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Think of it in music terms. Remastering a track means going back to the original studio master tapes and mixing them with modern equipment, but at the core it's still the same recording
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Gaius Marius posted:Fear not, I've never met a "HD" port that wasn't butchered. I always play the originals lurker2006 fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Apr 16, 2021 |
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Ah. Well, remakes rule (or I’ve been lucky with which ones I play). RE2, Trials of Mana, FF7R have been magnificent. Secret of Mana/FF6 looked awful.
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Apr 16, 2021 05:20
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RE2 remake isn't actually scary though. Great game, don't get me wrong. Just not scary.
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Play posted:RE2 remake isn't actually scary though. Great game, don't get me wrong. Just not scary.
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Apr 16, 2021 05:34
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I’d say it’s more tense than anything. gently caress what video game could be considered scary? Horror games are usually just really bloody games with weird symbolism/art, or gameplay where you can’t fight/win but have to run. The scariest video game moment is playing a WC3 custom map where one guy is a vampire and he can easily kill you so you try to hide and hope he doesn’t find you while you harvest trees or whatever
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Apr 16, 2021 05:36
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lurker2006 posted:Your early encounters with Mr.X are about as scary as a non vr horror game can get. Definitely the scariest part of the game, but I still found it more tense and thrilling than scary. I even laughed and yelled at him as it was happening. Maybe it's the third person view or something because re biohazard was much scarier for me, and alien isolation. Glad they are going back to first person for the new game, I think it enhances that feeling
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lurker2006 posted:Your early encounters with Mr.X are about as scary as a non vr horror game can get. Silent Hill 2 actually got me. I was a young adult when it came out and some friends had said the first one was good. Pyramid head and entourage was too much and I noped out. I figure he was kind of the equivalent of RE's Nemesis where you encounter him and run like hell, repeat. Part of me was well if this is a boss scene I should try to take him out and well, no ofc not.
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i had mr x spoiled from a hundred x gon give it to ya twitter clips before i ever loaded it up to be scary
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lurker2006 posted:Respect that but the enhanced edition mod of the pc versions may be another option if you're willing to a little digging, they're what a proper hd remaster should have been and imo the extra clarity really benefits the art styles. I've seen what they did and it's impressive but i'll probably just play PS1 version. PHUO but I really like the weird warping PS2 textures. Anyways there's three kind of "Remakes" HD Remasters were a non affiliated studio poorly uses HD assests and fucks the game up. Ratchet HD, Jak HD, Demon's souls Remakes, where they gently caress up in all the ways that a remaster does but also change basic gameplay for zero reason. Reconceptualization, The only one capable of being good where the studio takes the basic framework and reimagines them, using the skeleton of the original. e.g. FFVII Remake, RE2 Remake . REmake lurker2006 posted:Your early encounters with Mr.X are about as scary as a non vr horror game can get. Honestly I like the RE2 remake but you just run, there's never any scaring
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I agree that there are points where he's kind of lame towards the end when you're used to his shtick and he's chasing you in barren areas but early in the station when he's herding you into zombie roadblocks I feel he's quite effective. '
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Apr 16, 2021 05:53
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The original Ratchet games have an amazing HD port, same with Sly Cooper.
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I had forgotten about Sly Cooper and am very excited to try to and figure out a way to emulate that bad boy
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jokes posted:Oh. So a HD port would be like when they upscale textures or whatever but keep it all the same otherwise? Remaster means usually enhancing superficial aspects such as graphics but leaving the skeleton intact, a remake involves overhauling game play to some extent in addition to the new aesthetics
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Caesar Saladin posted:The original Ratchet games have an amazing HD port, same with Sly Cooper.  Cutscenes are broken, and they didn't program the weapons on the spherical worlds correctly
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signalnoise posted:Yea I got to some level in Amnesia where the room was flooded and there was some invisible poo poo causing splashes and I just noped the gently caress out of that A fun behind the scenes fact about that bit is that as a joke the devs used a model of a beach ball they had lying around to create the effect and just made it invisible. You're running away in terror from a beach ball bouncing around on the water.
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I freaking love invisible enemies in games. Not the lame copout kind where they have some sort of predator distortion effect so you can still see them, but the ones that are really 100% invisible so you can only track them by their footprints in water or snow, or breathing sounds, or whatnot.
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Triarii posted:I freaking love invisible enemies in games. Not the lame copout kind where they have some sort of predator distortion effect so you can still see them, but the ones that are really 100% invisible so you can only track them by their footprints in water or snow, or breathing sounds, or whatnot. Bloodsuckers in STALKER make me full on poo poo my pants That whole game, really
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Lodin posted:A fun behind the scenes fact about that bit is that as a joke the devs used a model of a beach ball they had lying around to create the effect and just made it invisible. You're running away in terror from a beach ball bouncing around on the water. 
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Odds on Silent Hill getting the RE2 treatment (lol Konami). I'd buy them day 1.jokes posted:gently caress what video game could be considered scary? Subnautica. And it's not even a horror game. Lodin posted:A fun behind the scenes fact about that bit is that as a joke the devs used a model of a beach ball they had lying around to create the effect and just made it invisible. You're running away in terror from a beach ball bouncing around on the water. Hilarious if true
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itry posted:Subnautica. And it's not even a horror game. Yeah, maybe it's more of a phobia thing rather than some kind of...universal horror factor or whatever, but I would play a session of Subnautica and then call it a night after a few hours, and realize that my whole back and neck were sore because I had been intensely tensing up my shoulders for like 90% of the time I was playing the game.
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Apr 16, 2021 10:47
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The outer wilds was pretty scary, scary that so many folk called it the best videogame ever when its a boring obtuse unfun pile of shite
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Outer wilds was a really cool game but I never finished it cuz the actual gameplay was incredibly not fun at all
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I didn't mind flying about in the spaceship but going into any game after hearing so many "best videogame ever made" takes makes it an uphill battle
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Had to put down OW when I got to the other dimension and the angler fish gobbled me up. I can't deal with that and it's the same reason I never got anywhere in Subnautica. This week I've played through Stubbs The Zombie and a bit of Shadowman and my probably popular videogame opinion is that both games were pretty poo poo back in the day and they certainly haven't aged well. I'll never get why anyone is paying Night Dive and Aspyr to update these assy old games. At least they run perfectly fine on PC, I just don't understand why anyone would want to play them.
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Triarii posted:Yeah, maybe it's more of a phobia thing rather than some kind of...universal horror factor or whatever, but I would play a session of Subnautica and then call it a night after a few hours, and realize that my whole back and neck were sore because I had been intensely tensing up my shoulders for like 90% of the time I was playing the game. If it's because it heavily features cave diving that's not a phobia, that's normal. Cave diving is no shits on the deadliest things you can do on this earth.
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Triarii posted:I freaking love invisible enemies in games. Not the lame copout kind where they have some sort of predator distortion effect so you can still see them, but the ones that are really 100% invisible so you can only track them by their footprints in water or snow, or breathing sounds, or whatnot. you can still sort of see most of them if you're paying attention even before you scan things but Killer7 owned, why is there no switch port
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fridge corn posted:Outer wilds was a really cool game but I never finished it cuz the actual gameplay was incredibly not fun at all I mean it's "fun" to help your crewmate with her deep seated issues and dating. You have a family history of alcoholism? press F to suggest she get drunk and gently caress that engineer. Highlight of the game. Also crapitalism, it sucks in space as well.
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Outer Wilds was an awesome and clever little indie game. Letting other people's opinions, positive or negative, dictate or affect yours in any way is dumb.Triarii posted:I freaking love invisible enemies in games. Not the lame copout kind where they have some sort of predator distortion effect so you can still see them, but the ones that are really 100% invisible so you can only track them by their footprints in water or snow, or breathing sounds, or whatnot. Agreed I have always enjoyed that and they are legitimately tense moments and even scary in certain games. BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I mean it's "fun" to help your crewmate with her deep seated issues and dating. You have a family history of alcoholism? press F to suggest she get drunk and gently caress that engineer. Pretty sure you are thinking of Outer Worlds, but don't feel bad that's only the ten billionth time a person has made that mistake Chamuska posted:MLB THE SHOW whose getting it? Fuckers aren't putting it on PC even though they're finally moving it from being a PS exclusive. Suck my dick!! I really really want to play it Play fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Apr 16, 2021 |
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Play posted:
Oh yeah. I actually bought Outer Worlds based on a misremembered goon recc for Outer Wilds. Then I played Outer Wilds and was wishing I had a simple point and click autopilot because I became extremely lost in space.
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itry posted:Odds on Silent Hill getting the RE2 treatment (lol Konami). I'd buy them day 1. Given the lifetime sales of the franchise and cost of such a project versus the piles of other money Konami is making, I'd say its non existent unless someone rolls up with a brinks truck of cash at the Konami office to make it profitable before a single copy is sold.
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Barudak posted:Given the lifetime sales of the franchise and cost of such a project versus the piles of other money Konami is making, I'd say its non existent unless someone rolls up with a brinks truck of cash at the Konami office to make it profitable before a single copy is sold. They make a bajillion different slot machines https://www.gaming.konami.com/Games/GamesCatalog.aspx
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:They make a bajillion different slot machines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tBy2jemw4s This doesn't even begin to contradict all the US states that do this in vidya poker
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:They make a bajillion different slot machines So you want a slot machine title? Because people got mad as hell about their Metal Gear pachinko machine. Their video games are also doing very well.
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Gnosia is really good and more people should know about it.
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Play posted:Outer Wilds was an awesome and clever little indie game. Letting other people's opinions, positive or negative, dictate or affect yours in any way is dumb. The thing with Outer Wilds is the same as games like The Witness or Inside. Folk loving gush all over them because there's an element of mystery to them that makes the player feel clever. Lets face it, the actual mechanics of what you do - the actual playing the game isn't anything exciting. Especially with Inside, it's a loving shite 2 hour long side-scrolling plat-former that is lethargic to play but folk absolutely gush over it because of the presentation and the mystery and the utterly nonsense ending. I gave Outer Wilds more than a fair shot, I played it high, I played it sober, I tried it late at night, first thing in the morning, I really wanted to give it a fair shot given all the praise I'd heard but at the end of the day its a shitey pixar cartoon with a shitey made up language expecting you to be dazzled and wow'ed by its shitey mystery.
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Barudak posted:Given the lifetime sales of the franchise and cost of such a project versus the piles of other money Konami is making, I'd say its non existent unless someone rolls up with a brinks truck of cash at the Konami office to make it profitable before a single copy is sold. The success of the new wave of RE games demonstrates that there is a market and that it'll most likely be profitable (and they probably know it), but this is probably true 
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JollyBoyJohn posted:The thing with Outer Wilds is the same as games like The Witness or Inside. Folk loving gush all over them because there's an element of mystery to them that makes the player feel clever. Lets face it, the actual mechanics of what you do - the actual playing the game isn't anything exciting. Especially with Inside, it's a loving shite 2 hour long side-scrolling plat-former that is lethargic to play but folk absolutely gush over it because of the presentation and the mystery and the utterly nonsense ending. I've been so close to pulling on the trigger for Outer Wilds a couple times and this is the thing holding me back. The way it's been praised feels just like all those times I've been burned before because people valued the atmosphere and presentation much more than I did and without that the experience was hollow.
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Phigs posted:I've been so close to pulling on the trigger for Outer Wilds a couple times and this is the thing holding me back. The way it's been praised feels just like all those times I've been burned before because people valued the atmosphere and presentation much more than I did and without that the experience was hollow. I mean you should absolutely try it - I was glad I at least gave it a shot but yeah I can't help but echo your exact sentiment. It's not a horrible game but my opinion of it was certainly coloured by expectation.
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