Both games LITERALLY have the same title. Star Wars battlefront II, if I don't specify the year then you don't even know which battlefront I'm talking about.

Your example falls apart too because there are two clearly different titles, Sonic the hedgehog and Sonic 06.

Look, if we're going to argue semantics, the definition of "remake" is to "to make anew or in a different form", star wars battlefront II (2005) a star wars, class-based, first person / third person shooter, with heroes.
Star Wars battlefront II (2017), again, is a class-based, first person shooter, with heroes.

Sure the developers were switched, but you can hardly blame them, Pandemic was shut down by EA after being bought out by them.

My whole point is that the games share common themes, and an identical title. therefor I used the word "remake", maybe not the best choice... but what alternatives are these? Plus, it's not like I can go back and edit a youtube video after it's been uploaded.

that doesnt even make sense. Battlefront II isnt even close to a remake and they never called it that. Thats like saying Sonic 06 was a remake of the original because both were called Sonic the Hedgehog

It's like arguing about "Disney shouldn't have retroactively removed the expanded universe and made everyone "Star Wars Legends"." Yeah I agree, yeah it's not the way I prefer many of my favorite stories to be handled...

...But the reality is Disney doesn't care what I (or any other Expanded Universe fans) think, so we just need to deal with it.

Too late. EA owns the property and used the same name. Denial for sake of vanity is pointless.

Battlefront II isnt a remake. Please dont ever call it that