I still have my OG PS1 version of the game. I could never get far into the game because it's hard as balls, but I'm interested in the remaster.
Also Jaunty in HD gon b gud
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Shadow Man Remastered releasing in April 15 on PC Storefronts (update: console versions out now!)
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I still have my OG PS1 version of the game. I could never get far into the game because it's hard as balls, but I'm interested in the remaster.
Also Jaunty in HD gon b gud
Really can't wait for it. Never actually beat it but I can't wait to actually finish it this time.
Really loved it as a kid
Loved this game on N64 even though it took me a bit to get into. It was just so different from any other game I had played at the time, so it took a bit before I could even figure out how to go about navigating the world to figure out where I should be going. Turns out it was to just pick a direction and see how far you could get lol.
I remember the devs or publisher hyping up the VISTA engine the game used in an IGN64 article. Draw distances like you'd never seen before on the N64!
I'll cop the remaster when it shows up on LRG.
I remember the devs or publisher hyping up the VISTA engine the game used in an IGN64 article. Draw distances like you'd never seen before on the N64!
I'll cop the remaster when it shows up on LRG.
I don't know enough about the game to know what you regard this "censorship" to be, but we only have one SKU of assets so if it has nothing to do with audio or dialogue, yes using German will not change anything unrelated to that.
1080P@60. We don't have a Series build so it's running as Xbox One S.
Edit: whoops, double posted. Posting on a phone the moment you wake up can do that.
Cool. The original German version was heavily censored. Ridiculously so, making some enemies invincible (dogs) changing blood to green, no Gibs etc. The old Steam version downloaded that censored version if you chose German audio.
Shadowman was one of the few games with a genuinely great German dub with A-list voice actors (German dub for Samuel L Jackson, Whoopy Goldberg, Dennis Hopper and the German Dub for ALF as Jaunty) all giving great performances. Even to this day a good German dub is rather rare so getting the complete game with that dub is absolutely sublime for me. Thank you.
Nightdive did an awesome job with the PC port on this.
So if word is that the console versions are good, I would highly reccomend this version to anyone interested in the OG Shadowman game. It feels essentially like the best possible version of the game we could have hoped for (on PC).
Awesome atmosphere, great characters, such a cool vibe, and the game still feels fun to play after all these years.
So if word is that the console versions are good, I would highly reccomend this version to anyone interested in the OG Shadowman game. It feels essentially like the best possible version of the game we could have hoped for (on PC).
Awesome atmosphere, great characters, such a cool vibe, and the game still feels fun to play after all these years.
I'm going to get it on Switch and really can't wait. The OG was one of my favourite games of that generation.
With Nightdive I am buying blind on Switch. So far every single one of their Switch ports were outstanding.
Thanks for answering. Looking forward to picking it up when I have the chance.
Ah, of course. So the way the old version worked was some languages were actually a wholly different build of the game, so different executable and assets. For the remaster we only want to be making one executable so we tokenise all the strings and have all the languages in the assets combined. So yes this is uncensored, as it'll be using the same assets for all languages, just changing the text and audio.
Working on it. We are missing some store text localisations the PSN store requires us to have to sell in all regions. For obvious reasons we can't simply run this stuff through google translate so it will take us a few days to resolve.
You have no idea how happy that clarification makes me. Thank you for your awesome work. Gonna grab it on Switch. Just a few more days.
It's presently my understanding that content is still being worked on. To be clear, while this content was cut, it also didn't have much left of it survive, a good chunk of it needs to be recreated.
Does that affect all European countries then? I can see the game, the text is translated correctly on the storepage and it says it released yesterday but I can't buy it at all ;_;
Not from what I can tell. I can purchase it in New Zealand fine, I can confirm others have bought it in Germany. I'm guessing that your issue appears to be despite it being translated, Belgium however requires Dutch which is one of the languages we are currently missing.
That explains it then! I don't see Dutch on my storepages (only English and French) so I didn't know it was missing.
I'll just wait a bit then, thanks for the clarification.
No problem. Needless to say, this should be a mistake we only ever make once. We now have a firm understanding of how the pricing regions do and don't work. A bit frustrating we had find out this way, though.
The port is really excellent on console with plenty of options, and the controls have being improved which is great.
But the camera is really a problem for me and I don't remember it being a problem on either the Dreamcast or the N64 game. It's not analog (which could be OK in itself) but then the acceleration is way too high. It's almost unuseable for me as I am used to modern responsive cameras (Monster Hunter world, Bloodborne and such).
Did you try changing the Look Sensitivity X/Y in the gamepad options?
The problem was because of dead zone defaut settings. it's much better now. Though I am still annoyed by the inertia of the camera. When I stop moving the camera it still continue on its own for like half a second.
But it's very playable now and am enjoying the game.
I'm hearing reports that this should now be resolved.
Indeed it is since a few hours now.
I managed to buy the game when I randomly woke up during the night.
I managed to buy the game when I randomly woke up during the night.
Good, good. I'll need to pick this up soon, and see if I can make anymore progress than I could in the PS1 original, haha.