>>46437242>>46446107Remasters take the old source and repackage it in a way in which it reaches the consumer in a better quality. The term is derived from music recording in which a new master recording to be sourced into consumer media is made from an already recorded source.
In video game terms, a remaster ports the old game to new hardware, using the same old assets, touching up the textures if needed. Sometimes the textures don't even need to be touched up as the developers will have higher red textures already on hand. Even touched up it is often still the same textures that have simply been run through an algorithm to upscale or upres them. Even the few cases where textures are totally redone, it is still reusing every other asset as well as still being based off the source code of the original game.
BDSP is a remake. The assets are 100% new, in a totally different engine from their original counterparts, using different source code. In movie terms this would be considered a 1 for 1 shot remake. Often considered unnecessary or even outright inferior depending on the film, but it's still a remake. Just because it goes out of its way to ape the originals as much as possible doesn't mean it's using those original assets. It's a remake.
The whole remake/remaster confusion in video games is just a shill tactic to deflect criticism when a remake goes off the rails, deviates heavily from the original, and then fans of that original rightfully complain about it.
>What do you mean you don't like the way we changed every part of the game? That's what remakes are, kiddo! What you wanted was a REMASTER.Most recent and prominent example is FFVIIR when they announced they'd be changing the game entirely, pissing off many(not all) the people who've been asking for a remake since the PS3 tech demo. And you stupid cunts are falling for it.
As a side note I'm also convinced some people just use "remaster" because they think it makes them sound more professional.
