/vr/-approved enhanced ports, re-releases and even remakes

[Anonymous No.9273594]

I understand this is an allowed topic -if only barely-. How about building a list? To get things going I'd nominate Super Mario All-Stars even if it's a bit controversial

[Anonymous No.9273596]

Link's Awakening DX is the definitive edition. I own both.

[Anonymous No.9273603]

>>9273596
>Link's Awakening DX
>definitive edition
uh-oh, he's coming...

[Anonymous No.9273618]

>>9273603
Washington
Washing ton
12 stories high made of radiation
The present beware
The future beware
He's coming he's coming he's coming

[Anonymous No.9273621]

>>9273618
he'll save children but not the british children
BARS

[Anonymous No.9273624]

>>9273594
Congratulations, this is the gayest and most retarded meme I've ever seen.
>I'd nominate Super Mario All-Stars
confirmed retard thread then?

[Anonymous No.9273629]

>>9273624
Based ""remaster"""" enjoyer

[Anonymous No.9273630]

>>9273594
What about censorship?

[Anonymous No.9273727]

>>9273594
the shining force remake on gba is pretty well liked by most everyone here
adds in an unnecessary card gimmick and a little side story with new characters that's either hit or miss
i usually like it more than am annoyed by it
couple of drastic character art changes but again that depends on where you lie horse face girls or regular human girls

[Anonymous No.9273760]

Wild Guns Reloaded, Ninja Warriors Return
I assume Pockey & Rocky Reshrined but idk havent played yet
Sonic CD (2010 version, dont know about Origins)
Wonderboy: The Dragon's Trap
Turok 1 and 2 (i dont care if good controls and visibility makes the game too easy)

[Anonymous No.9273769]

>>9273760
The PC version of Sonic Origins is great because of the mods.

[Anonymous No.9273849]

Live A Live is a good remake that doesn't have the best localization.

[Anonymous No.9273886]

This is the ideal remake. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like.

[Anonymous No.9273889]

>Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
>Command & Conquer Remastered Collection
>Daggerfall Unity
>Fable: The Lost Chapters
>King's Quest I-III AGD remakes
>Monkey Island 2: Special Edition (not 1)
>Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire AGD remake
>Resident Evil Remake
>Shadow Man Remastered
>The Bard's Tale Trilogy remastered
>Wasteland 2012 remaster

[Anonymous No.9273891]

Myst: Masterpiece Edition

[Anonymous No.9273893]

>>9273594
FF8 remastered
FF7/steam for the ridiculous skips and glitches

[Anonymous No.9273903]

>>9273594
Gamecube version of MGS1 is an objective upgrade but it's too expensive to find.

[Anonymous No.9273925]

>>9273903
the cutscenes are genuinely annoying to watch, oscillating between total silliness and overly dramatic.
the voice acting is so fucking bad it hurts to listen to.
the boss ai is utterly retarded for some reason.
the environments look bland and sterile.
pretty much none of the transplanted mgs2 mechanics even really do anything, outside of letting you shoot cameras.
the only place where I might say TTS is an improvement is the sniper wolf battles because you don't have to go prone to use the PSG-1, but it's kinda countered out by wolf's AI being even more retarded than in the ps1 version so even on hard difficulties she often just runs back and forth in the wide open.
also no VR missions

[Anonymous No.9274062]

>>9273594
All remakes, remaster, regarbage is fucking shit.

[Anonymous No.9274067]

>>9273594
MGS HD collection is breddy gud

[Anonymous No.9274190]

D&D Chronicles of Mystara (2013)
Capcom Beat'em Up Bundle (2018)
Garou: Mark of the Wolves (2016)
Samurai Shdown V Special (2019)
Last Blade 2 (2017)

Played a lot of these on Steam and I thought there were great.

[Anonymous No.9274196]

>>9273594
Resident Evil on Gamecube and Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes are my favorites

[Anonymous No.9274234]

>>9273594
Not really sure if it qualifies but blaster master zero was really awesome, wish I liked not retro zero 2

[Anonymous No.9274274]

Prince of Persia SNES
REmake 1
Doom 64 Remaster
Taxman Sonic 1 2 and CD (NOT ORIGINS)

[Anonymous No.9274442]

>>9273624
Being susceptible to marketing buzzword tactics is nothing to be ashamed of, anon. Getting that defensive about it kind of is though

[Anonymous No.9274490]

Ace Attorney Trilogy for Nintendo 3DS

[Anonymous No.9274515]

re1 gamecube is the only full on remake i can think of that is actually better than the original. super ghouls n ghosts GBA is a great re-release with a save feature and an arrange mode with new content.
>>9273903
>Gamecube version of MGS1 is an objective upgrade but it's too expensive to find.
>objective upgrade
yikes. "objective downgrade" more like it. the reason this game is so expensive is because everyone threw it in the trash in 2004.

[Anonymous No.9274519]

Perfect Dark on the 360 actually makes that game playable, the N64 version was too ambitious for the hardware.
Romancing Saga Minstrel Song
REmake
Dragon Quest III SNES

Twin Snakes is debatable. It's an interesting take on the original, but it kinda went full retard. I like what someone said of it years ago, that Twin Snakes is the events of MGS told by a random soldier who was there after he's had a few drinks with his buddies at the bar. Like, it's what people imagine the events of Shadow Moses to be, not what actually happened. So, in that sense, it's almost like Kojima poking fun at modern remakes of classic movies and how they take them too far, which is a subtlety genius if that was the intent, but I think it's was probably just an accident.

[Anonymous No.9274521]

>>9274515
>a GBA port of an SNES game being better
X to megadoubt, but i guess i should try it to confirm for myself. a save mode doesnt help much in Super GNG but a handheld game should have saves due to it's nature

[Anonymous No.9274524]

>>9273594
>remakes
all gay. no harm in playing some of those out of curiosity but they will never replace the original.

[Anonymous No.9274613]

>>9273596
There's only one definitive edition of Link's Awakening and it's not that garishly colored abomination with its game-breaking bonus dungeon and shitty photography sidequest.

[Anonymous No.9274712]

>>9273594
Crystalis on gbc? I remember it being better then the nes one

[Anonymous No.9274752]

[Anonymous No.9274754]

>>9274524
Hey man let the /v/ tourists have fun and let them pretend that they play retro games for once

[Anonymous No.9274768]

>>9274515
>>9274521
The best way to play SGnG is on the capcom classics collection port. Why tolerate slowdown if you don't have to?

[Anonymous No.9275021]

RE3 Nemesis pc is objectively the best version of the game now that it can be modded to have all the best aspects of the other versions as well. There's no reason to play any version of the game.

[Anonymous No.9275029]

The 3rd Fire Emblem game for Super Famicom came with a full remake of the 1st game on the cart, and it is vastly superior to the original. I'd argue it's a lot better than Shadow Dragon in many ways too.

[Anonymous No.9275040]

>>9274442
>Being susceptible to marketing buzzword tactics is nothing to be ashamed of, anon.

[Anonymous No.9275053]

There is literally no reason to go back and replay the original GBA versions of OG1+2 outside of novelty.
>some of the best graphics PS2 SRW was capable of when the originals mostly looked "ok" for GBA compared to games like J
>reworked mechanics that were universally praised (twin system most notably)
>fixed characterization of Axel which people thought GBA OG2 did a disservice to
>more stages, characters, and event scenarios
>perfect carryover of data from one game to the next
>includes the first third of OGG just for the fuck of it.
There isn't a single thing in OGs I can think of that OG1/2 did better. It really is the perfect compilation remake. You don't even have an excuse of "well the GBA games are in english but the PS2 version isn't" anymore because the PS2 version now has a full english translation patch.

[Anonymous No.9275056]

>>9273594
I think all 3 of the DKC GBA ports are good. I still think the graphics look great even if they are a bit watered down, the characters look bad in screenshots but good in motion. Being able to save at any time is a definite plus

[Anonymous No.9275087]

>>9274712
Fucking hell yeah bud. This was a staple of my childhood and only recently played the original, it was not as good.

[Anonymous No.9275092]

>>9273594
Pretty much every fan engine recreation or source port.
Fan re,akes of Space Quest II and King's Quest that i don't remember the number of.

[Anonymous No.9275094]

Linda3 Again is a good remake, done a couple of years later and it mostly just adds to the original. Some choices were slightly questionable, and I prefer a few moments in the original game, but overall it's just nicer to play.

DQ 1+2 for the SNES is just an abject improvement all around, unless you're really into grinding for some reason.

REmake 1 is fairly good.

[Anonymous No.9275095]

>>9275092
This. You CAN play Doom in its original state over ZDoom/GZDoom...but why?

[Anonymous No.9275274]

>>9274712
>reduced screen resolution so enemies can attack you from outside the viewable area
>changed music
>changed story
Why tho?

[Anonymous No.9275796]

>>9275021
Do you know if the other Classic Rebirth mods (RE1, RE2, Dino Crisis) are as definitive as RE3? I think I was able to mod in the Dreamcast's FMVs for RE2 years ago but I might be wrong.

[Anonymous No.9275951]

>>9275796
Pretty sure RE1 yes, no idea with the others

[Anonymous No.9276975]

>>9275796
Only annoying thing about RE1 on PC is that Jill's scenario doesn't use save ribbons. No idea why.

[Anonymous No.9276976]

>>9274768
there's a really nice romhack that gets rid of the slowdown now too.

[Anonymous No.9276986]

>>9275796
2 doesn't have a definitive version per se. GC is the only one who allows cutscene skip and there are different costumes and small bits of extra content sprinkled throughout the different ports. All in all rebirth could be considered the best one as it stands, though not definitive.

[Anonymous No.9276990]

>>9273594
The RE4 HD port on PC with the RE4 HD Project is insane.
I also love the modern port of Rez, Rez Infinite. It added VR support, and it's a blast to play it that way. The game is unsurprisingly very well-suited for VR. The added content, Area X, isn't really incredible but is worth playing at least once.
This isn't exactly on-topic but while I'm talking about /vr/ in VR, if you have a PC VR headset you can also use Dolphin VR to play GameCube games in VR. Pretty fun to fuck around with for an hour or two in Star Fox Assault, Mario Kart or F-Zero GX.

[Anonymous No.9277020]

Star Ocean 1+2 on PSP are fantastic.

[Anonymous No.9277032]

>>9273594
Sonic CD (2011), Sonic 1 and 2 (2013)

[Anonymous No.9277128]

>>9274062
Explain this then.

[Anonymous No.9278053]

>>9277032
damn thats nice

[Anonymous No.9278165]

>>9276990
I usually dislike texture mods because they clash with the low poly objects and they always feel out of place. The RE4 HD Project was the first time I was blown the fuck away on how much better and seamless it look, it's insane the amount of work they put into it.

[Anonymous No.9278941]

Game & Watch Gallery 1-4 are the definitive versions of everything in those compilations.

[Anonymous No.9278979]

>>9277128
Handholdy and a lot of the extra items are absolutely awful to get to.

[Anonymous No.9278989]

>>9277128
Not as good as the original.
>critpath is too restrictive
>map is too heavily altered in ways that intentionally block off free exploration
>sequence breaking is too heavily based on arbitrary breakable blocks with no indications unless you read a guide
>boss fights (especially Ridley) are way too fucking easy if you fight them at the intended time because they were too afraid of letting early boss fights be a serious challenge
>the scrambled/glyph power-ups clearing blocks is fucking dumb and adds to the exploration/backtracking problems
>too many arbitrary flags to advance (looking at you, stupid fucking worm that makes the player re-enter the same room multiple times for no good reason just to proceed forward when you would have no reason to re-enter the room at that time)
>everything after Mother Brain
Zero Mission is full of problems and it will never fully supplant the original as far as I'm concerned.

[Anonymous No.9278995]

>>9274752
FFVIIR is a sequel

[Anonymous No.9279023]

>>9273618
>Washington
>washing ton
>six foot eight
>weighs a fucking ton

Christ I’d completely forgotten about this.

[Anonymous No.9279124]

>>9274752
How'd the chart's author think about SotC if he didn't know about it using the old gameplay code? This image only spawns more questions. Not even worth saving.

[Anonymous No.9279314]

>>9274752
By this definition there is no difference between enhanced port and remaster

[Anonymous No.9279328]

>>9274752
This chart is wrong
Shadow of the Colossus on PS4 is a remake
FFS why does this shit confuse people so much? A remake is when you MAKE it AGAIN.

A remaster is likened to audio mastering, which is to say it is the same project but tuned to be more modern. These were called enhanced ports 20 years ago but remaster sounds cooler so that's the term used today.

Expanded versions may or may not be remasters – Persona 3 FES on the very same PS2 as the original version definitely isn't, whereas Halo Anniversary definitely is.

Reboots obviously have a different story

[Anonymous No.9279376]

@9273596
@9273603
Link's Awakening DX is good but easier and (particularly with the slower menus and unskippable text) more tedious than the original Link's Awakening. The additions are not worth replacing the original game with DX, and the colors in the colorization don't always match the graphical style that LA was developed to look like (though they are good-looking, in general). I also own both.

[Anonymous No.9279440]

>>9274067
Exactly.
My only complaints are that there is no 4:3 mode when you set your console to 4:3, and X and Circle are reversed from the original versions.

>>9273925
VR Missions is probably the biggest loss in The Twin Snakes.
Otherwise, it's an inferior remake that takes away the soul of the original for added bombast and visual fidelity.
It's basically MGS1 given the Disney live action remake treatment.
It has most, if not all of the same flaws as Disney's live action remakes like Beauty and the Beast 2017, The Lion King 2019, Aladdin 2019, Mulan 2020, and Pinocchio 2022.

[Anonymous No.9279448]

>>9279376
My favorite way to play Link's Awakening is unironically on a chink handheld. I have it for gbc but the backlit screen is great. I just don't get how they fucked up the Zelda Game and Watch so badly, just make it color. They even advertised it as having a color screen. Fucking retarded.

[Anonymous No.9279450]

>>9274613
Hey Anon kun...
I'm sorry but... I just don't play the bonus dungeon, OK?
And... and get this... I PLAY IT ON MY SUPER GAME BOY!

[Anonymous No.9279463]

>>9277128
Nowhere near the OG

[Anonymous No.9279952]

>>9279448
>just make it color
But then you'd have to play the worse version of the game.
>Wow! This looks pretty heavy! You won't be able to lift it with just your bare hands...

[Anonymous No.9280397]

>>9273618
Had a brain for his heart, fucked the shit out of bears

[Anonymous No.9280401]

>>9273618
He'll kick you apart
He'll kick you apart

OOH

[Anonymous No.9280757]

>>9279328
>Shadow of the Colossus on PS4 is a remake
It's just the original game with different graphics overlaid. No more of a remake than CEA or OoT3D.

[Anonymous No.9280874]

>>9280757
Oot 3D is a remake, it has new assets and gameplay stuff, sure it plays like the original, but it was rebuild from the ground up.

A remaster is just the original game in higher resolution with better textures, maybe some lost content added. But anything else it starts crossing the line.

[Anonymous No.9280890]

>>9280874
>rebuild from the ground up
>Has same texture errors or bugs as og
least influenceable nintendo drone

[Anonymous No.9280972]

>>9279448
I'm still mad they didn't make the Zelda G&W hinged with 2 screens and include an emulation of the actual Zelda G&W game. Zelda-branded mole game is dumb.

[Anonymous No.9280987]

>>9274752
>I wrote some shit on an image so it's the truth
Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.9281589]

>>9280890
You can recreate bugs by programming them as intentional features. The proof is they went and put in all the known bugs as of the game's development; bugs discovered since curiously don't work on the 3DS version. It's got bugs of its own too.

[Anonymous No.9281593]

>>9280757
The SotC remake and OoT3D are both remakes since they made the game again. They have new engines haha, whereas Halo Anniversary uses the same engine and is an enhanced port

[Anonymous No.9282138]

thoughts on the toki remake?

[Anonymous No.9282296]

>>9282138
I thought it was good.
Bosses are generally easier.

[Anonymous No.9282502]

>>9276990
>>9278165
Agreed. RE4 is my favourite game ever and I never ever play with texture mods or lighting mods etc but man is that RE4 HD Project just so damn good. So faithful and tasteful in all of its upgrades, brings the lighting perfectly in line with the Gamecube version. I just love it. Nothing ever stands out or makes me go "eugh, this is fan made"

[Anonymous No.9282662]

>>9273727
It's okay, but they fucked up the way magic counts levels after promotion.

[Anonymous No.9282858]

>>9273760
>Sonic CD (2010 version, dont know about Origins)
Origins removed the song looping transitions that the 2011 version restored.

>>9273886
Sadly held back by the removal of charm points. Not all shopkeepers bothered talking to you if you were too ugly, so you had to collect weaker equipment and equip it to impress them enough for them to even show you their best wares.

[Anonymous No.9282932]

Alicesoft 2010 is probably the best remake I've ever played.
It includes two versions of Rance II, one of which maintains the entire original script with new art and music. Unless you're an extreme purist for Alicesoft juvenilia it's hard to argue against it being the best way to experience the game.
It also includes a remake of Mamanyonyo that adds in dozens of new characters. It doesn't contain all of the content of the original but it's still a fine game.