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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition announced for Switch (2020)

Honestly I'm not impressed with the graphic improvement on Xeno. I'm just not.

*shrugs*



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Chrkeller said:
Honestly I'm not impressed with the graphic improvement on Xeno. I'm just not.

*shrugs*

That's not the topic being debated nor does a remake's definition need to adhere to that.



Wyrdness said:
Chrkeller said:

Not to jump in here, but this is absolutely a remaster, it is not a remake. Resident Evil 2 and Link's Awakening were remakes.  SotC ps4 was a remaster.  

Some of you have your definitions crossed as remaster means improving visual and audio quality for most part, a remake goes deeper than that with assets being redone and such and not everything has to be redone as a remake is taking anything currently existing and modernizing it. REmake2 and LA are remakes yes but they're not the only standard of remakes as a remake doesn't have to be made from scratch, XBC is a REmake so far from what is seen as a lot more than improving the visual and audio quality is being done to it such as new character models, redone textures, new lighting, cut content being added in etc... That is simply not a remaster as some of you are trying to put it as even the geometry in some environments has been changed and it becomes more apparent in the comparison videos.

Edit:

https://i.ibb.co/rddnybK/xbc-comparison.png

Here we can see the environmental changes as graphically it differs significantly a bit.

"A remake doesn't need to remake everything"



Vodacixi said:

"A remake doesn't need to remake everything"

Said no one.



Dude it is a remaster in my eyes. Not sure what else to tell you. I am not arguing over this for pages. It is Xeno with marginally improved graphics, a remake this is not.



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Chrkeller said:
Dude it is a remaster in my eyes. Not sure what else to tell you. Am not arguing over this for pages. It is X with marginally improvement graphics, a remake this is not.

Yet here you are responding again you're are free to see it how you like I'm just saying the definition says otherwise.



Wyrdness said:
Vodacixi said:

"A remake doesn't need to remake everything"

Said no one.

Said by you. Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition is the same Wii game running on a Switch... but with better textures, new models and lighting. And the beta area (which already existed in the original, mind you) is now playable. But you call it remake. Despite not having been remade.



Vodacixi said:
Wyrdness said:

Said no one.

Said by you. Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition is the same Wii game running on a Switch... but with better textures, new models and lighting. And the beta area (which already existed in the original, mind you) is now playable. But you call it remake. Despite not having been remade.

Nope read again.

"a remake goes deeper than that with assets being redone and such and not everything has to be redone as a remake is taking anything currently existing and modernizing it."

Black Mesa is the same game as Half Life doesn't stop it being a remake.



Textures and models being recreated does not make the entire game a "remake". It's pretty simple, is the game being built on top of the original game? Is it the same game at its foundations? Is it a port with upgraded assets? Then it's a remaster.

They're not rewriting the code from scratch, it's the same code, it's the same game.



If the game is remade into a new engine, how is it not a remake?