Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

strangeelement t1_ivwqo52 wrote

It will be awesome in opening development to so many more people, but people are sleeping on upscaling old games and how awesome it will be. It's realistic that this can run in real-time and so will be highly customizable.

Just imagine playing games like Chrono Trigger or the first Metroid but they look as good or better than the best anime out there or Into the Spiderverse. So many well-crafted experiences that aren't worth playing for most right now, they can be made to look photorealistic or with personal artistic styles, but just generally look beautiful and crisp like modern graphics.

Same with old movies, even sports. Lots of sports classics locked away because it looks like it runs on a bad potato. So much potential to look for the best footage of sports legends and have UHD of the best of their career. Too laborious by hand, but for a machine it's trivial once the various parts can be hooked together. As long as it's digitized, it can be rebuilt. We have the technology. Well, soon.

It can even go wilder, like old movies reimagined. Just a bit or a lot. Like what would Gone with the wind look like if Tarantino directed it? Or lightly update the graphics and styles to something more modern in terms of cinematic style and camera work. Or replace an actor. That one will be a teensy bit controversial.

Lots of potential for people to do remakes of series or movies. Like remove an entire plotline from this series, and this character dies in season 2 instead of continuing. It's the same series, just that one mistake is entirely gone. Or reworked, the timeline presented in a way that makes more sense. Or remove all the filler episodes. Instant remix from a simple instruction. Unlimited potential.

1