Original or Remastered?

[Jeffery2048]

Want to play this game for the first time and I have both versions in my library. Is there any reason to play the original over the remastered?

[`Clu`]

I also heard the audio on the original is much better, being more atmospheric, than the remastered ones. Don't know if they've fixed that or not.

[Hichem]

I had three pc and all had crash on remastered, its was unplayable

[steven1mac]

I have had a few close calls with the game, the game slowing down to a crawl for a minute or 2 before recovering, haven't tried the original on the PC, but it had better background music than the new one, but other that, I really can't see much of a difference between the two.

[一匹狼]

I've completed the base game and all challenge rooms, 20+ hours total. Game crashed 1 time

[mdesaleah]

Original is more stable. ESPECIALLY for 2.

And it arguably has better atmosphere in its environments.

[TheWizard]

Originally posted by Alucard:

I've completed the base game and all challenge rooms, 20+ hours total. Game crashed 1 time :kotomiclannad:

Can you post your game and PC configs please? My game crashed 3 times in 6 hours and once I lost a 75 min progress. Very frustrating...

[Jeffery2048]

I ended up playing the original as a result of hearing about so many bugs and crashes. I don't regret it at all, the game still looks great and is remarkably atmospheric. And no crashing.

[1Oshunb]

My experience playing the remastered version a few months back was that you couldn't manually save and this required, if you died, retracing your steps back to where you were previously. The original was NOT like that.

[Γαῖα]

Its a short game if you stick to just the plot so does not matter which one you play or even both one after the other.

[Fear2288]

Honestly I can’t much tell the difference between the two. What exactly did they “remaster”? Because the audio sounds worse, it seems less stable, and it doesn’t look much better than it did in 2007.

I know Bioshock’s remaster came out long before them, but IMO all attempt to remaster/remake old games should take the RE2 - 4 route and just remake the game from scratch with modern tools, on/for modern hardware, with modern graphics/controls.

I’d happily pay $40 - $60 for a Bioshock like that even if it was virtually the same game (no new plasmids/weapons, characters, areas, etc).

[Γαῖα]

Originally posted by Fear2288:

Honestly I can’t much tell the difference between the two. What exactly did they “remaster”? Because the audio sounds worse, it seems less stable, and it doesn’t look much better than it did in 2007.

I know Bioshock’s remaster came out long before them, but IMO all attempt to remaster/remake old games should take the RE2 - 4 route and just remake the game from scratch with modern tools, on/for modern hardware, with modern graphics/controls.

I’d happily pay $40 - $60 for a Bioshock like that even if it was virtually the same game (no new plasmids/weapons, characters, areas, etc).

Yeah your right, RE2 is the sign post but in fairness the Bioshock remaster was done a while back while developers were still exploring the polish/remake idea.
A lot of games remade now all tend to follow the RE2 path.

[Fear2288]

Originally posted by Γαῖα:

Originally posted by Fear2288:

Honestly I can’t much tell the difference between the two. What exactly did they “remaster”? Because the audio sounds worse, it seems less stable, and it doesn’t look much better than it did in 2007.

I know Bioshock’s remaster came out long before them, but IMO all attempt to remaster/remake old games should take the RE2 - 4 route and just remake the game from scratch with modern tools, on/for modern hardware, with modern graphics/controls.

I’d happily pay $40 - $60 for a Bioshock like that even if it was virtually the same game (no new plasmids/weapons, characters, areas, etc).

Yeah your right, RE2 is the sign post but in fairness the Bioshock remaster was done a while back while developers were still exploring the polish/remake idea.
A lot of games remade now all tend to follow the RE2 path.

Really? I don’t see too many remakes in that vein.

There’s the upcoming Silent Hill 2 but I can’t think of any others off the top of my head.

System Shock kind of is, but the makers chose to retain much of the low-res textures as a design choice and went for a “new but retro” vibe like that recent Warhammer 40k Boltgun Doom-like game.

[Γαῖα]

Well you had RE3,RE4 and dead space to name a few. The new system shock much reminds me of what developers did with Black Mesa but more so.

[Khern]

I'm curently playing Bioshock 1 Remastered and have no crash, dunno why everyone mention unstable game.

[Slithers]

Bioshock Remastered would have a 50% chance of crashing when i dropped a save. I managed to finish the game but several parts I had to repeat.