IIIIITHE1IIIII on 14 August 2014
| Aielyn said: Wind Waker HD wasn't a remaster, it was a remake. They altered the game in a few different ways, they overhauled the graphics system, and they extensively upgraded the game. Remasters are basically the same game, in the same engine, but with higher resolution textures, etc. People don't criticise TLOU:R for being a remaster. They criticise it for being a remaster of a game released a year ago. Wind Waker was released more than 10 years before Wind Waker HD. And as others have said above me, nobody has criticised Sony's HD collections. There's nothing wrong with updating games that have drifted into history with a graphically-boosted re-release. Happens all the time. Heck, even if they don't boost the graphics or change the gameplay at all, it's fine - it's a re-release. On the other hand, releasing it on the PS3, and then having it announced as an improved remaster less than a year later, meaning that people are forced to rebuy it if they want the better-quality version, is a money-grab. They wanted to make people pay twice for the game. It's not that they released a PS4 version a year later. It's that they hid the existence of the PS4 version (which must have been in development at the time that the PS3 version released) until people had bought the PS3 version in droves. THAT was the cash grab. Not the release of the PS4 version, but the hiding of the PS4 version until everyone had bought the PS3 version. |
This is true. Naughty Dog confirmed that they started development on the remastered version as soon as the original was completed.
