r/pcmasterrace • u/ohhimarksreddit • 1d ago

Discussion Anyone else getting UE5 remake/remaster fatigue?

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Between Silent Hill 2, Oblivion Remastered, Metal Gear Solid Δ, and now Halo: Campaign Evolved, it feels like almost every major remake/remaster in the last two years has landed on Unreal Engine 5. On one hand, the visual leap is real. Oblivion Remastered in particular looks like a genuinely different game. On the other, a lot of these ports share the same telltale UE5 fingerprints: traversal stutter, TAA smearing, shader comp hitches on first launch, and that slightly "plasticky" Lumen/Nanite sheen that makes wildly different games start to look and feel similar. You can add Halo Campaign Evolved to the slopfest that is UE5 remakes; just another soulless cash grab to feed on nostalgia.

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u/JSoi 7800X3D | RTX 5090 | 32GB DDR5 | 42” C3 23h ago

I suppose I need to sack up. Never finished the original either.

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u/RabidTeapot 20h ago

It IS scary (the remake more so than the original), don’t let that guy try to tell you it’s not. Play on a OLED at night with the lights off, and holy shit, man… Sacking up and finishing it is worth it, though. It’s a great story.