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High-definition remakes of older games have been quite popular in the last few years, as many publishers and developers saw that, with minimal investment, an old game could produce a new profit via aging gamers and their nostalgia.
However, Capcom did this many years ago, back in 2002, when it rolled out the remastered version of 1996's Resident Evil for the Nintendo GameCube. Now, that same version is back another time, in the form of the Resident Evil HD Remaster, which has just arrived onto the PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One platforms.
Edgar writes: "Let's take a look at the Resident Evil HD Remaster, how it significantly improved upon the original and became one of the best horror games ever made."
Despite some signs of its age, Resident Evil is still as scary as ever with the remake's recent release on Nintendo Switch.
DSOGaming writes: "These past few weeks have been really interesting as we've seen some truly amazing AI-enhanced texture packs for older games. Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy 8, Final Fantasy 9, Half-Life, Max Payne, Morrowind and Doom are just a few of the games that got new high-quality textures that were produced via AI Neural Networks and today, modder ‘Shiryu’ released a new AI-enhanced Texture Pack for Resident Evil HD Remaster."
I'm not really convinced by this AI Neural Networks thing using this as an example. I know you can't ask for much when it comes to pre-rendered stuff, but you can barely see a difference with most of these. At its worst, there's an imperceptible difference. At its best, you can see it cleared up some jaggies and looks a liiiittle less blurry.
I will download it of course, but based on the screenshots, this doesn't improve things a whole lot.
It does make a difference. Mods in general are just awesome. They've helped make so many of my games look better. The HD reworked texture mods and other mods for The Witcher 3, for example, made it look way better.
This may be small improvements now but it could be huge for gaming's future. AI with a ryzen based chip programmed to use the neural network to determine to the metal coding might allow programmers to focus on high level coding. That means games get done really fast and the budget goes into things like story and production. Once you have an ai that understands its given hardware it can decide how to run the code to maximize frames and resolution. AI will revolutionize gaming.
After reading this, I feel that this was a good review of the game. The score of 7/10 is fair as I wasn't expecting them to change the gameplay mechanics too much as that would make it a totally different game. I think it should get an 8/10 just for them deciding not to stick to the roots too much and forcing us to play using the directional pad. Bravo Capcom. Bravo!