The Xenoblade Chronicles Series Thread: Definitive Edition (All Spoilers in Tags)

[Shiken]

Hynad said:

Shiken said:

But they are not the same.  If you look at side by side comparisons, the new models have been completely redone.  The hair has changed to better fit the style in XBC2 as well.  Just because something was remade to look the same does not mean that it was not remade.

It is not just character models as well, but special effects, terrain, the way the grass is rendered, etc.  Everything has been remade beyond the point of what you would find in a remaster.

This is why even at sub HD, XB:DE still looks fresher and more up to snuff than an actual HD remaster of the original game would look at 1080p, where all the assets remained the same. 

I did point out they redid the faces and hands. The rest of the character models, nope. They retained their exact same "blockiness" from the original, with cleaned out and/or improved texturing.

The maker of the game says it is a remaster. Says that by that nature of being one, it brought constraints. No amount of arguing and denial from you or anybody else here will disprove him. 

The director may have his own definition of what a remaster or remake is.  That does not mean it is right.  Not to mention you are going off of a translation which has proven in the past to not be 100% accurate.  In either case, his word is not absolute.

I am going off of what the game is, mostly remade on a large scale.  But if your definition of a remake differs, I guess we will have to agree to disagree as I cannot say you are wrong anymore than you can say I am.  To me, when most of the game is new assets and remade it is a remake.  To you, any form of code remaining from the original makes it a remaster.  There is no real definition out there as to which interpretation is correct, so all we can do is respectfully bow out of the conversation.  We will only talk circles at this point, and that gets us nowhere.

Last edited by Shiken - on 25 May 2020