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[Cheddahz]

 

[Ricerocket]

That's stupid, cutscenes should be compressed and offered at a lower size for the NA residents. Nothing good about this tweet.

 

[GuitarAtomik]

Nice. I know it's coming before E3 this year, but were they ever more specific than that?

EDIT: Lol. I guess not so nice for those that have to worry about data caps.

Upgrade? Isn't this the HD Remaster that isn't actually an HD Remaster?

They're just talking about compression. Could still be in 480p theoretically.

 

[firelogic]

Upgrade? Isn't this the HD Remaster that isn't actually an HD Remaster?

 

[kubev]

Hey, I'm always happy to use more bandwidth, since I'm paying Comcast for unlimited.

 

[Jawmuncher]

That's stupid, cutscenes should be compressed and offered at a lower size for the NA residents. Nothing good about this tweet.

I can't complain too much when it's just a 8gb size.
Now if they went from 4 to like 30+ I'd start to question

 

[TheMan]

Thought this was cancelled...

 

[OnionPowder]

That's stupid, cutscenes should be compressed and offered at a lower size for the NA residents. Nothing good about this tweet.

It's 8GB total.

Thought this was cancelled...

Remake was. This is a port of the original Xbox version.

 

[jaina]

great news for video game preservation.

 

[jediyoshi]

That's stupid, cutscenes should be compressed and offered at a lower size for the NA residents. Nothing good about this tweet.

naw

 

[xxracerxx]

Thought this was cancelled...

This is an HD Remaster, not the remake that was canned.

 

[giancarlo123x]

That's stupid, cutscenes should be compressed and offered at a lower size for the NA residents. Nothing good about this tweet.

8gb is nothing.

 

[Shiggy]

Thought this was cancelled...

It's just the original Xbox game, not a new title.

 

[Somnia]

That's stupid, cutscenes should be compressed and offered at a lower size for the NA residents. Nothing good about this tweet.

Considering the entire game is 8GB, no this is not a bad thing at all. If it made the game 30-50+ GB then sure.

 

[JaggedSac]

That's stupid, cutscenes should be compressed and offered at a lower size for the NA residents. Nothing good about this tweet.

He didn't say they would keep the cut scenes uncompressed. What this allows them to do, is compress them at a higher quality.

 

[Ydelnae]

Upgrade? Isn't this the HD Remaster that isn't actually an HD Remaster?

Yeah, it's 480p not fullscreen or something like that lol

 

[Cheddahz]

That's stupid, cutscenes should be compressed and offered at a lower size for the NA residents. Nothing good about this tweet.

The fact that cutscenes from a game originally released in 2004 seems amazing to me (even just knowing the fact that those uncompressed scenes have just laying around in some hard drive for over a decade)

 

[Nairume]

8gb is nothing.

It can be for people with shit data caps.

 

[LycanXIII]

Still the original resolution though, right?

 

[Gestault]

That's a fucking awesome find.

Tangent: They need to clarify this resolution thing. Yes, I made a joke there.

 

[Enter The 36 Chambers]

That's stupid, cutscenes should be compressed and offered at a lower size for the NA residents. Nothing good about this tweet.

No.

Why should the rest of the world suffer just because America has booty buttcheeks Internet infrastructure and service suppliers?

That's stupid.

 

[Fluxdyne]

That's stupid, cutscenes should be compressed and offered at a lower size for the NA residents. Nothing good about this tweet.

He is not saying that they will include uncompressed cutscenes. They found the uncompressed cutscenes and can generate a better quality encode now instead of just re-encoding the old compressed cutscenes.

 

[Taliban Stan]

That's stupid, cutscenes should be compressed and offered at a lower size for the NA residents. Nothing good about this tweet.

That tweet doesn't mean they put uncompressed video in the game. They're saying they found the raw files as opposed to files compressed using lossy 2004 codecs. They could totally be encoding them in something modern.

 

[firelogic]

This is an HD Remaster, not the remake that was canned.

According to this, it's not an HD Remaster.
https://twitter.com/Ishmae1/status/826952088433233920

Yeah, it's 480p not fullscreen or something like that lol

Yeah I thought so haha. I found the tweet.

 

[Theorry]

That's stupid, cutscenes should be compressed and offered at a lower size for the NA residents. Nothing good about this tweet.

Lol its 8gb.

 

[Dio]

According to this, it's not an HD Remaster.
https://twitter.com/Ishmae1/status/826952088433233920



Yeah I thought so haha. I found the tweet.

That tweet says 'we're not replacing the assets.' Assets refers to the ingame models and textures, not the resolutions.

Got another source for the 480p thing?

 

[Mechazawa]

Ok, these motherfuckers are 100% wackjob nutso if they're rummaging around for and implementing higher quality cutscenes(hooray!) but still keeping the internal rendering locked to literal Xbox 1 levels.

That tweet says 'we're not replacing the assets.' Assets refers to the ingame models and textures, not the resolutions.

Got another source for the 480p thing?

https://twitter.com/shannonloftis/status/743193021554974720

They've been incredibly vague about what's going on with this thing in general, though.

 

[dakilla13]

It can be for people with shit data caps.

Modern gaming is impossible for people with shit data caps 😐

 

[dancrane212]

That tweet says 'we're not replacing the assets.' Assets refers to the ingame models and textures, not the resolutions.

Got another source for the 480p thing?

 

[shandy706]

That's stupid, cutscenes should be compressed and offered at a lower size for the NA residents. Nothing good about this tweet.

LOL...wat?

Looks at sarcasm meter.

Edit* I live in the US and have Charter. I don't have any data caps. Don't blame or go after game files sizes when it's these idiot companies that are to blame for caps. It's just an excuse to make more money.

 

[Shiggy]

That tweet says 'we're not replacing the assets.' Assets refers to the ingame models and textures, not the resolutions.

Got another source for the 480p thing?

 

[ArjanN]

That's stupid, cutscenes should be compressed and offered at a lower size for the NA residents. Nothing good about this tweet.

Joke post?

 

[dlauv]

This is great.

 

[John Kowalski]

Wait............. original as in new, or original as in the original assets??

 

[wanders]

Did Microsoft ever announce the phantom dust sequel cancellation?

 

[Wereroku]

Wait............. original as in new, or original as in the original assets??

Original as in the Original Xbox assets. They are not doing anything on the assets or engine as far as we have been told. All they are doing is unlocking all of the cards in MP and some other QOL improvements. This project was done on such a small budget she didn't need approval from anyone else in Microsoft.

 

[TheSeks]

Fine with me, but:

GIVEITTOME...NOW.gif

 

[Shiggy]

Wait............. original as in new, or original as in the original assets??

The latter.

 

[giancarlo123x]

It can be for people with shit data caps.

How terrible is the cap I'd 8gb is breaking the bank? This is pretty small for a digital title nowadays.

 

[GuitarAtomik]

Did Microsoft ever announce the phantom dust sequel cancellation?

You mean the remake? They made an official comment at some point I'm pretty sure.

 

[Dizzy-4U]

Great news. What did it use originally? Bink?

 

[Dio]

The twitter account in the OP said that it's "not just upscaled" although they're not replacing the assets and that there's technical stuff afoot. I think it's being rendered at a proper resolution, not 480p, no matter what that quote says there.

https://twitter.com/Ishmae1/status/826952088433233920

Shannon Loftis, who you're quoting there, also said this:

"We're working with the original game code, but running it on an Xbox One, it just looks better, since the Xbox One is a much more powerful system. It looks more modern, the heart of the gameplay is the same, and the best part is, we're adding Xbox Live, with all Xbox Live features. It's an Xbox Play Anywhere game, it supports cross-play and cross-save, and best of all, achievements."

There's no way this is 480p IMO.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Did Microsoft ever announce the phantom dust sequel cancellation?

Nope.

 

[LiK]

Crispy

 

[explodet]

Only 100GB to go to surpass Gears of War 4.

 

[dancrane212]

The twitter account in the OP said that it's "not just upscaled." and that there's technical stuff afoot. I think it's being rendered at a proper resolution, not 480p, no matter what she says.

Shannon Loftis, who you're quoting there, also said this:

We're working with the original game code, but running it on an Xbox One, it just looks better, since the Xbox One is a much more powerful system. It looks more modern, the heart of the gameplay is the same, and the best part is, we're adding Xbox Live, with all Xbox Live features. It's an Xbox Play Anywhere game, it supports cross-play and cross-save, and best of all, achievements."

There's no way this is 480p IMO.

Not that I wouldn't be ecstatic to get the game running in a higher resolution it doesn't seem likely.

From the Polygon Interview.

So we're sticking with the original graphics for the game. Party because the animations are so crucial to gameplay and to upres the graphics means opening old animation files and everything else; so the original resolution and the framerate is exactly what you're going to experience. You know it is a little bit of a wayback-machine kind of experience but the gameplay is so incredible that is what we're focused on bringing back.

 

[KiefbladeMaster]

That short video Waypoint did for this makes me want to play it pretty bad, looks fun.

 

[John Kowalski]

Original as in the Original Xbox assets. They are not doing anything on the assets or engine as far as we have been told. All they are doing is unlocking all of the cards in MP and some other QOL improvements. This project was done on such a small budget she didn't need approval from anyone else in Microsoft.

Oh. That's cool i think.

 

[M3d10n]

Wait a second, 480p? Didn't it run at 720p on the 360 via BC? Or was it only added MSAA?

 

[Gestault]

Wait a second, 480p? Didn't it run at 720p on the 360 via BC? Or was it only added MSAA?

The 360 BC ran at 720p. That's why I'm thinking there's still miscommunication on the resolution, but it's not as though there hasn't been time to make it clearer.