• novibe@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        They are but they aren’t, and it seems mostly pedantic to hammer on that.

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          7 hours ago

          I think the main problem here is the claim that the game is getting it’s “first update in 25 years

          If the update applied to both the original and the remaster, then it would be 25 years, but in this case the update only applies to the 5 year old “Resurrected” game.

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            3 days ago

            So Skyrim on Switch is not the same game as Skyrim on PC…?

            Or even more obviously, Oblivion Remastered on the PC vs. Oblivion on the Xbox 360.

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              3 days ago

              For Skyrim, functionally, no. You can’t use mods from one version on the other. You can’t use saves from one version on the other. Its a port, but that’s beside the point for what I’m trying to say. Oblivion and the Remaster are not the same game full stop. Nor is Diablo II and its remaster. I still play the original Diablo II. I can’t play this expansion because it wasn’t made for Diablo II. It was made for the Remaster. The two games share the same DNA but they are not cross-compatible. Diablo II did not get updated. The Remaster did.

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                3 days ago

                I think we just have very different ideas of what makes a game a “completely different game”. It seems to you all remasters are completely different games, and I just wholeheartedly disagree.

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                  3 days ago

                  That’s fine, but the point still stands that this only works on the remaster, not the original. The original did not get an expansion, which is how the title reads.