My bet is on Quake II and Wolfenstein 3-D; both have anniversaries this year. Maybe the latter contains the higher resolution assets of the later versions (OS and Jaguar)
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Nightdive Studio Head teases more classic FPS remasters
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For whatever reason I didn't ever realise this was Nightdive?!
I have it on GOG as well!
100% one of them is Quake 2. Sonic Mayhem (the composer of the soundtrack) pretty much kinda confirmed in a YouTube comment that he was remastering the OST for a special ocassion.
You would need to make Capstone game from scratch for it to be good.
Bethesda's Terminator Future Shock/Skynet would be great though.
Haha I liked Witchaven! Quite memorable as a kid. At the time I was playing every FPS I could find even if just shareware.
The Terminator games for sure.
This is the real tragedy here.
These games were so good. Bring back Cate Archer you cowards.
I'm not sure if I ever finished first level beacuse my weapons kept breaking. Which was novel idea, but also very frustrating.
Dark forces & Hexen pls
Still have my weirdly shaped Hexen towers of darkness box somewhere
Still have my weirdly shaped Hexen towers of darkness box somewhere
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I'll take some Commander Keen remasters while we're asking for things that will never happen
Also I'll take one (1) Journeyman Project Turbo remake in ultra high fidelity
nightdive pls
My guess would be Heretic/Hexen/Quake
Makes sense to me because they are all owned by Microsoft.
It's definitely not Duke Nukem, Half Life, Goldeneye, Powerslave, Chasm or Blood cause they all already got remakes
idk who would want to play Marathon these days
They can't be dumb enough to remake original Shadow Warrior
Doom and Wolfenstein don't need any sort of remaster, they still run perfectly and there's not a lot you can do with them
Dark Forces sounds tough because of the FMV
Makes sense to me because they are all owned by Microsoft.
It's definitely not Duke Nukem, Half Life, Goldeneye, Powerslave, Chasm or Blood cause they all already got remakes
idk who would want to play Marathon these days
They can't be dumb enough to remake original Shadow Warrior
Doom and Wolfenstein don't need any sort of remaster, they still run perfectly and there's not a lot you can do with them
Dark Forces sounds tough because of the FMV
There's already newer version of Shadow Warrior (called Redux).
Hoping it's GoldernEye
I still want a remake of it but I guess a remaster would be enough for now
I still want a remake of it but I guess a remaster would be enough for now
I have no idea how any of the licensing works but my wish-upon-a-star pick for a relatively more modern FPS remaster would be F.E.A.R., especially cause it's mechanically timeless. Bring the visuals up to par and mostly keep everything else intact and it's like the best shooter around in 2022+.
I'd take Half Life as well, I'd prefer a Nightdive version of the first game over any remakes anyway
I know their work on the Turok games is well regarded, but how are the actual games? I know 2 got good reviews at the time, but it also sounded like you basically needed a guide to know where to go in the huge levels
I know their work on the Turok games is well regarded, but how are the actual games? I know 2 got good reviews at the time, but it also sounded like you basically needed a guide to know where to go in the huge levels
I wouldn't say no to a Nightdive version of Half-Life, but Black Mesa is already a very high quality version of that, so it's way down the list compared to some of these possibilities.
Hexen and Heretic should be easy as mentioned above. Quake 2 is very likely too, I'm down for that. I'd definitely be excited for Dark Forces, especially if that led into work being done on the entire Kyle Katarn series.
Unreal Tournament would be great to see as a remaster, though I imagine that'd be stuck on EGS if done, which would suck for me at least.
Hexen and Heretic should be easy as mentioned above. Quake 2 is very likely too, I'm down for that. I'd definitely be excited for Dark Forces, especially if that led into work being done on the entire Kyle Katarn series.
Unreal Tournament would be great to see as a remaster, though I imagine that'd be stuck on EGS if done, which would suck for me at least.
Maybe they could fix Quake before moving on to new projects.
The remaster did some good, but:
The remaster did some good, but:
- Dropped the tickrate from 72Hz to 60Hz.
- Doesn't interpolate that properly, so it's only smooth at multiples of 60 now, unlike every other modern source-port that runs smooth at any FPS.
Heretic, Dark Forces and Quake 2 would be my votes. Marathon is unlikely, Unreal is not Fortnite so Epic doesn't care.
They're not mentioned here, but I'd love to see attempts on the Jedi Knight/Mysteries of the Sith games. I remember them being overly ambitious and wild with how big the levels could go, and the first one had a branching campaign that featured its own levels.
This all happened in the early days of 3d fps games so they weren't shy to experiment with what could and couldn't work.
This all happened in the early days of 3d fps games so they weren't shy to experiment with what could and couldn't work.
This.
I really hope someone somewhere decides they deserve a sequel.
Imagine remastering all the Shatner's videos would drive anyone insane.
Wasn't there something involving Hexen in the news recently? Can't remember if it was a new port, remaster, or what. But something Hexen. And there have been rumors about Quake for awhile, so I'd guess those two at least.
Goldeneye has been done for awhile. It's just pending official announcement and release.
Goldeneye has been done for awhile. It's just pending official announcement and release.
This is what I was hoping to see like... hinted or something :(.
Funny, "playing that game" in the tweet, my answers would have to be basically "Quake, Doom, Quake, Quake, Doom" lol.
Didn't we already get a Rise of the Triad remaster? I thought I read about it a year or 2 ago.
Sure did, but it was nearly a decade ago now.
Rise of the Triad on Steam
Apogee Software and Interceptor Entertainment proudly present the rebirth of the cult-classic first-person shooter, “Rise of the Triad”. Bigger, better and more ludicrous than ever before.
There's another one https://3drealms.com/catalog/rise-of-the-triad-remastered_241/Sure did, but it was nearly a decade ago now.
Rise of the Triad on Steam
Apogee Software and Interceptor Entertainment proudly present the rebirth of the cult-classic first-person shooter, “Rise of the Triad”. Bigger, better and more ludicrous than ever before.store.steampowered.com
Quake 2 would be fantastic.
The Quake 1 remake's splitscreen couch-coop is a blast and the gamepad controls work really well. Would love to have the same for Q2.
They tried for a long time to do NOLF. However, that went through all sorts of hell due to the rights being spread across numerous groups (WB owns Monolith, Fox is owned by Disney, Sierra by Acti/MS) and basically hit a wall at some point trying to do it.
So even with the merge, that's still MS, Disney, and WB/Monolith that have to get into an agreement. It's a similar reason why AVP 2 was never re-released, even though AVP 1 did. At this point, you'd either need a really big entity pushing for it or for someone at WB be to be more open (I vaguely recall they were a big roadblock)
So even with the merge, that's still MS, Disney, and WB/Monolith that have to get into an agreement. It's a similar reason why AVP 2 was never re-released, even though AVP 1 did. At this point, you'd either need a really big entity pushing for it or for someone at WB be to be more open (I vaguely recall they were a big roadblock)
Sure did, but it was nearly a decade ago now.
Rise of the Triad on Steam
Apogee Software and Interceptor Entertainment proudly present the rebirth of the cult-classic first-person shooter, “Rise of the Triad”. Bigger, better and more ludicrous than ever before.
That one mimics the original in a few ways but it's really just a different game with the same name, like Doom (2016).
That's the remaster.
This is often repeated and is lacking so much context, and in some part outright wrong. Some background, Quake was originally capped at 72hz because of bad integer rounding (it's actually supposed to be 70hz, the same speed of a 320x200 VGA mode), however it doesn't actually run at this speed. It's real framerate was adaptive, and was actually tied to your framerate (so is why the demos look so janky, they were recorded at a much lower framerate). As your average display ran at a multiple of 60hz nowadays, it would have had to have been capped to this anyway, and letting run passed 60hz in the simulation caused tremendous physics issues (the player getting gibbed by lifts was a surprisingly common issue), so the renderer interpolates this making up the difference.
Any limitation passed this is a symptom of netquake itself, which yes is unavoidable to use. QuakeWorld changed the player physics completely (and frankly most of the engine) making it unsuitable for singleplayer, which was the key focus. There's generally nothing to fix here without taking many years rewriting Quake itself.
Hopefully MS can break the deadlock for NOLF, it's an easy win for them and gets some good headlines
Did it release? Says "coming 2021" and it doesn't show up on PSN store.