I argued with some retard on YouTube where he said the remake is better because it has better graphics… but it doesn’t matter what graphics you have, you can’t ever get this scene right in a remake. The atmosphere and mystery of the original could never be captured with modern graphics. The modern gamer only sees shallow aspects of a video game like “oooh pretty graphics”.
That's just ridiculous. Are people really that dumbed down these days that subtlety and nuance is lost on them? SH2's intro was fine because you just assume James is simply washing his face. It doesn't spoil the ending from the onset.
The idea of remastering and remaking a game for a newer generation is redundant that they give George Lucas a run for his money. SH1-3 were fine the way they are
I like to refer to this as "Indie Trauma". In older games and other forms of fiction trauma is a tool that can be used for a multitude of different reasons, the trick was to use it in a way that made the audience more invested in the story you're trying to tell without them noticing. But modern writing has a really bad habit of just presenting ideas as they are and try to force a reaction from their audience in an attempt to be relatable. It's basic bitch pandering.
This kind of shit has been going on for awhile and isn't just indie games. Heck even TV writing nowadays will often just have characters describe their personalities and outright state what their story arcs are gonna be.
I'm fairly certain they based it on the code for the old PC/windows port, which was a port done by a western company way back in the day. That seems to have been a trend, when the FF8 remaster happened I predicted it would be done with the code from the PC port that Eidos did, and it was. I've never looked at the MGS collections but it wouldn't surprise me if they were based on the Windows ports as well because that was the only source code they had. Because it makes sense to save PC code bases.
Console games in the past didn't get constant re-releases on new systems and every new generation was different and incompatible with the old one so the old assets and source code were basically trash. That seems to be the Japanese reason from what I've figured out.
You have interviews of bluepoint explaining how they reverse engineered the games for their ports. They would take the actual retail disc to make sure it wasn't some altered patch or something. Hijinx also was making the game for just xbox 360 originally and the ps3 version was announced last second.
It's actually even lazier than that. In the newest collection, MGS1 is just a Playstation ROM in an emulator that's significantly worse and feature-poor compared to emulators freely available online. I believe MGS2 is the PC port, but without the fan patch that made it a tolerable experience.
Moreso than the graphics, if you simply observe the >>detail<< in each room of SH2/3 it's incredible for the PS2 era. Every room you go in has unique carpets, wallpaper, furniture etc., the scummy bathrooms have unique broken floor tiles and grime in every corner, each room is packed with stuff.
That's exactly what they did with the original HD collection on ps3 not sure why people want anything else. Do you really trust Konami to tinker with such an important piece of gaming history? At least in this state any new players are getting the genuine experience rather than them thinking its bad because of some new porting issue and thinking its a flaw of being an old game.
No, but I also sure as shit wouldn't pay them $60 for the exact same thing I've been able to play for like 20 years now.
I literally cannot think of a single one. MGS1 in Duckstation is better in every way I can conceive of.
Easier controller mapping via steam, on demand installation to any device. There's a few.
ps1 still needs a bios and setup, 2 seconds on any device with steam is more efficient. There's just no arguing this, its a convenience.
Installing Steam and then installing the game will take longer than the entire process of downloading and starting Duckstation.
