The Thing: Remastered vs Original | Direct Comparison

[@adamir-magnumCZ]

If I had a coin every time a horror classic, about a group of folks isolated alongside an extraterrestial monster, got an awesome sequel where a squad of armed military fight against a significantly larger number of the extraterrestial monsters, I'd have two which isn't a lot, but it's cool it happened twice

[@clingmarbleprod]

Wtf is the second one?

[@thewewguy8t88]

I think alien and aliens lol.

[@sinenomine8739]

Collector and Collection. Dead Space and Dead Space 2 to some extent.

[@alexsilva28]

@@sinenomine8739 I hate you for making look those up. They look grotesque XD

[@Ninoish]

@@alexsilva28 the Dead Space series is probably some of the goriest series we had so far and those games came out during the 360/PS3 era

[@alexmichnowicz5873]

I wish you could feel how excited I get every time a new direct comparison comes out!! I hope you enjoy making these videos as much as we love watching them!!

[@PaleHorse73]

Yes! I skipped every single headline or video with 'The Thing Remastered' waiting on you to make this video! Getting ready to watch, just had to say that haha.

[@windy3935]

You missed at least a couple of amazing videos then, some just as good if not better. No single video can ever match the more informative impact through multiple videos. You would learn some new things outside this video. Nick's channel is incredible, but objectively my point still stands.

[@themchannel853]

​@@windy3935very well said 👏🏻 I agree that nicks videos are great but having one sole source of info in any context is never a good "thing"

[@MagmaManSSJ]

Thank you Nick , for putting so much effort into those videos. Easily one of my favourite youtubers for a few years now .

[@yashe6780]

the thing, cold fear and dino crisis deserve a proper remake

[@1231231232972]

dino crisis is a mess from top to bottom, better make a new story driven survival horror game with big role of overgrown lizards

[@Nick930]

Overgrown birds*

[@guily6669]

Cold fear specially I finished quite a few times. But anyway there's something quite more scary with the old PS1 era visuals like resident evil 1, Dino crisis and similar games, they are a magnitude more scary than modern visuals somehow 😎

[@AlmightyPolarBear]

Seeing Cold Fear on TripleJump made me wish I had played it as it's totally cool and interesting. The effort put into it too.

[@vitoldwisniewski]

This was a great follow-up to the classic 1980s film, which even featured the master of horror, John Carpenter, as a cameo in this game.

[@JorisBax]

Thanks for this comparison. Dang this brings me back to the early 2000s!

[@xmvr.]

I remember how this game came to me unexpectedly, I went to a store to take my PS2 to be repaired since it didn't read the discs, the day I go to pick it up they tell me that it is ready and works and so I take it home and When I turn it on to test, the game starts quickly and I was surprised since it wasn't mine and it happens that the person who repaired my PS2 left the disc inside and that's how I started playing The Thing, scary as hell when i was a kid to be honest but a great game.

[@xmvr.]

Now playing the remaster on PC, this give me so much nostalgia

[@And_1985]

Did you return the game though? 😮

[@jamesabernethy7896]

I probably don't comment as much as I should. I only watch the comparisons on the games that interest me most. I love this game and while I recognised its flaws at the time none of them ever dulled my experience of the game. I'm literally going to play the remaster for the first time now. I love your longer history videos and tend to watch them whatever the game is. Nice work.

[@Jknives]

This channel don’t get enough attention. It’s glorious !

[@FrameTheTime]

Thank you. I was waiting / hoping for this one. Great breakdown as always.

[@aXque]

Bought the game as a kid with no clue about the movie at the time. Never beat it but I remember being scared as hell.

[@billywilliams4183]

I did three playthroughs of the Thing when it was new. I remember my teammates randomly turning into monsters. Some of them would freak out if not managed correctly and freezing to death if you're not paying attention. 😆 It was awesome I might pick up the remastered version.

[@Knuckism]

Love the section about sound design where all they have done is added a low pass filter and maybe bumped a few higher frequencies , like what sound design ? It's more like sound scaping.

[@coreycasciano3255]

Tbh never played this game originally, saw it on the xbox store and decided why not, having a blast with it

[@irecordwithaphone1856]

I forgot how much I love this channel, it stopped showing up in my feed for some reason

[@gringoamigo8146]

I like how the eye glint is much more pronounced in the remastered. This could mean the rumor eye glint in the Michael Carpenter movie used as a hint if the person is infected or not. No glint or very little is a sign that this person is infected.

[@nine_art]

Made an HD texture pack for the original game a few years ago and helped a streamer with it. Love this game

[@RMJ1984]

I wish we could get another The Thing game in the style of Alien Isolation. You could make one of the most creepy and spooky horror games ever. Because this time, you don't even know who the enemy is. So it would add a whole new layer to traditional horror games.

[@DavidPerez-xq6vn]

That is brilliant

[@RageMachete]

No bro I don’t want to hide and crouch the whole time.

[@ЕгорВ-т2б]

Still Wakes the Deep

[@Jim-jc8vb]

@9:16 the soldier cocking the gun in the classic looks much better than the remastered version. Maybe (Night Dive Studios) DEVS will continue with improvements/patching the game. It would also be cool if the DEVS considers looking into the unfinished The Thing 2 2003 sequel. I'm curious of how much of the game was developed by Computer Artworks back then before getting cancelled.

[@sasuke172533]

Love this game back in 2002

[@ianmitchell5979]

I think the change to the lighting and colors was to better match the look and style of the movie it's connected to.

[@ceeril]

The game AI system still holds up really well 2 decades later.

[@alexsilva28]

They completely overhauled the AI on this version though. It was much worse in the original from what they said

[@Potidaon]

The AI in the original was pretty iffy a lot of the time.

[@NSAspyvans]

I literally remember buying this game in early 2003 at Babbage's also , RIP Computer Artworks, the studio who made this game and doesn't even have a wiki page

[@NINisTR1]

Perfect comparison!

[@rinostellone4467]

hi Nick, can you please enable on your channel the new youtube feature auto dubbing????

[@TyroneSayWTF]

A 'remake' I might have been interested in (like the recent Deadspace and Resident Evil remakes) - but a 'remaster', just isn't a big enough difference in presentation and visual upgrade to justify a purchase.

[@jakobwalker541]

This game took me way back to when I was a kid pizza and playing scary games with my friends and I remember when we played the thing I was invited to a sleepover and one of my friends said we should play this game and I didn't know about the movie but we played the game and at age 7 it was scary I got really uncomfortable and paranoid about everything I quit right at the Norwegian base when you walk up to the door and one of the creatures are right there now that I'm older it's different good times

[@re9311]

Nick you make some relaxing vids

[@jaeden2806]

Been wanting this for damn years

[@MoldyMojoMonkey]

Had this on PS2 when i was younger. For some reason my copy would always crash at the same point on every playthrough, so i never got to finish it. The Thing is in my top 10 favourite films of all time, so I'll definitely be picking this up at some point. I'm a bit busy playing Indy right now.

[@FlaqkoGTA]

Was it that mission where if you mess up those guys come from the elevator

[@Needwagon4Speedwagon]

Remaster looks amazing and the original still looks pretty good too tbh

[@SixSioux]

Are you going to do a comparison video between Stalker 2 release and "Strider trailer" (2023) and/or E3 2021 trailer? Thanks and keep up the great work!!!

[@shegzy6061]

Another game remaster I’d love to see is freedom fighters…it was a game I enjoyed every bit of

[@ALL_that_ENDS]

Ahhh yes, another Nick930 vid.. Always nice to work too

[@mannaman00]

Played it on OG xbox a long time ago and still have it. Im good . .

[@idiot_city5444]

Needed a full blown remake

[@windy3935]

Funny, I was gonna suggest this game next in the _Legacy of Kain_ video. I'm usually anti-remasters, because they're always fucking with/up some things from the original whether that be design ruination and/or introduction of brand new issues that didn't exist previously. From what I've been seeing of this The Thing remaster, this looks like one of the best ever made... and that's probably unfortunately due to some of original developers being involved ("unfortunately" because it means they'll always be needed to get the best/cleanest version possible which obviously isn't always possible). There seems to be almost no unfavorably forced changes that makes you want to revisit the original (which can't be said about a lot of other re-releases I've played). The only kinda-one I heard about is the more increased ammo drop during that one section of the game where none existed before, which naturally makes the game easier, but my concern would only be if they added more universally throughout the game which would be far more impactful, and I haven't quite heard. There's also the blue graphic filter (more on that later) which could annoy some of us, but unlike basically every other game remaster/remake that's actually an optional feature this time around. So certain quality of life features, new effects like blood pools (even though sadly it quickly disappears) & vomit splatter, and expanded lore (incl. tying into the movies) are nice and welcomed changes that factor into my positive assessment of this remaster so far. The one and important thing the video didn't cover was the blue graphic filter situation. Usually in other re-releases we'd be forced to live with graphical adjustments like this, but they made the right choice to make it optional (I want to know who's idea that was). The purpose behind this setting is to make the game feel more inline with the movies that use the same effect, which was a great idea but an ever greater idea to make it optional (as I prefer the original atmosphere visuals in certain places - would not want to be stuck with only this ice'y-blue filter eternally, something the recent _Until Dawn remake_ did not respect). *I was really hoping to see direct comparisons between the original game and remaster with that blue filter toggled OFF (it was left toggled on in the video),* especially to also see if the visual tone had other differences from the original. Overall this is what I wanted/needed and STILL want/need from a *_Dead Space 1_* remaster and *_Spyro_* trilogy remaster (both their remakes are perplexing disappointments). I need my enhanced re-releases to be disciplined and only contain clever design changes. 98% of the time creative liberties alone go too far.

[@S.Y.S.64738]

Definitely going to pick this up on a decent sale.

[@enid9911]

2:33 he looks sexier now

[@ZORROHAVEAGUN]

THAT THING RUN OUT FROM THE BASE USING THE HUSKY

[@supersaiyanbro]

It was such a nice surprise

[@homebrewGT2]

I honestly like the look of the original better!

[@JMTM]

nice, you should make a Bloodrayne direct comparison

[@Daniyar-g1o]

Excuse me, but the original is somehow closer to me. Аll I wanted was to improve the textures.

[@SadiqKhan-fy6uq]

The remastered version looks like an early 360 title

[@dillonmann6409]

How is it I never played this?? I don't even remember seeing it on sell.

[@rubenchan932]

Whats the name of the background music

[@klintkwiecien1999]

What's system is for the remaster?

[@M.Abbas7944]

Completed This Few Days Ago, It Was Amazing. The Original Xbox Version Was Hard, Took Me A Long Time To Finish

[@MobileMusicPro]

I love the video but for the life of me I can't figure out why you wanted the constant heartbeat sound in the background for the ENTIRE video. It was insanely annoying which is so strange because I've never been annoyed by a single video on this channel.

[@Thelandingchannel]

Can you do one of these but Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 VS Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024?

[@KatalinUrac]

Honestly I expected a little more when the remaster was announced. I feel like it's graphics are still a bit old for the likes of modern gamers. I feel like this game needs a remake. That would really shake up the experience.

[@dogpd3]

The thing needs to be first person like half life

[@OneRandomVictory]

I would have never expected this game to get a full blown remake tbh. Remakes generally get reserved for more notable games and game franchises.

[@solidrockofjesuschristmini2423]

This is how it usually works....they do a remaster and if it does well they do a remake and it's usually done under a independent group under the original company using their LLC, so fingers crossed they do a remake in near future

[@selinawong87]

Wish it was remade than this.

[@Conta-jn3vm]

None of these remasters and remakes can capture de emptyness and weirdness that the old games used to have.

[@zubareus]

In the remaster the picture looks too clean. But the graphics still looks outdated.

[@edag9609]

I agree, the remaster looks like a PS3 game. Kind of regret buying it. The original was great for its time though.

[@zubareus]

@@edag9609 did you play game Near Death?

[@edag9609]

@@zubareus 😂 it was decent I should say

[@zubareus]

@@edag9609 Did I say something funny?

[@edag9609]

@@zubareus yeah funny AF!!!

[@BaSiC47]

I never played the original but it surprisingly reminds me of Syphon Filter on PS1

[@Nick930]

Yeah, it does feel a little like that with the auto aim 3rd person strafing gameplay

[@qpDarkSupermanqp]

Can you do ps5 pro games?

[@theclamslam9373]

love that its remastered, hate that its $30... like $15-20 at most should've been the price. yeah i get it that its not cheap to make these but buying this for $30 is not gonna have a higher purchase frequency as something thats cheaper. you'd make more selling something alotta times cheap than something a couple of times twice the price. especially for a title this old

[@Le_Hibou]

Honestly even if it's a technical improvement I find the new characters faces less realistic and way uglier.

[@rodzandz]

You could have used Xemu emulator to run the game at 1080p or higher. It's completely playable with it.

[@Nick930]

I dont compare emulators. Nothing against them, its just not a focus here

[@rodzandz]

@@Nick930 I get it, but for comparison's sake, running the Xbox game at a HD resolution would have given you much better results IMO.

[@MoldyMojoMonkey]

But the point of the comparison is how it ran on old hardware, not upscaled emulation.

[@rodzandz]

@@MoldyMojoMonkey Not really. The comparison is between the original game vs. the remaster, not between OG xbox and a high end PC running at 4k. His comparisons are usually between same-gen consoles, not say PS5 vs. PS2. So in order to really see the details and enhancements between the older version and the remaster, the best option would have been to emulate the game at the same Res as the remaster being run on PC.

[@Moddy-g3v]

Can you do a spider man games retrospective like how you did a batman retrospective

[@nopemcgee2831]

Wait. Was gameplay even addressed?

[@LNSO2006]

Not much gameplay was changed because its a remaster, not a remake. But they went 2 extra steps and at least made npcs smarter and scripted infections are gone

[@Sparks123d]

video 2 of me asking you to cover matroid prime remastered

[@senimanmahiwal]

good remastered.. I think more better remakes just like Mafia 1 Classic & Mafia Definitive Edition that's totaly different.

[@TheHasmith99]

Playing the xbox version that's capped at 480p because it has better graphics, not even using an emulator to play it in HD to make it a fair comparison, uh huh ok

[@stumpusMaximus]

This looks like it’s a Half Life mod

[@Omnitrix8]

The game should have been remade from ground up

[@southsidetherealest2860]

PCSX2 it is this remaster should of been a remake

[@WildBeret]

where is rtx

[@agnidutta4710]

first !!!!! love your videos man

[@ProGamingProphecy]

This direct comparison requires another look... the game has an in-game option to remove the blue filter.

[@Nick930]

It was a direct comparison, showing the differences in the art design. The colorgrading is the intended style for the remaster, and toggling it off does not impact the rest of the topics discussed

[@1979jon]

Classic game

[@MrRodrigues520]

the sound on the remaster looks muffled

[@kiwisoup]

The SOUND...LOOKS muffled? Interesting...

[@MrRodrigues520]

@@kiwisoup yeah yeah, i know. english not my first language, and sound... sound, souded weird, sue me mr.

[@simseezy]

The new audio seems a bit over-compressed. It sounded a bit more natural in the original.

[@jimmmyzonkies1946]

the characters look significantly worse

[@TheNova24]

Film grain and color grading both on completely defeat the point of this video 🙄

[@Nick930]

Except they don't. Because film grain and colorgrading do not impact character models, placement of environmental assets, dynamic light effects, shadows, light probes, misc effects or sound.

[@TheQuietTimes]

WTF? Nick didn't turn off the filters? Damn... I don't know how, but _they_ got to him. This isn't the real NICK. I suspect he's he replaced by an AI... Or _The Thing._

[@Nick930]

The goal here is to show what nightdive "intended" for their remaster to look like. Turning off the colorgrading just so it matches more seems counterproductive. And personally, i prefer the new colorgrading

[@Alien_isolationist]

From PS2 to PS3.......

[@johnnyboy13642]

Sloppy remaster. Honestly, there was actually a HD texture pack and a mod that enabled higher resolutions and reshade that did a better job than this, back in 2015... LOL...

[@doctorfeelok8575]

This game deserved a current-gen quality remake instead of a cheap "remaster". 👎

[@2psah2]

You could have tried to emulate it with xemu emulator so you could play it in 4k and do a better comparison.

[@Nick930]

Then it wouldnt be an accurate reflection of what was improved with the remaster. A majority of players are NOT emulating this stuff

[@Yaojin2006]

When can we get a ghost of Tsushima pc vs PlayStation comparison

[@Loudmakesfriends]

msfs 2020 vs msfs 2024

[@Daniel-Rain-YT]

Lazy cashgrab of an awful shooter that had nothing of the source material 🤢🤮

[@Nick930]

It literally has the environments from both movies in it, along with a story that takes place after the carpenter movie. I dont consider it canon. But it's not a bad game. Not great. But not bad

[@eivindgjengstjohansen9625]

John Carpenter says it's canon

[@Daniel-Rain-YT]

@@eivindgjengstjohansen9625 He was probably drunk or he just said that to promote the game at the time... there's no assimilation in the game and the thing isn't even an alien lifeform but a virus/infection, yeah right, it has to be "canon" lol no.

[@eivindgjengstjohansen9625]

@@Daniel-Rain-YT well he said that childs dead body was canon and macready being alive lol

[@CarlosAlbertoBatistaVicent-l9j]

Caraca mais que meia boca esse remaster, ficou bem ridículo

[@alexchameleon8497]

Still looks like the game from 2002.... Lazy Remaster.

[@eivindgjengstjohansen9625]

It's more changes than just graphics the NPC's last longer before turning the flamethrower goes straight forward many details...

[@sinelacico]

It’s a remaster, NOT a remake. Learn the difference.

[@cm84487]

gta 5 PlayStation please -ps3 -ps4 ps5 + pros

[@TheNicosmik]

As fan of the movie i would just prefer a new game ! With something looking like in the movie, this game looks crap 😂

[@ivofixzone6410]

It still looks like shite. They want easy money for recycling classic games with less effort. Don't buy such games, but require remakes.

[@Megatron_Hunt_Life]

My friend had this on pc and it looked way better then the crap box

[@Nick930]

Well, it didn't. It was sharper, but the textures on pc and ps2 were about the same. Xbox had unique bumpmapping

[@Megatron_Hunt_Life]

@Nick930 cool to think about it.. it was a lot of years ago lol loved the video great work.

[@HillsofSilence]

@@Megatron_Hunt_Life Your friend might have got the Xbox texture pack and added it to his PC version and had the resolution set higher than 480p so yeah it could have actually looked better than the Xbox version.

[@Megatron_Hunt_Life]

@HillsofSilence I would have him do that but he passed away in 2010.

[@HillsofSilence]

@@Megatron_Hunt_Life I'm truly sorry for the loss of your friend :( may he rest in peace.

[@LoneWolf31230]

In my humble opinion, this game deserved a remake, not a remastered.

[@Nhilzer]

It looks like a bit "cheap". I mean for the added stuff. Just look at how just the first Soul reaver recently released looks in comparison. Plus Soul reaver is a ps1 game while The thing is a ps2 one... It would have been fun if they added some coop.

[@ANGRYCHAlR-54]

This looks like complete garbage compared to the dead space remaster. AND it’s $30 😂 Dead space remaster was much better and still free on game pass

[@Nick930]

Because dead space was a remake... not a remaster. And gamepass is not "free"

[@B-26354]

_"Cult Classic"_ The original was never a classic... It received middling reviews back in the day.

[@Katia_Targaryen]

Crap remaster. Cash grab. When it comes to remasters, the only decent one I can think of is Beyond Good and Evil

[@kiwisoup]

What the hell else did you want them to do exactly? You just can't please some people. A whole 30 dollars omg don't break the bank.

[@connorsimpson503]

I dont agree with you on this being a 'crap' remaster and a cash grab. I think this is a good remaster and its a big improvement over the original.

[@Katia_Targaryen]

@@kiwisoup What the hell else did i want them to do exactly? Ok. I'll tell you it exactly... AGAIN!!! Beyond Good and Evil. By the way, its SAME price.

[@Katia_Targaryen]

@@connorsimpson503 Big improvement? Did you mean Big use of IA improvements? ^^

[@connorsimpson503]

@Katia_Targaryen Not just that, but your squad's ai has also been improved and their accuarcy with shooting the aliens is much better now. Also, the remaster has better character models, textures, higher framerate support, and new quality of life improvements. The graphics in the game look more realistic than in the original, so I can't agree with you on it being a bad remaster. To each their own.

[@picolete]

The faces look way worst

[@kiwisoup]

Nah.

[@Jadekanji]

its still look sucks even you use sugar coat hipster jargons

[@SixFt12]

Still doesn't look anywhere close to a current generation game. It's a good game but I don't get how they can call this a remaster.

[@SnizelOfficial]

This game is exactly what a Remaster is, you are thinking of Remake. When you Remake an older game on a current gen engine, it's how you get current gen looking game. (if the devs are competent)

[@Nick930]

Its literally remastered. It doesnt need to look like a next gen game. Just needs some updates and compatibility with newer hardware. A remake is where id expect it to be on par with modern graphics

[@kiwisoup]

So many people don't get the difference between a remake and a remaster...