Comments on: Editorial: Remaking Perfection

By: Adeki

Adeki — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 22:30:31 +0000

You’re leaving our the orchestral score and modernized controls, along with trophies, director’s commentary and concept art but those three are to a much lesser extent. The visual elements are underwhelming to say the least given it’s 2015 and it’s probably possible to find better work done by a dedicated fanbase, but it’s still wrong to discredit it as being only a port, and they’re much more noticeable improvements than drawing a little mouth on character models. There main goal was to make it playable for a modern audience and although they did kind of a crappy job at that they still did enough to warrant the game being called a remaster and not a port.

By: SiliconNooB

SiliconNooB — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 22:12:05 +0000

It's literally the same game with a shadow mod bolted on to it. If Grim Fandando is a remaster then 1998's PC release of FFVII was also a remaster because Square decided to draw little mouths onto the character models.

By: Adeki

Adeki — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 21:50:33 +0000

If you look at Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop it’s actually a remake from the ground up and yet terribly worse than the original, even though it’s worse than the source, people call it a remake because it was made from the ground-up, which is why I’ll agree Grim Fandango Remastered isn’t a full remake but it is definitely a remastered edition of the original game and that’s not being charitable. It doesn’t matter if it’s worse if they didn’t do an amazing job, it would just be a really bad remaster.

By: SiliconNooB

SiliconNooB — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 21:39:52 +0000

I have the PC original and the PS4 version. The PS4 version is pretty much the stock standard game as it was released back in the late 90s – with the only differences being that they added some shadows to character models, and included the ability to stretch the image to 16:9 [which distorts the image horribly]. Calling the game anything but a port is being charitable in the extreme.

By: Adeki

Adeki — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 21:10:51 +0000

Nope, but I have a pre-existing knowledge of the game because I watched a full playthrough of it without commentary. So I’ve seen all the plot, puzzles, all that fun stuff, tried to get it running on my own computer but never got it to work. Plan on purchasing it during the Winter Sale when it’s 75% off again.

By: SiliconNooB

SiliconNooB — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 17:36:33 +0000

Adeki, have you even played Grim Fandango?

By: Adeki

Adeki — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 14:48:47 +0000

@SiliconNooB It is a remastered edition of the original game, more than a port. Specifically intended for modernizing it using the improved audio, textures, and graphics. If you look at the editorial you’ll notice how it goes from a remake with a lot of work put into it to improve the base game, the minimum amount of work with just improved textures and audio, and last a very bad port that actually made the game worse. Therefore, it does belong in this article.

@LegendaryApple I didn’t have a glare problem either, but that could be my personal settings on my tv since I adjust them for different consoles. Overall, I like the look more but don’t like the lighting when Link holds up an item or when too much isn’t moving as it gives the characters a weird clay effect.

By: SiliconNooB

SiliconNooB — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 09:46:26 +0000

Grim Fandango isn’t a remake – it is essentially just a port of the PC original. It does not belong in this article.

Resident Evil on the PS4 is one of the best and most faithful remakes I have ever seen.

@Lusipurr: I agree wholeheartedly. Wind Waker looked less sparkly on the GC, but I believe that it ultimately looked a lot better.

By: LegendaryApple

LegendaryApple — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 23:56:41 +0000

@Lusipurr Intetesting. I thought it looked a lot better. Didn’t have the glare problem myself.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 19:43:29 +0000

I like the gameplay streamlining of the Wind Waker HD remix, although I would have been perfectly happy with leaving it untouched and, on balance, I think that would have been preferable. However, I am not pleased with the bubble-effect that people in the game now have, where everyone looks like a balloon. Also, the game has a LOT of glare. The result is that it is increasingly unpleasant to play to the point where I actually prefer the original Gamecube release.