Remaster is when you upgrade the existing game with upgraded textures and upgraded controls and QOL improvements. A Remake is rebuilding of a game from the ground up typically in a different engine, it can be as faithful to the original or divert but its still a remake.
@The Rotten💯 that's also how it always been named. I have no idea why so much fuss and confusion about these two when is black and white simple what's what.
It doesn't have to be on a different engine it just has to be built from the ground up not using the same code from the older game because what if the company that made the previous game is doing the remake? They specialize in one engine and it's the same engine that was used on the previous game? They don't have to pick another engine to make the remake they just have to build from the ground up
@@SPACECOWBOY705 yes, reimaginations are the best remakes, they dont feel like you're playing the same game, but a brand new version of the game, and it requires a lot more talent and new ideas from the devs and not just copy shit made by better devs than them
Demon’s Souls is such an interesting case, because it’s the original code underneath! The way Bluepoint does remasters is, arguably, the worst way to do it from a gamer’s point of view … literally just a new coat of paint. But they do that so freaking well it’s impossible to argue with the results. Diablo II Resurrected is also the same core code. So I think these are technically closer to … I don’t know, port-makes?
I know NOTHING of the Harry Potter franchise, never saw the films, never read the books, and have no attachment to the property. Hogwarts Legacy has completely bewildered me. I have been lost in that game, enjoying the magical nature of it all. I would recommend it to almost anyone that enjoys open world games. Loving my time with it, and honestly makes me want to get in to the property more.
@@lordsysop mmm, it has elements very similar to BOTW. So if you liked BOTW, give it a shot. Combat's really fun, I'd compare the spell-casting to Witcher 3 signs.
@@lordsysop pick it up...if you want an open world game that feels like there's actually lore and wor;d building behind it get it..akin to witcher 3 id say..
Saw Isshin on the thumbnail and while it's obvioulsy a remake, it's also a remake that allows most of us who wanted to play it, but couldn't, to do so and that makes it totally valid as a concept.
It's worth pointing out that some of these remakes/remasters/ports (love them or hate them) also bring in a PC release (TLOU, Spiderman, GoW, Horizon, FF7R, etc.) which allow a new audience that never owned a PlayStation experience them for the first time--so many will gladly buy them, especially since they're usually bundled with all the DLC.
@@ZephyrK_ Fair point; though I'm not arguing the definition of a port and a remaster/remake. My point is that companies will use a remaster/remake as an opportunity to also include a PC port (often as a 'complete edition' as you pointed out) and even though it may seem redundant for console players to pay for a new edition, PC exclusive players are getting a chance for the first time to own it.
True for most of them, but the original FF7 got a rerelease on PC, PS4, Xbox, and Switch before the remake hit PC. I could be wrong, but I think the original FF7 was rereleased on all platforms before the remake even came out in 2020. Plus, obviously anyone, even with a potato PC could emulate FF7 way before that rerelease happened anyways. Sorry for the slight nitpick lol.
It’s a surreal experience to see creators you admire try to say your name without laughing😂. Thanks for answering the question, it's really really cool! Keep on keeping on!
They have a ps4 remake or not? Why cant they just put them on steam? Of all the possible remaster they push out the most mainstream ones and leave those gems just behind.
@@_synt3rax_437 They were rereleased on PS3, not PS4. Porting it to PC/PS5 would require some work, though I'd kill for a remake that really upped the presentation and fixed a few things.
@@_synt3rax_437 these arent remakes, just remasters/ports and pretty bad ones at that IIRC, played them a while ago and dont think they even maintained 30fps on ps4. ps3 version actually seems to run better lmao
"If one game could get remastered/remade/ported from your personal catalog what would it be?" Instant reply, like 0.01 seconds. Skillup - "Legacy of Kain". You and me both buddy.
Yeah, he is trying to make it happen for quite a long time now. He mentioned it many times in "This Week in Video Games" videos since last year. So I knew that he was going to say that. 😂
Want to let jirard know that even if he doesn't get to play new games early, appreciate his presence in this podcast and the completionist channel will always be a go to for reviews!
The most bizarre thing is the duality of banking on nostalgia to get you to buy a game and then "subverting your expectations" by changing it so much that it's almost unrecognizable
@@agent_of_cthulhu None of the people in the video are in the same room. Where you live doesn't matter for a context like this, just do you have an internet connection. Though it is definitely harder to find in-person friends that have hobbies that line up. But just having in-person friends is nice.
@@haruhirogrimgar6047 very true. In-person friends are the best but thanks to the internet it's hard to be truly lonely because you can always find someone to have a chat with.
I’m on the fence. Some of the recent remakes like RE2, FF7 Remake, Demon Souls, & Dead Space are among the best games I’ve played. I enjoy a good remake, but I don’t want the industry to get to a point where they’re remaking games that don’t deserve it or need it. But I don’t want to live in a world where we never got FF7 Remake. As long as new games are still coming out, and the remakes are doing something fresh and new while being faithful adaptations, I’m ok with them.
@@bevanmcnicholl2525 Yea it feels like a lot of remasters are hit or miss. There's very few Metroid Primes that go above and beyond in the effort put in
@@bevanmcnicholl2525 Their definition of remake and remaster is wonky to me. They’re debating if Dead Space is a remake or remaster - it’s clearly a remake. To me, if it’s made from new assets, from the ground up, new voice acting, in a new engine - it’s a remake regardless of how similar it is to the original. A remaster is using the same assets, up-res graphics, making a few changes to fps, and menu systems etc. But the structure is the same. It’s the difference between remodeling your house on a budget (Remaster) and rebuilding a new house that looks similar to your’s but bigger, better, with all the new bells & whistles of modern technology (Remake).
@@DFTNSHEXGRM Seriously, people are making it way more complicated than it needs to be. The house analogy is perfect for explaining the difference between remasters and remakes.
As a total HP casual I've gotta say I'm totally lost in Hogwarts Legacy. If it's only for the size/detail/quality of the environments I'd say its worth exploring.
Yeah, I know several people who are in the same boat, not really into HP but really like the game. It's well-made, and you can tell the devs were both passionate about the game and fans of the subject matter.
On the remake vs remaster topic, I think it would be great if you guys had a senior developer from a studio that has done one or multiple remakes/remasters on the show. It would be really cool to hear from an insider on the unique challenges that come into the different aspects, and how that plays into the business decisions that get made!
I know Naughty Dog is cagey with interviews, but they come to mind since they've done the original game, a remaster and a remake of the same game all in 10 years
I don't actually think so. We're halfway through February and while we've gotten Metroid, Dead Space and like a dragon, we've also gotten Hi-Fi Rush, Wanted: Dead(for better or worse), Wild Hearts, Octopath Traveler 2 and Hogwarts Legacy. We have seen a rise in remakes of late, I won't deny that. And there's certainly an argument to be made for the opportunity cost of these remakes, but I don't think it's a problem just yet. Knowing the industry like I do though, I'm sure it'll become a problem at some point. I just hope I can get a Ninja Gaiden Black remake before the wheels come off this gravy train.
NG Black hasn't aged a day, it doesn't need any remake. Besides, a remake already exists in the form of NG Sigma and while it is not bad, most gamers (including me) prefer Black by far (the Rachel chapters are a slog). You can just remaster Black, add a crosshair to the bow and be done with it.
Commenting to feed the algorithm: I've been playing Nobody Saves the World and I can't put it down. What a fun game. I only bought it because of SkillUp + Jirard's reviews and they were right, it's such a delight. The humor is perfect, the gameplay is addictive as FUUUUU-, I love the variety that you get from the different forms and I'm about 30 hours in and still needing to complete like 8 dungeons and the DLC still. What a great game. WOW!
There's a hard, well-defined line between remaster and remake. The term "mastering" comes from the music industry. It's the final step in producing music where you take all of the finished parts and do the final post processing. The mastering stage is where you finalize the audio mix, set the absolute volume level and dynamic range (this is where compression and normalization tends to happen), etc. A re-master is when you take those original recordings and re-do the mastering step. Nothing about the original recordings changed, but the final mix is different. Sometimes the audio is re-balanced, or the analog tape was resampled at a higher bitrate, or it was put through a noise filter, etc. etc., but the source audio itself is not re-recorded. With games, a remaster is when you take the base game and re-do the final touches. The game might be upgraded from 32 bit to 64 bit, textures and audio might be resampled at a higher resolution, it might be recompiled with better optimization options or to a new console architecture, but the source code and assets are the same. A remake, on the other hand, is when that source code is rewritten. Assets might be re-made from scratch, the engine might be different, the game could be more optimized (or more buggy), etc. There might be new menus or content or mechanics, but sometimes a remake is very faithful to the original and barely has any "new" stuff. A game with an engine and asset overhaul that plays identically to the original is still a remake. Dead Space is a remake. There's no question about it. The line between a remaster and a port is much blurrier. A port often entails some level of change to the codebase (since it is rarely as simple as recompiling for a new system). Is Super Mario All Stars a port or a remaster? SM64 is emulated in that collection, but does emulation even count as a port? Sunshine seems like it was just recompiled for the switch, but it got updated to fix some system-specific bugs that weren't in the original. Are those updates part of the port, or is it now a minimal remaster?
You don't need to be a Harry Potter fan to enjoy Hogwarts Legacy. It has a lot of the open world tropes. However, it is still a good game. Well-made. And it has one of the best designed open worlds (from an artistic standpoint) ever made. The level of detail is astonishing. Hogwarts and the surrounding towns and hamlets are all hand-crafted.
Remasters are pretty much just upgrading the existing game to run on modern computers but not really changing things all that much other than streamlining the graphics a bit and maybe doing a few minor changes to gameplay. For Deadspace, it is on the line of being between being a Remaster or a Remake, but I think of it as leaning more in the territory of being a Remake. They did change quite a few things in the game, including the story a bit. Sure, the overall story is the same, but with the main character actually talking and the dialogue changed, it did change the tone of things a bit, and there was the addition of a secret ending (I hesitate to call it an alternate ending because it could've easily happened after the original ending). Gameplay also had some big changes and balance adjustments as well to make things feel a bit different as well (some weapons that were crap in the original are better now). It does feel different enough from the original game, in a good way, to warrant being a Remake in my opinion and thus be available to be Game of the Year. FF7 Remake is another one of those hard to classify games though, is definitely a Remake for sure, but I'm also leaning towards it also being a bit of a sequel as well. It really depends on how the next games turn out really. One thing I can say though is that I can see why game publishers/studios are doing Remakes/Remasters, they are usually a good way to have a surefire hit and to get a bunch of copies of the game sold. Though there are some companies that took that for granted by being lazy in their Remasters. Warcraft 3 Reforged and the Grand Theft Auto 3 trilogy remasters are prime examples of the Studios being lazy in ensuring the games are good enough to warrant being rereleased.
A couple things about potter: 1. It's a pretty good game, and 2. I hate people telling me what to do, and I despise bullies. Easy purchase. Also, I'm not really into the potterverse either but the game itself is good.
"What mechanic would you bring back?" Love all your answers, agree with them all. Another I felt recently was emulating what I will call "the Goldeneye campaign template". i.e. SHORT replayable levels, that have different missions based on the difficulty (obvs. there needs to be good accessibility options) rather than just making enemies more bullet spongy and you more a china doll. Moreover they rewarded you for mastery of those levels with unlocks, cheat codes etc. Stop making games longer and make them more replayable.
Oh man, I love Jake. 😂 he’s so cute. His talking about being easily swayed about games, I totally understood that. I’m the same. And Lucy at the end there cuddling with her cat, may I request that become a thing? Both Lucy and the cat looked so happy. ❤
100%, the reason is it's more appealing to shareholders when you pitch a game that has an established fan base than it is to pitch funding something creative and new.
When Lucy says Rowling is "doing harm," I would love to see a tweet, quote or piece of evidence of that, rather than people just repeating baseless claims.
I couldn’t hold back a fist bump when Jake mentioned Dark Cloud’s progression. The only game I was thinking about during the whole remake conversation.
I personally have no issues with remakes or remasters as often when I go back to play an older game I realize even though the game looked awesome back then it's tough to play now. Plus modern features like auto-resume on consoles is a must for me 😌
For someone who never played the last of us part 1 or part 2 until this year, the remake was 100% worth it to me to experience it in that way for the first time. It was visually stunning, immersive and flowed into part 2 nicely since they both look graphically about the same now.
Talking to non-gamers about our hobby can be unintentionally hilarious. Jake really got me tickled with that "oh... honey..." response to the first person button.
Because they're hypocrites, and they love virtue signaling. I recommend not wasting your time on a podcast with hosts whose behaviors are the same as every shitty mainstream gaming journalist, (except for Jake, of course). There are better gaming podcasts with hosts who are not afraid of getting canceled for calling out bullshit.
I got the impression the expectation to virtue signal a bit and be seen as those people took priority. I could tell Jake really enjoyed it but completely suppressed his take on it.
Demon soul's really missed the ball by not rehauling there boss battles (which arguably is one of the "souls" series strength) you can give the game a brand new shiny coat of paint but at the end of the day if im fighting against easily exploitable 2008 boss AI, then you start to really see the underlying age of the game.
Being able to play via streaming by keyboard, mouse, gamepad, joystick, controller and so on. Being able to put and use savegame, cheats, tricks, code, cheats text change by notepad, trainer, trainer mod menu, DLC, expansions, mods and so on. Games in general. Being able to play via streaming in story mode, campaign, campaign mode, single player, offline, online and any types of modes, types of games, you can also choose the difficulty, easy, hard, hard core and any type of difficulty in any type of device.
With Hogwarts Legacy, I'm as far from a Harry Potter fan as you can get, yet I thoroughly enjoyed the game. Ive only seen the 1st 3 movies and even then I barely paid attention. In terms of an open world exploration game its fantastic and doesn't hold your hand. It forces you to explore with out being tedious or frustrating. The secrets and puzzles are not over the top and need a degree in something to solve. Yes a lot of the puzzles can be very simple but I'd rather that than the alternative and just getting frustrated at the game. The questing is great, even the side quests are well done. The crafting systems are also great and not over the top and to complex. The room of requirement is just an amazing feature not only for being able to customize your personal space but the the simplicity involved with it. The combat is amazing and fun, I do have one gripe. This is more to do with trolls and their combo attack. You dodge the 1st attack (using the warp upgrade thing for the dodge) and get some distance from the troll only to have to teleport on top of you for its 2nd attack and you don't have enough time to dodge again due to being stuck in the previous dodge animation. Every thing else about the game is just good. I feel sorry for those that choose to boycott the game because of that idiot J.K as those people are missing out on a genuinely great game.
@@PensFan35 eh who gives a shit, all triple A games in the past decade have been hand holdy. Now that ER came out people like to bitch it. News flash, neither is better than the other because they both have their uses in game design.
Loving that you guys are back now! Love this podcast! and I really like the new view of gamplay with all of your faces still on the screen, makes watching it on youtube so much better. Looking forward to The completionists secret project 😁
The answer is absolutely yes. The ninth generation has been full of mostly remakes and games that are cross generation. I barely feel like this is a new generation because of how common remakes and cross generation games are lol.
You're wrong though. There's like 4 remakes a year. How is that stopping ALL the games from coming out. No, the real issue is the 'live service' model. That's what's truly stopping creativity.
@@SonofStormblessed Ehh idk if I agree. We just got the Dead Space remake and one of the first games they advertised for Ps5 was a remake of Demon's Souls.
Yeees! Ōkami is just pure bliss. Just running around and letting flowers bloom in your footsteps. 😍 Ishin is a remaster I can get behind because I don't speak Japanese. I am so happy I can experience it now.
I would argue that a Remake are games like FF7 & RE 2 for example. Dead Space, Last of us, Shadow of the colossus, demon souls are Remasters with a high budget.
@@yomamasohot6411 It's always a case of "if the shoe was on the other foot and we swapped out Christianity for Islam; would it still be okay" if your answer is "no" then you're part of the problem. Christianity has been beat on for fucking decades, time to pick a new punching bag and honestly if the gloves are off, the lgbt is yet to suffer a single millisecond of commercial media attack. It's either all okay, or none of it is. The reason that Greek mythos was acceptable is because you'd need to travel pretty far to find an adult who honestly believed in Greek gods wholeheartedly.
@@yomamasohot6411 Nah, it's a popular choice hahaha "name 3 religious beliefs, go!" Tell me you're not saying "Buddhist", "Christian/Catholic", "Islamic".
Definitely been feeling like there are only remakes, remasters, ports and copies of existing games for past couple years and not many successful actually new games.
I dunno, the enhanced edition is pretty good. Maybe if they go harder and do a full remake of it, either in the visual style of Disco Elysium or Baldur's Gate 3.
Ralph mentioning Legacy of Kain always puts a smile on my face! Such an underrated game series... the story / writing is already there and imo doesn't need touching. The graphics and gameplay would definitely benefit from some upgrades and tweaking.
So an interesting thing about the discovery mechanic they speak of. I grew up with games like Myst, which were, vague af. The game literally shipped with a notebook so you'd write shit down. Today I simply don't have the patience for that. So if i don't remember the off-hand conversation/hint, i'll not investigate. I feel they should give us a middle ground. I would love it if the game gave you a way to write down "I need to remember this" without just spewing a million icons like a Ubisoft game. Maybe it's unlimited map pins where I can annotate why I put the pin there.
The industry is a bit too reliant on nostalgia, but I _don’t_ necessarily think it’s TOO reliant on remakes. For someone like me, I stopped gaming during the PS2 generation and didn’t start back up until 2019. I never got to play Dead Space, RE4, Demon’s Souls, etc. I’m not a graphics _snob,_ but I’d ABSOLUTELY love to play Bloodborne again with a Bluepoint coat of paint; even though I played it just a couple years ago. I know many people who have recently come back to gaming after years away. When people complain about remakes, they don’t realize that TONS N TONS of consumers haven’t played the originals. Of course the: people with gaming UA-cam channels, or those who work at gaming publications, or even people who follow gaming news and talk about it on Twitter, have played all these original classics. But the majority of the market are casual gamers who haven’t played all the classics.
Yeah the active gaming community forgets that normal people who haven’t been playing for 20 years exist too. I’m not old enough to have played og ff7 or RE2 so the remakes are great to have even though ff7 is a very different story.
I genuinely feel like Jirard would enjoy the VR title, Blade and Sorcery, if he got his hands on it. Big weapons, small weapons, shields, bows... lot to love.
As someone who never got to play the originals (did not afford good consoles/rigs) back then, I welcome some of these remakes. But I rely on the lovely people on this panel to make an informed decision before I purchase the titles I’m keen on
Jirard: I wont play HL because I have school PTSD Also Jirard: I played Bully about a game of going to school and I had fun playing it and I say "Complete it"
Not sure where you heard "PTSD?" Anyway, I mean-Bully is an extremely silly game where you get to go back into a school environment and do ridiculous, cathartic, and... well, mean stuff. It has a totally different hook. School is the adversary, you sort of get in there and fight it at every turn, trying your best to break the rules, from what I know of the game anyway. For Harry Potter it's... be a wizard. Don't like wizards? Well, hold on now, because to become a wizard you have to go to school and be a good student! It's a bit weird to draw some sort of equivalence between them when the only connective tissue is... school, and the reason for having it in both is vastly different.
@@ZedAmadeus Everything you said is exactly the point. Both are about going to school but HL is mostly about becoming a Wizard. Yes both have vast differences and premise but the initial premise is to go to school is what drives it. Of which Jirard is making an excuse for one but not the other. Double Standards.
@@Konigstiger666 yeah but, what I meant was... "school" isn't what hooks people into either. Devil's in the details. If you don't like wizards, there won't be anything left for you in Harry Potter, because there are just PAGES and PAGES of classroom scenes and children bickering, "football" in the form of Quidditch... Like, if the fantasy setting doesn't appeal... there is no appeal. Bully is a lot less concerned with the minutiae of being a student, it's much more about... creating chaos and disrupting that school environment. Doing shenanigans. Like, if you HATE school, you would probably want to play the one where you actively run amok inside of school in a way you never could've, without all the consequences, generally being a ridiculous asshole to other students, instead of going to school to... do school. Anyway, have a good day, internet stranger. :)
I am in favor of more remasters/remakes of great games because big publishers need to learn how to produce good games again and the younger audience need to know video games are more than mirco-transaction messes. And hopefully theres more of a market shift towards companies producing just good games remakes or new titles
Interesting discussion on remake, remasters etc. I think most of the times it's pretty clear but there are blurred lines and it's complicated because publishers/studios name them incorrectly. I split it into 4 segments PORT, REMASTER, REMAKE, REIMAGNING. PORT is obvious, it's just brining it to a new platform and usually very little is changed. REMASTER is taking the original game engine and attempting to make improvements to it, these can be big or small, but fundamentally it is the original game underneath with new elements e.g. textures, tweaked code and QoL improvements. REMAKE is literally when they remake a game from the ground up. (i.e. it is fundamentally new code running the core underneath it.) It may look very similar, or it may not, and they might add or update some mechanics, make some QoL changes but it is MOSTLY following the original game we remember very closely, with little redesign. REIMAGINING is taking an original game and completely remaking it, like a remake, but to such a degree, changing story, game mechanics etc it is fundamentally an entirely new game likely just heavily based off elements of the original game. These last two are a bit more blurred and subjective. Sometimes this could just be seen as a REBOOT. I think the trouble is a lot of studios/publishers use the titles haphazardly. E.g. Under those guidelines FF 7 Remake is a misnomer, it isn't a remake it's a reimagining. As I understand it Metroid Prime remastered, was actually rebuilt from the ground up, making it a remake not a remaster, another misnomer. Other recent examples Dead Space is a remake (it's a brand new engine built from scratch, but closely following the original design document.), TLOU Pt1 is a remake, Mass Effect is a remaster, etc. and GTA Definitive edition is just bad. The real grey area is something like Bluepoint's Shadow of the Colossus or Demon's Souls games, they are more of a remaster/remake hybrid and the gold standard imho. What sets them apart is they fundamentally run TWO engines side by side. The game you are playing IS the original game code, they still run the original engine like a remaster. But they ALSO run their own 'Bluepoint' engine side by side and replace basically EVERYTHING from models, graphics, sound, lighting which they rebuild from the ground up along with some QoL improvements too. Fundamentally the difference between a remaster and a remake is whether you are using the original games as a base and building on it, or rebuilding the game again. But even within each of those segments there is a wide scale of quality. Hence it's important to remember that one doesn't have to be inherently better or worse than the others.
Nah, I wouldn't think so. Some games are deserving of remakes and it makes them easily available to new audiences. I never got around to playing Metroid Prime back on Gamecube, but I'll be able to play it easily now, and in its best form. As for games like Ishin, that never even got localized so I don't think we can consider it as a "remake" for the west but rather it *finally* coming out here. And instead of just localizing a 9 year old game they decided to remake it. Which I hope they do for Kenzan too, the other samurai game they made all the way back in 2008.
@@Kaimax61 Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't do Kiwami 3, that game could really benefit from a remake. But I guess it was just quicker to remaster it with 4 and 5.
Dead Space is a remake. The story's been changed, the ship layout has been changed, the gameplay's been changed, the engine's new. It's 100% a remake that's just very faithful. I don't know why this is contested. Dead Space's remake seems like it's near-identical, but it's more accurate to say it's how you REMEMBER the original game, not how it really is. There's a significant number of changes and it's bizarre to hear any arguments that it's a remaster when it's so far into the remake category just because it didn't butcher the original's intent.
Fully agree with remake/remaster. For me I think a good line is “could this game replace the old one?”. For a deadspace/demon souls it definitely could, for a FF7 they’re very different. Also I think people who are more experienced underestimate how valuable a newer player getting to experience a Mass Effect for example is. They’re also a really good way for studios to gauge interest in reviving a franchise. If a remake does well then it’s safer to make a new game in that series because you can see the interest is there in a more risk free way. It’s a great element of the industry and the problem isn’t that there are a lot of great remakes but a lack of original IP and I don’t think it’s correct to blame one for the other
Sometimes it feels like we already tried everything, what’s left it’s refining what’s already established or plain old rehashes branded like their new.
@@stevenewsom3269 Its not up to us to have an imagination for gam devs and publishers. The industry is not breaking new ground anymore. Plus new doesn't turn a profit, tested game design does. Games can be rehashes so long as new gamers are playing, its new to them.
I think another interesting aspect about remakes that people often overlook is how the new version is supposed to be a celebration of the original, by giving it new coat of point and new features, while also making it available to those who weren't lucky enough to play it the first time around. My speculation on the Last of Us remake, was not only to put it on ps5 next gen, but also maybe a PC port. (Just my theory anyway) My best example of a remake is probably RE2 remake, after playing that game I finally understand why people love that franchise so much. I never was a fan before that game but now I am. (I got it on a sale too for $20) AND I think we can all agree that Read Dead Redemption would be an amazing remake as you can't even really play that anywhere anymore except on the Xbox 360. It really comes to price, which is where I think Ralph's idea fits into it. I'm not a big enough fan to drop $70 on Deadspace or LoU on day 1, but once they go on a good sale I'll 100% try them so I can enjoy what they are.
A couple weeks ago, I had a 2+ hour drive and was delighted when I left the house and immediately got notified of a new FPS episode. Guess what just happened again? 😄
No, remakes are great! Never played dead space or RE4, got both for ps5 and they are phenomenal! I still remember the first time I played resident evil on the ps1, instantly hooked, in awe in what games were capable of. How far we have come. These remakes give me a chance to experience some of the classics I missed out on growing up.
It's the same as with the movie industry. Everything has been done already, and until we experience a proper revolution in audiovisual entertainment, remakes of old ideas are going to remain the standard.
I am not a Harry Potter fan and I love the game, it is a fantastic and magical open-world game with engaging content, fun combat, and rewarding exploration.
to push back a little against those who are against remakes and remasters, there’s two gaming experiences i had recently that redefined my love of gaming after getting to experience a game for the first time after it was remade. RE 2 Remake and Dead Space Remake were my first experiences with those games and they were truly amazing. I’m not sure if would have felt the same way had I just picked up the og versions in 2023. nor am i sure i would have even given them a chance in the first place. but i’m glad for those remakes because it gives me a chance to experience amazing games but without many of the limitations old releases have.
Personally I want more of these remakes and remasters because although I’m not a Gen Z kid, I missed out on a lot of games. I was stuck up and only played FPS games or GTA & now I regret all of the good games I missed out on.
On Lucy's question of if one game could get remade or remastered, what would you want: I'd say Metroid Prime 2 or 3, but I think those are all but a given at this point. I'd go out there and say the one thing I've been begging for -- I want BluePoint to remake Ico just like they did with Shadow of the Colossus. I feel like most people today don't even know what it is, but it is a very important game in the history of gaming, arguably as influential to developers as Resident Evil 4. There's a shocking number of devs, both eastern and western, who will say "Yeah, I remember playing Ico and just the idea of taking Yorda's hand and guiding her around opened my eyes to how storytelling could be possible through mechanical interactions, and that influenced this game I worked on."
The harm that JK Rowling caused?….I do not get the second hand hate of the Harry Potter game bc you all dislike JK Rowling. You all have no problem reviewing and discussing games from companies that abuse their employees through harassment and crunch etc. and will talk about the game and love it but JK Rowling says something on the internet and the game that she prolly has nothing to do with gets black balled by the industry? You all know there were transgender and gay characters in the game right? Anyway you all are entitled to take whatever fake stance you please. It’s your podcast so you all do you. Just my two cents
About The Last of Us, I think most of the people are missing the part where they remade the game to launch on PC where the development process for a remaster of a PS3 game wouldn't cut it and would be just another bad port for PC. The Last of Us part 1 remademaster was a great move from sony to relaunch in a diferent platform. I don't own a PS and find this very satisfying that I will be able to play a really good touched up old game. Maybe what sony should have done is to charge less of anyone who already has the other versions, like the Dark Souls 1 remaster, where anyone who own the Prepare to Die edition got for half price.
To anyone who doesn't want to watch the full thing, the tl;dr is: (1) Jirard wants more multi-brand beat-em-ups (okay?), and (2) Jake (as usual) doesn't have an opinion and just wants to play "video-ass video games".
I am not a HP fan, never read the books, saw each movie once when they came out didn't think much of them, but I adore the game. Anyone that likes open world rpgs will enjoy it, especially when you unlock flying. Ralph - give it a go, don't think of the controversies, don't think of HP, just create yourself as a 5th year and enjoy it.
To me the definitions of releases for old games basically falls as so: Re-release/Port: Basically just getting the old games working on newer systems. Remaster: Taking the old game as-is, possibly in the original engine and improving the visuals, the audio mixing, maybe animations or control issues. Perhaps some tweaks to gameplay to improve user experience or better tie in with sequels. Remake: Ground up development. Essentially making a new game from scratch with new models, animations, voice acting and sound, but with level layouts, artwork and story all based on the original game. So an example of a Re-release would be GoG getting an old PC game working on Windows 10 or Donkey Kong Country on the Switch, Remaster would be Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition or Mass Effect Legendary Edition and Remake would be Dead Space or System Shock Remakes.
Does Jirard actually thinks Hogwarts Legacy is a school sim, where you go to each class, do homework and have to abide by the rules? I just don't get the random hate
No he doesn’t. That’s just the type of weird stuff you get when people go to extreme lengths to try and come up with an excuse to dislike a game bc everyone is “supposed” to hate it bc of JK Rowling or something. The “I’ve outgrown Harry Potter” was another weird take I thought especially when we are talking about video games and 5 seconds earlier Lucy talked about buying a $500 lord of the rings Lego toy and Jake held up action figures. Like, if Harry Potter is not your thing ok but it’s weird to be like, yea I’m too mature for that now while you’re holding up your legos and action figures while talking about video games haha
@@Mack3827 very spot on. They're takes just boiled down to" I just don't care for it ' which is fine but I don't know what they have to disguise it I have totally outgrown Harry Potter and I'm not that into the universe but I love video games so as a gamer looking at Hogwarts legacy it's still just interested me because it seems like a game worth checking out
@@Mack3827 they're trying to cater to people who don't agree with them. for example Jerard has gotten some pretty bad harassment since his employment with G4. So I get why they're beating around the bush. Just like the crazy people who create a search engine which its sole purpose was for you to see which streamer streamed Hogwarts or not, there are people on the other side of the spectrum just as nuts and they don't really want to deal with it. as for my individual opinion its insane such a large number of people think JK Rowling is despicable simply for believing biological woman and trans woman are different. we're at a point and time where simply believing things different from the online status quo can lead to massive backlash.
I feel like we all need to go back (to school, sorry Jirad) and re-learn what the word "H A T R E D" actually means. I understand his dislike of "school" based stories because I'm the same, I have the same issue with Anime and movies. I'm 28, I'm done with school outside of my kids' attendance, it's such an uninteresting thematic decision or story-setting. I don't "HATE" it though, just don't care for it.
I want to address the morons who think it's okay to lash out at those who buy Hogwarts Legacy. What makes it right to do that? What did the person do to deserve that treatment? Yes, JK has said some stupid stuff, but does that mean I agree with her because I buy the game? No, and you're an idiot if you think I do. I can separate the product from the source and enjoy it separately. I say this because recently a streamer named Silvervale was harassed on her own stream while she was trying to have fun with the game. This ended with her crying in front of her audience. Is that right? Did she deserve that hate just because she was playing the game? This situation infuriates me, because it's starting to affect others on an emotional level now. I can tell you one thing: as someone who saw every movie in theaters and read all the books, I love this game. And no amount of someone spitting in my face or telling me I'm "transphobic" will stop that enjoyment. And you're someone who believes this harassment others are facing is right, rethink your life. Sorry for this rant, but I've really needed to get this off my chest. And since it was being discussed here, I decided to do it now.
It is crazy. It makes no sense to me. I did not read the books or watch the movies and I love this game. What does JK Rowling have to do with the game besides owning the rights to Harry Potter? It’s not like she was in there telling them not to put transgender characters in there. In fact, there is a transgender character in the game so what’s the deal haha damned if you do, damned if you don’t
I agree, the most enjoyable episode so far. I only skipped the off topic stuff about fast food and the Pedro Pascal intro. It makes sense that they evolve as a group and as a podcast. The future of this podcast looks bright!
Just off title alone, yes, probably. But do I care? Not really if they're done really well. There's a ton of really old game universes I'd love to see a return from. Legacy of Kain being my biggest hope.
Remaster is when you upgrade the existing game with upgraded textures and upgraded controls and QOL improvements. A Remake is rebuilding of a game from the ground up typically in a different engine, it can be as faithful to the original or divert but its still a remake.
@The Rotten💯 that's also how it always been named. I have no idea why so much fuss and confusion about these two when is black and white simple what's what.
And a port is not "in between the two", it's just making the game run on a different platform.
It doesn't have to be on a different engine it just has to be built from the ground up not using the same code from the older game because what if the company that made the previous game is doing the remake? They specialize in one engine and it's the same engine that was used on the previous game? They don't have to pick another engine to make the remake they just have to build from the ground up
@therotten6152 where does the re2 remake fall? It’s almost a reimagining
I like to use this metaphor:
Remaster: Rennovate an old house
Remake: Destroy the old house and completely rebuild it with new materials
Demons Souls and Dead Space are proof to me that a remake done right is among the best experiences you can have in gaming.
FF7 Remake is a good example of how you can actually "Remake" the game... It's the same but different... Which makes it exciting imo
Amen
@@SPACECOWBOY705 yes, reimaginations are the best remakes, they dont feel like you're playing the same game, but a brand new version of the game, and it requires a lot more talent and new ideas from the devs and not just copy shit made by better devs than them
Yeah, it's not a Yes or No answer, though I'd say the Yes is closer. For every Dead Space there's like a dozen GTA Definitives.
Demon’s Souls is such an interesting case, because it’s the original code underneath! The way Bluepoint does remasters is, arguably, the worst way to do it from a gamer’s point of view … literally just a new coat of paint. But they do that so freaking well it’s impossible to argue with the results. Diablo II Resurrected is also the same core code. So I think these are technically closer to … I don’t know, port-makes?
I know NOTHING of the Harry Potter franchise, never saw the films, never read the books, and have no attachment to the property. Hogwarts Legacy has completely bewildered me. I have been lost in that game, enjoying the magical nature of it all. I would recommend it to almost anyone that enjoys open world games. Loving my time with it, and honestly makes me want to get in to the property more.
What game would you compare it to? Not sure Wether to pull the trigger
@@lordsysop mmm, it has elements very similar to BOTW. So if you liked BOTW, give it a shot. Combat's really fun, I'd compare the spell-casting to Witcher 3 signs.
@@lordsysopI’d say it reminded me of Assassins Creed Odyssey.
@@lordsysop pick it up...if you want an open world game that feels like there's actually lore and wor;d building behind it get it..akin to witcher 3 id say..
@@lordsysopA bit of breath of the wild, a bit of assassins creed, a bit of the witcher 3. It’s not a masterpiece buts it’s just really fun to play
Saw Isshin on the thumbnail and while it's obvioulsy a remake, it's also a remake that allows most of us who wanted to play it, but couldn't, to do so and that makes it totally valid as a concept.
True
It's worth pointing out that some of these remakes/remasters/ports (love them or hate them) also bring in a PC release (TLOU, Spiderman, GoW, Horizon, FF7R, etc.) which allow a new audience that never owned a PlayStation experience them for the first time--so many will gladly buy them, especially since they're usually bundled with all the DLC.
Those are merely ports for different system, 'complete editions' if they include all extra content, not remasters or remakes.
@@ZephyrK_ Fair point; though I'm not arguing the definition of a port and a remaster/remake. My point is that companies will use a remaster/remake as an opportunity to also include a PC port (often as a 'complete edition' as you pointed out) and even though it may seem redundant for console players to pay for a new edition, PC exclusive players are getting a chance for the first time to own it.
True for most of them, but the original FF7 got a rerelease on PC, PS4, Xbox, and Switch before the remake hit PC. I could be wrong, but I think the original FF7 was rereleased on all platforms before the remake even came out in 2020.
Plus, obviously anyone, even with a potato PC could emulate FF7 way before that rerelease happened anyways. Sorry for the slight nitpick lol.
Also those games are useless if you cant play the previous ones duh.
@@xhibitorAgree!
It’s a surreal experience to see creators you admire try to say your name without laughing😂. Thanks for answering the question, it's really really cool! Keep on keeping on!
Congrats and good question
Funny name & Good Question. Thanks! 😂👍
Every time i come across a remaster/remake debate i just have to say this:
We NEED a Jak and Daxter Trilogie Remake like Spyro and Crash got!
Jak 2 and 3 floored me back in the day
They have a ps4 remake or not? Why cant they just put them on steam? Of all the possible remaster they push out the most mainstream ones and leave those gems just behind.
@@_synt3rax_437 They were rereleased on PS3, not PS4. Porting it to PC/PS5 would require some work, though I'd kill for a remake that really upped the presentation and fixed a few things.
@@_synt3rax_437 these arent remakes, just remasters/ports and pretty bad ones at that IIRC, played them a while ago and dont think they even maintained 30fps on ps4. ps3 version actually seems to run better lmao
Dude yess Ive been saying this for so long. Id kill for a J&D1 remake
I love that the gameplay is played next to your faces, and not completely cutting away from you.
"If one game could get remastered/remade/ported from your personal catalog what would it be?" Instant reply, like 0.01 seconds. Skillup - "Legacy of Kain". You and me both buddy.
He didn't even need to think about it too. His response was automatic lol.
Yeah, he is trying to make it happen for quite a long time now. He mentioned it many times in "This Week in Video Games" videos since last year. So I knew that he was going to say that. 😂
*Yells VAE VICTUS in completely incorrect Latin*
Want to let jirard know that even if he doesn't get to play new games early, appreciate his presence in this podcast and the completionist channel will always be a go to for reviews!
Hey thank you David! ❤
Yeah, I also love listening to his takes and of course, there is the Legendary "JIRAD LORE", that I always love hearing about. 😄
The most bizarre thing is the duality of banking on nostalgia to get you to buy a game and then "subverting your expectations" by changing it so much that it's almost unrecognizable
this also applies to movies and TV show adaptations from games or books. it's as if they fail to realize why the original was so good
Wow. That's so true.
Man, I wish I had some friends that liked similar things to laugh with and hang out like these guys. Seems so fun.
It's your own fault...go out and find them
They're out there
Stfu dr loomis and leave Bono alone - it's really hard to find people as into your hobbies that you are - esp if you live rurally
@@dr.loomis4221 depends on where you live, really.
@@agent_of_cthulhu None of the people in the video are in the same room. Where you live doesn't matter for a context like this, just do you have an internet connection.
Though it is definitely harder to find in-person friends that have hobbies that line up. But just having in-person friends is nice.
@@haruhirogrimgar6047 very true. In-person friends are the best but thanks to the internet it's hard to be truly lonely because you can always find someone to have a chat with.
I’m on the fence. Some of the recent remakes like RE2, FF7 Remake, Demon Souls, & Dead Space are among the best games I’ve played. I enjoy a good remake, but I don’t want the industry to get to a point where they’re remaking games that don’t deserve it or need it. But I don’t want to live in a world where we never got FF7 Remake. As long as new games are still coming out, and the remakes are doing something fresh and new while being faithful adaptations, I’m ok with them.
I'd prefer more remakes then remasters tbh at least
@@bevanmcnicholl2525 Yea it feels like a lot of remasters are hit or miss. There's very few Metroid Primes that go above and beyond in the effort put in
@@bevanmcnicholl2525 Their definition of remake and remaster is wonky to me. They’re debating if Dead Space is a remake or remaster - it’s clearly a remake. To me, if it’s made from new assets, from the ground up, new voice acting, in a new engine - it’s a remake regardless of how similar it is to the original. A remaster is using the same assets, up-res graphics, making a few changes to fps, and menu systems etc. But the structure is the same. It’s the difference between remodeling your house on a budget (Remaster) and rebuilding a new house that looks similar to your’s but bigger, better, with all the new bells & whistles of modern technology (Remake).
@@DFTNSHEXGRM exactly!
@@DFTNSHEXGRM Seriously, people are making it way more complicated than it needs to be. The house analogy is perfect for explaining the difference between remasters and remakes.
Im happy that Gerard always brings back brave fencer Musashi
I'm replaying it right now
Was just muttering it to myself when the question was asked and was pleasantly surprised
The PS1/PS2 era for Square was wiiiiiiild
Yeah the original and the PS2 sequel desperately needs a remaster rework.
As a total HP casual I've gotta say I'm totally lost in Hogwarts Legacy. If it's only for the size/detail/quality of the environments I'd say its worth exploring.
Yeah, I know several people who are in the same boat, not really into HP but really like the game.
It's well-made, and you can tell the devs were both passionate about the game and fans of the subject matter.
Then why would you support skill up he’s a fake hypeman who is scared to have his own opinion
Best gaming podcast, i love jake baldino... Well done all of you 💙
On the remake vs remaster topic, I think it would be great if you guys had a senior developer from a studio that has done one or multiple remakes/remasters on the show. It would be really cool to hear from an insider on the unique challenges that come into the different aspects, and how that plays into the business decisions that get made!
I know Naughty Dog is cagey with interviews, but they come to mind since they've done the original game, a remaster and a remake of the same game all in 10 years
I don't actually think so. We're halfway through February and while we've gotten Metroid, Dead Space and like a dragon, we've also gotten Hi-Fi Rush, Wanted: Dead(for better or worse), Wild Hearts, Octopath Traveler 2 and Hogwarts Legacy.
We have seen a rise in remakes of late, I won't deny that. And there's certainly an argument to be made for the opportunity cost of these remakes, but I don't think it's a problem just yet. Knowing the industry like I do though, I'm sure it'll become a problem at some point.
I just hope I can get a Ninja Gaiden Black remake before the wheels come off this gravy train.
shut up.
Should Isshin really count? It was never released internationally so it might as well be a brand new title for everyone outside JP.
NG Black hasn't aged a day, it doesn't need any remake. Besides, a remake already exists in the form of NG Sigma and while it is not bad, most gamers (including me) prefer Black by far (the Rachel chapters are a slog).
You can just remaster Black, add a crosshair to the bow and be done with it.
So cool Jirard is running Shovel Knight for GDQ. Best of luck for your runs!
This friendship seems so healthy and uplifting! I love it!
Excited for 10 months time when Ralph finally gets to playing Hogwarts Legacy with middling expectations and enjoys the shit out of it
Nah instead they’ll pretend it didn’t exist or take over the first quarter of the year
Italian fella here, that bread is called "frise" which is plural and it's typical from south of Italy (Puglia region)
A remake of Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2008) might be cool
Ha, I wish! That game was a banger on the GameCube!
Underground would be better.
2005*
It didn't really age that bad to need remake.
@@mmorkinism when was the last time you played? I tried it again last year, and it's not easy on the eyes.
Man I love this podcast. I usually listen to it in chunks over several days . Thank guys 👍
Yeah, it's good background noise for while I'm doing chores!
Commenting to feed the algorithm: I've been playing Nobody Saves the World and I can't put it down. What a fun game. I only bought it because of SkillUp + Jirard's reviews and they were right, it's such a delight. The humor is perfect, the gameplay is addictive as FUUUUU-, I love the variety that you get from the different forms and I'm about 30 hours in and still needing to complete like 8 dungeons and the DLC still. What a great game. WOW!
There's a hard, well-defined line between remaster and remake.
The term "mastering" comes from the music industry. It's the final step in producing music where you take all of the finished parts and do the final post processing. The mastering stage is where you finalize the audio mix, set the absolute volume level and dynamic range (this is where compression and normalization tends to happen), etc.
A re-master is when you take those original recordings and re-do the mastering step. Nothing about the original recordings changed, but the final mix is different. Sometimes the audio is re-balanced, or the analog tape was resampled at a higher bitrate, or it was put through a noise filter, etc. etc., but the source audio itself is not re-recorded.
With games, a remaster is when you take the base game and re-do the final touches. The game might be upgraded from 32 bit to 64 bit, textures and audio might be resampled at a higher resolution, it might be recompiled with better optimization options or to a new console architecture, but the source code and assets are the same.
A remake, on the other hand, is when that source code is rewritten. Assets might be re-made from scratch, the engine might be different, the game could be more optimized (or more buggy), etc. There might be new menus or content or mechanics, but sometimes a remake is very faithful to the original and barely has any "new" stuff. A game with an engine and asset overhaul that plays identically to the original is still a remake.
Dead Space is a remake. There's no question about it.
The line between a remaster and a port is much blurrier. A port often entails some level of change to the codebase (since it is rarely as simple as recompiling for a new system). Is Super Mario All Stars a port or a remaster? SM64 is emulated in that collection, but does emulation even count as a port? Sunshine seems like it was just recompiled for the switch, but it got updated to fix some system-specific bugs that weren't in the original. Are those updates part of the port, or is it now a minimal remaster?
I love this podcast ass podcast. Always happy listening to each episode.
I love hearing people mentioned Dark Cloud, one of the most underrated series and I wish somehow we would get another game
You don't need to be a Harry Potter fan to enjoy Hogwarts Legacy.
It has a lot of the open world tropes. However, it is still a good game. Well-made.
And it has one of the best designed open worlds (from an artistic standpoint) ever made. The level of detail is astonishing. Hogwarts and the surrounding towns and hamlets are all hand-crafted.
Also the OLED screen on the PSVR, people be skimping on OLED but once you see it you can't go back anymore it is that good.
Jake thanks for mentioning Freedom Fighters. What a killer game.
Dark Cloud being mentioned is such a nostalgia trip. Two of my favorite games of all time and I so so wish Lv5 went back to those games for a bit.
Remasters are pretty much just upgrading the existing game to run on modern computers but not really changing things all that much other than streamlining the graphics a bit and maybe doing a few minor changes to gameplay.
For Deadspace, it is on the line of being between being a Remaster or a Remake, but I think of it as leaning more in the territory of being a Remake. They did change quite a few things in the game, including the story a bit. Sure, the overall story is the same, but with the main character actually talking and the dialogue changed, it did change the tone of things a bit, and there was the addition of a secret ending (I hesitate to call it an alternate ending because it could've easily happened after the original ending). Gameplay also had some big changes and balance adjustments as well to make things feel a bit different as well (some weapons that were crap in the original are better now). It does feel different enough from the original game, in a good way, to warrant being a Remake in my opinion and thus be available to be Game of the Year.
FF7 Remake is another one of those hard to classify games though, is definitely a Remake for sure, but I'm also leaning towards it also being a bit of a sequel as well. It really depends on how the next games turn out really.
One thing I can say though is that I can see why game publishers/studios are doing Remakes/Remasters, they are usually a good way to have a surefire hit and to get a bunch of copies of the game sold. Though there are some companies that took that for granted by being lazy in their Remasters. Warcraft 3 Reforged and the Grand Theft Auto 3 trilogy remasters are prime examples of the Studios being lazy in ensuring the games are good enough to warrant being rereleased.
YES to Jirard on companies collaborating. More 2nd party development! Cadence of Hyrule, Dead Cells, SUper Mario Rpg!
A couple things about potter: 1. It's a pretty good game, and 2. I hate people telling me what to do, and I despise bullies. Easy purchase.
Also, I'm not really into the potterverse either but the game itself is good.
"What mechanic would you bring back?" Love all your answers, agree with them all. Another I felt recently was emulating what I will call "the Goldeneye campaign template". i.e. SHORT replayable levels, that have different missions based on the difficulty (obvs. there needs to be good accessibility options) rather than just making enemies more bullet spongy and you more a china doll. Moreover they rewarded you for mastery of those levels with unlocks, cheat codes etc. Stop making games longer and make them more replayable.
Love the new layout!! I think it's best if we move the gameplay to the bottom right corner so that the logo doesn't cover any of the guest/host.
Yes
Oh man, I love Jake. 😂 he’s so cute. His talking about being easily swayed about games, I totally understood that. I’m the same.
And Lucy at the end there cuddling with her cat, may I request that become a thing? Both Lucy and the cat looked so happy. ❤
Yes! Also Jake’s smile when the cat meows is great
100%, the reason is it's more appealing to shareholders when you pitch a game that has an established fan base than it is to pitch funding something creative and new.
When Lucy says Rowling is "doing harm," I would love to see a tweet, quote or piece of evidence of that, rather than people just repeating baseless claims.
In 2023 "doing harm" means saying "I don't think male rapists should be put in female prisons."
I couldn’t hold back a fist bump when Jake mentioned Dark Cloud’s progression. The only game I was thinking about during the whole remake conversation.
i never read a single harry potter book or watched a single movie, I LOVED the Hogwarts game. Its pure western fantasy. Solid 8/10.
Love the new format! Man I love this podcast, you guys are amazing.
I personally have no issues with remakes or remasters as often when I go back to play an older game I realize even though the game looked awesome back then it's tough to play now. Plus modern features like auto-resume on consoles is a must for me 😌
For someone who never played the last of us part 1 or part 2 until this year, the remake was 100% worth it to me to experience it in that way for the first time. It was visually stunning, immersive and flowed into part 2 nicely since they both look graphically about the same now.
Talking to non-gamers about our hobby can be unintentionally hilarious. Jake really got me tickled with that "oh... honey..." response to the first person button.
this podcast could be 12 hours & I would watch every minute of it
So only 1 person from this podcast played Hogwarts Legacy, the best selling single player game since Red Dead 2? Like how?
Because they're hypocrites, and they love virtue signaling. I recommend not wasting your time on a podcast with hosts whose behaviors are the same as every shitty mainstream gaming journalist, (except for Jake, of course). There are better gaming podcasts with hosts who are not afraid of getting canceled for calling out bullshit.
I got the impression the expectation to virtue signal a bit and be seen as those people took priority. I could tell Jake really enjoyed it but completely suppressed his take on it.
I absolutely love listening to you folks. Informative, insightful and fun.
Demon soul's really missed the ball by not rehauling there boss battles (which arguably is one of the "souls" series strength) you can give the game a brand new shiny coat of paint but at the end of the day if im fighting against easily exploitable 2008 boss AI, then you start to really see the underlying age of the game.
Being able to play via streaming by keyboard, mouse, gamepad, joystick, controller and so on. Being able to put and use savegame, cheats, tricks, code, cheats text change by notepad, trainer, trainer mod menu, DLC, expansions, mods and so on. Games in general. Being able to play via streaming in story mode, campaign, campaign mode, single player, offline, online and any types of modes, types of games, you can also choose the difficulty, easy, hard, hard core and any type of difficulty in any type of device.
With Hogwarts Legacy, I'm as far from a Harry Potter fan as you can get, yet I thoroughly enjoyed the game. Ive only seen the 1st 3 movies and even then I barely paid attention. In terms of an open world exploration game its fantastic and doesn't hold your hand. It forces you to explore with out being tedious or frustrating. The secrets and puzzles are not over the top and need a degree in something to solve. Yes a lot of the puzzles can be very simple but I'd rather that than the alternative and just getting frustrated at the game. The questing is great, even the side quests are well done.
The crafting systems are also great and not over the top and to complex. The room of requirement is just an amazing feature not only for being able to customize your personal space but the the simplicity involved with it. The combat is amazing and fun, I do have one gripe. This is more to do with trolls and their combo attack. You dodge the 1st attack (using the warp upgrade thing for the dodge) and get some distance from the troll only to have to teleport on top of you for its 2nd attack and you don't have enough time to dodge again due to being stuck in the previous dodge animation. Every thing else about the game is just good. I feel sorry for those that choose to boycott the game because of that idiot J.K as those people are missing out on a genuinely great game.
The game is extremely hand holdy
@@PensFan35 eh who gives a shit, all triple A games in the past decade have been hand holdy. Now that ER came out people like to bitch it. News flash, neither is better than the other because they both have their uses in game design.
@@PensFan35 I mean, so is God of War and Horizon, yet people gush over that shit haha
Loving that you guys are back now! Love this podcast! and I really like the new view of gamplay with all of your faces still on the screen, makes watching it on youtube so much better. Looking forward to The completionists secret project 😁
The answer is absolutely yes. The ninth generation has been full of mostly remakes and games that are cross generation. I barely feel like this is a new generation because of how common remakes and cross generation games are lol.
Not just remakes and remasters but too many sequels and not enough fresh universes and characters to explore.
you're just old man, accept it.
You're wrong though. There's like 4 remakes a year.
How is that stopping ALL the games from coming out. No, the real issue is the 'live service' model. That's what's truly stopping creativity.
@@SonofStormblessed Ehh idk if I agree. We just got the Dead Space remake and one of the first games they advertised for Ps5 was a remake of Demon's Souls.
@@Kaimax61 I'm 25, yes I am so close to my death and suppppper old lmao.
Yeees! Ōkami is just pure bliss. Just running around and letting flowers bloom in your footsteps. 😍 Ishin is a remaster I can get behind because I don't speak Japanese. I am so happy I can experience it now.
I will seek out drunks on the street and be like " You! Your getting shot!" -Jake Baldino 1:05:12
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I would argue that a Remake are games like FF7 & RE 2 for example. Dead Space, Last of us, Shadow of the colossus, demon souls are Remasters with a high budget.
God of War taking place in The Bible lore would be an instant $70 preorder for me 😂
The insane backlash the studio would face, and risk of sales wouldn't be worth it.
@Lin Dugger yeah the snowflakes would make it hard for it to be successful no matter how good it turns out to be.
@@yomamasohot6411 It's always a case of "if the shoe was on the other foot and we swapped out Christianity for Islam; would it still be okay" if your answer is "no" then you're part of the problem. Christianity has been beat on for fucking decades, time to pick a new punching bag and honestly if the gloves are off, the lgbt is yet to suffer a single millisecond of commercial media attack.
It's either all okay, or none of it is. The reason that Greek mythos was acceptable is because you'd need to travel pretty far to find an adult who honestly believed in Greek gods wholeheartedly.
@@takoshihitsamaru4675 I said that about all religions. The fact that you had to specifically talk about Islam says more about you.
@@yomamasohot6411 Nah, it's a popular choice hahaha "name 3 religious beliefs, go!" Tell me you're not saying "Buddhist", "Christian/Catholic", "Islamic".
Definitely been feeling like there are only remakes, remasters, ports and copies of existing games for past couple years and not many successful actually new games.
Harry potter fans are in short supply when it comes to youtubers.
Nobody wants to be cancelled by a powerful force that has society by the balls.
I love that Jake also read and enjoyed the rapture prequel book ❤
Planescape Torment with full voice acting remaster is the dream
I dunno, the enhanced edition is pretty good. Maybe if they go harder and do a full remake of it, either in the visual style of Disco Elysium or Baldur's Gate 3.
Ooooo look at that transition to the gameplay. That layout is CLEAN 👏 👏 👏
With Wild Hearts the ps5 version on performance mode has been running fine for me so far. So much fun.
Ralph mentioning Legacy of Kain always puts a smile on my face! Such an underrated game series... the story / writing is already there and imo doesn't need touching. The graphics and gameplay would definitely benefit from some upgrades and tweaking.
@Nicegram_me_at-officeskill get wrecked mate!
The remaster/remake I'd like to see would be Jade Empire. But I'm unsure if the "new" Bioware could pull it off. But that'd be my choice.
Jade empire was such a great game. A remake or sequel would be awesome
They probably can’t. Though that would be a game that certainly would deserve a remake.
I actually had an Xbox then. (Usually PS head). Loved Jade Empire. A martial art open world rpg? Built for me as a kid.
So an interesting thing about the discovery mechanic they speak of. I grew up with games like Myst, which were, vague af. The game literally shipped with a notebook so you'd write shit down. Today I simply don't have the patience for that. So if i don't remember the off-hand conversation/hint, i'll not investigate.
I feel they should give us a middle ground.
I would love it if the game gave you a way to write down "I need to remember this" without just spewing a million icons like a Ubisoft game. Maybe it's unlimited map pins where I can annotate why I put the pin there.
The industry is a bit too reliant on nostalgia, but I _don’t_ necessarily think it’s TOO reliant on remakes. For someone like me, I stopped gaming during the PS2 generation and didn’t start back up until 2019. I never got to play Dead Space, RE4, Demon’s Souls, etc. I’m not a graphics _snob,_ but I’d ABSOLUTELY love to play Bloodborne again with a Bluepoint coat of paint; even though I played it just a couple years ago.
I know many people who have recently come back to gaming after years away. When people complain about remakes, they don’t realize that TONS N TONS of consumers haven’t played the originals.
Of course the: people with gaming UA-cam channels, or those who work at gaming publications, or even people who follow gaming news and talk about it on Twitter, have played all these original classics. But the majority of the market are casual gamers who haven’t played all the classics.
Yeah the active gaming community forgets that normal people who haven’t been playing for 20 years exist too. I’m not old enough to have played og ff7 or RE2 so the remakes are great to have even though ff7 is a very different story.
I genuinely feel like Jirard would enjoy the VR title, Blade and Sorcery, if he got his hands on it. Big weapons, small weapons, shields, bows... lot to love.
As someone who never got to play the originals (did not afford good consoles/rigs) back then, I welcome some of these remakes. But I rely on the lovely people on this panel to make an informed decision before I purchase the titles I’m keen on
Completely agree. I never had a lot of the big consoles and remakes allow me to better experience the game outside of emulation
Hell no, keep em coming!
Jirard: I wont play HL because I have school PTSD
Also Jirard: I played Bully about a game of going to school and I had fun playing it and I say "Complete it"
they all dance around hogwarts legacy with pretty bad reasons. Except for Lucy, just saying I will not play it is fine.
If that's Jirard's excuse on not playing Hogwarts Legacy, I wonder what's his reason for why Batman should be cancelled to get that G4 job.
Not sure where you heard "PTSD?" Anyway, I mean-Bully is an extremely silly game where you get to go back into a school environment and do ridiculous, cathartic, and... well, mean stuff. It has a totally different hook. School is the adversary, you sort of get in there and fight it at every turn, trying your best to break the rules, from what I know of the game anyway.
For Harry Potter it's... be a wizard. Don't like wizards? Well, hold on now, because to become a wizard you have to go to school and be a good student!
It's a bit weird to draw some sort of equivalence between them when the only connective tissue is... school, and the reason for having it in both is vastly different.
@@ZedAmadeus Everything you said is exactly the point. Both are about going to school but HL is mostly about becoming a Wizard. Yes both have vast differences and premise but the initial premise is to go to school is what drives it. Of which Jirard is making an excuse for one but not the other. Double Standards.
@@Konigstiger666 yeah but, what I meant was... "school" isn't what hooks people into either. Devil's in the details. If you don't like wizards, there won't be anything left for you in Harry Potter, because there are just PAGES and PAGES of classroom scenes and children bickering, "football" in the form of Quidditch... Like, if the fantasy setting doesn't appeal... there is no appeal.
Bully is a lot less concerned with the minutiae of being a student, it's much more about... creating chaos and disrupting that school environment. Doing shenanigans. Like, if you HATE school, you would probably want to play the one where you actively run amok inside of school in a way you never could've, without all the consequences, generally being a ridiculous asshole to other students, instead of going to school to... do school. Anyway, have a good day, internet stranger. :)
amazing episode as always, love the formatting with the game play and everyones facecams
I am in favor of more remasters/remakes of great games because big publishers need to learn how to produce good games again and the younger audience need to know video games are more than mirco-transaction messes. And hopefully theres more of a market shift towards companies producing just good games remakes or new titles
Interesting discussion on remake, remasters etc. I think most of the times it's pretty clear but there are blurred lines and it's complicated because publishers/studios name them incorrectly. I split it into 4 segments PORT, REMASTER, REMAKE, REIMAGNING.
PORT is obvious, it's just brining it to a new platform and usually very little is changed.
REMASTER is taking the original game engine and attempting to make improvements to it, these can be big or small, but fundamentally it is the original game underneath with new elements e.g. textures, tweaked code and QoL improvements.
REMAKE is literally when they remake a game from the ground up. (i.e. it is fundamentally new code running the core underneath it.) It may look very similar, or it may not, and they might add or update some mechanics, make some QoL changes but it is MOSTLY following the original game we remember very closely, with little redesign.
REIMAGINING is taking an original game and completely remaking it, like a remake, but to such a degree, changing story, game mechanics etc it is fundamentally an entirely new game likely just heavily based off elements of the original game. These last two are a bit more blurred and subjective. Sometimes this could just be seen as a REBOOT.
I think the trouble is a lot of studios/publishers use the titles haphazardly. E.g. Under those guidelines FF 7 Remake is a misnomer, it isn't a remake it's a reimagining. As I understand it Metroid Prime remastered, was actually rebuilt from the ground up, making it a remake not a remaster, another misnomer. Other recent examples Dead Space is a remake (it's a brand new engine built from scratch, but closely following the original design document.), TLOU Pt1 is a remake, Mass Effect is a remaster, etc. and GTA Definitive edition is just bad.
The real grey area is something like Bluepoint's Shadow of the Colossus or Demon's Souls games, they are more of a remaster/remake hybrid and the gold standard imho. What sets them apart is they fundamentally run TWO engines side by side. The game you are playing IS the original game code, they still run the original engine like a remaster. But they ALSO run their own 'Bluepoint' engine side by side and replace basically EVERYTHING from models, graphics, sound, lighting which they rebuild from the ground up along with some QoL improvements too.
Fundamentally the difference between a remaster and a remake is whether you are using the original games as a base and building on it, or rebuilding the game again. But even within each of those segments there is a wide scale of quality. Hence it's important to remember that one doesn't have to be inherently better or worse than the others.
Nah, I wouldn't think so. Some games are deserving of remakes and it makes them easily available to new audiences. I never got around to playing Metroid Prime back on Gamecube, but I'll be able to play it easily now, and in its best form.
As for games like Ishin, that never even got localized so I don't think we can consider it as a "remake" for the west but rather it *finally* coming out here. And instead of just localizing a 9 year old game they decided to remake it. Which I hope they do for Kenzan too, the other samurai game they made all the way back in 2008.
Cries in Yakuza 3... atleast 3... pls Kiwami that shit. 4 and 5 is still fine.
@@Kaimax61 Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't do Kiwami 3, that game could really benefit from a remake. But I guess it was just quicker to remaster it with 4 and 5.
As an arizona resident and huge fan of Lucy I’m heartbroken😢
Dead Space is a remake. The story's been changed, the ship layout has been changed, the gameplay's been changed, the engine's new. It's 100% a remake that's just very faithful.
I don't know why this is contested. Dead Space's remake seems like it's near-identical, but it's more accurate to say it's how you REMEMBER the original game, not how it really is. There's a significant number of changes and it's bizarre to hear any arguments that it's a remaster when it's so far into the remake category just because it didn't butcher the original's intent.
Fully agree with remake/remaster. For me I think a good line is “could this game replace the old one?”. For a deadspace/demon souls it definitely could, for a FF7 they’re very different.
Also I think people who are more experienced underestimate how valuable a newer player getting to experience a Mass Effect for example is.
They’re also a really good way for studios to gauge interest in reviving a franchise. If a remake does well then it’s safer to make a new game in that series because you can see the interest is there in a more risk free way.
It’s a great element of the industry and the problem isn’t that there are a lot of great remakes but a lack of original IP and I don’t think it’s correct to blame one for the other
Sometimes it feels like we already tried everything, what’s left it’s refining what’s already established or plain old rehashes branded like their new.
If you feel like we already tried everything then you have a lack of imagination
sounds like a bad excuse...
Everyone says “we’ve tried everything” and then an Elden ring comes out or a gravity rush.
well that's not true lol
@@stevenewsom3269 Its not up to us to have an imagination for gam devs and publishers. The industry is not breaking new ground anymore. Plus new doesn't turn a profit, tested game design does. Games can be rehashes so long as new gamers are playing, its new to them.
I think another interesting aspect about remakes that people often overlook is how the new version is supposed to be a celebration of the original, by giving it new coat of point and new features, while also making it available to those who weren't lucky enough to play it the first time around. My speculation on the Last of Us remake, was not only to put it on ps5 next gen, but also maybe a PC port. (Just my theory anyway) My best example of a remake is probably RE2 remake, after playing that game I finally understand why people love that franchise so much. I never was a fan before that game but now I am. (I got it on a sale too for $20) AND I think we can all agree that Read Dead Redemption would be an amazing remake as you can't even really play that anywhere anymore except on the Xbox 360. It really comes to price, which is where I think Ralph's idea fits into it. I'm not a big enough fan to drop $70 on Deadspace or LoU on day 1, but once they go on a good sale I'll 100% try them so I can enjoy what they are.
A couple weeks ago, I had a 2+ hour drive and was delighted when I left the house and immediately got notified of a new FPS episode.
Guess what just happened again? 😄
Likewise, currently on a long train ride, and this podcast has been a treat!
No, remakes are great! Never played dead space or RE4, got both for ps5 and they are phenomenal! I still remember the first time I played resident evil on the ps1, instantly hooked, in awe in what games were capable of. How far we have come. These remakes give me a chance to experience some of the classics I missed out on growing up.
It's the same as with the movie industry. Everything has been done already, and until we experience a proper revolution in audiovisual entertainment, remakes of old ideas are going to remain the standard.
I am not a Harry Potter fan and I love the game, it is a fantastic and magical open-world game with engaging content, fun combat, and rewarding exploration.
to push back a little against those who are against remakes and remasters, there’s two gaming experiences i had recently that redefined my love of gaming after getting to experience a game for the first time after it was remade. RE 2 Remake and Dead Space Remake were my first experiences with those games and they were truly amazing. I’m not sure if would have felt the same way had I just picked up the og versions in 2023. nor am i sure i would have even given them a chance in the first place. but i’m glad for those remakes because it gives me a chance to experience amazing games but without many of the limitations old releases have.
Personally I want more of these remakes and remasters because although I’m not a Gen Z kid, I missed out on a lot of games. I was stuck up and only played FPS games or GTA & now I regret all of the good games I missed out on.
On Lucy's question of if one game could get remade or remastered, what would you want: I'd say Metroid Prime 2 or 3, but I think those are all but a given at this point. I'd go out there and say the one thing I've been begging for -- I want BluePoint to remake Ico just like they did with Shadow of the Colossus. I feel like most people today don't even know what it is, but it is a very important game in the history of gaming, arguably as influential to developers as Resident Evil 4. There's a shocking number of devs, both eastern and western, who will say "Yeah, I remember playing Ico and just the idea of taking Yorda's hand and guiding her around opened my eyes to how storytelling could be possible through mechanical interactions, and that influenced this game I worked on."
The harm that JK Rowling caused?….I do not get the second hand hate of the Harry Potter game bc you all dislike JK Rowling. You all have no problem reviewing and discussing games from companies that abuse their employees through harassment and crunch etc. and will talk about the game and love it but JK Rowling says something on the internet and the game that she prolly has nothing to do with gets black balled by the industry? You all know there were transgender and gay characters in the game right? Anyway you all are entitled to take whatever fake stance you please. It’s your podcast so you all do you. Just my two cents
About The Last of Us, I think most of the people are missing the part where they remade the game to launch on PC where the development process for a remaster of a PS3 game wouldn't cut it and would be just another bad port for PC. The Last of Us part 1 remademaster was a great move from sony to relaunch in a diferent platform. I don't own a PS and find this very satisfying that I will be able to play a really good touched up old game.
Maybe what sony should have done is to charge less of anyone who already has the other versions, like the Dark Souls 1 remaster, where anyone who own the Prepare to Die edition got for half price.
To anyone who doesn't want to watch the full thing, the tl;dr is: (1) Jirard wants more multi-brand beat-em-ups (okay?), and (2) Jake (as usual) doesn't have an opinion and just wants to play "video-ass video games".
I am not a HP fan, never read the books, saw each movie once when they came out didn't think much of them, but I adore the game. Anyone that likes open world rpgs will enjoy it, especially when you unlock flying.
Ralph - give it a go, don't think of the controversies, don't think of HP, just create yourself as a 5th year and enjoy it.
I didn't think much of this podcast show at first, but now this has become one of my favourite podcasts. Thanks for posting
I'm not a fan of Hogwarts and I gotta say, the game is fun as hell
Yeah, as someone who doesn't care about the HP franchise this game is great. Would recommend even if you aren't arsed about HP.
To me the definitions of releases for old games basically falls as so:
Re-release/Port: Basically just getting the old games working on newer systems.
Remaster: Taking the old game as-is, possibly in the original engine and improving the visuals, the audio mixing, maybe animations or control issues. Perhaps some tweaks to gameplay to improve user experience or better tie in with sequels.
Remake: Ground up development. Essentially making a new game from scratch with new models, animations, voice acting and sound, but with level layouts, artwork and story all based on the original game.
So an example of a Re-release would be GoG getting an old PC game working on Windows 10 or Donkey Kong Country on the Switch, Remaster would be Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition or Mass Effect Legendary Edition and Remake would be Dead Space or System Shock Remakes.
Somewhat agree, though typically they're not touching animations for anything less than a Remake or reboot.
@@takoshihitsamaru4675 I yeah wasn't thinking character animations so much as UI changes, but I agree I can't really think of a good example to cite.
Does Jirard actually thinks Hogwarts Legacy is a school sim, where you go to each class, do homework and have to abide by the rules? I just don't get the random hate
No he doesn’t. That’s just the type of weird stuff you get when people go to extreme lengths to try and come up with an excuse to dislike a game bc everyone is “supposed” to hate it bc of JK Rowling or something. The “I’ve outgrown Harry Potter” was another weird take I thought especially when we are talking about video games and 5 seconds earlier Lucy talked about buying a $500 lord of the rings Lego toy and Jake held up action figures. Like, if Harry Potter is not your thing ok but it’s weird to be like, yea I’m too mature for that now while you’re holding up your legos and action figures while talking about video games haha
@@Mack3827 very spot on. They're takes just boiled down to" I just don't care for it ' which is fine but I don't know what they have to disguise it
I have totally outgrown Harry Potter and I'm not that into the universe but I love video games so as a gamer looking at Hogwarts legacy it's still just interested me because it seems like a game worth checking out
@@Mack3827 they're trying to cater to people who don't agree with them. for example Jerard has gotten some pretty bad harassment since his employment with G4. So I get why they're beating around the bush. Just like the crazy people who create a search engine which its sole purpose was for you to see which streamer streamed Hogwarts or not, there are people on the other side of the spectrum just as nuts and they don't really want to deal with it.
as for my individual opinion its insane such a large number of people think JK Rowling is despicable simply for believing biological woman and trans woman are different. we're at a point and time where simply believing things different from the online status quo can lead to massive backlash.
so how about the persona series then...lol it's just random hate
I feel like we all need to go back (to school, sorry Jirad) and re-learn what the word "H A T R E D" actually means.
I understand his dislike of "school" based stories because I'm the same, I have the same issue with Anime and movies. I'm 28, I'm done with school outside of my kids' attendance, it's such an uninteresting thematic decision or story-setting.
I don't "HATE" it though, just don't care for it.
really love the lite integration of videos! love yall
I want to address the morons who think it's okay to lash out at those who buy Hogwarts Legacy. What makes it right to do that? What did the person do to deserve that treatment? Yes, JK has said some stupid stuff, but does that mean I agree with her because I buy the game? No, and you're an idiot if you think I do. I can separate the product from the source and enjoy it separately. I say this because recently a streamer named Silvervale was harassed on her own stream while she was trying to have fun with the game. This ended with her crying in front of her audience. Is that right? Did she deserve that hate just because she was playing the game? This situation infuriates me, because it's starting to affect others on an emotional level now. I can tell you one thing: as someone who saw every movie in theaters and read all the books, I love this game. And no amount of someone spitting in my face or telling me I'm "transphobic" will stop that enjoyment. And you're someone who believes this harassment others are facing is right, rethink your life. Sorry for this rant, but I've really needed to get this off my chest. And since it was being discussed here, I decided to do it now.
It is crazy. It makes no sense to me. I did not read the books or watch the movies and I love this game. What does JK Rowling have to do with the game besides owning the rights to Harry Potter? It’s not like she was in there telling them not to put transgender characters in there. In fact, there is a transgender character in the game so what’s the deal haha damned if you do, damned if you don’t
This has got to be the best episode and I have watched all the episodes. The outro by Jake is supreme! But yea good energy all the way through.
I agree, the most enjoyable episode so far. I only skipped the off topic stuff about fast food and the Pedro Pascal intro.
It makes sense that they evolve as a group and as a podcast. The future of this podcast looks bright!
Just off title alone, yes, probably. But do I care? Not really if they're done really well. There's a ton of really old game universes I'd love to see a return from. Legacy of Kain being my biggest hope.