AGXStarseed
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(The following is from Wikipedia)
To start us off, I'd like the game Red Faction (PS2, PC, Mac, N-Gage, Mobile) to receive a remaster.
The game was one of the first games I ever played when my Dad bought me and my siblings my PS2 (the other games been Crazy Taxi and XG3: Extreme G Racing) and I enjoyed it a lot despite finding it pretty difficult at times. The game gave you a variety of weapons, let you drive several vehicles and featured a fully destructable environment as you worked your way through the enormous Ultor complex to defeat the organization and take back your freedom.
Here's the trailer:
While another of the games in the series (Guerilla) did get a remaster anyway, I'd like to see this one get a remaster too.
"Remaster (also digital remastering and digitally remastered) refers to changing the quality of the sound or of the image, or both, of previously created recordings, either audiophonic, cinematic, or videographic.
Remastering a video game is more difficult than remastering a film or music because the video game's graphics show their age. This can be due to a number of factors. For example, modern televisions tend to have higher display resolutions than the televisions available when the video game was released.
Older computers had limited 3D rendering speed, which required simple 3D object geometry such as human hands without individual fingers but instead modeled like a mitten, and the world having a distinctly chunky appearance with no smoothly curving surfaces. Older computers also had less texture memory for 3D environments, requiring low resolution bitmap images that look visibly pixelated or blurry when viewed at high resolution. Early 3D games such as the 1993 version of DOOM also just used an animated two-dimensional image that is rotated to always face the player character, rather than attempt to render highly complex scenery objects or enemies in full 3D.
Because of this, classic games that are remastered typically have their graphics redesigned or their original graphics re-rendered at the higher resolutions used by high-definition televisions.
An example of a game that has had its graphics redesigned is Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, while the core character and level information is exactly the same as in Halo: Combat Evolved.
An example of a game that has had its original graphics re-rendered at higher resolutions is Hitman HD Trilogy, which contains two games with high resolution graphics: Hitman 2: Silent Assassin and Hitman: Contracts. Both were originally released on PC, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. The original resolution was 480p on Xbox. With the remaster, the games are displayed at 720p on Xbox 360.
There is some debate regarding whether new graphics of an older game at higher resolutions make a video game look better or worse than the original artwork, with comparisons made to colorizing black-and-white-movies."
Source: Remaster - Wikipedia
Taking all of this into account along with some more recent remasters (such as the Crash N.Sane Trilogy and the upcoming Spyro Reignited Trilogy - both of which remaster the character's original trilogies into one updated game), if you could have a game from previous console generations for the newest/upcoming consoles such as the PS5, what games would you want to have remastered?Remastering a video game is more difficult than remastering a film or music because the video game's graphics show their age. This can be due to a number of factors. For example, modern televisions tend to have higher display resolutions than the televisions available when the video game was released.
Older computers had limited 3D rendering speed, which required simple 3D object geometry such as human hands without individual fingers but instead modeled like a mitten, and the world having a distinctly chunky appearance with no smoothly curving surfaces. Older computers also had less texture memory for 3D environments, requiring low resolution bitmap images that look visibly pixelated or blurry when viewed at high resolution. Early 3D games such as the 1993 version of DOOM also just used an animated two-dimensional image that is rotated to always face the player character, rather than attempt to render highly complex scenery objects or enemies in full 3D.
Because of this, classic games that are remastered typically have their graphics redesigned or their original graphics re-rendered at the higher resolutions used by high-definition televisions.
An example of a game that has had its graphics redesigned is Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, while the core character and level information is exactly the same as in Halo: Combat Evolved.
An example of a game that has had its original graphics re-rendered at higher resolutions is Hitman HD Trilogy, which contains two games with high resolution graphics: Hitman 2: Silent Assassin and Hitman: Contracts. Both were originally released on PC, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. The original resolution was 480p on Xbox. With the remaster, the games are displayed at 720p on Xbox 360.
There is some debate regarding whether new graphics of an older game at higher resolutions make a video game look better or worse than the original artwork, with comparisons made to colorizing black-and-white-movies."
Source: Remaster - Wikipedia
To start us off, I'd like the game Red Faction (PS2, PC, Mac, N-Gage, Mobile) to receive a remaster.
The game was one of the first games I ever played when my Dad bought me and my siblings my PS2 (the other games been Crazy Taxi and XG3: Extreme G Racing) and I enjoyed it a lot despite finding it pretty difficult at times. The game gave you a variety of weapons, let you drive several vehicles and featured a fully destructable environment as you worked your way through the enormous Ultor complex to defeat the organization and take back your freedom.
Here's the trailer:
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