Comparing the ORIGINAL Battlefront to the CLASSIC COLLECTION

In this video, we're going to compare the original Star Wars Battlefront games to the newly released remastered Classic Collection

[Larziii]

Changing the loading chime is the arguably most criminal move here let's be honest. That dooot-doot-doot-doot... deeet-deeet-deet-deet- broooop was iconic

[ZettXXII]

upscaled quality increase: 2-5%
upscale size increase: 2000%

Aspyr: a job well done - in fact, we even cut more content to make space for our upscaled textures, enjoy

[why]

If you want to play battlefront 2, PLEASE consider playing the battlefront 2 remastered mod. It has new models, textures and fixes the buggy menu of the PC version, and it's way cheaper, has an active playerbase, and also it doesn't need a 60GB download lol

[nocfox]

The additional 60GB is probably adding in Jabba the Hutt that *phat phoque*

[Leonard.L.Church]

Fans: Please, have mercy!

Aspyr: There is no mercy!

[LoneWindtheWolf]

the only good thing about this "collection" is that it made me appreciate the originals and the time they came out a lot more.
man, how i miss the 2000s...

[Crimblor]

Changing the battlefront zoom in sound was criminal

[xxbananamanxx]

The classic collection also removed the star fighters on Naboo plains for some reason. I wish they didn’t change the small stuff like that😭

[mostamazingtop]

My favorite part of the classic collection is when my refund got approved 💯🗣️

[GeraltofRivia]

Honestly, the haziness and low res backgrounds actually add to the atmosphere on some maps. Like Geonosis.

[willwunsche]

Pretty sure the thicker lightsaber model was due to them including an uncredited stolen mod in the game at launch despite them swearing they wouldn't after being called out for it later. It was patched out shortly after the games launch making me think it was caught up in security approval.

[gareth]

Changing that chime for loading in BF1 is a crime.

[oopomopoo]

Ah, the yesteryear artist feel for the common misconception that increasing the resolution of an existing texture means it's now that higher resolution.

If you stretch a 240p texture to 4k, you just have a bigger 240p texture. You actually have to edit the textures.

[ugoboom]

I'm a UI autist and the thing that ABSOLUTELY KILLS ME is the fonts that you see on enemy unit names stock and ammo counters. Nobody's talking about this. They replaced BF1's nice in universe font, and BF2's iconic stylized blocky font, with the most bland, MS word document ahh sans serif font they could find.

You can also notice they didn't even bother adjusting the Y position of BF2's toast bar as seen at the bottom of the screen at 4:07. LOOK AT THAT DISGRACE!


Its nice that they fixed the resolution scaling issues, like you can see on the originals with high resolution the fonts and UI elements became insanely tiny. But yeah the colateral damage of obliterating the fonts in this fix is criminal.

[gmenezesdea]

Battlefront II was one of my favorite games back then. Absolute masterpiece

[aamirrazak]

Thank you flandrew for doing this detailed breakdown, i was looking forward to buying the classic collection and held off, so knowing the differences between the two is very helpful

[mer_meh]

No splitscreen, multiplayer, and the file size is 8 times larger. That tells me everything I need to know about this game. Seems like all they did was upscale the textures with ai, and they didn't even bother cleaning the artifacts left behind.

[T-TR]

ngl, the old blurry shit looked better even if it's at a lower resolution, since it looked like it was this towering Goliath of a structure in the distance, where even though your eyes can't quite adjust to it, you can still see it looming there. That might not have been the intent, but it's the illusion given.

The remaster just looks too clean and it makes the backgrounds look like a wallpaper behind everyone.

[daniel.holbrook]

1:11 those background sceneries are SUPPOSED to be blurry to create the illusion of depth-of-field

[AlphaShark]

The most agregious part is that they changed the BF1 map loading sound. It is literally one of the most iconic things of that game.