There should be a different scale for remakes. Rating it on how good it is is stupid, since usually the game being remade is good. You have to judge the re-release based on how much it makes you lose faith in the industry. Shameless add-nothing installments like this are just sad.
Edgar writes: "Let's take a look at the Resident Evil HD Remaster, how it significantly improved upon the original and became one of the best horror games ever made."
Despite some signs of its age, Resident Evil is still as scary as ever with the remake's recent release on Nintendo Switch.
DSOGaming writes: "These past few weeks have been really interesting as we've seen some truly amazing AI-enhanced texture packs for older games. Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy 8, Final Fantasy 9, Half-Life, Max Payne, Morrowind and Doom are just a few of the games that got new high-quality textures that were produced via AI Neural Networks and today, modder ‘Shiryu’ released a new AI-enhanced Texture Pack for Resident Evil HD Remaster."
I'm not really convinced by this AI Neural Networks thing using this as an example. I know you can't ask for much when it comes to pre-rendered stuff, but you can barely see a difference with most of these. At its worst, there's an imperceptible difference. At its best, you can see it cleared up some jaggies and looks a liiiittle less blurry.
I will download it of course, but based on the screenshots, this doesn't improve things a whole lot.
It does make a difference. Mods in general are just awesome. They've helped make so many of my games look better. The HD reworked texture mods and other mods for The Witcher 3, for example, made it look way better.
This may be small improvements now but it could be huge for gaming's future. AI with a ryzen based chip programmed to use the neural network to determine to the metal coding might allow programmers to focus on high level coding. That means games get done really fast and the budget goes into things like story and production. Once you have an ai that understands its given hardware it can decide how to run the code to maximize frames and resolution. AI will revolutionize gaming.
Totally agree!
Yeah, this isn't pretentious at all.
They have every right to voice their opinion, just as I do. This comes off as parody.
I thought I was the only one to notice the jiggle physics haha.
That aside, I'm actually having a great time with the game. It's definitely a shallow update over the GameCube version, but one should also consider that this version is now available on platforms that aren't associated with Nintendo. I beat the GC version to death and got through the One Dangerous Zombie and Invisible Zombie modes with the rocket launcher and samurai edge unlocked, but that was so long ago that I remember virtually nothing about where to find anything. I'm having a lot of fun rediscovering this game.
Overall, I can't say I agree with the review. "soulless" remaster or not, it's not like this game was released in recent memory.
This was 12-13 years ago...
This review is dog shit, in my opinion. Is it the definitive edition of the game? Yes. Are all the new things optional? Yes. When you buy it on steam, will you always have it? Yes. Wtf does this guy want