Remasters, Remakes, and Ports.....

[CladInShadows]

Dgc1808 said:

SvennoJ said:
Ports and remasters are pretty much the same thing, only different by the time that separates them.
Many multi platform games have differences in assets, resolution, frame rate and effects. We only call them remasters when they come out a lot later than the rest. 

It's the same with movies, the first batch on dvd and blu-ray are ports from the movie basically. Second time and onwards it's called a remaster. The process is the same, only technology has improved.

I wonder if Rise of the Tombraider PS4 will be sold as a remaster or a port? It will be a year later, probably with some extras and a few enhancements, If Tombraider definitive was a remaster, I guess Rise of the tombraider will be too?

Are all ports remasters though? I would argue no. The word "remaster" implies some improvement which isn't always the case. Dark Souls PC is an excellent example. Locked at 720p30, same visual and performance hits that were present on the console version. No improvements were made. 

Even before the mod made the whole 720p thing irrelevant, the performance hits were never an issue in the PC version.  If your computer is powerful enough, there were no performance hits.  Blight town? Ran at a solid 30 frames per second for me.