Remastered Games

All Aboard The Ark Of Yamato!

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Another game I can add to the finished list! Now that I’ve successfully finished it I can provide my list of pros and cons:

Pros:
  • You’re a Wolf… AWESOME
  • You’re a God… that’s cool too
  • Beautiful Music and Visuals
  • Amazing Storytelling
  • Hours of Exploration
  • Unique Gameplay: Slowly save the world with The Joy of Painting!
  • 4K Support
  • Linux and Steam Deck Friendly
Cons:
  • 30FPS limit

 

All in all I thoroughly enjoyed playing Okami, and look forward to playing it again on NG+! Easily one of the best games of all time. Now give us Okamiden!

The Tomb Raider Remasters are dead before they even started

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It seems the RealTech VR, company responsible behind the remastering of the original 3 Tomb Raider games didn’t seek approval of the almighty Squeenix. They have taken down the videos showcasing the remasters, and have issued a statement:

“While we always welcome passion and excitement for the Tomb Raider franchise, the remasters in question were initiated and advertised without seeking approval. As such, they were never officially sanctioned. Ensuring fans receive high quality gaming experiences is at the heart of our mission as a company, which requires all projects to go through proper channels. We are thrilled about the future of Tomb Raider, and cannot thank fans enough for their continued support and excitement for the brand.”

Meanwhile RealTech VR has issued a statement of their own:

https://twitter.com/realtech_VR/status/976480586251546625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

I would have thought they would have been in contact with Square Enix, I’m going to guess they have considering this was going to be based off of ports for their mobile counterparts. I was really looking forward to this, in fact I was talking with a friend tonight about achievements being one of the reasons to play through all of them again, but now all that’s left is disappointment. A shame they can’t release this as a mod or something considering you still need to own the game files in order to take advantage of it…

The pro’s and con’s of Bioshock Remastered

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I decided to check out the Bioshock Remaster, I’ve been putting it off long enough and figured a rainy day would be the right atmosphere to play a game about being entirely surrounded by drugged out residents in an underwater utopia gone to hell. I’m at the point where I have to kill the second Big Daddy, that’s about the point where my game started being a crashy mess in the original. So far I’ve compiled a list of what I like and dislike about the remaster:

Pro’s:

  • Manual Saving instead of just relying on vitachambers.
  • Better stability, no crashes thus far.
  • Achievements.
  • A museum was added to show off early concepts. (Originally only for people who purchased Bioshock Ultimate Rapture Edition for consoles).
  • Challenge Rooms (Originally an exclusive for the PS3 version of Bioshock Ultimate Rapture Edition, but was later released for the XBox 360)

Con’s:

  • Texturing seems too glossy in most areas, like it’s covered in vaseline. Only things the player notices sooner seem to have better texturing, like NPC clothing and consumables.
  • Less configuration options compared to the original, requires tweaking in the ini. Not an entirely big deal but if you’re making a remastered version of a game it would be nice to have better graphics options…
  • Still running on Unreal Engine 1.5… They couldn’t even bother to port it over to Unreal Engine 3 or 4.
  • No surround sound option (can be fixed in a roundabout way).
  • No mouse acceleration (tweakable in ini), mainly fixates on controller options and key binds.
  • Game keeps launching in windowed mode for some reason.
  • No borderless window option in 2016/2017.

I’m thankful I can actually play the game, however that isn’t going to stop me from pointing out how lazy the porting is. Usually when you do a remake on PC you add more features. Hell, Killing Floor runs on a modified version of Unreal Engine 1 and it has more features than this. While we’re at it I think Unreal Gold has more customization options than this remastered game. It’s like they took the special console edition, changed a few things, ported it over and called it good… Lazy as fuck.

Well, at least it was free. If they made me buy the remaster I probably would have waited for a big sale so I could get the challenge rooms. Other than that it seems pointless.