remaster or original? need to buy now!

[Fu✠Manchu.✞Z✞]

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[rmsgrey]

Unless you have a preference based on the displayed graphics, go for whichever you can get more cheaply. The only gameplay change I noticed during my playthrough was to a single puzzle, adding additional collectibles to make it easier to complete. Before The Storm had a lot more glitches.

[Lilith]

id say remaster if they ever updated it with the patch they keep saying is being worked on, both the original and before the storm have an audio bug that causes it to be cut off before they finish speaking. So if you dont wanna deal with that id just get the original if it was cheaper or wait so many choices.

[Alt0153]

i would say original for a less buggy experience even if the game doesnt look as pretty

[python]

Definitely buy originals, they are better quality in overall.

See
my review on Life is Strange Remastered

My review is outdated, as authors have fixed many bugs and problems, yet Remasters still have many problems that will never be fixed. Originals will bring you all the expression you need. After finishing Originals, you can try Remasters for some visual updates.

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i have both remaster and original.... original > remaster

[Stigma]

Original

[Solomon Kane]

Go for ORIGINAL only one episode has a bug/error on episode 5 two whales diner as for the remaster too many..

[Lord_Dracon]

Original

[SoulSteppe]

Remastered works well

[Maviba]

Stick with the original.
This remastered is completely obselete.

It offers no relevant improvements but has even more bugs now than the original had.

[Stigma]

Originally posted by Maviba:

Stick with the original.
Thus remastered is completely obselete.

It offers no relevant improvements but has even more bugs now than the original had.

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[Legendkiller165]

Original hands down. Less buggy. looks better, has no cut features

[PXL]

Is the remaster a cash-in then? It seems pretty unanimous that the original is better.

[Maviba]

Originally posted by leveller:

Is the remaster a cash-in then? It seems pretty unanimous that the original is better.

Remastered provides slightly improved graphics and animations, which might be relevant for Episode 5

(If you didn't know yet: Dontnod, the original developer of LIS, went bancrupt during the development of LiS and therefore they were forced to release the game way earlier than intented.
So some facial animations are missing in the originals last Episode here and there).
That's basically the only improvement of Remastered.

But TBH Unless you're playing at 4k and do have a direct comparison to the original graphics you barly see any difference.
Regarding "Before the storm" you see even less of a difference.

And since it's a remastered, they also removed some extras from the original game, like the musicplayer.

My guess is the main reason for Remastered is because of Dontnod and Square Enix having terminated their cooperaton.

[PXL]

Thank you for all that info maviba. Much appreciated :)