Nuvendil said:
What all those Dolphin enthusiasts forget is that there are four distinct advantages to this remaster. First, convenience. You have to fiddle with Dolphin a bit and get your controller to work with it. Not overly difficult, but an extra step. Second, guaranteed performance. Emulators are massive resource hogs and hit and miss depending on your PC specs. My laptop is far, far, far more powerful than a Wii and yet the original Metroid prime runs like complete ass in sub-720p cause Dolphin just doesn't like my graphics card. So yeah, a lot of people would be unable to get stable performance for straight Twilight Princess running at 1080p with AA, much less the game plus a ton of texture and FX enhancements. Third, greater preservation. I've seen a number of TP texture packs, most of the most technically advanced also change the art direction, in some areas quite considerably. Fourth, greater artistry (namely in textures). Now I'm not knocking the talent of these teams. But a lot of these packs have texture quality inconsistency, over aggressive use of certain effects like bump mapping, and more importantly textures that tile way to obviously. The latter is a very common problem I've seen over years of modding experience but is usually hidden under grass meshes. But TP doesn't use grass meshes. So the obnoxious tiling is exposed at all times. So the textures in the official remaster are better designed and at least of equal and often greater resolution. So yeah, I think there's plenty to recommend TP HD to a lot of people. If some TP fans want to instead play it on Dolphin rather than buy it again, that's their business but they need to stop over hyping dolphin. |
Exactly! Not everyone knows how to deal with Dolphin, it´s not that easy (I know I couldn´t), but even if I could, I wouldn´t do it. As you say, it´s better to play on a console where you know you won´t have problems with the gameplay, the controller will work perfectly all the time and the original vision of the game is preserved, only improved. But people fails to see that and only think that on Dolphin is free.
In Spain the game is 39,94€, I can´t see how is that so much to ask for a remaster of a ten year old game.