>>12629309
muh graphix aren't impressive. even the most basic translation patch is more impressive

>>12629309
All these hd mods just remove the SOVL from the game

And now Leon looks jarringly low res compared to his surroundings

>>12629310
The "most basic TL patch" is the least impressive thing in existence, that's why there's so many. Anyone could make them, they're basically a beginner's project the vast majority of the time.
The RE4 HD project is a remaster on par with criterion collection's film restorations.

Except it ruins the original mood and the original vision. The fogginess and grainyness is the APPEAL of the game and is built into the nerve and aesthetic of the experience. This is why only the gamecube (best) and Wii (easier but acceptable) are the only real ways to play the game in the original style. You are not supposed to SEE for 200 meters in any direction at any time.

>>12629326
>Except it ruins the original mood and the original vision
nigga what?

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>>12629330
RE 4 is a horror game designed to look oppressive and foggy and murky. By getting superclean and highly detailed textures in you feel like you are in some glossy fake themepark and not in a Spanish castle of multiple horrors. What you can't see fully is what adds nerve and mood to the game, it is part of the grainy horror aesthetic. Also, playing the game on a modern controller like dualshock 4 makes the aiming too easy because the gamecube controller had way less travel and a much smaller "sweetspot" where you could do controlled aiming (like headshots), this made positioning before the engagements much more crucial to get the necessary distance to the targets (as well as re-positioning during the fight if needed), with a modern controller you just headshot heashot legshot duplex your way to victory unabated. Too clear visuals and easymode aiming = unauthentic shooting-gallery experience (which is sort of what the wii game is but at least it looks authentic if slightly washed out).

>>12629348
>RE 4 is a horror game
Sorry bro, it's not a horror game

>>12629309
if remasters could be this faithful i'd like them more

>>12629348
>murky
it didn't feel murky when it came out. it felt sharp. it's just an old game so the texture resolution aged

Tamriel Rebuilt. Not a debate.

>>12629348
Fuck off retard

>>12629320
>>12629309
you can't be serious

>>12629348
You're a complete dumbass. How are the decrepit cracks in the walls any less "oppressive and foggy and murky" in HD?

>>12629320
Translating something is the easy part, actually putting that text into the game without the source code? That's where the problems start.

>>12629309
ff9 moguri mod with memorua is pretty crazy

>>12629454
Because combined with modern day high resolution and a much cleaner framebuffer compared to the original it pushes the game into easymode from the high res visuals providing full overview of the environment and a fog that doesnt truly limit player visuals anymore (the oversampled framebuffer is main culprit here). The player is in control at all times. Combined with a modern controller the game loses all tension and becomes an easy shooting gallery for beta redditors. Pc version + high res textures + modern controller = toddler difficulty.

>>12629610
Written by /vr/GPT I presume?

>>12629453
>>12629559
The effort put into this patch was far beyond any texture replacement patch in existence and most remasters since this found ORIGINAL source files or source photos to capture fill size versions of the textures. It actually rebuilt geometry for the sake of these textures.
It basically did a whole fucking professional grade remaster, for free. BEYOND professional grade in the realm of video games.
By comparison, the average translation project sounds hard as a beginner's coding project, but most of them are fucking lazy. They tend to inject text half-assed, they break tons of shit on the way out, very few reach a professional, fully playable level. Dragon Quest 2 SFC still has a massive gamebreaking bug that will just result in 1/3 of your party members never coming back (similarly DQ6 SFC is a complete shitshow).
That's why most TL patches also go to the same few games like retranslating FFVI for the five billionth time, and as we're seeing now, most are being made via AI coding with AI translation, so it's only the lazy people making these fucking things.

Translation patches being SUPER DIFFICULT was always a form of cope that the patchers themselves would pass down to explain why they're taking seven years on a project and that's why NOBODY should try to steal the game they're working on (fucking SMT If man).

>>12629612
chatgpt has been consulted previously, that's correct.

>>12629309
Yes but you already made this thread like two weeks ago or something

>>12629614
I think it's really impressive and noteworthy as a hobbyist thing even if I wouldn't personally use it. No shade intended.

Looks gay ngl

>>12629309
Maybe. It looks amazing and is incredibly faithful to the original art style, which is rare for texutre/model mods. Thief the black parade is also incredibly impressive if you want to count that as a mod.

>>12629309
All this before AI?
Really fucking impressive.

>>12630659
Check the project blog some time. They went out and looked around for all the source images they believe or know the original artists used as reference material, traveling around to take the pictures needed to get the details. That's what they used to model and texture everything in HD. Going through the blog is a wild ride of seeing them locate little details in the strangest places.

>>12629309
That anyone was willing to put in so much effort is certainly impressive considering RE4 is one of the most mediocre AAA games of the era.

>>12632560
>weak trolling attempt

>>12632619
It’s not even a controversial statement though? If it didn’t have the resident evil title attached to it it would’ve been a completely unremarkable game.
Come on, why do you think 4’s remake sold way worse than 2’s? Everyone accepted this a long time ago.