This would make so much money. I played FOC last night and all the fun was still there. Why not reissue both? Maybe make them in one and give us FOC multiplayer with WFC escalation? I'd play both modes so much on ps4..
I'd buy it right now. The problem is that when they remastered the Uncharted series for the PS4 they completely cut out multiplayer. FoC or WfC without multiplayer would seem pretty hollow. And I'd only want High Moon to do the remastering and they're busy doing grunt work on Destiny. But I'd really be interested in following the project if it happened. I talked to one of the graphic designers a few years ago. There was a leaderboard glitch that temporarily listed all the rankings by date instead of by score. Well you know who played first, High Moon employees. So I sent messages to them. Some responded back, some didn't. I will say that the gaming industry is surprisingly tight lipped. Maybe even more than the movie industry. I know these guys signed non-disclosure agreements but it's hard to even get these guys to admit they played the game. It blows my mind that Matt Tieger never addresses the fans of the game or that none of these designers ever even post on gamefaqs. It's like they're afraid of being black balled from the entire industry if they even admit to owning a console.
And the graphics are still good. I don't see need for a remastered version. PS1 and PS2 games OK, but PS3? Also PS3 has more power than current gen consoles. It's proposed life cycle was actually 12 years, but it was too hard to program so they pulled out a successor which is easier to program, cos it's hardware is basically a slimmed down gaming pc.
It would be nice. We already got a remastered Uncharted 3 and that came out a year after WfC. They're REALLY not, and I say that as one of the biggest FoC fans here. But the cut scenes in FoC are pretty bad and were sub-par at the time. (I wonder if I can find my original review in 2012 on ps3trophies.org that mentions it.) I mean, compare the in-game graphics to the trailer. It's night and day. The trailer still looks fantastic by any standard. And I know, you can't compare in game graphics to trailer graphics. I'm just saying that if we could move closer to those trailer graphics then the remake would be worth it in my opinion.
That's what Kutaragi wanted us all to think, but remember, this was the guy behind everybody using fake gameplay footage before the PS2 came out and claimed it would have feature film quality graphics. The PS3 was overkill at the time, yes, but Kutaragi still oversold its capabilities just like he did with the PS2. Meanwhile, the competition designed Xbox One and Wii U to be more than beefy enough to catch up. In reality, developers have confirmed that the Wii U is somewhat more powerful than the PS3, and even Sony's official specs have the PS4 being modestly more capable at raw number crunching. (Both of which mean, by the way, that PS4 can't be all that much more powerful than the Wii U either.) The PS3 was tough to optimize for, but all that accounts for is why its games were rarely more impressive than on the cheaper and simpler Xbox 360. Anyway, I think the improvements at this point would be marginal. The leap from PS2 to PS3 was huge on account of PS3 being a monster (at the time) and PS2 being an underperforming POS. The gap from PS3 to PS4 is much, much smaller, so I think a "remaster" should wait until we can get more bang for the developer's buck out of it. And yeah, the Uncharted 3 remake seems silly to me.
Isnt steam for PC? I'm not the biggest fan of PC. Plus the games are about what? 5-7 years old? That's a long time....
The "PC" in my living room uses Xbox controllers and boots directly to Steam Big Picture (basically a console dashboard). It's slightly smaller than a Sega Dreamcast. The current generation of Xbox and PlayStation are running on streamlined PC hardware with similar specs, and XBO is even running a custom version of Windows 10. At this point unless you go with Nintendo, PC vs console is becoming a distinction without a difference. A game is a game, and this one is still being sold. If you don't like the platform that's nobody else's issue. 5. And it's not just about how long it's been. Who wants to see the same games reissued every five years just because? It's about how much improvement there's been in the hardware and how likely the general public is to still have the original platform connected to their TV. The turnaround on Ratchet and Clank was about right. It had been ten years since the original, the PS3 was 6 years into its lifecycle and people were finally retiring their PS2s, and the graphical gap between the two was enormous. That's what a justified remake looks like to me. Five years and slightly better graphics is an easy pass for me. If enough other folks don't find the graphical upgrade compelling, then it's not a promising investment for the publisher or developer. Moreso when a lot of people still have their PS3 hooked up. For that reason, it will have minimal work put into it if it happens at all (work=money). I think it would be wiser to wait for 4K gaming to become the norm, at which point there might be enough of an upgrade that people want to put down their money on it for the improvement.
Well, it's not "just because." FoC is the only reason my PS3 is still hooked up. I'd love to be able to disconnect it completely. Plus there's tons of errors that could be fixed in a remastered version. The out of map glitch on Ancients that people use to farm escalation points, ghost glitching spots, the CrC could get a damage reduction, the ensnare barrier a longer cooldown, they could restore some of the custom colors they took out after release. There's just a crap load of stuff they could do. It's not all about the graphics, which didn't even look that good for 2012. Have you taken a look at the floor in Corrosion? It looks almost PS2ish. As far as WFC goes, that multiplayer is almost unplayable due to glitches. So there's A LOT that could be fixed with that game. I'll say this, there are some financial reasons to do it. Activision wholly owns High Moon, so right out of the gate there's some cost saving there. Both games should fit on a standard ps4 disc, so you could easily sell one "collection" disc. Transformer nerds eat that crap up. The franchise has multiple movies coming out so there's multiple windows for release. It would probably be cheaper to do a "collection" disc for a TF5 tie in, rather than a whole new game. Hell, they've already got TF4 Optimus and Grimlock that they could throw on the disc too and pimp it as TF5 bonus skins. There's not a big market, but they could probably make some cash there.
A little late to the party. But to be fair, Arkham Asylum and Arkham City are both getting remastered for the PS4 and Xbox One even though they are about 5-6 years old. Everyone who has played both those games seem to be pretty pumped for its upcoming release in July, especially me. I don't think a remaster of a game has to do with just graphics, it also depends on how good the game was. In this case, I think the TF fandom (at least the portion that sold their last gen consoles to get current gen consoles) would possibly jump for joy if a remaster of FOC and WFC were announced because both games were hugely popular amongst the TF fandom. Despite the atrocity that was Rise of the Dark Spark, I do believe there is popularity left in the Cybertron video games, especially since a lot of people are still asking for a sequel to FOC.
