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I said it before and I'll say it again, I think if we were to do an HD remaster, it wouldn't have to be a 'Remaster' but rather an 'Update'. Because I, personally, notice a lot of variation in the quality of textures, particularly in armors.

Any armor with Ornaments, for example. The small ornaments look HD, which makes sense because they're smaller, whereas the rest of the armor looks rather pixely. And it's noticeable. Especially since most of us probably have a mod altering the camera, allowing us to zoom in super close and take in those beautiful pixels.

Mythril armor is a particularly low-res armor.
The body of Leather armor is, too, low-res.

Studded leather armor, in my opinion, has the best quality of all the armors in normal DS2. The body pieces, anyway. Maybe this is just because of how well the colors go together, or maybe someone put a lot more care into this armor for.. whatever reason. I guess it would make sense- considering the only other thing you could probably match Studded Leather armor with is Plate armor, which is also of decent quality. This is because they're more unique than other armors, I suppose. Normal Leather looks rather Generic, whereas Studded Leather is rather colorful.

Lorethal's armor. This is something that bugs me a lot, considering I am making a character who I'm roleplaying with, he's an elf that resurrects Lorethal's guild of warrior elves to fight Valdis. Ever notice how the boots, gauntlets and helmet look exceptionally HD and Gold, whereas the armor has a very visible change in color? It's still bright, sure, but the gold parts of the armor become Dull. While the red are just pixely.

I think most of us now play DS2 on a generally higher resolution than it was necessarily made for, which is of course because computers have come a long way since then.

As for the massive size of an HD "Overhaul", look at Skyrim. Getting enough textures together to overhaul the whole game is, collectively, a LARGE download. But people do not mind because 1: Computers have enough space for it, 2: The visuals are worth it, and 3: Re-made textures generally don't add as much framerate issues as lighting and shaders, etc. (Although, Granted, that depends on the size of the HD textures, but still.)
So, long story short? Update the graphics where they need it. Provide the download in different modules, if possible.