Art Restoration (and the Biggest Mod in Resident Evil History)
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2020
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Huge thanks to Albert Marin for information and additional footage
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Additional Resident Evil 2 footage provided by: / blackfox2240
Games shown: Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 2: Remake, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Shadow of the Colossus (PS2, PS3, PS4), Day of the Tentacle
Music used (chronologically): Pachelbel’s Canon, Wesker’s Theme, Ada’s Theme (Resident Evil 4), Credits Roll (Streets of Rage 4), Buy You a Drank (T-Pain), Level 0 (Tetris CD-I), Tierras de Azafrán (Blasphemous), Ending theme (Half Life: Alyx), Save theme (Resident Evil 7), Falling Into a Dream (Far Cry 3)
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This video was sent to me by a mutual fan. I’m not a gamer or really all that interested in gaming but hot damn if this wasn’t really fascinating! There’s a great conversation to be had about how as our world goes more and more digital the analog objects that become vessels for our stories and emotion become even more important and how that ethos fits or doesn’t when it comes to digital properties that cannot be held at all. Perhaps the experiential value of the game is as important as that of a physical object, and to respect that visceral affectation it makes all the sense in the world to treat these digital creations with as much respect and reverence.
I'm so glad you saw it! And I fully agree- games are so experiential that, like paintings, the meaning of them comes from the dialogue between the artist/developer and the person experiencing them. I think people find tremendous value in the act of restoration, and that act helps *more* people have that original connection.
I wanna learn as much as you guys about this stuff. Where do I begin? Is there a starting point or is it something I have to find on my own? I’ve been so lost trying to learn about this type of stuff. But I don’t know where to start. Where did you guys start learning the stuff that you did? I know you guys have different mediums but I feel like I would get a sense of direction if I learned from where you guys started.
Omg this is epic!
@Professor Juniper Wippersnache Yes it is, my dear friend
Hey Jacob. - This is the first video I saw of yours and it's very well-made. Also, you reminded me of Jake from Bright Sun Films for some reason. Probably the way you speak or the presentation or something. You might know that channel, but if you don't you might like it.
No one going to point out that the mod's being made by people called ALBERT and CRIS?
Lol, best coincidence ever
It's almost like they're Resident Evil fans or something.
@@forgot7en but those are their real names , lol
@@finnrogue9435 that's right
it's fate i tell you
Albert and Chris... working together... Wait, there's something wrong in this
When it comes to preserving what is worth keeping, they surely should :D
It's like we're back at the S.T.A.R.S. team
I think the same! LOL
@@angelogomez2272 Personally, liked Wesker better when he was a cheesy captain instead of an exagerated evil overlord.
I miss hearing Jill and Barry calling him "Captain Wesker".
After all Chris was one of Wesker’s men.
7:48 that blew my mind.
"The result of stretching art into a frame it wasn't made for"
That perfectly describes the 4k 60fps upscaling craze going on these days.
I swear this guy makes me suddenly so passionate about the most abstract concepts
Same
Big same
felt that
Best youtuber hands down
@Eriko. Oy what books he reads?
"it's surprisingly selfless"
I'm very surprised you didn't bring up the ethos of art conservation: the idea that everything he does can be easily removed or changed if another conservator so wishes. As a conservator your goal is to make sure nobody ever notices you were there, including your work being invisible if done well and completely removed if not
Honestly this surprised me too since the restoration channel he mentioned actually has talked about that. I think I would have enjoyed his thoughts on that idea in reference to the hd mod.
I think it’s a really interesting cross between conservation and videogames though.
It's worth noting that with old objects there's a difference between conservation and restoration. Conservation is keeping something in the state it is today, restoration is returning something to the state it was when it was originally made. In this way I think Jacob's comments that this isn't quite a restoration, remaster, or conservation. It's kind of something different.
And it should be that way with game remasters.
Sadly some games get quite horrible treatment worst of all cases in recent memory is Warcraft III's Reforged - a very aggressively revisionistic remake-ster abomination that beyond having completely different and in-practice worse art got gutted of tonso fexistig features, game was rendered incredibly unstable and barely playable and completely ruined the original presentation of the game.
At the same time it gets rid of the original almost entirely and you cannot get the classic version of the game officially anymore nor play it online without very obscure methods that just severly limit amount of people that can play with you.
Worst thing of all that this leaves the game in limbo of pseudo-development with non-patches that didnt fix anything of substance in a year while community is shrinking rapidly just because of tedioum and frustration with it and instability ruining custom and official ranked games.
Its completely oppsite to what Blizzard done prior with WoW Classic and Starcraft 1 both being really tasteful and faithful remaster/rerelease projects that didnt harm their communities...
"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
my father has worked and teaches to this day in the field of art conservation and one of the things that most captivates me to this day about his work is the extent of the dedication that is required to fulfill this requirements of an invisible hand.
His biggest job and the one I've lived the most trough in my life was the restoration of S.Martino's cathedral in Lucca, Italy (a solid 9/10 cathedral, would recommend making a diversion if you already planned to visit Pisa).
back then I was in elementary school and since both him and my mother worked in the curch I was often stuck spending my afternoons with the interns doing archive work, and the amount of research for reconstruction that went on in that crummy office was only equaled by that so that everything that was done to the church could be reverted not just to how it was before my father's company restored it, but for some cases even to previous restorations that are now considered obsolete but couldn't be redone under his contract.
every operation was thoroughly documented at all the relevant stages with photos and all the relevant research, all sent to a national digital archive for public access.
during the time my father was under contract he restored about 3/4ths of the monument (or so I think I remember) but all the documentation that he has left from back then feels like its enough to build three cathedrals.
I think it should be said that Albert is one of the most consistently positive, polite, wonderful people. I remember a few years back there was some new stuff he was adding to fill in some gaps/oversights in I think Separate Ways, and at every turn, we all discussed it and proposed ideas and as we all said which ideas we thought were best and what needed work, we gradually iterated until we had a final product, with Albert doing all the modelling and texturing and object placement along the way. The way Albert asked for and followed through with this over several days is probably always going to be a special memory for me.
@Kalina Ann Haha yeah, Cris and Albert the modders. Always found it funny those were their names.
Let's just take a moment to appreciate all the work modders do, a work that sadly sometimes don't get that much appreciation
I'm sure publishers appreciate it. Especially when they steal it, or "partner" with modders to sell their work and only give them about 5% of the profits. Bethesda might have been relegated to mediocrity games if modders didn't repair all their extremely broken games. Of course they have repaid the modders by trying to claim their content, sell it with very low commission for the work, and outright prevent modders from fixing their game freely by moving towards micro-transactions. If it weren't for modders all my Fallout and Elder Scrolls games would have aobut 5 hours on them total rather than 1000. lol
Modders are passionate about video games. Almost always being done without even a possibility of financial reward for their work. Their reward is learning, appreciation from gamers and modders that understand the value and time their work took, and most importantly their love for a game is shared with others that are now experiencing a better product for free. That's why we love them. Even the worst mods someone had a passion of some sort to improve the game for themselves.
Modders gonna mod. Publishers gonna steal their shit.
Well because most people don’t care
@@DickDickstein You’re spewing out left propaganda.
@@alenmack3471 And the award for the dumbest comment goes to: Alen Mack. Congratulations mate.
They say it takes 10,000 hours to be a master at something. So even if he hadn't done it before, the dedication alone made him an expert in the end lol
Every single game would be vastly different
@@sadpug2512 Okay you've got a point it's not really to scale in that regard lol
@@sadpug2512 Even though doing this for other games would probably require some new techniques, the skills he acquired and techniques he learned in this project can, most likely, be really useful when doing this to other games. Skills like tracking textures taken from the real world are really useful for lots of games. Many old games (and even new ones) got their textures from real world places, and many of them were even grabbed directly from the internet or from commonly used 3D softwares at the time they were made.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this.
@@sadpug2512 well yes in a way, but many of the skills gained in working on this project are broad enough to apply to basically all games. What you’re basically saying would be like if I spent 10,000 hours drawing animals and then when I try to draw people I would just have zero clue about what I’m doing, which is just ridiculous, just having picked up the skills of drawing at all gives me a big advantage over someone who has drawn very little
This video documents the RE4 HD project, perfectly. Well done, Jacob. 👏🏻
Hey, I know you!
@@diazdelosmuertos1503 he has a channel called Residence of Evil on UA-cam
@@SRC267 Yeah, I know. That’s the joke. Been following JJ and the guys since before they were huge-they and AvidExpert gave my own channel a nice little boost back in the day, too, which they didn’t have to do, so I’ll always be grateful, and I’ll always be a fan. Some of the best Resident Evil content on UA-cam. Hands down.
🍿🇺🇸🙏
Pairing it with other texture mods and ray tracing shaders through reshade will make it brand new!
"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all"
Wow, what's the source of this quote? I'm definitely going to use it in the future.
@@untitled_one1584 futurama ua-cam.com/video/EL7e05pClKM/v-deo.html
Futurama The Godfellas. I literally know that by heart. One of my most favorite episodes.
You were doing well, until everyone died
@@untitled_one1584 futurama
I'm a digital restoration artist for film, and i find this contrast with art and RE4 extremely fascinating. In many ways films and videogames are similar in terms of the textures. In film we respect the grain, the color, the scan quality of the negative, the montage, etc. All the research we do is really similar to what Albert Marin did for this project, with the focus of historical accuracy. In videogames it seems that is more about the details in the enviroments, like proper texture cleaning that is extremely respectful and well researched. The thing that i love the most is that is trully a restoration project, the game as it is doesn't need anything else. In restoration terms this could be a reconstruction, meaning a collection of missing pieces that completes the art work. I appreciate this perspective because is trully ethical, is not like bs enhancements or artificial coloring.
Props to the artist and Jacob for this video, much love from Mexico, can't wait to support this work.
I sort of expected you to bring up bad remakes/remasters of games and make a joke or two about Ecce Mono, that horribly restored painting of Jesus, but I'm honestly pleasantly surprised you didn't. Unbridled positivity is a real breath of fresh air nowadays, so thanks for just...making something that is just about passion and adoration for someone else's work. It's what you normally do, sure, but it's still appreciated.
Honestly that opens a really interesting can of worms because many modern "remasters" of games have a tendency to be built not on the original game, but on the equivalent of that infamous Ecce Homo painting, truly disastrous ports, like the Windows port of Halo by Gearbox which broke all the shader effects, and resulted in an across the board visual downgrade, with all textures losing their depth except when directly in the focus of the player's light, shield textures losing their lighting and animations, etc. Which was then handed off to Saber interactive to make an updated version of for newer consoles. So they had to do a whole bunch of guesswork as to what the original artistic intent probably was for effects which *no longer existed* in the broken build of the game they were working with (And indeed, are still absent in the MCC version's "classic mode")
It's almost more impressive that these teams are so often given this kind of task to work with the utterly botched copy of the original as their base starting point.
Ecce Mono was handled like a circus by the media. It was so much more of a moderate situation than often depicted and I'm also glad that halfway through we don't have to have a 3 minute detour into talking about it. But I'm unsurprised, this guy focuses on the important stuff to the topic at hand.
@@inkynewta centuries-old painting gets irreversibly ruined because of sheer incompetence.
it was a MODERATE situation.
@@ginogatash4030 Yes it was centuries old, and significant to the specific community it was for, but it was not culturally or historically significant and people made the original out to be a masterpiece by a great when it was a very common instance of work from its contemporary period.
@@inkynewt it's still a very piss poor job at the expense of someone else's work, and the cultural significance of it doesn't excuse bad restoration work, the restoration guy in the video does private paintings that aren't that influential as well, but he still puts a lot of care in doing his job.
I get that everyone and their grandma made fun of that "restoration", but you can't expect to not get shit when you fuck up that hard.
That T-Pain/Tiny desk comparison was God tier. I don't know why I'm surprised you surprise me. Keep up the great work.
As much as I loved that out-of-the-blue reference it strikes me as somewhat off-center for the Resident Evil 2 remake. T-Pain was just as much of a stunning unprocessed singer in 2007 as he was in 2014 (as evidenced by songs from the same era like “Sounds Bad”) and his recording “Buy U A Drank” the way he did back then - with heavy use of autotune instead of a treatment that more clearly displayed his vocal talents, with synths and 808 percussion instead of a live band - wasn’t borne out of those choices being the only ones technologically or culturally available to him at the time; those were *creative decisions* he made in what he felt was the service of the song. The primary thing that changed between 2007 and 2014 was T-Pain’s place in the music world: back then the idea of being an R&B singer who applied the maximum amount of pitch correction to his voice was an innovation that he felt would make his music sound more distinctive compared to your other options for romantic club jams on the market, whereas 7 years later his innovation had been widely adopted in pretty much every corner of popular music and been reacted against in some circles with the complaint that singers were using it to cover up their vocal deficiencies, so it was both a savvy career move and yet another interesting creative decision to re-record some of his biggest hits in arrangements that showed off the chops many people didn’t know he had. Without making some arguments I don’t think Jacob intended to about the inevitable triumph of Real Music over all that fake hippity-hop on the radio I don’t think there’s an easy way to claim that it reflects “modern sensibilities” in the same way that RE2make does, which is to say by being of an objectively higher fidelity than the original while trying hard to give people the experience they at least *felt* they were having back in 1998 (give or take a Zapping System, which is maybe the closest thing you could analogize to autotune here). If there’s any kind of game restoration it resembles it’s probably one of the numerous WiiU titles that got ported to the Switch for a second lease on life - the changes that need to be made aren’t straightforwardly *better*, and in many cases involve removing elements that the game was to some extent built around, but this new place is where all the eyes are and by removing the gimmicks you may also be removing the antipathy some people had towards the gimmicks.
I love T-Pain so that’s was a very nice touch
That has to be made up. I'm 99% sure t-pain killed himself after his rap battle with supah hot fire.
@@Champiness i read every word. this must have taken forever to type up.
@@TheVoiceOfChaos Certainly longer than it’s currently taking me to thank you for reading it!
I love how you brought up the lower resolution graphics "implications". This is something I had noticed about Resident Evil 4. I played it on a tiny screen, and everything looked absolutely fantastic. But, I noticed a few years ago that it just didn't look as good anymore, beyond just what better, more detailed graphics can explain. I chalked it up to there being a greater pixel density when I played it, since I was playing the game on a smaller screen than it was intended for, but honestly the "implication" argument makes a little more sense. There was less to see, so my mind filled in the gaps, making it seem more detailed than it really was.
Capcom should just pay Albert to repackage his mod as the official remake, but I'm not sure he would even want that.
The game needs a lot of other updates, lighting, meshes, animations, etc. The mod is nice but without the high poly meshes, those textures will never truly shine the way they could.
@@ericm5315 this is where reshade and sweetfx comes in. It can totally change a games look.....
@@Fezzy976 Yeah, totally, I use it to add in Ray Tracing on most games along with a little extra bloom and some nice HDR effects, etc but even then, old games look old. The animations, the low poly counts, etc. Lipstick only goes so far on a pig my friend, lol. Happy Halloween!
@@ericm5315 main left problem to my eyes will be the cap of 60 fps max (and yes the atrocious motion blur effet made only for smootest not accurate détails)
I ran it on lmy computer in 4k (the cg doesn't work at all sawing how powerful it is) but yeah.
Just miss the hi mesh models (of course) and well change the engine for make it able to handle 144Hz and much highter framerate
Because yes there is a big canyons between 60 fps and much highter framerate if your monitor compatible for (play in 4K/144HJz)
Skyrim can be fixed for that by example (otherwise it crash simply and game/hor become mad put simply)
But re4 i don't know....it's différent but you realise what it could have been possible if the hardware in 2005 would have been enough for truly display THAT.
Game is limiting by his engine but..it can do much for his time.
Are you kidding me? I'm pretty sure Capcom will sue him for making this game HD without its consent.
„It’s not that I don’t like feet”, the delivery of that line made me pause the video due to uncontrollable laughter
Jacob Geller confirmed foot guy
RE4, T-Pain, AND Julian Baumgartner?? I've never seen all my interests coalesce so beautifully.
You're one interesting person, my friend
Lara Croft's "triangle boobs" meme only emerged when people start playing the game on the wrong screens. They were never triangle on CRTs.
@@eastindies2937 To put it more accurate, CTR isn't the only difference. Most people don't play on CRT through VGA or S-video port like some retro gamers do today, but through a common shitty composite port, which isn't capable of displaying anything sharp, every edge or detail is automatically blurry.
Bullshit
@@HugoStiglitz88 you clearly never played on CRT screens
@@HugoStiglitz88 no u
Yeah they were lol. I remember the PS1.
"It should not surprise you two things I'm kind of obsessed with"
"ARCHITECTURE!!!"
"Graphics and Resident Evil"
"oh..."
I mean still technically about architecture
I must be honest, when you made the slideshow of remade textures at about 6:00, I was gobsmacked - my eyes widened with the realisation of just how much work 1-2 people did. How can any single man project match the scale of this? How can one man be so dedicated, while doing this for a first time?
Amazing.
I've never thought of a texture mod as an art restoration before, but in retrospect, *of course* that's what such things could be to old games. As the medium progresses ever further into no longer being a 'new' medium, having more and more years of history, of games being created and aging and dying at rates we can't even keep track of anymore, efforts to preserve the standout games among them like this are greatly valuable indeed.
And heck, even less popular and weirder games deserve to be preserved too! It's all a fascinating history, and preserving only the ''best'' stuff would be a tragic limitation of perspective for future people looking back at that moment of history. A lovely video in any case! ^w^
Agree! 👍
Join the lost media wiki!
some of my favorite games are the unpopular ones lost to time
Not to mention games that are willingly killed off by corporations. The number of games that ea has killed alone is staggering. This is one reason why online-only/game streaming practices are so frowned upon by some crowds.
That's because it's not art restoration, it's peons that need to justify the 2000 bucks they spent on a goddamn gaming PC so everything can be in 'ultra HD 8k' bullshit.
*"Art Restoration"*
*Mr. Bean:* Oh don't even remind me of such a thing 😨
Oh shit!
damn the memories are flooding back
it's a poster
Seeing this titan of a modder devoting years of his life makes me feel excused about myself amateurishly spending 100+ hours over few months on modding Viking Conquest or Dark Souls 3 to my liking. And to take that even further, 5 years in the making Witcher epilogue Farewell of the White Wolf is releasing today. What a world.
And Far Cry 3's Falling Into a Dream during the conclusion part was spot on.
You can spend as much time modding as you want as long as you're enjoying the process
Is that..... A Leon cosplay in the ad at the end?
Yee
Like the hair...was spot on. man Jacob why you always look so great? Even when destroying your beard...
With super Mario 64 under water music
@@AK907LSD25 🤘🏻
That was bugging me. Thought it was the twilight princess fishing hole, then was like "nah, this is something from the n64!! 😆
Albert's dedication for this project is absolutely 'Madlad' level.
Respect+
I just played Resident Evil 4 for the first time this month and I used the HD Project mod. The mod is great and I think what’s most impressive is that it allowed me to enjoy the game without constantly being removed from the experience because my brain can’t stand the muddy textures of before. This allowed me to enjoy the game how I’m sure everyone did when it came out. I think the mod is more passive than it first seems and like you said, it’s less like a remaster and more like a restoration.
“I mean, the agony this guy is in over painting a foot!”: The Rob Liefeld Story
I'm always impressed by how broad your approach to culture is. I studied fine art at uni, and it's really interesting to see you relate things which I know from that, to pop culture which I mostly see discussed in relation to itself. Whilst never inserting any sort of hierarchy to it.
It's my favorite part about this channel. It gives all art its due.
You studied fine art? Did you ever take a look at that one Austrian dude's paintings?
Yes because those snobby fine art teachers no nothing about history, culture or religion so they just make everything about politics and pop culture.
"Video game restoration"
I like that term. It should be used more often.
Bruh the sheer dumb luck required for two guys named Albert and Chris to have worked on this project is hilarious and easily my favorite part.
"Plus Julian Baumgartner kinda looks like me"
He really does, it's awesome
YOU AGAIN !? Of course you're here...why im surprised..
And here I was, thinking this was going to be "The ship of Theseus: videogame edition"
Oh you reminded me to watch that video
"Art Restoration" is exactly what modding is half the time, whether it's content (KOTOR II, good god), graphics, sound, or anything else. Especially when so many games had their original material lost over years of neglect. Resident evil 4 is just one example. Earlier than that, so many cutscenes jammed onto CD's in the 90's never to be seen in their original state.
Indeed, cutscenes tend to be the most frustrating aspect of older games, since not even emulation upscaling can solve it. I guess AI upscaling is the closest we'll get to the real thing in most of these works.
@@Willie6785 A lot of older games are benefiting from AI upscaling, it can only do so much. I'll be glad to see what they do with that Blade Runner game from the 90's.
I'd like to mention the Fallout 4: New Vegas project, which is a mod for Fallout 4 that brings New Vegas into the game, not sure if it's still being worked on, but what I saw out of it was precisely this; restoration of F:NV.
Jacob Geller: "This is the biggest mod in Resident Evil history"
Me: "What about the nude mod?"
Jacob Geller: "This is the second biggest mod"
dafu-
@@xpmono9732 Sorry, mate. Only true RE fans will understand.
As Julian so often says in his videos, he wants his work to disappear. When you can't even tell a painting has been restored, that's how you know the conservationist did a good job. I don't have nearly the attachment to RE4 that you do and I'd never heard of this project before today, but I can immediately see that the restoration does nothing except help the game to look more like it looks in the memories of those who played it on release, and there's something really beautiful and heartwarming in that.
Jacob Geller uploads a new video *after* I microwaved some chicken nuggets??
*Today's going to be a good day*
This is a very wonderful comment. It made me smile!
@@cheesewizz_ it made me shed a tear tbh
Update us on it was a good day after you fuck around and get a triple double.
Jacob: there’s probably some godawful thing in the recommendations.
Me: * looks at recommends *
Me: They’re all your videos?
Me: *Sees only videos I've already watched.* What are you trying to say about me Jacob?
*I see no bad stuff here, it's all amazing*
Mine is just gone since I removed it with a browser extension.
Since I live in the US I'm getting a lot of politics in my suggestions and I can confirm most of it is god awful.
Don't ever watch a Hololive video if you value your recommended videos
"You're a smart person. It's a streaming service for you."
Jacob Geller, showing more confidence in me than I have in myself for the whole of 2020 while promoting Nebula & Curiosity Stream ^_^
Don’t sell yourself short! You’re also massively talented!
12:09 "Plus, Julian Baumgartner kind of looks like me--which is fine"
18:25
In all honesty though I quite like the new look.
he looks like Miller from the Expanse
As long he doesn't bring hipster attitude with that haircut.
@@faizalf119 Nah he's too cool
he is kinda cosplaying Leon, isn't he?
He's cosplaying leon
After watching this, I'd really like to hear your thoughts on Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old
That would be really interesting. He could find some way to relate it to war video games.
God one of my favorite films/docs/remaster/recolor or whatever
@@carlycrays2831 Verdun and Tannenberg are two great WW1 games that have a great attention to detail, not to mention they're games that really make you feel what trench warfare was like!
They Shall Not Grow Old is one of my favorite documentaries of all time. It's not a look at the Great War as a whole, but a glimpse into what life was like living on the front lines.
Your comment reminds me of Battlefield 1.
This video reminded me of my experience working as a production artist some years ago, and my enjoyment of making small signs people never really think about. I put hours into making inventory stickers for a hospital, and name tags for the people working there. Room numbers for hotels. Designing practical setups for a UNESCO-sponsored photo exhibition so that it could be mounted and taken down quickly to move it between cities. There's something extremely rewarding about making things no one *really* notices or thinks about unless prompted, because you designed them to be unintrusive and just... useful.
Jacob whenever I watch your videos I find myself literally in your world, and the worlds of the games you talk about. You've quite literally changed how I look at video games and beauty and I cannot express how awesome you are genuinely
There's this one UA-camr who's remaking all of the textures Majora's Mask on the Nintendo 64. I believe he is doing this not just to restore the original, but the show how inferior the 3DS version is, or maybe it's a mix of both
“One UA-camr” pfft, everybody knows Nerrel.
Funny thing is, Nerrel's remastering the 3DS textures too once he finishes the 64 version
I like the 3DS version :(
@@coldstuff9784 it's still a good game don't get me wrong, but they made a bunch of changes that made it worse. Someone even made a mod that removed the changes and even added extra ways to use things, you can even put it on your 3ds with the use of homebrew
I'll take the extra polygons, textures and fps over some gameplay changes like the Deku water hop or Zora swimming that are either limited to a few areas or solved completely with Chateau Romani. Would it be cool to have them back? Sure, but I would not trade them for the better presentation, QoL and visuals of MM3D. Nerrel is kind of obsessed with his nostalgia.
For a whole "behind the scenes" discussion video, including details on other art restoration and what the hell was up with that cosplay, jump on my patreon: www.patreon.com/JacobGeller
The writing and production quality is insane, amazing video keep it up man :)
I'm poor, so here's a sub and some compliments.
I actually love "lo-fi" cosplay like that, how it takes the impression of a character and applies it like a texture map. If that's exactly what you were going for in the context of the video, apologies for spoiling. ;p
Aside from the video, which is as great as expected, I really enjoyed the little Leon-Cosplay in the end there
In most countries, video games are classified as "Art." What the mod authors are doing are equivalent to restoration of physical pieces of art such as paintings.
Unrelated to your post but I think resident evil 4 on the wii is the definitive version and has the most fun gun pl ay because of the motion controls
This video is so motivational ...and i just finished Re4 with HD project..... one of the best mods ever made on planet earth...and ur video trully justifies it. SUBSCRIBED !!!!!
I know it's been like 2 years since this video came out, and there are better ways to support a creator than just writing a comment (which, sadly aren't really an option for me right now). But I can't help but really admire your work, the ways your videos inspire me to see beauty in the world around all of us, the things that people care about, the feelings and connections, and contradictions of humanity, and so much more, so many things that may not look like they fit together, and yet. So many sides. All the love to the talent and I find things like this that inspire to be an art in of itself.
I've been following Albert, been on the modding forums, and have made mods for this game for a little over a decade. This project is absolutely insane tbh.
art restoration and the respect and reservation of individual's expression that comes from it never ceases to amaze me, i love people that love art!!!!
Same, but then there is opposite side of it. People whodomt hold.any respect for it.
Even im terms of remastering games it happened woth how Warcraft III was treated.
Lead artist on the project was a massove bafoon and an idiot who completely disrespected the game and laughed at it mockingly in every appearence he made of dev panels and interviews.
He was exact opposite of someone like that art restorator game and its community only suffers from consequences of things Brian Sousa done in multitiude of ways :/
Oh man, this is such a lovely video! As someone who works in art conservation and has been following your videos for awhile, it's really cool to hear about this amazing passion project compared to art conservation. Man, yeah, the kind of amazing in-depth research that the RE4HD project is doing is totally in-line with the truly massive amounts of research that conservators will do before even touching an artwork and deciding on a treatment for it. You end up knowing an artwork in such intimate detail once you're done with it, just because you’ve spent so much time with it, haha. And, yeah, I loved your comment that conservation at its best needs a lack of ego: if you've done your job well, no one will ever notice, after all.
If anyone is interested in another cool overlap of video games and art conservation side of things, I would totally recommend looking up time-based media conservation, which is a branch of conservation that focuses on newer media artworks, including video games, that’s found its way into museum collections. (And if you’re in the mood for an in-depth read about a case study, there’s a pretty cool recentish article called “Introducing ‘Code Resituation’: Applying the Concept of Minimal Intervention to the Conservation Treatment of Software-based Art,” by Deena Engel and Joanna Phillips, which talks about applying the ethical conservation framework used for objects like paintings to software-based artworks.)
Whoof, sorry for the novel of a comment, but this was such a cool video topic that totally tied together two of my personal passions, haha.
Jacob you never cease to astound me with how well thought out and presented your videos are. I have ADHD and often find myself unable (or unwilling) to sit through even a 10 minute video, but with yours I don’t even look at the clock until the videos over. Your are an amazing person, thanks for the great content :)
Found myself nodding at your final point about the selflessness of the restoration project. when I played the Shadow of the Colossus Bluepoint remake it made the experience really fresh but not in a totally distracting way. Core experience still preserved without as many distractions from low fidelity textures or lighting.
Thank you Jacob, for making me watch (and appreciate a great deal!) a 20+ minutes video about a game I never played, and I don't plan on playing.
Great content, as usual!
literally the same for me, except the entire channel. it's nice to have someone play games I have no time to play, and then do the thinking for me.
1.0 just dropped hype
I don't understand why this video don't get millions of views, maybe the reason is the language, translate on Spanish could be cool, I use subtitles.. this video is fascinating and even Baumgartner restoration saw it... just great man..
wanted to say i haven't watched this yet, just found it amusing you showed up directly on top of Baumgartner restoration's most recent video in my subs lol
I really need this right now. Thank you. Hugs to everybody who's having a rough day!
I remember downloading this mod and thinking "whoa that's a huge file".
Once I started playing I realized why. It really is one of the most detailed, professional looking and meticulous graphics mods I've ever seen.
I ended up getting the FitGirl Repack version (already bought the game & donated). Download size was 13GB, install size (game+mod) finished at 36GB.
As someone who is trying to work in the archival field, but also just has a deep love of video games, I absolutely love how you manage to combine the two fields and compare video games to "high art" in a way that doesn't feel either condescending or like an overeager fanboy trying to lend his favorite games "credibility". This is how they should be compared.
Leon Geller at the end is what I never knew i'd always needed
I love how Minecraft allows for shaders / ray tracings. Some of them are extremely realistic and naturally calming.
Capcom should hire him and use his work for their re4 HD version
I think it's funny that Jacob compares himself to a "massively talented" painting restorer as if he isn't the most talented video essay writer I have ever seen. Your videos are hilarious, interesting, and have me thinking deeply on subjects I had never even considered. Give yourself some praise too!
wow, I didnt expect a positive video about restoration, I though it was about remakes ruining memories. thanks for the positivity
The Wiimote is still the best way to play RE4
God, I miss my wii...
Here celebrating the 1.0 release of this amazing project
9:36 This is absolutely amazing. What do you call the ability to find things like that purely through the internet? That's like something I would expect from a massively powerful AI, not 1 person. That is AMAZING. Blowing my mind right now. I wonder if the architects who built those ancient places have any idea that thousands of years later it's being used and recreated faithfully to preserve the beauty they worked so hard on. Architecture is a special type of art. Human beings are incredible. Great video!
Jacob: mentions Baumgartner Restoration
Me: Ahh, yes. He only uses the finest belgian linen, that's for sure.
I bought RE4 some months ago and had a blast, but I also noticed that this "HD Ultimate Re-Release" wasn't as good. Thanks for sharing this story, as I download the mod and replay once more into RE4.
Bruh, you're extremely talented. Your prose, your insights, your messages have always brought new meaning to my life and made me appreciate the world in a different way. Your words move me in ways very, very few video essayists do, and I watch all the big names here. Don't let anyone tell you that's nothing just because it's on youtube. Not even yourself. 😊
this is a really fantastic video. id never heard of this mod before but now im fascinated. i love the idea that someone loves a game that much to do this all. honestly, that kind of commitment, that kind of love for love's sake is a special kind of beautiful
Imagine RE4 set in the 1600s. "O Leon, assist me!"
They actually could set it in the 1600’s if they base a spin-off game with the first castellan Salazar fighting off the cult and led plagas and it ending with sealing off the las plagas
@@JessicaGarcia-xf9wr I did not expect this to be such a good idea but it is.
Jacob, in case someone else hasn't said it, you ARE talented, and massively so. You're an inspiration for aspiring media essayists everywhere. You consistently reach that sought after benchmark of incredible insight blended with character and emotion. My pal and I are starting a channel later this month to write about movies (and I'm a cis white guy, would ya believe it. trust me I'm already rolling my eyes but hey, what else are you gonna do during a pandemic) and we consistently share your videos with one another as s golden example of what we hope to accomplish.
I've been hesitant about joining Nebula for a while now, as finances are tricky at the moment, but I'm going to start setting aside money for a subscription, hopefully starting in November!
Well said. Jacob's videos have the optimal balance of visuals and words. Every frame complements what he says and his script just flows right into the brain. The emotional touch, well that's his forte. I don't think any other youtuber comes close to achieving this balance, even including nerdwriter1.
The highest complement I can pay to this mod, it makes the game look like I remember it looking. It achieves the visual appeal of nostalgia. Well done.
Yes this game is art. Thank you for analyzing it and treating at as the masterpiece it is. More games should be respected as an art form. This game should be in a museum in Japan.
now, re4hdproject1.0 is ready to run. great work :) download and enjoy :)
This REtexturing project is certainly very similar to Nerrel’s HD retexturing of Majora’s Mask. Would highly recommend those who found this project interesting to check it out. I believe he’s like 95% complete now and it will be released fairly soon.
Had to go back and watch this video as I wait for the 1.0 release of the mod to download! Amazingly grateful to have been introduced to this mod by this video!!
i love watching your videos... your excitement is so infectious that even if i don't know anything about the topic i find myself completely fascinated the whole video
Can’t wait to see myself in true HD!
This made me feel something for the first time in a while. I loved this :)
Thank you very much for activating the subtitles, since when I see them in Spanish I understand better some terms that I do not know and at the same time I practice my English, excellent video I hope the following, greetings from Mexico
We’re waiting SO patiently for your perspective on the RE4 remake
You know, as soon as I saw the word "restoration" I had a feeling someone has been watching the Baumgartner channel.
Holy shit I lived right next to that church in Cardiff, oh my god there's like fucking structures in Cardiff that are holy Resident evil ground
Great video, as always! Amazing to hear about that level of dedication to a project.
love the blasphemous Albero theme kicking in when you start talking about Albert
Was having a pretty rough last 2 weeks, but this is something nice I hope will take my mind off of it all :)
Red blood! You can't find that on nintendo Wii!
*Laughs in Kirby series maniacally*
Thank you for making this video. It really helped me realize how much I ignore so many beautiful textures
Well im glad to report that "remake" turned out to be one of the best VR experiences I had! Because the game has to be in VR, that sort of detail had to heave been focused on or it falls apart, and it succeeded.
“And there’s probably something terrible in the recommendations” *all of my recommendations are Jacob Geller videos*
They released the 1.0 version of the mod!!!
Thank you for making this video, I've been following the development of this remaster for yeeears, I'm glad other people are just as passionate as me about it
Beautiful content. I follow this project since year one and can say you put it perfectly, the passion of Cris and Albert for this project is simply immense.
This definitely led to the recent lawsuit Capcom is facing from the original texture photographer. Thank you for shedding light on this wonderful mod.
Jacob: "There's probably some God-awful thing in the recommendations right now."
*Time Rogers just staring at me from the thumbnail for ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS DOOM*
Me: "Heck."
It sounds like something Tim would say too haha
Great video!
And yes, this project is incredible. I'm proud to say I was able to contribute by digging up 4 original texture sources from the internet (a chair, two gravestones and a carpet) that they hadn't been able to track down themselves.
One mistake in this video though: the project was originally concieved by Cris, Albert is the one who joined in later.
With less than 2 weeks to go now until the RE4make we'll have to see if they include the 2 statue room with said intricate details, thanks for bringing this up!