| KBG29 said:
Last gen many devs created super detailed, high poly, high res assets to help cut costs. On PS3 and 360 they had to cut back until the assets would render at a reasonable resolution and framerate. They knew that they would have the abillity to utilize them in future generations. Naughty Dog, Polyphony, Turn 10, Epic, and many others have discussed this time, and time agian. Not only does this help them in future games by being able to re-use redundent never changing assets, but it also saves them from the issues making remakes/remasters of older games so difficult. Things like the premium cars in GT5 and 6 are already modeled at insane detail that could never be rendered in real time on PS3 and probably even PS4. This saves massive amounts of time and money letting devs focus on new content or easily remaster games with more than just a simple resolution/framerate/aa upgrade. This is in no way bad news, and it is well worth it. This means that masterpieces from gen 7 will live on in remasters that look amazing in 2k then again in 4k next gen. I personally look forward to many games being farmed out or done with small teams to be remastered for an even better experience. No more wishing for remakes like FFVII, Legend of Dragoon, and so many more, now it should be industry standard to remaster classics to surrent hardware.
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Depends what you are talking about. Sure there are some games where they can and do exactly that. I imagine things like sports games where they know what models they are going to use ahead of time. However in a game like The Last of us I don't think that's the case. Models have to be made from scratch for games with unique concepts. It's the same concept as programming, coders try to make everything as reusable as possible so they don't have to make the same code ever again. However, when a concept is unique, they still have to go back to the drawing board.
If they did do this with The Last of Us, isn't that evidence that they made the game intending to remaster it right from the start and just kept quiet about it to trick more people into buying it. I'd say your point is more damning than anything.
