Timeline for Difference and meaning between "remastered" and "remake"
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| Jun 13, 2016 at 15:24 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/TheArqade/status/742377181230333952 | ||
| Jun 10, 2016 at 14:31 | history | edited | user101016 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 8, 2016 at 13:57 | comment | added | Usernew | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remaster#Video_games and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_remake | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 13:55 | comment | added | AStopher | A remake is when very little code and assets from the original project is used, and a remaster is when the game is touched up (e.g, improved graphics) but uses the same original code and engine. | |
| Jun 8, 2016 at 5:47 | vote | accept | Shaeldon | ||
| Jun 7, 2016 at 19:27 | answer | added | BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 17:34 | comment | added | Tobia Tesan | @Crowley: nitpicking, "master" usually refers to the end product of the audio remastering process. The source material is typically referred to as the "finished mix" (which in turn likely originated from a "multitrack master"). The master is not "repaired", it is made anew. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 15:58 | comment | added | Crowley | @h0ch5tr4355 If we suppose that words remake and remaster are transferred from music industry, the meaning is oposite to your explanation. Master is in this context the recording that will be copied. If something is remastered the master is repaired (suppressed noise, better balanced) or made from scratch with as few changes as possible. When remade the whole recording is made from scratch differently. So I understand remastered game using new engine, having better graphics and soud quality and remade as a new game based on same story telling. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 13:43 | comment | added | Tobia Tesan | @Chippies: in music and movies, remastered means that a new master copy for mass duplication is put together from the original elements (akin to the typesetting of a new edition of a book from the manuscript), which typically involves some effort to get things right, including cleaning up the negatives, doing minor fix-ups to the sound, et cetera. Then there is whatever Lucas loves to do, but that's... different. Remastered games are often the same, i.e. the original art and sound elements are possibly rescanned at higher res and shipped with an improved engine. See: Grim Fandango. | |
| S Jun 7, 2016 at 12:25 | history | suggested | Wondercricket | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2016 at 11:00 | comment | added | DJ Pirtu | @Chippies I can see your point, but I do not trust whoever names video games to adhere to these very strictly. In an ideal world, this this would be true, but I fear that the reality is a coin toss. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 10:57 | comment | added | h0ch5tr4355 | @Chippies According to the answers and I recherched also a bit (e.g. dispatches.cheatcc.com/1073) more people see it like you. Nevertheless a highly-subjective topic imho. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 10:53 | comment | added | SGR | @Chippies But think about it like this, with a remastered soundtrack, you're not recording the song again, you're taking an old recording and making it better. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 10:50 | comment | added | Elise | @h0ch5tr4355 for me it's the opposite. In music, remastered means the mix was redone with newer technology, thus improving the quality of the sound. Remake to me seems like it's been recreated like the original game, but with features added and/or changed. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 10:49 | answer | added | sequoiad | timeline score: 49 | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 10:46 | comment | added | h0ch5tr4355 |
I agree with DJ Pirtu. It's very subjective and there is no hard definition, but remastered has for me a stronger impact: I would give a game the title remake if there wouldn't be any features, just a renewing of graphics etc. while remastered should involve new features and just keep the basic idea of the origin.
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| Jun 7, 2016 at 10:36 | comment | added | DJ Pirtu | I doubt there is any standard. It's mostly marketing. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 10:33 | history | asked | Shaeldon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |