What would a stream be without technical issues? Thankfully, I know how to resolve them, so Acharky and I are back with more Assassin’s Creed 3.
Streamed at https://www.twitch.tv/newdarkcloud
Since the topic came up on stream, I looked for comparisons between the original PS3 version of the game and this remastered version we’re playing. Digital Foundry praises it on a technical level, and I trust their opinions on that.
However, on an artistic level I find that this remaster looks worse than the PS3 a significant amount of the time, and much of that has to do with the changes made both a character models and lighting. Much of the lightning and detail work of the original game was done by hand, and in the remaster much of the work is lost. You notice it most in the facial details without needing a side-by-side comparison, but the direct comparisons also highlight how the new lighting makes senses feel washed out, losing much of the color and vibrancy of the original.
It’s unfortunate, especially since I’m growing increasingly accustom to similar Remasters making this exact same mistake. Doubtless I could spend far more time than is reasonable talking about this, but it is genuinely distracted seeing how poor these facial models look in the updated graphics.
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