OL wrote:...hopefully including the time-skip in Shenmue 1 (fingers crossed)
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I'd say these Shenmue ones do count as genuine remasters. Smoother graphics and widescreen capability, sure, but they're also updating button prompts to match whatever system they're played on, they're including alternate control methods, dual-language options, hopefully including the time-skip in Shenmue 1 (fingers crossed), etc. They're taking the original development materials and creating a new package out of it.
So yeah, genuine remaster.
I agree. I also define things that way and think that what they're doing qualifies as a remaster. But I've seen discussions where people have started to confuse terms like remaster, remake etc. So I figured that I would ask first what was meant by the question to be sure.
I also hope that they include the time-skipping feature. It's probably one of the more important changes since it could prevent some unneeded negative reactions.