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Was waiting to see how they’d fumble this one.

It was already something that didn't need to exist. Master Collection was already a great "remake" of it. Really didn't need another one. the technical achievement of Master Collection being able to switch between old and remake graphics on the fly was incredible and made for fun comparisons

Personally I'd say there are definitely some places where this remake is better than Halo Anniversary edition. The lighting on the 343 Guilty Spark mission actually being dark and scary like the original, instead of ridiculously bright everywhere for example.

And even the dialogue that hasn't been changed or recast has been rerecorded to sound smug and/or "he's right behind me isn't he"

I know from my long history of bitching about this sort of thing that most people don't notice or care when a line is bad or badly delivered, but it's such a bummer to me. Especially since I have the type of memory where I can just mentally play back the .wav of the original recording and compare

Like you're in the vents on the Pillar of Autumn and she goes "My analysis indicates the exit will have a green light on it". There's one exit idiot. It's a vent. I don't need a light and I don't need you to tell me what color it is

Do you, like me, have a small stroke when another movie or game uses sound effects from the same audio library as Half-Life 2?

Noooooo it got Marvel’d

Joss Whedon fucking ruined western entertainment.

And this isnt even the game where your main companions are three cast members of firefly! In fact that game was, somehow, good!

Increasingly coming in on the side of "all remakes are at best fundamentally unnecessary and at worst actively terrible". Every big budget remake makes 1 million little compromises on cool shit that served as part of the original identity in favour of "modern game design" and "quality of life".

I dunno I think it's something you can do well and worthwhile-ly. Certainly unnecessary but so is most of the best shit in life. I think it just happens to mostly get done on a thoughtless whim by someone who doesn't care much about it

Were there any new additions in Campaign Evolved that you liked?

I think you can certainly do it well, there's lots of objectively good remakes out there but I just dislike mostly how the remake has a tendency to displace the original in conversation unless it's particularly controversial or haphazard.

We are forever doomed to repeat the same old issues

I'm so unplugged atm that I didn't even know this thing was coming out, and I just fixed my OG Xbox and played the original game. I felt no need for *any* changes other than a more stable frame rate