Bago Rant – What Exactly Is A Remastered Game?

<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"PHvSaGbDfJ0" title&equals;"Bago Rant&colon; What Exactly Is A Remastered Game&quest;"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;PHvSaGbDfJ0"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;PHvSaGbDfJ0&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Bago Rant&colon; What Exactly Is A Remastered Game&quest;"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify">What is a remaster&quest; If I were to ask you would you know exactly how to answer it&quest; This is a question I&&num;8217&semi;ve had to ask myself quite often&comma; because the sole idea of remastering video games seems to have been lost somewhere along the way&period; By that I mean most of the games that were classified as a &&num;8220&semi;remaster&&num;8221&semi;&comma; for last gen &lpar;PS3 and Xbox 360&rpar;&comma; were a cheapo upscale of the previous version&comma; which in some cases is fine&period; My only problem with this is that these developers have tried to slap it with a full retail price tag &lpar;&dollar;60USD or &dollar;80-90AUD&rpar; and act as if it is a totally new version of their game&comma; most of the time they would indicate that the game was actually running at a native resolution&comma; something like 720p &lpar;1280&&num;215&semi;720&rpar; or 1080p &lpar;1920&&num;215&semi;1080&rpar; when it simply wasn&&num;8217&semi;t or didn&&num;8217&semi;t appear to be running at a native resolution&period; Next gen&comma; &lpar;PS4 and Xbox One&rpar; however gives us a clearer picture as to how a remaster should perform&comma; giving us a native 1080p resolution and 60fps&&num;8230&semi; even if some titles are stuttery it still tries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now this is a problem due to the idea that developers seem to mislead consumers into thinking they are purchasing an actual remaster&period; So what is my definition of a remaster&comma; compared to what we have been receiving for quite a while&quest; Well a remaster&comma; to me&comma; should be defined by improvements&period; Such improvements as fixing broken AI&comma; fixing broken animations&comma; adding improved texture quality&comma; redoing all or some cutscenes if possible&&num;8230&semi; this&comma; to me&comma; is a remaster&&num;8211&semi;a borderline remake&comma; but still a remaster&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now&comma; if none of that is possible&comma; I believe the gaming industry as a whole needs to get its business straight and come to a conclusion as to what they mean by a &&num;8216&semi;remastered version&period;&&num;8217&semi; Having six or more different names for essentially the same thing is too misleading and confusing to the end user&period; Just stick to the word remaster and do it correctly&&num;8211&semi; thanks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;