A nice video, by Jim Vessella(producer on the remaster project) about the steps he took to find an absolute treasure trove of C&C assets, including hopefully the original FMVs for the games: youtube clip. At the end you can check out a remastered video clip, as it will appear in the final version.

SPOILERS/TL;DR: Unfortunately, there are no higher quality versions of the FMVs, so they ended up using an AI algorithm to upscale the old DOS/PlayStation FMV videos. :(

I wouldnt be supprised a bit if this was the case.
They couldnt make one for a decade and now that remakes are popular oh lets bank in with minimal effort.

looks like tinder pictures , i guess this is the max what is possible with the inputs limitations

No problem, the game will still be great.

You should probably let that friend go.

We have since patched things up, he has recently had a change of heart about the situation and in general agrees with me.

Everything I have seen and heard suggests these remasters should be great.
Hopefully they look at the disaster that is the Warcraft III remaster and don't make the same mistakes Blizzard did.

Eyeroll... NEXT!

I would love to play C&C again. Original version even with unofficial patch has some issue with screen scrolling speed. I just hope they'll update enemy AI a bit and fix the "wall strategy" approach.

Unless I misunderstood, you'll be able to play the game with the original assets or the remastered ones. Best of both worlds. When it comes ot the AI, that might be beyond the scope of the project.

Honestly, I don't remember being bothered by the AI, but then again, I played most of the C&C series exclusively for the campaigns. I think I played some skirmish matches in Red Alert 1, and realized the mode is not for me.

Same as with pretty much every other remaster/re-release; not going to pay again for a game I already own.

While I am a big fan of C&C, I see absolutely no point in it. Especially when with a bit of effort, you can make any old C&C game work perfectly fine on Win 10. Every game from The First Decade plays without issues on my PC.

But I can see how this would be good for people who never owned the game before.

I don't know about that. As you can see in the last video, at least for Red Alert, they added the FMVs and additional missions from the playstation version. The new content should be at the same standard as the original. That alone would be enough for me, but then there's remastered soundtrack, which is god tier!

The behind the scenes content looks interesting but I can always watch that on Youtube after it releases.

I never played the expansion packs before Firestorm for Tiberian Sun because they have no overlapping story. It is just random disconnected missions with no relevance to the main game whatsoever and I had no desire to play them. So I never played Covert Ops, Counterstrike or Aftermath.

The remastered FMVs look like vaseline paintings. Not sure if that is much of an upgrade to be honest.

The remastered soundtrack seems good and the fact that they give you an option of whether you want to listen to the new or the old is a huge plus.

They obviously put a lot of work into it unlike some cheap cashgrab remasters out there but for me, it is the same case as Age of Empires 2 for example. I own the original and don't intend on buying HD or Definitive any time soon.

Didn't know that.

But the remaster might at least get some new people to try out C&C, which is always a good thing.

because the free copies run like crap and have done since windows 7.
Why would you fix the wall strategy? You don't have to use it but it's still there for those that would like to.