Why are remakes so consistently uglier and worse than the originals?

>>714843947 (OP)
Why do modern games always look like they fucked up the contrast settings?

>>714844361
To make the flaws less obvious to see.

>>714844361
to sell you oled and hdr products. oh you dont have the latest goytech gadget? enjoy your anti soul gas

>>714843947 (OP)
because devs don't hire talented people anymore, just the cheapest pajeet who'll do the job asap

>>714843947 (OP)
Because of pajeets.

>>714844746
source?

I think the devs behind the anti-soul gas have never used their eyes before. Despite how """realistic""" they like to claim grafix are, i've never seen it be THAT hazy outside of walking in to a closed room where a smoker had been chaining through cigs for a few hours.

>>714843947 (OP)
>Why are remakes so consistently uglier and worse than the originals?
Because they are remakes. By definition they'll never be the same experience because they will never have the same people working on them under the same circumstances, even the good remakes like God Eater Resurrection will inevitably change some aspects for the worse even if the end product is widely considered to be better.
Then you add the nature of remaking someone else's work to the fact that all the players/viewers of the original have a different interpretation of it and there's absolutely no way you could possibly get people fully on board. To remake something and improve upon it you have to actually understand what makes the original good in the first place.

The only reasons to do a remake are,
>the original actually is fucked up, but you'd still like to tell the same story or recreate that experience better this time
>you want money easily from the brand recognition
>you want to subvert culture and replace the messages of the previous work with your own in people's conscious
The latter two options are the norm, unfortunately.

>>714844361
I don't like that they look so clean. The dirty, industrial, bleak and grey look the original Gears had matched the setting. But here they look like glistening, plastic dolls. The charm is completely gone.

This is a remaster isn't it?

>>714844587
>to sell you oled and hdr products.
oh fuck no they don't. If they actually had OLED and HDR in mind then we'd have at the very least movie slop tier HDR and contrast but instead video games have utterly deranged settings that the only explanation I can muster is that the retards at Unreal and Capcom to name but two have all their HDR test monitors set to fuckwit mode and they've hard locked their black floor to something that looks good on their fucked up settings. There is NOTHING you can do to RE2R/RE3R that prevents the black level raise. Setting it to SDR gives you a sane black level. Not a perfect one mind, but a SANE one at least. OLED with its perfect blacks doesn't make it better, it just highlights how retarded their gamma curve is.

the answer is that all game developers have been convinced "global illumination" and "volumetric lighting" are beautiful and accurate technologies that make games look better. but actually they're just ugly and wash everything out.

>>714845559
aswell as make games run a lot worse.

>>714843947 (OP)
>task a 3rd party of apathetic low-skill codemonkeys to put their dirty mitts all over someone else's work
>they don't know the original people's reasons or intent for their design choices, and frankly don't care
>the "remade" product feels disconnected and sloppy
>"how could this have turned out badly?"

>>714843947 (OP)
because consoomers will buy it anyway because it has the name of a hecking game they played as a child, so they dont need to try at all

>>714846530
Wow, that new one sucks. It just goes straight to his boss model, no visible transformation or even the clothes burning off.

>>714843947 (OP)
let me guess. bottom is made in Unreal 5?

>>714850385
Crapcum has their own proprietary engine

>>714846530
Now that's just lazy

>>714843947 (OP)
WOOOH GEARS

>>714844587
That fog and shit makes HDR and OLEDS look way worse actually. You need good contrast for them, and the anti-soul fog ruins it.

>>714844768
>SAAARCE?

Because
1. Older games were made by actually talented devs with love for gaming
2. Demakes are made by pajeets, normalfags, diversity hires and women who couldn't find a job elsewhere
3. 99% of remakes and remasters are corporate cashgrabs designed to make easy money from a game that already exists.

>>714844430
That's what the dark shadows in the old 360 games were used for.
They can't even hide flaws as well as the original.

>>714843947 (OP)
Because there are more women, gays and diversity hires with politics on the team. Their jealousy and insecurity, coupled with their need to appropriate things for the sake of political correctness, incenses their need to pervert these games by making the women uglier, the men more incompetent and altering story beats/self inserting degenerate characters into them. Marxists don't create anything, they appropriate them. (Insert tolkeins "evil can not create" quote)

>>714843947 (OP)
The worst sin of this demake was the replacement of the expertly directed in-engine cutscenes with generic pre-rendered garbage.
https://youtu.be/BShLsn19pLg?t=315

i find it pretty hilarious that back then, lots of people complained that too many games looked too grim, washed out, too much bloom, piss filters etc.
and now people look back at them and go "wow, these games have soul!".

>>714843947 (OP)
The world is an ugly place anon

>>714852627
the good games used it so everyone else had to push slop with it

>>714844430
so the whole image becomes a flaw?

>>714852627
>and now people look back at them and go "wow, these games have soul!".

no one says that. we're complaining that the remake looks worse.

GoW was always ugly, had terrible bloom and that signature UE3 purple tint.
If UE5 is stutter engine than UE3 was the bloom engine.

>>714843947 (OP)
I genuinely don't even know which one is the original and which one is a re-hash

>>714853817
remakes are usually the ones with desaturated colors

>Get shitskins to jeetcode your game in UE5, 2 FPS
>antisoulgas.jpg
>max bloom/specular maps, everything is plastic

TKD, TND, TJD

>>714843947 (OP)
You know why, everyone knows why. It's not just video games but every industry, and it's going to keep getting worse

>>714853615
Nah, a lot of people 100% say that. It's not just about the remake being technically worse, it's about how the original had a raw, gritty vibe that felt cohesive with the tone. Yeah, the bloom and piss filters were overkill sometimes, but they accidentally gave stuff personality. Now it's like they scrubbed the soul out with generic lighting presets and plastic shaders.

>>714857243
if they do say that, i've never seen it.

> Original: Skull and cog is stenciled onto the armor
> Remake: Skull and cog is a raised metal piece
I prefer the original.
I checked just now, and they switched to the raised metal pieces in the Ultimate Edition back in 2015, but I think that was a lousy creative decision that's been passed onto the modern remake like a game of telephone, losing bits of meaning over the years.
The stencil implies it was standard armor that's been hastily modified.
The metal piece could be something quickly cast. It has the look of fresh cast iron from a crude mold, but it doesn't make as much sense. If you need boots on the ground yesterday because the world is ending, casting medallions for the boys is a waste of time.
Sure, it shows off the graphics better, but the armor's otherwise very utilitarian. Metal ornaments imply a sort of opulence and power that the humans in this game don't have.

This is my big problem with remakes as a general concept.
Even little decisions can reinforce broader ideas.
With remakes, the publisher usually takes the C-team it didn't trust with an original game and asks them to redo every one of those little decisions.
In the end, you have something with the same overall shape as the original, but the details rarely reinforce the big picture as well as they used to.

>>714844361
original GoW was blurry, foggy and washed out too

>>714852627
back then they had to work with less than 1gb of shared ram, so get get a pass. besides in some games it actually fits.
today they have zero excuse

>>714853758
thruke, zoomers have nostalgia for 7th gen slop simply because they were 8 years old at that time

>>714844361
Deferred rendering

>>714852627
It's not like you can't always make things worse.