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Dramicus posted:Is it just me, or is the player exhibiting a serious case of Stormtrooper aim in this trailer? Jokes aside, I'm super excited to play through Dark Forces again. Hopefully this leads to a Jedi Knight remaster and my childhood memories playing Jedi Knight on "The Zone" will be complete. The all-ages trailer for the Switch port of Doom Eternal does something similar and it's very funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wdW0HB_NhM
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dr_rat posted:Nightdive really have done great things. Hell EA managed to organize a brilliant C&C remaster (I mean it was mostly Petroglyph Games, and Lemon Sky Studios doing the actually remastering, but they like EA somehow didn't EA it up)! Milo and POTUS posted:EA could make a small killing if they don't gently caress up RA2 remaster. Put me in charge, I'll do it for free Bumhead posted:Where the gently caress is this, anyway? dr_rat posted:From what I've heard the senior producer at EA for the project (Jim Vessella) who was behind getting the C&C remaster going quit EA and moved to another studio, and no one else there seems like they can be bothered for whatever reason. Because EA's going to EA I guess. Oh man, I would absolutely play the gently caress out of a Tiberian Sun/FiresStorm or RA2/Yuri's Revenge remaster. Those games, along with Half-Life 1 and it's various mods composed most of my childhood. It was immensely disappointing realizing that EA weren't going to follow-up C&C remastered with these 
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Someone just needs to shut Nightdive in a room with all the classic big box PC games and a post-it with "all of these, please" scribbled on it.The Kins posted:The Xbox thread pointed out that they weren't landing hits on any humanoid opponents in that video, and I can only assume it's some Disney/ESRB edict to keep the trailer all-ages forcing the trailer player is try really hard to make the game still look exciting. I liked the "lol, stormtroopers can't shoot poo poo" thing but this is somehow even funnier.
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Bumhead posted:Someone just needs to shut Nightdive in a room with all the classic big box PC games and a post-it with "all of these, please" scribbled on it. Pretty sure Nightdive are trying to do pretty much this. If they couldn't just shoot the storm troopers, they should of obviously just shot a chandelier so it fell on them instead or something. I've seen G rated action films before, I know this works!
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dr_rat posted:From what I've heard the senior producer at EA for the project (Jim Vessella) who was behind getting the C&C remaster going quit EA and moved to another studio, and no one else there seems like they can be bothered for whatever reason. Because EA's going to EA I guess.
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Quick IGN interview with Kaiser about the enhancements to Turok 3. Textures have been uprezzed, animations have been updated with additional frames to look smoother, cutscene animations have been given an extra pass, cut content from the leaked alpha ROM has been restored, the HUD now has an option to choose between the original and alpha HUD, and player movement has been made more responsive and less sluggish. This does also confirm that Night Dive isn't working on Rage Wars or any other Turok games past this one. At least, for now. They'd like to, but apparently their calendar for next year is even busier, which I'm not entirely sure is possible without someone breaking something.
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The Kins posted:Quick IGN interview with Kaiser about the enhancements to Turok 3. Textures have been uprezzed, animations have been updated with additional frames to look smoother, cutscene animations have been given an extra pass, cut content from the leaked alpha ROM has been restored, the HUD now has an option to choose between the original and alpha HUD, and player movement has been made more responsive and less sluggish.  they keep winning
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Squeezy Farm posted:man those remastered cutscenes look awful It's a bit Monkey Island VGA vs the 2009 visuals.
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I'm just going to have to resign myself to buying literally everything Nightdive does. Even though I really don't like Turok.
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I feel bad for all the work Lucius has done over the years for TFE but I can't pretend like I won't be checking out that df remaster myself
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Quantum of Phallus posted:?????? i am dreading the concept of defending a thing against waves of enemies though, I still have to find a couple captives in this level before i can do that though
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.... speaking of taller rather than horizontal maps that emphasize their 3d environment I'm really digging Tokay's Towers in Q2
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Yeah the remastered cutscenes look kinda off. In the original they were low res so the limited animations didn’t stick out too much but now that it’s all HD’d’d its weird. Maybe if it was still all pixelated but in hd. HD pixels.
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Also it's 60fps so it looks like one of those "enhanced" animes on YouTube
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Dramicus posted:Is it just me, or is the player exhibiting a serious case of Stormtrooper aim in this trailer? Jokes aside, I'm super excited to play through Dark Forces again. Hopefully this leads to a Jedi Knight remaster and my childhood memories playing Jedi Knight on "The Zone" will be complete. Bumhead posted:I liked the "lol, stormtroopers can't shoot poo poo" thing but this is somehow even funnier. I laughed out loud when the in-game footage set to dramatic Star Wars music began and the player was just whiffing every single shot on the stormtroopers, I immediately thought it was a joke too and then started thinking it was for some technical reason instead. Still funny as hell.
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Malcolm Excellent posted:Night Dive please remaster Einhander and Vigilante 8, two games I only played on a PlayStation Demodisc If you liked vigilante 8, play Interstate 76! It's the same game but with an actual plot and characters and it's like five quid on GoG.
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Malcolm Excellent posted:Night Dive please remaster Einhander and Vigilante 8, two games I only played on a PlayStation Demodisc
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NightDive please my family is quite poor, our larder is dry and our rags tattered, and we need of a ZPC remaster to survive the barren cruelties of the coming winter
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Dramicus posted:Is it just me, or is the player exhibiting a serious case of Stormtrooper aim in this trailer? Jokes aside, I'm super excited to play through Dark Forces again. Hopefully this leads to a Jedi Knight remaster and my childhood memories playing Jedi Knight on "The Zone" will be complete. The Kins posted:The Xbox thread pointed out that they weren't landing hits on any humanoid opponents in that video, and I can only assume it's some Disney/ESRB edict to keep the trailer all-ages forcing the trailer player is try really hard to make the game still look exciting.
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Vigilante 8 - Twisted Metal would make a good meme with like those two nearly identical houses in Malibu but one's painted pink and purple and one painted all black. edit 
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:What are all of your favourite FPS maps? MP or SP, doesn't matter. I know I'm a bit late for this, but my fa my favorite 3 3D FPS maps are Ziggurat Vertigo, HIPDM1, and d1_canals_09.
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Malcolm Excellent posted:Night Dive please remaster Einhander and Vigilante 8, two games I only played on a PlayStation Demodisc You said Einhander and I heard Ergheiz but yeah, I'd be on board for an Ergheiz remaster as long as it had both play modes.
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A.o.D. posted:I know I'm a bit late for this, but my fa my favorite 3 3D FPS maps are Ziggurat Vertigo, HIPDM1, and d1_canals_09. You are in the "Early FPS Megathread", there is no such thing as being late to a topic
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bbcisdabomb posted:You said Einhander and I heard Ergheiz but yeah, I'd be on board for an Ergheiz remaster as long as it had both play modes. "God Bless The Ring" was the sickest subtitle for a fighting game ever.
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Please night dive I’m on my deathbed and also it’s my birthday and nothing would lay my spirit to rest harder than a remaster of the descent series and also Damage Inc and also some potato salad.
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was ergheiz the fighting game with all the ff7 characters
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site posted:was ergheiz the fighting game with all the ff7 characters No, just a handful of them.
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I am still tremendously grateful for TFE, as that will let me play Dark Forces (and friends!) on computers that don’t run Windows, which is a big consideration of mine. Still gonna snag this, regardless.DoombatINC posted:NightDive please my family is quite poor, our larder is dry and our rags tattered, and we need of a ZPC remaster to survive the barren cruelties of the coming winter Yes, please. Marathon is served well enough by Aleph One since the base games are free now, but ZPC sank without a ripple and deserves to be shined up. Never seen a game that required me to rest my eyes as much as that one.
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I wonder if Nightdive will touch up the Dark Forces levels in any way. It was kind of shocking seeing videos of how barren some of those levels were. 320x200 hides a lot of sins but it’s really apparent at modern resolutions that a lot of rooms are literally big empty rectangles. Definitely a case where what I remembered doesn’t match reality.
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Dark Forces is one of the first attempts to try and create a real brick-and-motor 3d realistic environment (well, realistic to the Star Wars universe). Its endlessly fascinating to me to see how many tricks and loopholes and end-runs they used to try and make that happen. Its so much more than a Doom clone. I'd argue that the second level, Talay, has an atmosphere and dread that STILL holds up better than most.
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Squeezy Farm posted:man those remastered cutscenes look awful Yeah if you're going to remove frames from an animation that was already only like 4 frames long you might as well just switch to stills
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Narcissus1916 posted:Dark Forces is one of the first attempts to try and create a real brick-and-motor 3d realistic environment (well, realistic to the Star Wars universe). Yeah I was actually going to mention Talay/Tak Base as one of my favorite FPS maps before I got sidetracked into vibing about Halo 1 multiplayer instead. The giant revolving turbines and the fact that when you hit the power switch the lights come on all over the map were what really impressed me as a kid I think, but in retrospect they went to a good bit of trouble to make a level that feels like it got bombed with death robots from orbit.
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Yeah the second level of Dark Forces was amazing at the time not just for atmosphere and environmental storytelling, the likes of which really hadn't really been attempted in an FPS before, but also just for having rotating platforms and bridges you could go under and above, which we really wouldn't see again until Duke3D.
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RE: Dark Forces, I thought it was cool that enemies (at least Stormtroopers) couldn't necessarily see you in dark environments, and you could creep around them with the IR goggles active without aggro'ing them, but using the headlight would cause them to spot you. I'd never seen that in a contemporary FPS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KSAePrwotU&t=419s
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drat, Dark Forces? That's a good get. I need to get back to Turok, then pick up 2 at some point. I enjoyed what I played of Turok, but also I remember getting confused even without the fog and not super enthused about hunting down weapon parts. I'm bad at finding secrets, in all honesty.
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Out of interest, does the Q2 remaster run the few custom maps that are out there, or would they need to be updated?
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