Remaster or Remake

[Darth Alpharius]

Looks more like a Remaster from the store page.

Edit: Looks like someone took offence to Gaia showing to much skin in the last version.

[Sito]

It's a remake. Built from the ground up.
The Extended Edition was the remaster

[Eaglemut]

It's a remaster or could say port to a newer version of the engine (AoE3:DE engine specifically).

[TSsixtyONE]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Eaglemut:

It's a remaster or could say port to a newer version of the engine (AoE3:DE engine specifically).

This looks like a Remake not a Remaster. I'm not sure if the screenshots really belong to the game, but if they do, then it's 100% built from the ground up, the units are not ports with better textures but have been reworked. Anything that is rebuilt from the ground up, for example, on a new engine, is also considered a remake. Whether it ends up looking new or like the old one doesn't really matter. Therefore, the new editions of Grand Theft Auto 1-3 are essentially "bad" remakes and not remasters, even though they are advertised as remasters.

[Darth Alpharius]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย TSsixtyONE:

I'm not sure if the screenshots really belong to the game, but if they do, then it's 100% built from the ground up, the units are not ports with better textures but have been reworked.

the Screenshots 1,2,3 and 6 are from the original campaign.

[TSsixtyONE]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Darth Alpharius:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย TSsixtyONE:

I'm not sure if the screenshots really belong to the game, but if they do, then it's 100% built from the ground up, the units are not ports with better textures but have been reworked.

the Screenshots 1,2,3 and 6 are from the original campaign.

I don't understand what you mean. Do you mean the screenshots are from the extension version? That can't be the case for now, because the screenshots may only come from the product presented here, and screenshots from the extension version are not allowed to be shown on the shop page. Apart from that, screenshots 1, 2, 3, and 6 are never the original game :) Take a closer look, it's a completely different engine, and it looks much better and more detailed.

[Eaglemut]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย TSsixtyONE:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Eaglemut:

It's a remaster or could say port to a newer version of the engine (AoE3:DE engine specifically).

This looks like a Remake not a Remaster. I'm not sure if the screenshots really belong to the game, but if they do, then it's 100% built from the ground up, the units are not ports with better textures but have been reworked. Anything that is rebuilt from the ground up, for example, on a new engine, is also considered a remake. Whether it ends up looking new or like the old one doesn't really matter. Therefore, the new editions of Grand Theft Auto 1-3 are essentially "bad" remakes and not remasters, even though they are advertised as remasters.

The graphic assets are indeed made from scratch, just like for all the other Definitive Edition remasters. Remake typically means that everything is made from scratch, not just graphics.

[Darth Alpharius]

Some of the Screenshots are from the campaign, makes me wonder if they changed parts of the campaign.

[StopItStepBro]

I wonder if they’re gonna keep the old soundtrack, I really hope they don’t make a whole new ost for it that goes more towards some sort of orchestral vibe.

[Freemawn]

New mechanics have been added sooo imma call this a remake

[Freemawn]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย StopItStepBro:

I wonder if they’re gonna keep the old soundtrack, I really hope they don’t make a whole new ost for it that goes more towards some sort of orchestral vibe.

Possibly a remix :v

[Armilus]

The definition of remake is a new game made from scratch but with the concepts and ideas of the original game. A remaster is the old game, but with some reworked code and retouched assets. Making a remake is making a new game that imitates the old game. Making a remaster is taking the old game and editing it to make it look and behave more new.
Most of the time, you can't copy code from an old engine and run it on a new engine, and expect it to just work. You can port and convert assets, models, textures, animations, sound effects, but in 90% of cases, you need to create the code from scratch, and in the remaining 10%, you have to tweak and edit the code 9 out of 10 times in order to make it work correctly.
So if it's a different engine (it is) it's very likely a remake, not a remaster.

[Prosecutor Lurker]

This would be a port to the newer version of the Bang engine. Therefore not a remake as there is no new engine made for it. De3's engine was remastered taking the basis of the TAD iteration of bang and depending on how well you know the code and the differences between, a modder can tell you is not night and day difference working with both with the small footnote that the de3 engine is a little more difficult to work with because of the new requirements for models and texture assets. A Remaster could make sense as de2 and de1 were advertised as such, but have to make the argument that it's a little more than that.

[Armilus]

Remakes have been sold as remasters, and remasters have been sold as remakes. That doesn't really help.
Swapping the engine, the technical foundation all the code runs on, while keeping the entire code, maps, missions, features, units, mostly identical, to the point mods for one game are compatible with the other with few or zero edits, is close to impossible most of the time, even with closely related engines or different versions of the same engine.
There are cases where it works, such as Unreal 5 being built so Unreal 4 stuff can be easily converted to it.
If an engine handles models and animations differently that the other, all models and animations must be either remade frocm scratch, or painstakingly and individually converted.

Is it the old Age of Mythology, but polished up and with a new coat of paint, or is it a new game made to resemble Age of Mythology as much as possible?
And if stuff is copied from one game to the other, what and how much?

[Darth Alpharius]

AoM extended edition was like AoE2 HD, So this will most likely be Close to a Definitive Edition.

[Butch]

This wont be Definitive Edition.
They changed the games mechanics, so it's gonna play different than original.

I don't know what was the point of that but whatever.