horrendous misfigured art, they could at least make sure the text wasn't garbled into nonsense.
Oh wow that change to the cultists is really egregious. People need to remember that little changes like these compound and compound upon each other where the sum of it's whole is the problem, rather than hyper focusing on one or two problems and asking "Why does this in paticular bother you?"
People also need to remember that their intention was to destroy what you loved. This is not a failure. This is their goal.: a whole of society demoralization project that will leave nothing you enjoy untouched.
13:37 I love how the original has new releases spelled correctly while the "remaster" is spelled "new releasesrs" its very poetic almost like its telling us about the current state of remakes and remasters.
And the original was made by an all Japanese team that basically modeled the game's mall after pictures of American malls of the time. Many of them hadn't ever even left Japan. That's what makes all of this even more ridiculous.
Like, I don't really mind the yellow paint or whatever that newer games have. But that grafitti felt so damn patronizing lol as if directing the braindead zombies instead of Frank.
I don’t like the whole yellow paint thing ever since I saw it in far cry 4. But I’ve begrudgingly gotten used to it if it was just a splash or two. Having a deadass sign saying “this way” just makes me angry. It leads to carlito and no where else so it’s not like people can excuse this with “a survivor put it there”. There’s no safe place in that food court, it doesn’t say “food this way”, and the rafters where Carlito is doesn’t have anything for survivors to use. There’s no logical reason to put that there besides the new devs saying “we think you’re stupid and didn’t pay attention to Brad audibly saying ‘go that way’ “
Oh, boy! So for 10x the price of the original*, I can get a _new_ version of Dead Rising where almost every technical detail has been downgraded in the name of making every surface looks like it's been smeared in dirty Vaseline and every character looks like that cursed 'Realistic Mario' picture? And it demands 32x more system memory?! What's not to love? *It's on sale right now (and goes on sale frequently), and you can get DR1, DR2, and OTR as a bundle for $15 right now.
He's been genericified, even the Japanese who are known to be the most over the top have had their creativity reduced to the level of mindless zombies.
Hey guys, let's change a bunch of things that could possibly offend unhinged people who spend their lives clutching their pearls over things that doesn't ultimately matter so they don't protest and complain about a game that a majority of them wouldn't even play! This shit needs to stop. "It doesn't matter that they changed it." If it didn't matter, why change it at all?
He’s the best example of simple editing done right on YT. There’s nothing crazy fancy about it. But it’s direct, efficient, and crafts a narrative without any need for narration.
it is fascinating to me that games had mirrors and proper reflections without any issues. and the minute raytracing was announced by Nvidia, suddenly all developers decided that "reflections are hard to run without a 4090 with DLSS 3"
Yeah... planar reflections, cube maps, and other clever tricks like mgs2 reflections on ship for example, have been replaced with dog shit screen space reflections and ray tracing to sell graphics cards
I remember when people were excited for RTX because of reflections but we had them before anyway tho. Now they are more demanding and are removed entirely lmao
Translation: We are lazy and just want money, so no reflections. Buy our skins. PS2/3 and XBOX (360) were the golden times of gaming, where it was a passion project for the devs. Now its just about $$$
"Today players will experience the same shock players felt when original game was released" Well, it's true somehow. In both cases first thought was "unbelievable how they could create something like this" but with completely different context. Also ending is heartbreaking.
It beggars belief that they turned a tragic villain, Clint, who was supposed to be a Vietnam soldier with PTSD and turned him into a cartoon villain who hates moles. The "war is bad" messaging is gone. Crawling through the vents is no longer the scary foxhole/spiderhole tactics common in Vietnam but a bugs bunny style burrowing. Nothing to scare you or make you wonder "wow that must have been awful". No respect for the imagery or messaging is left.
ehhh some of his videos are alright but he's mostly just cinemasins for video games. id love to see him actually showcase good games so we get a real respect for his opinions, rather than just nitpick easy targets- it feels very surface level to just show old vs new footage
I prefer his style over youtubers that ramble for 30 minutes saying things we already know. Crowbcat does it in a very special and good way, exposing the true reality of a game with hard evidence.
The missing reflections is what gets me. Nowadays, devs always rely on ray-tracing or other costly solutions, when back then, they found other ways to just bake it in or fake it in some way.
The thing is, the original game didn't use smoke and mirrors. The DR Engine fully supports reflections and the 360 has plenty of memory for it. They simply mirrored your camera on a fixed plane and lowered the render resolution.
Older games used baked in lighting in combination with screen space reflections Works excellent both quality and performance wise but requires manual labour and care Hard when you have 8 different developer departments each handling a slightly different part of the code and 4 HR departments managing them all
Others would know better than me, but with better technology you have people getting lazier with optimizations and workarounds. I assume it's partly why some modern games are ridiculously large nowadays.
They were already seething before this video came out. They had a post about the dr1 vs 4 video with a title like: "can't wait for this crybaby to try and ruin the remaster for me". What the heck. A few years ago it was still that dr4 killed the franchise and crowbcat showed why perfectly. Why is there complaints about it now?
I genuinely enjoyed it. I've been playing dead rising since it dropped, I gotta have at least 50 playthroughs of the first one. I think people just care about things that literally do not matter. Sure, these little things can add up and break your immersion, but, crazy, I played through the game and the only big difference was the difficulty cause I wasn't staring at cans or trying to take pictures of cans etc. Didn't try shooting into the parking lot cause I was saving every survivor trying to get every achievement in one run I can. Probably because I set my bias aside for the first one beforehand and didnt carry insane expectations. Didn't care about the censorship cause it's all frivolous shit, sorry, no vietcong or erotica for you. I just played the game. No, I didn't mindlessly shovel it down, I just gave it a chance. You can hate AI all you want, idc, valid lol.
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It's ironic. Graphical fidelity has never been better, and yet attention to detail has never been worse.
That’s because attention to detail actually takes effort and passion
Almost like gamers worrying about graphics screwed us.
we've finally got the technology for things we couldnt do decades ago!
...too bad the high ups cant bother to leave their comfort zone...
@@measlesplease1266 gamers aren’t the ones making games anymore, at least not the decisions.
It honestly just seems like light reflection on certain surfaces made a big jump, but that’s it. I’m no programmer but that’s just what I notice in several games
An event called "your game is so bad it revived Crowbcat" happened again
Hell yeah
I'm surprised this is what brought him back and not Concord, or Dustborn or Dragon Age Veil guard or SSKJL.
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408hopes to see it later, maybe
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 western most likely gonna get triggered if they touch their muh DEI as a point to attack how low quality their "games" are
it's not even funny like how many ACTUAL good games was axed for the sake of DEI "games" to pass the greenlight, and ultimately fail miserably
Okay but the RE4 remake wasn’t bad. Crowbcats just mad he can’t see Ashley’s panty’s
For all of these faults being bad, the thing that bothers me the most is the muting of the colour palette. OG is bright and colourful. Demake is muted grey everywhere.
a lot of remakes aims to remove any color from the game in question for some reason
@@CptJack-ws8nz it's too racist too have your game be colored and unique
grey slop is the only way
"Realism" 😂
It's sad cuz any detail they added is washed out or colourless. Which makes it look way worse than the 2016 remaster. That game is so sharp! And the mirrors are still impressive today!
respect to the devs of the game for having the balls to call this a remaster
It looks like resident evil paint job really
we gotta make sure the murderous maniac bad guy isn't saying anything problematic
I have noticed that so much in modern-day media. They can't even have a bad guy really say bad things. I guess it would trigger someone.
It's weird. They're so quick to say normal people are racist but apprehensive to make clear psychopaths or evil people racists.
Same thing happened with RWS when they said the postal dude isn't transphobic. He's a mass murderer, who gives a shit?
@@R-Lee- critical drinker made a fantastic video about this subject "What happened too our villains"
the murderous maniac bad -guy- _person_
gotta stay inclusive
We wouldn't want any adult themes in our violent video game for adults
or illegal acts of sexual harassment!
@@Frostile Especially from the villains who are clinically insane. What message would that send to the kiddos playing the games?
We can't have the evil psychotic maniacs in our game being heckin sexist!
I can actually tell you guys didn't play the first or even this one. What a bad take. lol There IS SO MUCH SEXUAL STUFF STILL it's fucking hilarious. Shut up.
@@superbrainz2357 The villains aren't insane... just misunderstood!
It's funny to see how old games are a treasure trove of lost technology, literally a golden age
I remember someone said the better graphics got the WORSE the physics got. Like look at the blood section of the video. The splatter is gone from the walls.
competency crisis comes for all.
@@TheStormbringer8751 It's because back during the Xbox 360/PS3, those consoles made a big focus on their CPUs. After that generation though, gaming has only cared about GPUs while CPUs have just been ignored in the background sadly.
@@Freelancer837 and from the perspective of Sony/Microsoft leadership it would make sense, as 3D rendering is much more computationally taxing and therefore you would think better gpu = better product. Does a higher fidelity picture, realistic lighting and other general graphical improvements lead to a game being a more fun and satisfying experience? Not really.
Actually I think you’ll find the programmers are, in fact, worse at their jobs
One thing you missed CrowB - They removed a lot of lines of Frank's dialogue, replacing them with nothing, which leaves some scenes with awkard dead air.
They apparently wanted it to be expressed by the new motion capture's facial animations instead but it just makes it look like its missing something in several scenes.
@@superbrainz2357 people can talk and be expressive at the same time. It's a strange decision.
My biggest dissapointment came when he didn't say "FAAAANTASTIC" not once. 😢
What's disappointing is that they didn't even hire Frank's original actor. Funny that he played as Birkin in RE2 remake but not this.
@@constipatedparker5879 honestly its a good thing he was not attached to this now that we see how it turned out.
We should really appreciate the job this guy does for the community, if such things pass unnoticed, companies will feel free to hide "small" details they think the audience won't see.
You know he is about to do them dirty when he opens the Wii version.
It's kind of shocking to me just how long it's been since we've had functional mirrors in video games. It's so rare anymore that it's noteworthy when they show up... The Wii could do it. The original Deus Ex had them. Modern computers though? No, just too difficult... too taxing.
@@OuroborosChokedold games cheated by putting another model in an adjacent room. Just mirroring everything inside the game world, not actually raycasting.
Modern games want to use RTX but even Cyberpunk doesn't have it, except when you activate it in your bathroom.
@@AllahDoesNotExist yes, but what you talking about (mirrored scene geometry behind mirror) is more like PS2 era. Since X360 is DirectX 9 console with shader units, they probably used Stencil Buffer, that is why it look lowres because it is shader effect per pixel.. very cheap effect on today's hardware.. even X360 had it on full screen mirror with little resolution drop. Definitely easily possible on 50-150 times more powerful hardware today.
@@DeloixYeah, but they do it? No. They care about details like old devs? No. They hate their costumers? Yes. They can create a thing? No.
@@AllahDoesNotExist So basically ray traced reflections is a much more inefficient way of doing reflections and most of the time it’s not worth it
Making the blood and gore worse in a zombie game... boggles the mind.
Exactly that’s like taking ammo out of call of duty
it might be insulting to trans people
@@larrybobinski1257 Boo hoo.
@@larrybobinski1257”what do I have to do to make this about myself”
@@larrybobinski1257??????
That Wii version mirror jab went straight for the throat.
Weeeeeeee :p
oh god, the sexiest to "funniest shot" line change gave me physical pain.
What’s worst about these remasters and remakes is that when these fail to meet sales targets the blame is on the consumers and not the outsourcing and crappy development time given to them
@@willypro4949 They'll blame the series and claim no one wants it anymore as an excuse to stop putting resources to it while being able to ignore their own incompetence.
DR TH-camrs were saying we need to buy this so the series continuous. 💀 I love DR and DR 2 but I ain't supporting this crap.
really the mental gymnastics are insane here How are customers at fault if your product failed to meet their standards, labelling standards as racist or mysogynist doesn't helps other than proving you're incompetent
@@user-ne9sd4ow1o and ecdysis was shitting on people that had genuine criticisms for the game, especially the censorship
What was their response to the negative sales?
Sean in the original: *insane cult leader going absolutely ham on the lines*
Sean in the demake: *Shakespearean actor trying not to wake up his parents in the other room*
He sounds like he came to audition for a vampire but the devs didn't tell him it was a cult leader.
Gotta say this is quite eye opening when you see the direct comparisons
A huge chunk of this is Capcom trying to cozy up to China.
That's all his comparison videos.
and guess what? you would never play it like that, the games looks better, you don't need to be a dumbass comparing both
@@tylertheguy3160it was made by a Chinese company
@@tylertheguy3160and it’s going to fail in the Chinese market as well
And yet, after so many remasters like this one flip-flopped like a dying fish on land, people still think companies like Bethesda can pull of a New Vegas remaster.
@@eleven99 I'm suprised anyone had any hope for Fallout left after 76's disastrous launch.
The best part is that it's not even a Bethesda game
@@superbrainz2357 They still made money of that, so they would make a new one or a remaster just as bad.
You know what, true. 80% of remasters do little apart from just deep-cleaning and sanitizing any personality away from the originals
@@KnightspaceORGthats probably the only time in the history of gaming when outsourcing produced a product of better quality than the founder company could ever make
The really lazy AI upscaled images really add to the remake 😍
I love AI sloppa!! 😍😍🥰🥰
nom nom nom
🤗🤗🤗
The old texture was grainy, low res and hard to read, but the new ones really made me crave some of those Homomade cookies
Real Deluxe product.
@@plebisMaximus They were very easy to read and the resolution was more than sufficient.
Going from 512 mb of ram to 16gb (32 times the ram!) for a game that:
-Can no longer handle real time reflections.
-1/5th the particle effects, from blood, prop debris, or even bullet shells coming out of guns.
-Hastily thrown together ai generated textures that turn 50% of grocery products in a small midwestern town into assorted imports from a random Eastern European country.
-Those same AI-textures also imply spell checking is illegal in-universe.
-No longer functioning eyelids on seemingly anyone (Seriously what is up with their eyes?).
-Makes everything look like a desaturated mess covered in a thin layer of vaseline.
-Cuts up areas into smaller chunks because your computer can't handle these improvements.
-Likely horribly unoptimized spaghetti code that is the primary culprit for several of these points (at least they managed to keep the download size under 100gb).
-Much weaker physics engine, can't barricade yourself anymore, zombies can phase through solid objects don't you know?
Definitely taking full advantage of modern hardware for this one.
The cola splashes from a zombie rotating on a cement mixer is peak laziness, disappearing once it does just one full turn lmao
Wait, 16gb ram? Are u serious?
I think the RE engine is actually pretty garbage. Sure it can make a photorealistic image but at what cost
@@schmecklin377 I hate RE engine too for its extreme overuse in photorealism but, this is just another case of awful devs relying on prettier graphics to hide their awful dev skills
Very sad when you compare F.E.A.R 1 physics with modern game physics
Incredible advert for the OG game as someone who never played it lol
I played it recently for the first time. It's not perfect, and can be very frustrating at times, but it's still pretty fun. Dead Rising 2 is good too.
@@inika3one of my all time favorites but the time system is very frustrating sound track slaps too especially gone guru
It’s baller. The guy with the p90 really gave me a hard time.
@@inika3 If you played it on PC the reason is probably the port's glitches. Stuff like FPS modify things like zombie spawns, aggression, and damage. Uncapped frame rate can result in some hilarious one-shots (although very annoying when it happens to you).
I have a hundred hours on dead rising
The veteran's death was genuinely sad once you learn ahout his backstory. If only you could spare him, he probably wouldve made one badass survivor to have follow you around
The way he popped outta the vents like they were fox holes! Such good game design and story telling!
@@user-ne9sd4ow1o I think it was a allegory for the tunnel rats in Vietnam which makes it even more brutal. Those jobs were hell on earth.
They couldn't get steve blum to play cliff....screw dei
They took away Frank's limp, did they not know it was because he sprained his foot when jumping out of the helicopter?
They don’t care obviously
It got better after a quick nap in this version :)
His run cycle gave sop much character on its own. Shocking, almost like they didn't even like Frank
@@theyatsyspamOnly Blue Castle in OTR actually gave Frank a deserved evolution while keeping his character (A little too snarky and sassy but it made sense, he already lived this once, it stopped being shocking to him)
Also Case:West, amazing DLC whit a great dynamic between Chuck and Frank.
@@theyatsyspam I always thought it was because of the game's Japanese charm but to find out it was because of that helicopter cutscene really made Frank and the setting of the original surprisingly grounded. Especially when compared to how out there the sequels and this remaster went.
"I've covered demakes you know." - Crowbcat probably
I mean it's true
😂😂 that's a good one
Dude i love these vids, but i really wish they didnt have to exist. This industry is becoming hollywood in the 2010's where nothing but remakes get released. I hate this industry, it needs another E.T. moment so it can be born again
@@turkish8969crazy thing is remakes and reboots is still a majority of what Hollywood produces
@@turkish8969 "E.T." moment isn't what you think it is, that was just ATARI having a crash. Overall the market was still fine, arcades still made tons of money and the PC gaming market grew (primarily in Japan) to fill the void left by Atari. In fact, in Japan it is just called the Atari Crash because Japan being the center of gaming at that point knew it was solely Atari that had failed.
In other words, we are living numerous "E.T." moments, we are watching numerous major developers fail horribly losing millions. A total market crash has NEVER happened and will never happen.
You'd think with all the technology we have they would make the remaster 100x more gory and bloody but holy shit some how they made it less? incredible...
Sorry to twist an already twisted knife but also lack of zombies in a Dead rising game about zombies.
“Modern gaming.”
Likely because of japans censorship laws regarding gore
Original was made with passion and love
@@peruvianpuffpepper904it’s unfortunate that American influence is so pervasive across the world
@@peruvianpuffpepper904Japan has their own versions of games for that reason, this isn't a new concept
The original Dead Rising's graphics have obviously aged, but looking back, the devs did a lot with little; the attention to detail was outstanding. Excellent early showcase of the 360's hardware. Here it's like they did little with a lot. The AI textures are just ridiculous. Would it have killed them to hire a few artists to redraw the texture assets?
The *NINTENDO WII* version had working mirrors. Modern devs have zero excuse
@@turninonthescrew7394 bruh that’s crazy to me I’m playing dead island 2 (2023) and they don’t have functioning mirrors it looks so gross
@ease3784 that game has gore and nothing much else
Friend, let's be real: even Duke Nukem 3D from 1996 had functioning mirrors.
The people that made this slop had no clue whatsoever.
Seriously the only thing they improve nowadays is like lighting and some textures. The physics, interactions etc. Downgrades from 360 early titles? what!?
@@ease3784Majority of new games don’t have functioning mirrors I’ve noticed. I check just about every new game I play.
"Improvements were needed to reach a modern audience."
By far, one of the most scariest sentences I've ever heard.
Except when it applies to Silent Hill 2 Remake. People need to be consistent
@@Over_Toasted That remake is also ass,but the sellout TH-camrs and the consoomer drones who put them on a pedestal rushed to buy that crap.
Synthetic Man trashed that awful and the meltdown from the Discord/Reddit/ResetEra/Twitter feminist and LGBHDTV+ was hilariously huge,even right now those sickos are still erupting salt.
@@Over_Toasted this was a remaster though, I would expect large changes in a remake but next to none in a remaster
@@Isatino are you 14
@@Qui6Below This is definitely a remake paraded as a remaster though. There are completely new assets in a completely new engine. That is a remake.
Kent taking a "sexy shot" of that woman added to his psychopath profile. It made him come across as a creep who'll do anything for a photo op. Replacing it with his "funniest shot" completely ruins the uneasiness you felt in that scene and instead makes it ridiculous.
Even male psychopaths can't objectify women, it's too risky for modern Capcom/modern audiences.
Yeah the original made him come across as a sleazy creep while the new one just feels like something the player themselves would do for fun.
Not to mention they got the jeelie beelie guy to do the va
I feel like this would ring truer if the original didn’t also reward you for sexy shots
@@yomastaza Isn't Frank supposed to be flawed too? He did initially go to Willamete to get a sensational story. The whole game feels like a caricature of American culture, which includes media sensationalism like paparrazi creep shots of celebrities. I think Kent is just supposed to show what Frank could become if he leaves ethics behind in pursuit of furthering his career.
Damn the biggest slap in the face was the mirror and memory comparison.
The fact DR1 had to work with half a gig of memory to create so many units and have them reflect in a mirror with 1:1 comparison is really impressive and extremely disappointing that newer devs just give up altogether despite having 32 times the ram size to work with.
When "Chocolate Milk" turns into "O-DIUll VLK"
"Chocolate Milk" untouched by human hands.
Can you make a ai generated reply pls?
@@LinieKran11 the ai knows something we don't:p
Sounds like a Skyrim shout
Did they actually redo all the labels and signs with ai?
Crowbcat randomly returning on Halloween after a year is most Crowbcat thing ever
He returned when he was needed most.
I don’t even care about dead rising and never even played it.
I’m just glad I can watch a video without a person yelling loudly, or showing me their expensive kitchen they remodeled using the money their fans gave them.
Stop fishing for likes with pointless comments
night of the living dead , he rise from the dead to bring us this video
Wholesome
Taking Steve Blum out of the game might've been the worst offense
Love that guy; he's my favorite voice for Wolverine.
I heavily disagree. I'm so tired of his obvious voice. He sounds the same in everything he does and he's in EVERYTHING.
@@AndroidVageta1 Probably because he is an awesome voice actor with a kickass voice.
@@AndroidVageta1 no he doesn't
@@AndroidVageta1 just like Patrick Warburton's voice as every big and tough guy, besides Steve Blum doesn't always sound the same gruff guy voice, I recently seen an episode of Harvey Birdman and he played characters Clamhead from Jabberjaw and Yakky Doodle
One more reason to remember how much I miss the 2000s
Original devs probably had fun making the first one. The new product is a game shipped for profit.
And it costs as much as the original did adjusted for inflation.
It aaaaalllllllllllllll went to the C-suite/Shareholders/CEO. There were no concept artists they had to pay for Frank's design. No writers had to be paid to create a narrative with characters, events, scenes. The music department also got shafted. The only people who really get any kind of employment out of this are the 3D artists who get the privilege of modeling from reference; that sounds soul-crushingly BORING for a creative type, and a MASSIVE waste of their talents. The coders are probably also bored out of their minds, too.
These are problems I have with all remakes. They charge so much for the game, and all the profit goes to the C-Suite and shareholders. Talent is either neglected and left to perform mundane tasks, or forced into other industries from a lack of employment opportunity, lost to the gaming industry forever. A lot of people in the industry are extremely talented and we should be grateful to have them. Not just the Miyazakis and John Carmacks, but the people that are guided by those people's creative visions to, you know, create the game in the first place. They could all leave for a wide variety of industries that will happily integrate their skillsets for a much higher compensation. These people are here because they're passionate about video games; wring that passion dry and they'll become passionate about living in a nice condo within walking distance to work.
Video games don't have to be art, but they cannot be created without some artistry. Something about these remakes just feels wrong on some level.
Would agree about "for profit", but only idiot would censor stuff because the only kind who knows about the original will buy the remake - for sоybоys it doesn't matter if the remake "better", the original already did "damage" for them
The original was shipped for profit too lmao
agree. capitalism sucks
Ahhhhhhhh all games have been made for profit and game devs have always been miserably overworked . They've been since basically forever. When I was young I specifically chose not to go into game development because of that.
The price of most goods and services has nothing to do with how much they cost to produce and all the money always goes to the people at the top. That's how it has always been since money has existed.
How in the heck were they able to make this almost 20 year old game feel more dated in this demake. It's almost impressive.
A big part of that sexiest shot thing with Kent was it was supposed to clue us, the player, into him not being all there right in the head, given the candid nature of it.
Without that there’s just an aspect of his character missing
Yeah the funniest shot paints him as a guy with a weird but harmless sense of humor while the sexiest shot is clearly done in a way where he's taking it without her knowing and is unsettling.
@@superbrainz2357 yup, he was supposed to become crazy and dangerous after the outbreak. Ready to do anything he can to get *good picture*
I think it just comes off as dumb. The very idea that this dude seriously ran around and put those masks on zombies just to take a "funny" picture is beyond stupid. Are we supposed to assume that Frank actually puts on those dumb outfits aswell? Or does any of the joke stuff?
@@superbrainz2357 i got the impression that he was a redditor with the "This is my funniest shot", like he was trying to get a picture to earn him some sweet sweet updoots
wdym??? he just loved women what the fuck is wrong with that snowflake?
As somebody who grew up with Dead Rising and really enjoyed the hell out of the first two games, I just want to say thanks for your meticulous details in this and your other Dead Rising videos showcasing the quality of the original. It’s a shame the series had the trajectory it did.
Its a good thing old version is available on all platforms
Amen
Gotta give them that. At least they didn't pull a Rockstar
@@plebisMaximus Took the words out of my mouth
And with a lower price as well! That’s why it always baffles me when people say they censored it if they wanted to they could have pulled older versions and truly censored it not drop the price to $10 on steam at least and make it more accessible.
For now
29:01 There’s a huge mixing quality difference between the original and remaster. You hear a lot more reverb and bass in the original’s voices. In the remaster, it literally sounds like you’re just listening to the raw unedited audio file that was recorded in the booth. The vocals sound extremely isolated because of it.
Yeah the new one sounds horrible
It sounds muffled as hell. I think you hit the nail on the head. It sounds like absolutely no mixing or production work went into the voicework in the remaster.
@@SilverGeFer
It doesn’t surprise me. A lot of the voice actors sound like they did one take and they shipped it. Why even bother mixing the audio?
everything sounds subdued in the remaster
Last time cat tried to compare audio, it didn't go well.
It's pretty clear that these devs used AI HEAVILY to make this "remake". That's why all the labels, and signs have turned to a bunch of mushy gibberish. What a sad time to live in.
Some of it is legitimately GTA Definitive Edition levels of shitty.
Yeah you can tell with the labels on the food. What a horrible job. They don't care at all.
Come to think of it, these days you probably can get better results generating stuff like ''cat food' labels from scratch instead of upscaling old ones.
@@Ryfael It's so bad, I can almost guarantee the map of the mall with all the names was absolutely obliterated by the algorithm, so instead of doing any manual work, they just cut the map out entirely, just deleted it ☠
@@napaceHbIK "Going *cut* of business" .... *SIGH* 🤦♂
I didn’t realize just how much censorship and stuff they changed. I thought it was just a Few things but after showing everything it’s a lot.
13:12 HOMO MADE COOKIES LMAO,can't believe they used AI like in the GTA Defective Edition.
I read this comment before that part of the video and I thought it was censoring "fagg0t" but no it really was just dogshit upscaling LMFAO
You can't make this shit up
This is the future LIBERALS want cookies made for the homesapians
Truly for the modern audience
what did they mean by this?
Perhaps it is we, the consumers, who are the REAL zombies (I am smart)
Maybe the real zombies were the consumers we made along the way
(Bottom text)
ok grandpa, let's get you to bed
Hey, small world!
Omg finally I meet a person who is like me. (I am smart too)
based media literacy person
The old voice acting sounds like the characters are speaking, the modern voice acting sounds like lines recorded in a very well sound proofed box.
Yeah the sound design in general was so much better it's insane
NO IT DIDNT WHAT! Dude, the whole game was so jarring that's what made things so comical at the same time fucking stressful. Theres a reason 2 and 3 went that route.
The new VO performances aren't bad, but the sound quality is just absolute trash. It's strangely muted, lacking believable echo. It sounds like they screwed up the recording and added a denoise filter to save it.
@@matman000000 The VO is especially bad and their line reads are terrible. Cadences that don't make sense, it shows the VA talent were not given any visual when reading
I’d be really curious to see a direct comparison of the sound design - the audio mix in the remake definitely seems less detailed. I remember being impressed at the time at how much is communicated with sound in the original. It’s so important in a game with so many nooks and crannies, where you’ll miss really important stuff if you’re not listening for it. Getting the space the sounds live in right is a big part of that, and it doesn’t seem like they put much thought into that in the remake.
OG Cletus was a fucking nightmare. In the new version he can beaten with your eyes closed. Damn shame.
Nah still a bit of a challenge
@@DeadX2Not really lol
@@evilalan2084 yes really the video just makes him look easier lol
@@DeadX2 Because it is easy lol. A challenge would be the older version of him
@ no shit lol read what I said
The cult leader went from sounding like a deranged madman to a wizard from a fantasy setting.
The thing about DR1's classic difficulty was that if you knew the item spawns, it was a LOT easier. It rewarded exploration.
I agree,your effort and exploration were rewarded. Beating the challenges DR1 had for you gave you such great rewards. Even just base game things like a small chainsaw and finding the books for it made you very formidable.
You also got to do new playthroughs with your current stats so you could replay and start harder missions way earlier combined with knowledge from your last playthrough.
@@superbrainz2357Yeah, I think making the game easier would have been unneccessary if the game somehow made clear "Hey, the first few playthroughs are mainly for exploration, levelling, and dicking around. Try going for the actual story when you've got a feel for the game."
@@TheHeavyshadow I've been replaying the og right now after getting stuck at the bomb section a while back.
When I realized your stats carried to ng runs I just did that and I've been enjoying the game a lot more.
I learned the value of the book/mini chainsaw combo and knowing about the wonderland shortcut helps a lot.
Reminds me of ng+ in fromsoft games. Maybe I'm in the minority but I found dark souls way more fun on the second playthrough where I actually understood some things.
It wasn't even difficult, I played the game as a 8 year old and did fine
the moment he pulled out the Wii version was the moment he cooked them until they burned to a crisp
you can tell when companies cared about their game. The level of detail for a almost 20 year old game is amazing. The game still looks great to this day.
The original just feels so much more visceral and real. Like some of the characters actually creeped me out, and I was way more immersed. I felt the sense of urgency and panic. But the demake feels like everything is gonna be fine, and hollow and empty.
The thing is, erotica and gore is PART OF THE FUCKING ATMOSPHERE AND GENRE THE GAME WAS RIFFING ON.
Pretty much how it always is now. New games often look and feel similar, could also be because everything uses UE nowadays.
@@USSMariner was meant to be critical of the way media will sensationalise everything which ironically makes the original feel more relevant in today's social media hellscape. This remaster doesn't get it.
The psychopaths also look piss easy from gameplay Ive seen, to the point it ruins the experience
something DRDR messes up is the clean aspect of the first games mall, one of the reasons why the game was so uneasy and creepier was how completely clean the mall was mixed with the zombies rotting corpses and moans. the fact they made it dirtier by placing trash everywhere ruined not only that feeling but ALSO ruins the whole point of steven cause the store was completely clean cause he was taking care of it, it doesnt make sense to be trash there
Frank's from original = 38 years old (maybe).
Frank's from demake = 55 years old!
lol
Yeah Frank’s age actually felt really important in terms of his motive in the original. He was just old enough to be seasoned and have a little experience, but just young enough to be willing to risk everything for a big break. You got the sense that he was a hungry young professional who hadn’t yet reached the peak of his career, who is caught between helping people and seeing the situation he’s in as his ticket to something bigger. That’s central to some of the drama in the game especially regarding the time mechanic, where the situation becomes more than just a huge opportunity, and crosses over into something he’s personally invested in because he’s genuinely a decent guy. That’s literally a huge source of tension baked into the game design - do I spend my time saving people, or getting to the bottom of all this? It doesn’t work nearly as well when he looks ready for retirement.
And sounds 18
And?
his face must've melted in all those wars he covered ya know
@@boneor...7022 you want to play as a wrinkly greying grandpa retiree? Old frank was a chad lol
The details section really made me appreciate what the developers were able to achieve on the 360. The fact that the 2024 remaster doesn't even include reflections from the original when we have graphics cards and consoles capable of ray tracing is wild.
Edit: Also what the hell is going on with the writing on in-game objects?! It looks exactly like what happens when you ask AI to generate a picture with some writing on it.
These remakes are great at exposing how much gaming is dead
@@FlamespeedyAMV I wouldn't go that far. AA and indie games are doing great. It's only mostly the AAA that's dropping the ball.
looks like they tried to use ai to upscale the original textures to me
@@pavivier That seems like the most likely explanation.
no reflections took me aback, now i'm abosutely only buying this at a 90% discount at best
This is somehow even more soulless than I thought it would be.
The remake looks so shiny and clean and lifeless. The older one looks like it has a colour palette and artistic direction.
New devs: Make it realistic
Old devs: Make it beautiful
The original looks shinier too!
You know you screwed up when Crowbcat comes back from the grave on halloween night
Happy Halloween! 👻🎃🧟♀️🧟♂️☠️🎃🕷️🪦
The Ghost of Gaming's Past
Crowbcat videos are both somehow funny and depressing. They show how far the industry of video games has fallen just in terms of style, identity, charm, and overall polish. These newfangled fancy pieces of software with tons of reflections and dynamic shadows feel less of themselves than their original counterparts two decades later. Whole legacies and memories just.... waxxed over and desaturated. There is no other word for something like this than "Demake"
im ONLY going to argue that actually real Demakes are pretty cool, unlike this crap. like, you can find a Demake of FF7 for the NES thats pretty awesome. uh but yea, this remake sucks ass.
I hope crowbcat keeps it up, it sucks that he got harassed because he dared to criticize RE4MAKE 😢
I laugh and say wtf at these all the time it right
@DENIS_Biomech he wasn't harassed people really didn't like the video because he took too much wrong comparison from the wrong game versions. The main complaint was that he made it video just to milk on hype
@@DENIS_Biomech By who?
I didnt expect the Wii version to look better than the "remaster"
the voice acting thing is so subtle but so noticeable. kinda sounds like they’re falling into the basic acting pitfall of trying to act rather than acting
Subtle but noticeable to describe the same thing? I advice you to return to English class with immediate effect.
@@mrpussinboots4252 there is a thing called an oxymoron you know. If you went to english class you might remember it.
(woohoo I
He means "when you see it, you really see it ", dimwit
@@mrpussinboots4252 He got the point across. So it doesn't matter
Seems you know a thing or two about acting.
"Don't ask questions. Just consume product and get excited for next product"
What are next ?
that’s right, Susan
@@adamfrisk956 looks like Jackie Gleason’s still dead…
@@viewtiful1doubleokamihand253 dragon age lol
Rich Evans' no-death runs of OG Dead Rising on Previously Recorded are still legendary.
shoutout to capcom for outsourcing the devs for hunt down the freeman for the cutscene graphics
“YOU FUCKED UP MY FACE” -Frank West
Military when the bees show up: " The aliens are coming!"
Oh Colonel, we're so fucked...
SPIT IT OUT FRANK!
Booting up the Nintendo Wii just to prove a point is such the ultimate insult.
I like the unironic AI generated textures holy god gaming cannot get worse
Just you wait-
It will get worse. Much worse.
Oh but it can, and will get...
Yeah, now that Jpan has fallen it's officially cooked
@@thecatdaddy1981 With Queerguard failing, after Concord, Dustborn, Unknown 9 etc I think we're at the peak of failure. The pendulum is going to swing back. #copium
11:30 is what pisses me off the most , how can these modern games require so much processing power yet have less detail then most 360 games
The processing power is dedicated to all the extra polygons in the 3D models and nothing else.
Because technology doesn't replace art.
But do they contain less detail than most 360 games, really? Like when you think about it, do modern games look worse than 360 games?
@@thomasvlund I don't think they're talking about graphic fidelity. They probably mean all the missing details like reflections, animations, particle effects etc.
@@thomasvlundyes, absolutely. Call of duty is the best example. The 360 era games all had visually clear sight lines, which let you actually use your iron sights without issue. The modern CoDs all have issues with visuall clutter. ESPECIALLY with the vignetting and shaders they use.
I love how scathing these videos are without using any words. The mirror and reflections section was particularly brilliant 👏
Xbox 360 512mb 😤😤
Bro the Wii…..THE SUPED UP GAMECUBE has better reflections than the remake. How does that happen?
There are fully working mirrors in the remake in every bathroom and some stores. Crowbcat just conveniently didn't show those.
@@Harry101UKlol then why get rid of the mirrors he did show? bruh
It actually makes it a perfect study on how much our society had changed over the years. How much people have grown afraid, impulsive, and grossly sensitive to even the little things.
or how much people ain't weirdos who like to harass women
Americans are too sensitive. I can't even take upskirts of girls anymore ! What has this country come to 😓
American are bunch of mutt and degenerate. There is no male in America, only bunch of sissies. The rest of the world are fine without American
The 21st century has fixed so many problems that people's brains just have to make up new ones in order to stay sane. Conspiracy theories, the NFT market from a few years ago Etc etc
@@xulula7035 harassing women in real life by taking upskirt pictures is when silly minigame in vidya
I think THQ did it best with "Destroy all humans". They just put warning at the start being like "some of the content in this game hasn't aged all that well, but want it to be as accurate to the orginal product as possible". Hard to be mad at that IMO
crazy people always get mad at something
They still censored a mission though, didn't they?
Destroy all Humans has aged fine imo
warner bros did the same thing when they released a box set of old looney tunes episodes. it’s just good business really. begging for somethin like this to be done when you start censoring.
The warning is already stupid. The fact that you say it's hard to be mad at that just shows how much the overton window has shifted. Normally we SHOULD be mad at these patronizing warnings, but since it's the least stupid among what we get we welcome these with a smile.
How to remake a game "for modern times":
(1) Make it more serious, less over the top or goofy fun
(2) Remove reflections, make the physics more stiff and rigid
(3) Make the lighting darker so you can't make out the fine details
(4) Make what is effectively the same game overall, but multiply the file size by thirty or more
(5) Instead of making textures and compressing them, take compressed textures and AI upscale them
(6) Make the environment less interactive as a whole - but keep or specifically make some things interactive to try and keep the illusion of being up to par in terms of interactive environments
As well as censor basically anything someone can be offended by
7. Censor anything not approproiate for censorship commis.. I mean "modern audiences"
(7) Censor _everything,_ unless it appeals to queer people or degenerates that is; in that case, _over-sexualize_ it.
@@mightyfineincredible2252 I count that under the umbrella of point 1, as it tends to be that any form of fun even in an overtly exaggerated manner can be divisive or controversial - so instead the aim becomes to be a sort of "minimum viable fun" video game.
(3) and (4) especially annoy me so much. (3) in RE2 Remake where everything was so dark you couldn't see sh*t, which is a shame given how beautiful the RPD is designed. I love me some neat architecture in my video games. Always prefer OG RPD because of this. (4) is what leads to every modern game eating up half of your External Hard Drive storage.
Imagine adding censorship and making a family-friendly remaster of a fucking R-rated game
Edit: The game is actually M-rated, but I hope you still get the point
what kind of brain trauma is this? maybe we can find cure for others
This is the same Capcom that's been ripping the campy fun out of Resident Evil games
The censorship was so they can sell in in China.
i'm so tired of this shit, R rated media is dying
Twitch is to blame. They ban you for being 3-d explicit but then let you go show live clevage and ass jelly in the just chatting section
Thank you for making this. It perfectly demonstrates the difference between how games are and how they used to be. Stripped of all their charm and character, we zombify our memories to relive them, but in a lesser form. Why bother when the original is still around? Who asked for a remake?
The AI reconstruction of sticker text on minor props is just unforgivably vile
It's upscaling, not reconstruction. They tried to make blurry images hi-def with a simple click of a button, like how photoshop tries to do the same and even try to fill in some blanks.
Like, even if they remade all the sticker and product designs just to have higher res assets it'd be fine. No need to perfectly copy the originals (even though it'd be better, but not necessary). Instead they just put it through a lazy AI and didn't even bother touching it up to make it *at least* make sense. Like, even if they left the horrendous misfigured art, they could at least make sure the text wasn't garbled into nonsense.
@@Ux1.73c Its not really a good upscale though, like barely even tried.
@@tyrus1235 AI Upscale can be really good (example esrgan) but this shit was done by some fast sloppy one in one click lol
and its crazy because no one else talked about this on release. Crowbcat is seemingly the first person to bring it up
Oh wow that change to the cultists is really egregious. People need to remember that little changes like these compound and compound upon each other where the sum of it's whole is the problem, rather than hyper focusing on one or two problems and asking "Why does this in paticular bother you?"
Yep, they are no different than zombies now.
Its more question, "do they see itself in this?"
THEY RUINED THE GARAGE FULL OF ZOMBIES
People also need to remember that their intention was to destroy what you loved. This is not a failure. This is their goal.: a whole of society demoralization project that will leave nothing you enjoy untouched.
@@CIARUNSITE meds
13:37 I love how the original has new releases spelled correctly while the "remaster" is spelled "new releasesrs" its very poetic almost like its telling us about the current state of remakes and remasters.
to control the future you must control the present and to control the present you must erase the past
@@unter1103 oy vey
And the original was made by an all Japanese team that basically modeled the game's mall after pictures of American malls of the time. Many of them hadn't ever even left Japan. That's what makes all of this even more ridiculous.
@@qwertyiuwg4uwtwthn we need someone to continue the funny moustache man legacy
RE2 and RE4 remakes are still top notch not to mention SH2 Remake.
i feel like a brotherhood of steel member looking at this old world tech with amazement
When I saw the yellow THIS WAY! I made an audible “woooooow”
I know, right? It's bonkers ahaha
Like, I don't really mind the yellow paint or whatever that newer games have. But that grafitti felt so damn patronizing lol as if directing the braindead zombies instead of Frank.
I don’t like the whole yellow paint thing ever since I saw it in far cry 4. But I’ve begrudgingly gotten used to it if it was just a splash or two. Having a deadass sign saying “this way” just makes me angry. It leads to carlito and no where else so it’s not like people can excuse this with “a survivor put it there”. There’s no safe place in that food court, it doesn’t say “food this way”, and the rafters where Carlito is doesn’t have anything for survivors to use. There’s no logical reason to put that there besides the new devs saying “we think you’re stupid and didn’t pay attention to Brad audibly saying ‘go that way’ “
@@FourheadWeapon You hit the nail right on the head, bro, exactly.
Idk why they didn't think to make Frank audibly talk about the way to Carlito. I immensely dislike stuff like this in gaming.
There goes my hero, WATCH HIM AS HE GOES.
Oh, boy! So for 10x the price of the original*, I can get a _new_ version of Dead Rising where almost every technical detail has been downgraded in the name of making every surface looks like it's been smeared in dirty Vaseline and every character looks like that cursed 'Realistic Mario' picture? And it demands 32x more system memory?! What's not to love?
*It's on sale right now (and goes on sale frequently), and you can get DR1, DR2, and OTR as a bundle for $15 right now.
Oh and you need SIXTEEN GIGGABYTES OF RAM (for the coin mining software bundled with purchase)
Or for the same price (or significantly less since it's always going on sale) you can buy the original, 2, and OTR.
Did Sweet Baby Inc get a hold of this?! Holy shit man.
there's just not one company there are multiple companies that are same as SBI you just don't hear a lot about them
18:03 If any publisher says their game was made for "modern audiences", I avoid it like the zombie plague.
@@themonsterman3327speak for yourself, casual
if you knock on your head and it sound full, you're not the targeted demographic
_"you're just mad you can't jerk off to pink circles anymore, incels!"_ - Redditors
God I hate modern gaming.
"Modern audiences" aka 15 year old girls on Twitter who never played the original or knew of its existence
True. Or gender aim.
"You May Not Have Noticed It . . . But Your Brain Did" -Crowbcat
I clapped I clapped when I read the comment!
"ENDLESS TRAAASHH!!"-Crowbcat
"How does it feel to have lived long enough to see all of your favorite franchises go down in flames?"
"It feels great"
Mr plinket
I understood that reference!
3:25 They censored the Asian by making him Caucasian. That's the funniest thing I've ever seen.
Also he's not fat anymore and he wears gloves
He's been genericified, even the Japanese who are known to be the most over the top have had their creativity reduced to the level of mindless zombies.
and yet the people who complain about whitewashing are nowhere to be seen....
then why is no one laughing ?
@@phreak761 Genericified, if it were a word, is the word I'd use to describe 90% of media from the last decade.
also gotta mention that remaster's cover art is just 3d models with bland and dull red background while original one is hand-drawn.
removing the word lady and woman is peak 2024
Hey guys, let's change a bunch of things that could possibly offend unhinged people who spend their lives clutching their pearls over things that doesn't ultimately matter so they don't protest and complain about a game that a majority of them wouldn't even play!
This shit needs to stop.
"It doesn't matter that they changed it."
If it didn't matter, why change it at all?
And for some reason removing when a woman is complimenting another woman for her looks lmao.
@Mooshkajoe It would stop if they just hired people who don't use social media.
@@Mooshkajoeyes because the word woman doesn't matter
@@Mooshkajoe Total troon death.
This video actually pissed me off.
I hadn't heard any discourse about the remaster so I just assumed it was umremarkable or fine. What a shame.
Time and again, your work is a testament to the kind of biting critique that only well-edited video comparison can deliver. Great to see you back.
He’s the best example of simple editing done right on YT. There’s nothing crazy fancy about it. But it’s direct, efficient, and crafts a narrative without any need for narration.
@@LowTierFalloutabsolutely, really well put
Bro pulled out the Wii version to call out the laziness of the mirrors
This is why you don’t outsource
it is fascinating to me that games had mirrors and proper reflections without any issues. and the minute raytracing was announced by Nvidia, suddenly all developers decided that "reflections are hard to run without a 4090 with DLSS 3"
Because older devs had experience with optimization and working within confines, and were passionate.
Yeah... planar reflections, cube maps, and other clever tricks like mgs2 reflections on ship for example, have been replaced with dog shit screen space reflections and ray tracing to sell graphics cards
You had answer to that in your comment.
I remember when people were excited for RTX because of reflections but we had them before anyway tho. Now they are more demanding and are removed entirely lmao
Translation: We are lazy and just want money, so no reflections. Buy our skins. PS2/3 and XBOX (360) were the golden times of gaming, where it was a passion project for the devs. Now its just about $$$
"Today players will experience the same shock players felt when original game was released" Well, it's true somehow. In both cases first thought was "unbelievable how they could create something like this" but with completely different context. Also ending is heartbreaking.
LMAO the AI text in the upscaled products 😂
this is literally the equivalent of those stupid disney remakes we've been getting, what even is media right now
I knew the remaster was bad, but I didn't realize it was THAT bad.
Yea i knew about the censorship but holy shit so many small details removed
I know; did SBI work on this game or what? You can't even have a woman call another woman beautiful anymore, "(fe)male gaze" or some bullshit.
@@MarvinPowell1SBI mentioned, faccie whistle blown
@@Boney9551 Enjoy your slop, retard.
@@MarvinPowell1it was outsourced to a really shitty chinese studio
It beggars belief that they turned a tragic villain, Clint, who was supposed to be a Vietnam soldier with PTSD and turned him into a cartoon villain who hates moles. The "war is bad" messaging is gone. Crawling through the vents is no longer the scary foxhole/spiderhole tactics common in Vietnam but a bugs bunny style burrowing. Nothing to scare you or make you wonder "wow that must have been awful". No respect for the imagery or messaging is left.
Well you see my good man.....screw veterans cant have them shown being treated wrong, we might get the help we need
Fucking THANK YOU!!! I felt & thought the exact same things looking at "new Cliff". For me, he's so much worse than the censored butcher.
I do not get that change at all, what you scared you might upset the commies in the audience?
B-B-B.... you'll hurt the +ommies feelings :((((((((((
@@petepeterson5917 Only if you knew who controls the game industry these days.
"homomade cookies" is crazy work 💀💀💀
For modern audience 😊
monkeypox cookies.
@@SerbianLifter997 hahahaha
The tagline on the box is probably" So good you cant think straight".
Homo cookies but don't you dare name your store fine lady or say the word woman.
I was gonna buy this soon because I absolutely loved the original. This video just saved me money
We just HAVE to tone down the blood, gore, and sex raunchiness of this zombie video game, think of all the impressionable 18+ M for Mature gamers!
I'm glad they took away the necrophilia, that shit was stupid
@@coldstuff9784 you love the taste of boot and gravel don't you?
@@qwertyiuwg4uwtwthn Can't imagine being this mad over zombie boobs. Hope your life gets better.
@@coldstuff9784imma dig you up when you die and touch you
@@qwertyiuwg4uwtwthnnecros not a hill id wanna die on ngl
Slop 'til you drop.
I love Crowbcat, wish he'd post more since he is far better than other game critique channels and he doesn't even talk .
ehhh some of his videos are alright but he's mostly just cinemasins for video games. id love to see him actually showcase good games so we get a real respect for his opinions, rather than just nitpick easy targets- it feels very surface level to just show old vs new footage
I prefer his style over youtubers that ramble for 30 minutes saying things we already know. Crowbcat does it in a very special and good way, exposing the true reality of a game with hard evidence.
He makes videos when he needs to. Mostly focusing on corpos ressurecting dead games and puppeting their corpses.
What you said is very similar to how he makes his videos: It's so obvious it doesn't need to be said.
CrowbCat is all about 'show, don't tell'
He's not saying anything, but you can get his point because the clips speak for themselves
Once you go corporate, you never go back
Crazy how we work harder to make things less pretty
all these companies adhering to the demand of a single demonic entity
We worship the ugly now
People get silent this days, not fighting with this. That what result, power have in wrong people...
Harder? This uses ai
This is because they do only a fraction of the work they used to do to make games
The missing reflections is what gets me. Nowadays, devs always rely on ray-tracing or other costly solutions, when back then, they found other ways to just bake it in or fake it in some way.
I'd always take a mere smoke and mirrors over a "real" thing if it make the game "feels" real.
The thing is, the original game didn't use smoke and mirrors. The DR Engine fully supports reflections and the 360 has plenty of memory for it. They simply mirrored your camera on a fixed plane and lowered the render resolution.
Older games used baked in lighting in combination with screen space reflections
Works excellent both quality and performance wise but requires manual labour and care
Hard when you have 8 different developer departments each handling a slightly different part of the code and 4 HR departments managing them all
Others would know better than me, but with better technology you have people getting lazier with optimizations and workarounds. I assume it's partly why some modern games are ridiculously large nowadays.
I think the perfect mirror-like reflections were ridiculous. Toning them down makes sense.
The Dead Rising Subreddit hates this video. All I asked was "Why?" and they downvoted me without giving an answer. Lol. Lmao even.
Redditors aren't real people. They are their own breed with horrible takes in their hivemind as always 😂
they're seething
They were already seething before this video came out.
They had a post about the dr1 vs 4 video with a title like: "can't wait for this crybaby to try and ruin the remaster for me".
What the heck. A few years ago it was still that dr4 killed the franchise and crowbcat showed why perfectly. Why is there complaints about it now?
Reddit
Do I need to say more?
I genuinely enjoyed it. I've been playing dead rising since it dropped, I gotta have at least 50 playthroughs of the first one. I think people just care about things that literally do not matter. Sure, these little things can add up and break your immersion, but, crazy, I played through the game and the only big difference was the difficulty cause I wasn't staring at cans or trying to take pictures of cans etc. Didn't try shooting into the parking lot cause I was saving every survivor trying to get every achievement in one run I can. Probably because I set my bias aside for the first one beforehand and didnt carry insane expectations. Didn't care about the censorship cause it's all frivolous shit, sorry, no vietcong or erotica for you. I just played the game. No, I didn't mindlessly shovel it down, I just gave it a chance. You can hate AI all you want, idc, valid lol.
Man, I hope we get a Dragon Age video from crowbcat one day
This goes to show how better graphics don't equal looking better