The worst thing is those comments going "fans doing what developers won't".

As someone who works with the Unreal Engine professionally, these videos are a running joke among colleagues.

One of the reasons why we needed the dislike ratio to be seen by the public. Some people are already thinking that this is legit game development and saying that it's better than the actual game. Which is an absolute disrespect for the actual hardworking developers.

I feel like the creators of these videos just think if everything looks “wet” and they walk really slow, the video is a masterpiece

it reminds of those "GTA HD mods" where they would just put puddles all over the ground and amp up the lens flare

Thank God, I finally see someone talk about these "remake concepts", they irrationally annoy me and you summed it up perfectly.

Hank's face from the Breaking Bad one is just peak uncanny valley. You have all these super photo-realistic assets and then you have this character model where it looks his entire face is single static texture they slapped onto the front of a generic head model. It honestly reminds me of the characters from Siren on PS2 where they literally photographed the actors' faces and put them on the character models in the game.

As an animator that lip syncing is just pure laziness, they literally throw the audio into an automatic lip syncing program within the engine and call it a day

putting a bunch of reflection in Unreal engine = great graphics

I got the San Andreas one recommended to me recently and I absolutely laughed my ass off when I realized they just stuck a sign that says “pizza” on the side of a generic building and called it a day, it’s even more hilarious considering they’re supposed to be in a Cluckin Bell drive-thru so the pizza sign makes absolutely no sense.

Literally reminds me of the old school “This is what the next Mario will look on the Xbox 720” type videos lmao Now Nintendo, please hire this man

11:47 - The "Preview" you see on the shadows is a notation from the Unreal Engine that the lights were not baked yet. Which implies what they were probably messing with the sun and were too lazy to re bake it if they even baked it to begin with. Also I'm unsure if the "Preview" only shows in the editor so it could even be that the footage has been taken directly from the Unreal editor.

I'm so glad you're covering this because I'm so sick of seeing this bullshit. The guy muted me on his KZfaq after I suggested he stop calling those remasters and remakes when they're not even remotely games, but more like asset compilations. Glad that someone with a reasonably-sized audience has addressed this annoying trend.

“The peak of delusion “ was a whole fatality 💀

So this is really specific, but Hank’s face in the Breaking Bad remake looks *exactly* like the statue faces from the Haunted Mansion ride (in Disney World). Essentially, there are bust statues in the ride that are smooth, marble heads. And Disney uses movie projectors to display moving faces on them. They’re corny, but I always loved them when I was kid. So they’re burned into my memory. Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that Hank’s face looks like a smooth, marble orb with a movie projector projecting a face on it. So shitty lmao.

The writing on the Bully's school bus (11:56) is not Thai nor Indonesian, but rather Hebrew. It translates to "House (of) education for girls girls (of) heroism" (literal translation). Excellent video! Thank you very much for all of your hard work and effort.

I find the GTA 5 Ultra-realistic graphics remake to be the strangest ones, just because all they do is up the lens flare and add puddles

The "preview" text on the textures is there because they forgot to bake the lighting of the map in Unreal lol. Can't even be bothered to do that.

The ‘trailers’ in a nutshell of characters slowly walking to another character across the way is just hilarious 😂

Silent Hill is based off a town in Pennsylvania that was evacuated overnight after the coal mine under the town caught fire. The movies actually delved into that a bit. Fun fact: the road into the town is infamous (and a bit iconic) for being the most haunted road in the country.

That PREVIEW on the footpath means they were too lazy to hit the button to calculate the lighting properly. It signifies the scene is currently using preview shadows. As for the vague models, I can almost guarantee they're using Meta Human to generate the models. Nothing hand made at all.

The problem with most of these remakes is how "overdesigned" everything is. I really understood that when you compared Max Payne's subway tunnels. Everything is just so visually cluttered in the remake, and then the original is visually clear and focused, and your brain can focus on movement and combat. When you throw all those polygons and godrays, your brain just stops processing it at a certain point.

Stuffing the levels with unwanted clutter to make it look "Next Gen" seems to be a big trend. I appreciate you bringing that up. There's a certain clarity to level design in older games because of the limitation on polygons. The original Half life can lead you to where you have to be without having a dotted line or waypoints. More polygons isn't always better.

I’m in school for game development and i showed one of my teachers one of these videos as a joke and they put it on the screen for how not to use UE5. The best part is that it likely isn’t even UE5 considering how much of a pain in the ass that engine is to use by people who know how to use UE4 with how many bugs and massive issues are present.

You know Gman has had enough when he had to make this video.

Thank you for addressing this bullshit trend! One of the worst aspects is how the comment sections are often filled with uncritical praise claiming that the "remake" looks better than most modern games. Something has gone terribly wrong when you can't tell actual masses of people apart from bots on the internet.

Another thing about that Mercedes in that Silent Hill "remake" it's a European Model, US models had different headlights and it has a European plate

The hilarity of the animations on so much of this. Eyes that blink at quarter speed, the default UE4 run animation that isn't corrected for the skeleton's proportions, the "WAH WAH WAH WAH WAH" talking, and the fact that nobody's expression ever changes.

art direction >>>> "modern" graphics

Thank god someone's addressing this. As an aspiring level designer I can't even begin to describe how annoying these videos are. You threw together an environment using premade assets that looks vaguely like another game and threw in a walk animation I could make in ten minutes (and I suck at animation), and now people are praising it, articles are being written and people are acting like it's a real project; meanwhile people actually working on real projects with real efforts get ignored.

One of my most hated people in gaming are those who just worship the Unreal Engine like it's perfect and crafted by the Gods. I'll never forget when UE5 released a CP2077 dev said he was sick of people saying they should port CP2077 into UE5, because that's just how it works. Hit the transfer to Unreal button and it just works.

Having been to Pripyat, I am 99% sure that the "school" you referred to is actually a model based on one of the schools in Pripyat. That hallway resembles one that I walked through myself (that being said though, it was the way buildings were designed in Soviet Russia so could be from another location as well). The actual classroom itself doesn't look much like what I've seen, mostly just based on what furniture it had in it, but it does look similar to how dilapidated the buildings in Pripyat were

I feel bad for the creators of Unreal Engine 5, like they made this engine thinking so many people are gonna utilize its full potential to create something truly unique and then see these Low Effort remake videos completely bastardize the engine and make it look bad

Thank God you are talking about this. It’s just like the “remasters” for 60 fps for animation

I'm a unreal dev and I can literally identify the exact models and entire maps used in most of the shots, they are so mindblowingly lazy I doubt they modeled a single thing for their videos.

That "Preview" text literally shows just how lazy these "trailers" are. They just mean that the person making them couldn't be bothered to bake the lighting properly lol

4:54 Holy shit I think you're right about the Eastern Europe setting because I saw those exact buildings on the Unreal Marketplace. They were listed as "Abandoned Soviet Buildings Pack" or something.

Before joker 2019 came out, somebody did this nice little concept trailer featuring Joaquin Phoenix in his different roles, somehow compiled together to make it look like the origins of the Joker, it was really good, and it actually conveyed some kind of concept, these videos do none of that.

🎵 Nintendo, hire this man! 🎵 🎵 Nintendo, hire this man! 🎵 🎵 He’s using Unreal Engine 🎵 🎵 In anyway he can! 🎵

THANK YOU... As a developer, I almost made a video to rant about this. I personally feel like its deceiving people because some people genuinely dont understand the difference between a remake/WIP and a cobbled together asset flip with no potential.

the comments on these videos are probably the most infuriating part of it to be honest. it makes me want to rip my hair out when i see people commenting on TERRIBLE animations by people with hundreds of thousands of undeserved subscribers, creaming over how amazing it is.

Those Unreal Engine videos are the epitome of "Sega hire this man!"

As an actual Level Artist, this was painful to watch through 😅 Thanks Gman for covering this

I'm looking forward to all the HD remakes of gmans reviews.

These unreal engine videos can be summarized as: supersaturated lighting and puddles of water everywhere while the character walks randomly

10:50 wow they actually somehow made the New Vegas strip more empty than the original game lol

"How I made Cyberpunk 2077 in one day!" Bruh, the people that designed Night City would like to have a talk.

That "preview" text is something that shows up in Unreal engine to remind you to build your lighting. The sad thing is that you can actually just disable that text entirely if you don't want it to show up...

Ah those stupid trailers that gain the well known moronic comment "durr come on [company] hire these guys."

By 11:04, the architecture of the building in "San Andreas" is also something I'd associate with the Northeastern US with all the bricks In LA architecture the houses seem to have this Spanish style of clear white walls with some curved darker outlines and whatnot

"Rockstar should hire this guy" Every comment section in these kinds of videos ^^

As an Enviroment Artist working on Unreal, seeing this videos, souless, grabbing millions of views was very heartbreaking... There is countless Enviroments showcases of many artists,(including me) that not do even 1% of popularity of this "concept trailers"... It was really an god bless to find someone who finally touched on this issue

Silent Hill is based on the city of Centralia, a town that literally has a incessant fire beneath it that crack the asphalt and let all the fire smoke leave.

Man I worked my ass of on a very small Indie "game" for my Bachelor's Thesis. It's just a 30 minute tech demo, but now I can say with pride, that it looks better then their shit, which wasn't even the focus, and at least you get 30 minutes of actually playing something :DDD.

5:14 honestly a silent hill alike game set in Chernobyl isn't such a bad idea... Wait Stalker exists

I'm not a professional developer, but I am a mod developer (for Command & Conquer: Renegade, specifically), and these kind of lazy "game remake" videos irritate me. They just perpetuate the myth that somehow "Unreal Engine = Better Game" somehow, and what grinds my gears even more is that people use these kinds of videos as "evidence" as to why we should just quit modding Renegade and move to UE5, as if that's anywhere close to being feasible. So I thoroughly appreciate you doing this video, it's a much needed sanity check.

I actually laughed out loud when it showed what was supposed to be the drive-thru scene from SA. Nice Brooklyn style apartment-drive-thru-pizzeria you made there, guys.

I build interactive VR/AR content in Unity for museums/visitor centres etc. I have to make almost every single asset from scratch yet I've had multiple clients say, "you quoted for two months work but some guy in his bedroom made a matrix city in 20 minutes on youtube". I don't even know where to begin trying to explain the difference.

I remember seeing the New Vegas one, it looked terrible, there was so much bloom you could barely see what was going on and when you could it was a bunch of stuff that didn't even look Fallout, apply a good lighting mod and texture pack to the original game and it looks better than the mess they put on show.

I was on Facebook a few days ago and a Gamingbible article was randomly recommended to me about a Dino Crisis remake, I've been wanting a remake of this game for a long while now so naturally I clicked on it thinking it might have actually been announced only to realise it was a shitty TeaserPlay video. I think the worst part about it is the articles about these videos are usually titled in a way to make it sound like these are official game trailers, very few actually acknowledge how these trailers are fan-made until you read the last few sentences in the article.

I know I wasn't the only one who thinks that the concepts made by TeaserPlay are downright bad.

Thank you for making this video. I’m a professional character artist in the games industry as well and seeing all these lazy UE5 asset flips being marketed as “remakes” genuinely make me angry.

I would SO love more videos like this, essay-like delves into little weird facets of the industry you're passionate about.

They have the funniest looking character models and animations I've seen. Like holy s*** my sides hurt from laughing so hard.

People says that those GTA SAN ANDREAS remakes he shows are the best thing, dude, look at big smoke glasses tresspassing his skin and look how theres no driveclub

12:03 now in their defense the police station they used for textures was actually reused as a sort of school irl in Baltimore Maryland. now called the "South Baltimore learning center"

15:00 I was just thinking "a good remake of the darkness with our current tech would look insane". Especially with raytracing, since the game use dynamic lights for you to destroy.

The phenomenon of "Nintendo please hire this man!" has been around for ages, everyone remembers that one Unreal Engine demo of Mario running around as a field from like 2011 if they were around on YT then lol

I am a Software/Game Developer. I know that if you are a 12-20 years old, it is exciting to make "clone" videos or games of hyper-popular console games on PC, by using premade assets. However these type of "projects" can be no more than simple school homeworks. Yet, such videos and games are being hyped like crazy just because they are based on hyper-popular console games. And clickbaity "gaming" websites love to abuse these school homeworks just to fulfill their daily clickbait quota.

Every TeaserPlay video: 🚶🚶🚶🚶🚶

I hate stuff like this, its pointless hype and its more annoying when pages on facebook and instagram are sharing this stuff for the clicks. They never tell you in title its fan made etc. So glad you've brought this up.

The "preview" text you see on the sidewalk in the Bully one is a result of static or stationary lights being used in the scene, lights meant to be baked into a static lightmap. Guess the editor was too lazy to set their lights to moveable... and also too lazy to do a proper render.... And yes, as a developer who works in UE, seeing these "remake" videos and the comments from people who think they are real, is cringe torture.

Swear to god Unreal Engine is becoming the new Unity

It's just so pathetic. They didn't even want to try to make it faithful, they just think "updating" the graphics is all it takes.

Saw a comment on the bully one saying rockstar couldn’t be creative enough to do that

Characters walking in a remake trailer is like telling the origins of BATMAN in EVERY. BATMAN movie, they just have to put it...

All these concepts radiate “Nintendo… HIRE THIS MAN” energy

What makes me mad is they seem to have a pretty good setup to render and run all of this, and this is what they do with it.

The question as to whether a remake is a good idea is: 1) Does the remake improve on the original or at least not make it actively worse to play? 2) Are the graphics updated but in a way that makes sure the original art style isn't hampered? 3) Is there at LEAST two generations between them (Looking at you Horizon)

The RE remake also added the whole Lisa Trevor storyline, one of the creepiest bits of lore in the franchise in my opinion.

Vast majority of these "Unreal Engine Remakes" trailers/concepts tend to look quite awful and incohesive. While it floods people with "Good graphics" with everything being stupidly shiny and grainy, while artstyle and og design of game it remakes is ignored. Then we also had horrible remakes from studios like GTA Definitive edition. There are very good remakes but they are very scarce and farbetween. Worst remake trailers i seen were Unreal Half life 2, GTA IV Most Wanted 2005 and Warcraft 3. I can respect effort but many are soulless. What matter is not shiny noisy visuals, but atmosphere, artstyle, good design and gameplay. Kids whatching these things would mob me to death if i said anything under these, while its drown in praise from them. Especially saying "This is the remake we wanted/needed" when it looks so awful and unfaithful or even illogical. I dont want to get too critical on them since it looks like amateur trying to show of in some cases so it's atleast more of genuine effort but it still definetly not what the remake should be.

15:39 That actually makes complete sense to Yakuza fans

To the people who are defending the makers, imagine you spend years of your life to create a video, spending your time to master your craft gets less recognition than some dude in his basement copy and pasting preview assets into Unreal Engine and pressing export.

Pyramid Head in Silent Hill 2: Long, wiry arms. Disproportionate body with short stubby legs, a nasty beer gut and a creepy way of walking. Pyramid Head in newer Silent Hill media: 10 ft tall, looks like he just got off a Mr. Olympia contest and walks like he's a giant robot...

Lol the foreign writing is Hebrew, here in NYC those Hebrew school busses are pretty common especially in Brooklyn. Absolutely no way an Aussie would know this though, and I doubt the guy who made the "trailer" knew either. Excellent video as always.

Mods Have Already done massively better job than these Unreal Engine Showcases. Although it's sad alot of mods are getting DMCA'D left & right.

I could not agree with you more on this. Last year someone released a very very unfinished shitty looking unreal engine teaser of Mosnter Hunter Rise, and people got SO EXCITED. Comments like "this is how the game should have looked!" Not realizing that this barren boring adaptation has ditched Rise's charm and unified aesthetic entirely for the sake of fidelity. It is madenning how so many gamers legitimately seem to think that graphical fidelity is the only thing that matters, and don't realize how much of a role competant art direction plays in making an experience enjoyable.

As a former AAA dev and a struggling indie studio, this channel "TeaserPlay" feels like a joke. And the sad thing is, look how many views he has, while struggling devs barely get few views...

Silent Hill, man I MISS this unique disturbing scary franchise. Played SH 2 recently. Can't believe just how insanely deep the game is with it's lore, themes and overall symbolisms. Truly one of the best if not THE best horror game franchises to ever exist despite it's age. Remaking something like this would truly be difficult. Also Pyramid Head still scares the living hell out of me.

11:46 its even worse than just not painting over it, because those are shadow indicators, meaning he didn't rebuild the lighting before shooting this. Even worse is, you can be lazy and not rebuild lighting and still get rid of that by clicking like 2 maybe 3 times through a menu and disabling the "Preview Shadow" watermark.

Playing Devil's Advocate here, but these videos illustrate just how low the bar is when it comes to the things we want. Volition could spend 11 million in advertising trying to sell people of the new Saints Row, and people relentlessly savaged every single trailer before destroying the game. On the other hand, a kid with a laptop running UE5 could put one bespoke model in a test environment, have it walk forward with audio from the game in the background, and the response is always overwhelmingly positive.

If anything, these videos show the power of UE5. You can easily create something that will impress a layperson (and gaming journalists for God knows why) without any serious effort.

This video has more journalistic effort than all of the gaming news we've had over the last few months. I appreicate you gman as always doing what you do best, telling it how it is.

I have family members that send me stuff like this... I think part of the problem is that people see something shiny and think it's better, and don't bother to actually look at what they're watching. At least they didn't nuke the original game's resolution to make the 'remake' look better... That channel is definitely trying to hit trending or something.

Kind of sad how generically bad the videos look. There are talented people able to make fun vid games. But these feels so damn lazy.

Madman actually took the risk. Hope the video will still be available over time.

HAD TO COME BACK TO THIS TO TELL YOU IGN literally fell for the unreal engine "demo trailers" in one of their latest uploads LMAO that just goes to show you the state of the gaming industry

I'm a junior games designer and I've seen some of these videos. Most of them are made up of a premade map and models downloaded from some random website. The half life 2 one hurts the most because that game is one of my fav's and seeing them mess up the game I love is painful.

"I see that you think Lens Flares are beautiful and amazing graphics design" **Blinds you with a flashlight**

I mean, they're just a content farm designed to generate income through clickbait and falsifications. None of this is a surprise.