THere;sa fair bit of pixel hunting for sure, hopefully they'll iron it out for the console release.
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'Blade Runner' is being remastered for XB1, PS4, Switch and Steam (Nightdive Studios)
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OH hell yeah! I bought the game on GOG as support but I admit I couldn't really get into it due to it being dated.
Probably the first game that comes to mind when someone mentions "atmosphere in video games". It's exactly like what you would expect a Blade Runner game to be: Investigating crime scenes, talking to people for clues and leads, issuing Voight-Kampff tests, and occasionally retiring Replicants all to a perfect soundtrack and set of detailed, rainy environments to explore.
EDIT: Forgot I already posted in this thread, but a Blade Runner remaster is special enough I don't mind repeating myself
EDIT: Forgot I already posted in this thread, but a Blade Runner remaster is special enough I don't mind repeating myself
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Oddly, I bought the big box last year but still haven't played it.
Super stoked for this remaster though.
Someone bought me this game as a Christmas present when I was younger and I didn't have a PC powerful enough to play it. So I'm definitely picking this up.
Hopefully they do it justice, the line about updated character models, animations and cutscenes has me worried, but given the source code is all gone I suppose they have to.
I mean... Night Dive is unlikely to bring them places... but *YOU* can: https://www.scummvm.org/
Every SCUMM based game is out for sale on PC, whether the LucasArts SE versions of Monkey 1 & 2, the Double Fine remasters of Full Throttle, Day of The Tentacle, and Grim Fandango (technically the GrimE engine, which is supported by ResidualVM), or running inside ScummVM or other similar solutions in Steam and GoG. And every game (except Grim Fandango) has the original files just... sitting there... inside their install directory.
ScummVM is fully open source and can run these files on PC, Mac, Linux, Switch, PS3, PSP, iPhone, Android, Dreamcast, Wii, etc.
Obviously a few of those you'll have to hack your device, something you might not want to do, but these games have been ported EVERYWHERE by dedicated hobby programmers.
On topic: there's some grumbling on the ScummVM Discord/IRC (they're linked) about this Night Dive version. Apparently Night Dive was in talks with the organization for using their reverse engineering of Blade Runner that was added to ScummVM 2.1, and powers the existing GOG release, but that fell through. People aren't sure how much they can say to due NDA's but people are speculating they might be engineering the ScummVM reverse engineering into their own proprietary engine, which, if true, is breaking the rules of the various FOSS licenses ScummVM is using. But it's worth noting: nobody knows what Night Dive is doing with this at the moment.
Can't wait for this! I nearly jumped in when it came out on GOG but now I'll definitely get it if it's going to be remastered
Still have a copy too, but was gutted to recently find my CDs had gone mouldy :(
I'm hoping for a physical release of the console versions. A Limited Run Games release of the Switch version would be pretty sweet.
Don't know how good this will be on consoles but I can't wait. One of my favourite PC games of all time and still have the original game :)
I was gonna grab this on GOG recently but I might just wait now for this release. I assume it'll basically be the current GOG version.
Hell yes!! I've always wanted to play this. Fell in love with it from watching the Giant Bomb play through
curious how they'll do this with the source code lost. the audio is fine, but you can't widescreen a prerendered background with zooming it in like that god awful World at War Blu-Ray.
AI upscaling? hm
AI upscaling? hm
Well, REmake did it, maybe they'll take a similar approach.
Do you consider this a remaster, a remake or a restoration?
I was debating with a friend about this. He argued that it can't be considered a remaster, because source code is lost, so there's not a "master" to begin with. He said that he would call this game a remake instead. I argued that if end-user-experience is not indistinguishable from a "real" remaster, then it should be called a remaster. If it looks like a remaster, behaves like a remaster, smells like a remaster... it should be called remaster. Maybe pseudo-remaster? But after debating a little more, I prefer to call this game a "restoration" or an "enhanced restoration". Source code has been reverse engineered, recovered or recreated. Graphics will be upscaled and enhanced using AI.
I think it's really appropiate that the creators are using the term "Enhanced Edition".
I was debating with a friend about this. He argued that it can't be considered a remaster, because source code is lost, so there's not a "master" to begin with. He said that he would call this game a remake instead. I argued that if end-user-experience is not indistinguishable from a "real" remaster, then it should be called a remaster. If it looks like a remaster, behaves like a remaster, smells like a remaster... it should be called remaster. Maybe pseudo-remaster? But after debating a little more, I prefer to call this game a "restoration" or an "enhanced restoration". Source code has been reverse engineered, recovered or recreated. Graphics will be upscaled and enhanced using AI.
I think it's really appropiate that the creators are using the term "Enhanced Edition".
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Just thought about the character models and it should be doable to resize them.
they are stored as slices in vertical axis each slice having a vector presentation of surface in 2D.
This makes resolution in horizontal axis pretty nice already and as I'm quite sure creating more slices in between them would be decently easy. (Perhaps creating distance field model from flices and new slices from it... etc.)
they are stored as slices in vertical axis each slice having a vector presentation of surface in 2D.
This makes resolution in horizontal axis pretty nice already and as I'm quite sure creating more slices in between them would be decently easy. (Perhaps creating distance field model from flices and new slices from it... etc.)
Man I got in late... host said, we have a trailer and I got excited....... but it was an old PC game called SIN. 😩
Still have my PC discs but please give me a lavish Switch CE filled with tfrog waxing poetic about the game and movie. Please. I've been good!
Wonder if we'll get more news over the coming weeks regarding a confirmed release date. I could never get the original discs working on Win9 or 10 but I'd definitely prefer to buy it on console.
I don't suppose there have been any updates on this? Would love to play it on Switch ASAP.
(Sorry for the necro bump, but let's will this into existence)
(Sorry for the necro bump, but let's will this into existence)
Don't be sorry, I had somehow completely missed this news first time around. Loved this game, can't wait.
I'd buy a console port of Curse of Monkey Island at a high price. I have the OG PC version on CD, but an uprezzed HD port with PSN trophies? Gimme dat plz.
