Well if you played both and in order then I would think most would agree with you because you played the 2008 version first and it was fresh. I played the 2008 version in 2008 and I thought it was great. So going into the remake i was like "meh"- seen it before so.

But, bioshock came out a year before 2008 DS and I thought that was better in terms of character and soul. I am comparing the two because both are dark corridor shooters.

Originally posted by daddy chill:

Well if you played both and in order then I would think most would agree with you because you played the 2008 version first and it was fresh. I played the 2008 in 2008 and I thought it was great. So going into the remake i was like "meh"- seen it before so.

But, bioshock came out a year before 2008 DS and I thought that was better in terms of character and soul. I am comparing the two because both are dark corridor shooter types.

I'm on the OG now. Something has definitely been lost in translation with the remake. One thing I have identified so far is those ridiculous new Alien sounds - in the remake they sound like a drunk dude at a party jumping out from behind a hedge going "RAAAAAGGGHHH!!!" rather than real Aliens.

Bioshock was next on my list for a revisit after this lol. Will probably need to dig out my old rig with no STEAM updates and external hard-drive because people are saying it doesn't work on modern hardware.

on steam you can buy bioshock remastered apparently for 19 bucks. I never played that version but it might be worth it.

Originally posted by daddy chill:

on steam you can buy bioshock remastered apparently for 19 bucks. I never played that version but it might be worth it.

I have both Bioshock remasters. They tend to crash more than the originals but it's not like they're unplayable. I should replay them as well.

Originally posted by Admiral ♥♥♥♥:

Originally posted by daddy chill:

on steam you can buy bioshock remastered apparently for 19 bucks. I never played that version but it might be worth it.

I have both Bioshock remasters. They tend to crash more than the originals but it's not like they're unplayable. I should replay them as well.

I do have the remasters but never used them yet LOL. If there's a way to bypass years of STEAM updates they might be usable.

Well while all games are designed to make money, the remake was a soulless cash grab EA just put out because they saw the success of the Resident Evil remakes.

Originally posted by Pack 4 Potatoes:

Well while all games are designed to make money, the remake was a soulless cash grab EA just put out because they saw the success of the Resident Evil remakes.

Dead Space was never in the same league as Resident Evil.

Honestly, not bait & I rarely say this, but might just be nostalgia,
or little things like the lighting/color temperature differences.

I love both, the original still aged amazingly imo.

This is not a remake. It's a remaster with different faces for Isaac and Nicole as well as new sounds. I still think this remaster was done just because of the success of Biohazard 2's remake. Otherwise we would have got Dead Space 4 instead. Dead Space received one of the most unnecessary "remakes" out there. Why didn't they just bring the original over to newer systems instead? Of course people like the Sphere Hunter will defend this decision.

I wouldn't say it's soulless, it very tightly captures the original...

But I do agree the remake is "technically" middling in quality... but this is only by comparison to the recent phenomenal remakes other companies have been putting out.

I do think the original had some better environmental design though; ok, hear me out - the improved HDR effects make the lighting really good, but because your field of vision is reduced to what you can see in flashlight it's hard to commit areas to memory... there's not a lot of visual landmarks. Because the original is brighter overall you see a lot more of the walls and miscellanea, which ARE very much still here in the remaster, but because you actually get to see them more often help make individual segments more memorable.

Originally posted by Frank Knowhere:

Honestly, not bait & I rarely say this, but might just be nostalgia,
or little things like the lighting/color temperature differences.

I love both, the original still aged amazingly imo.

I've moved the brightness slider to the lowest setting and it's difficult the tell the difference most of the time. The remake has more junk lying around but it's pretty close.

Originally posted by AlphaZeroX96:

This is not a remake. It's a remaster

You have no idea what remaster and remake is.

Originally posted by beez-one:

Originally posted by AlphaZeroX96:

This is not a remake. It's a remaster

You have no idea what remaster and remake is.

I should have said that this was a rebuild.

Rebuild i.e. remake.
As in Resident Evil 4 remake.

Mostly I'd say people are nostalgia coping. It always boils down to liking the thing they're nostalgic towards vs disliking the new thing without having any explanation besides vibe, like they're in an American courtroom.

The voice acting direction in the original was better though. What I wouldn't give for the old Kendra direction.