Fight Club but the script is written by Todd Howard and George Lucas

Oh hell yeah, I'd mod tron using updated graphics, I'd fix scenes in X3, make characters die at more meaningful times.

If I could fix all the things I don't like about the stories I love, I would.

I've never really been into mods for my games, so I don't have much of an opinion on that. However, modifying movies/shows is something while I wont say you can't do, I will say you shouldn't. Ultimately what one person does with their copy is their business, so long as they realize they're admitting what they're doing is only a benefit to themselves.

There's a regular on /a/ who has taken it upon himself to redo the entire NGE series that was released on Blu-ray several years ago. Normally this wouldn't bother me; if some asshole wants to destroy his $300 copy he's more than welcome to. However he then releases it to the public claiming it's the "Definitive" version that fixes the "color mistakes made during the remaster process".

Here is one individual going over the original creators process of remastering NGE for Blu-ray:



I find it insulting how some dipshit who literally played around with the coloring on his copy during his free time claims that the 40+ hours an episode that was worked on just color was a mistake. It's a huge middle finger to the creators who really busted their ass to release a twenty year old title on Blu-ray for the first time for their fans, just to have some guy metaphorically spit in their face and say he can do it better.

how are mods any different from a song cover? is trent reznor spitting in the face of ian curtist when he records dead souls? is he metaphorically claiming that he's better than ian curtis, or is he just paying homage to an artist he admires by adding his own spin.

Quote from: Snake on April 03, 2017, 10:16:14 PM

how are mods any different from a song cover? is trent reznor spitting in the face of ian curtist when he records dead souls? is he metaphorically claiming that he's better than ian curtis, or is he just paying homage to an artist he admires by adding his own spin.

not really what i had in mind

a better comparison would be if trent recorded his vocals over the instrumental of the original song--that would be bad--but even then, that's a stretch, because that's basically just karaoke

the best example of what i'm talking about here is if trent took the original song and just sprinkled a few MLG airhorn noises haphazardly throughout the track--that would be analagous to a "mod"

but no, it's that the entire song was rebuilt from the ground up with his flavoring that makes it his own work, so it's acceptable

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Quote from: LC on April 03, 2017, 09:44:52 PM

i personally don't care because it's not like their personal modifications will affect my copy

i will never understand this mentality

People like things to be tailored to them.

Modding exists for the same reason we wear clothes that fit.

Quote from: Aria × Aria on April 03, 2017, 11:01:40 PM

Yeah. When I watch the Original Trilogy, I typically watch the Despecialized Editions. Not only are scenes cut/changed to better align it to the theatrical versions, but the team painstakingly transforming the VHS/Betamax/Laserdisc film to hi-definition video and making sure scene colors/transitions were consistent.

Those are typically the only kind of mods I download, anyway: increasing texture quality and restoring cut content.

in the case of film, i always like it when a movie captures the era it was created in

film grain is one of those inseparable elements--removing it would only make other imperfections all the more visible

i can sort of get behind adding cut content, but things tend to be cut for good reasons (unless it's executive meddling)

There's still film grain. They were captured on film, and film has an insane resolution (because not digital). VHS/Betamax/Laserdisc, however, don't have a great resolution. The transformation was to try and retain quality while stretching the tapes out to 1080p. I'd argue that it makes it closer to the theatrical release than the home release in terms of fidelity, but that's just an arguing point and not a legitimate consideration.

Quote from: Aria × Aria on April 03, 2017, 11:24:38 PM

There's still film grain. They were captured on film, and film has an insane resolution (because not digital). VHS/Betamax/Laserdisc, however, don't have a great resolution. The transformation was to try and retain quality while stretching the tapes out to 1080p. I'd argue that it makes it closer to the theatrical release than the home release in terms of fidelity, but that's just an arguing point and not a legitimate consideration.

that would be difficult to argue, given that HD resolutions weren't around in the 70s