Command & Conquer Remastered Collection Announced (March 10, 2020)

[ODVS]

Lead Producer Jim Vessella talks about how FMV performances couldn't be replaced

Good Lord - he pronounces punctuation!

Apparently, "." sounds like "uuuhhh" and "," sounds like "eeeaaaand"

 

[Vidmaster]

I strongly suspect that they have zero access to the source files. Yeah, they may have part of the greenscreen footage but the whole "special effects" is probably lost to time.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

Yeah, those are the same clips upscaled. I really don't think the enhanced in game models would help the cutscenes much (meaning they would be a whole separate project). It might not be an enormous effort to redo the video, but it would certain be some cost and effort, and there's a lot of nostalgia associated with just having sharper versions of all the original clips. For a $20 release, I'm very happy with the level of effort that went in.

Several million dollars easily; just re-creating all the assets for the cut scenes to a quality that would hold up in 4K would be costly. And that's money and resources that EA might rightly say should go towards a AAA title instead.

 

[-danr-]

Several million dollars easily; just re-creating all the assets for the cut scenes to a quality that would hold up in 4K would be costly. And that's money and resources that EA might rightly say should go towards a AAA title instead.

Wow, I had no idea it could be that costly.

 

[L.I.F.]

Plus, the cheap FMV and the acting are definitely part of the games' appeal.