@alyx Nah, the textures are nicer. That's about it. They didn't fuck it up and that's a lot to ask for now.

@wildgoose
Why I'm asking is to make sure they didn't do a WarCraft Reforged or GTA San Andreas deal, where the remaster is objectively broken.
If they only changed the textures a bit and maybe a few shaders, then that's a decent remaster in my view.

@alyx The Warcraft and GTA remasters were extra heinous because they actually went back and fucked up the originals for no good reason. The bioshock remaster is good, but I'm able to still play the original if I really want to.

@wildgoose
The GTA case is up in the war crime level of bad, cause what happened there is they first tweaked the game when they ported it to Android/iOS, and then they used that smartphone port to make the "Remaster". So in the end you're playing a port of a port of the original game. And I think even the smartphone port was made from a lesser version of the original release (as in the least good version from all the console releases), but don't quote me on that. It's been a while since I heard that, and I'm not sure if it's entirely accurate.

@alyx They are still quite unstable and crash a lot. The upgrade is barely visible. The main improvement is that the physics run at 60 fps.

@matrix
I don't really expect actual improvements with remasters. I just want to make sure they're at least as playable as the original games, in the way the originals were meant to be played.

@alyx In that regard they are faithful to the original

@matrix @alyx Bioshock 2 for the PC literally crashed when you opened it up, is it any better?

@PhenomX6 @alyx Pretty sure that no

@alyx I seem to recall them having some sort of issue when they came out but I assume it's been smoothed over by now.