Dang, this game STILL needs mods to get the best graphics.

Our 21:9 cinema (or whatever the 1:xyz is) and 16:9 home ratio is the equivalent to the old school 16:9 cinema and 4:3 old ratio.

mods the gameboy to have an alluminum case

"I thought you said I had to mod it to get better graphics"

Yeah, definitely! I still play original D2 for Median XL as well as the remaster. The original graphics were really well done and the cinematics were a fucking masterpiece

Well?

And watch out for the dreaded gazebo.

not Karate and Friendship?

Now there's a flashback

To this day, the TNG remaster is still the best remaster of any TV series.

100% agree on the exploration atmosphere. I've got like 130-140 hours in it, and probably a third of that is just deciding to not fast travel to an objective and getting lost in the forest checking out random stuff.

The fucking Doom 3 BFG edition. Yeah, i get that people hated the flashlight mechanics, but it was an integral point if both the gameplay and atmosphere. i much prefer the Doom 3 duct tape mod where your pistol and shotgun were the only guns that got a flashlight and it was significantly narrower and worse than the handlight. made it riskier to use powerful guns, but balanced rather nicely. not that Doom 3 was a hard game, its ridiculously easy, even on veteran.

but the BFG edition butchered the lighting and gave you a shoulder light. it ruined it so badly.

Part of this is the fault of cheap shitty flat panel TVs that only became ubiquitous after the original came out. The original media that looked great in dark scenes on CRT tvs can be completely incomprehensible on all but the best flat panels. As a result the HD remakes shy away from playing with shadow too much to avoid complaints.

This seems reversed to me. The right drawing has more style and feels way more retro while the left is less style and more "oooh, look at these shadows and stuff that the original didn't have".

Your argument defeats itself. Was Bach's art not "his art" because he didn't have a synthesizer? He worked with the medium he preferred and used the tools available and made his art fit within them, he made people feel incredible things that are still relevant today despite not because of the instruments he was limited to, that's what an artist does.

Atmosphere is one thing, but not being able to see anything in the game without having to play in a completely dark room is another thing. Skyrim got it right, the dungeons are dark but you can see without issues, even in a well-lit room. And then there are the people who install mods that make the nights pitch black.

"To this day, the TNG remaster is still the best remaster of any TV series."

That sentence works like this too!

Focus, M.

Good analogy, but it is not nearly as close. Movie aspect ratios are actually variable. Most movies today switch several times over the course of the movies depending on what the director wants to convey. The problem is that they can easily do that on theaters, where the screens seamlessly accommodate the different aspect ratios almost imperceptibly for the audience, but to great emotional impact. However, the same is not true for home TVs, it is a little less flexible and far more noticeable.

Yeah but most formats come very close around 21:9 where the bars are less distracting than on a 16:9 monitor

You know what, fair, fair.

The secret is that it was filmed on film and the originals were still around. So they were able to just reprocess the original film with higher resolution and such.
Other shows were either digital, or filmed on film but the only thing saved was the broadcast transfer.

Lots of stuff was filmed on tape too.

I remember watching an early episode of Angel that clearly had been un-cropped, because you can very clearly see a camera man filming an action scene from a different angle.

What do we consider to be the best “remasters” of games out there? I’d say command and conquer is a prime example, and age of empires 2.

I also think halo 2 was a good one.

Dark Souls.

More time has passed between the original and remake than the remake and now by the way. Better pump out another one!

Trails in the Sky was recently remade. Old one was Ragnarok online isometric style with rendered cg sprites, the new one is full 3D third person environments.

All in all, it’s a VERY faithful remake, especially considering the original was known for pointlessly extra details.

But it could be that doesn’t count as a “remaster”, since it’s a different game.

Yes to me a remaster is just that. The original game with a lot of spit and polish.

FF7 trilogy is a remake.
My kingdom for a remaster.

Alright, on this topic, kudos to Amnesia: TDD.

They gave you a tutorial message about enemies, combined with one growl sfx…but then you don’t actually find any monsters for about 15-20 minutes of gameplay. Perfect way to keep people tense.

The remastered cutscenes in Halo 2 are so unbelievably good. I read somewhere that the studio has no interest in doing any more Halo cutscenes (burnout I think?) and it makes me a very sad panda....

Imagine giving Bach a synthesiser

what's funny about this is that there are two existing ideas at play here that already came to pass.

We can listen to "Switched on Bach" which is what it sounds like when you play Bach songs through a synthesizer.

Also, there are lots of ways to manipulate the timbre of an organ, which is what Bach actually played. So he was already playing the synthesizer of his era.

Blur Studios. I believe they did the Dawn of War ones too? Amongst other things

The Steam version of Dwarf Fortress

I really don't get the recropping/uncropping to get 4:3 into a 16:9 aspect ratio. There's a release of Seinfeld where they just chopped the top and bottom off the frame, which very often crops people's foreheads out of frame and in some instances crops entire jokes out. Like, someone will react to something on a table, but the table is just out of frame for the entire scene.

If the director is very smart, it is possible to film for both, but in most cases it's just not worth it. Aspect ratio is an artistic choice. You wouldn't chop the sides off a painting to make it fit your wall.

emotional scene vs tampon commercial

Please refrain from putting the idea of a vampire in a tampon commercial into my head.

The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay was an amazing stealth game that pioneered modern lighting tech even before Doom 3. It got a remaster included with the sequel Assault On Dark Athena, but they absolutely bungled the lighting and atmosphere in the process.

"Redesign" the lighting engine? Did you mean "drop the assets into UE5"?

Meanwhile, new movie productions are so dark it might as well be designed for the visually impaired.

dark as fuck fr fr, it's giving grue

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