Gorgon Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Make a new game though. All this remastered stuff is kinda sad and targeted at people who want to remember what it was like to be young. A texture pack and some gui changes does not mean you can charge full price again. At some point a stanky old matress can't be restored to the honeymoon suite centerpiece it once was. Na na na na na na ... greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 Make a new game though. All this remastered stuff is kinda sad and targeted at people who want to remember what it was like to be young. A texture pack and some gui changes does not mean you can charge full price again. I tend to agree with this part. I also think not everything old needs to be "improved/remastered." *glances at Star Wars and other things* “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Apparently there are some major bugs in the release as well. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humanoid Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I don't remember it being $15 on the original release. It's marginally more expensive than the 'standard' $10 GOG release of old titles that haven't had any tweaks or extras like the commentary track, so it's a fair enough premium. Especially since my original CD is some 700km away from me at the moment. 1 L I E S T R O N GL I V E W R O N G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tale Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Sometimes remastereds are just there to let new people play it. Grim Fandango hasn't been on sale in probably over a decade. The stinky matress analogy only works if you think games somehow decay. It's still a good game by all accounts, unless you're obsessed with graphics. 2 "Show me a man who "plays fair" and I'll show you a very talented cheater." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I don't remember it being $15 on the original release. It's marginally more expensive than the 'standard' $10 GOG release of old titles that haven't had any tweaks or extras like the commentary track, so it's a fair enough premium. Especially since my original CD is some 700km away from me at the moment. Shame there's no way to get a discount and not bother with the 'commentary' (goodie I can hear Schafer or $df_employee[$rand()]'s opinion on things). No real rush to get this, debatable it'll pop on a sale for some time to come but might as well wait. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Make a new game though. All this remastered stuff is kinda sad and targeted at people who want to remember what it was like to be young. A texture pack and some gui changes does not mean you can charge full price again. At some point a stanky old matress can't be restored to the honeymoon suite centerpiece it once was. But there's something to be said for vintage cars... even if they don't have a/c, heaters in the seats, or airbags. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AwesomeOcelot Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Old games are still good games. I'm not a nostalgia driven person, I've gone back to games I loved in the 90's, and some of them do not hold up, I often play old games I've never played before and enjoy them thoroughly. Some of the design choices of new games make them significantly worse than old games. It's worth making old games accessible, maintaining and improving them. I'd rather have a large pool of quality games to buy than have more new mediocre games each year. Some old games require quality of life modifications, either through arcade heritage or system limitation, some things can be incredibly annoying. What DoubleFine are doing is good, the lighting is a vast improvement, textures are better now, and I hear the soundtrack's improved. I don't have as much love for Grim as a lot of people but it is a rare example of good plot, characters, and acting in video games, I can literally watch a let's play of it from start to end, and it's almost as enjoyable as a good TV series. Some of the voice acting is some of the best in games, some of it is bad, the soundtrack is great. The movement system is awful, the puzzles are irritating, you can get lost in dialogue trees that are way too large and have required triggers, selection in the environment can be fustrating, backtracking can be slow, and cycling through your inventory would be much faster with a menu. I didn't like Glottis, that got old fast. Is it a great game? Not really, on first playthrough there's way too many problems with the gameplay, and the gameplay doesn't have much replayability. Why was this game not an animated movie or TV series? Is not a complement to a game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyrock Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 RFK Jr 2024 "Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive." - Bill Hicks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexx Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Make a new game though. All this remastered stuff is kinda sad and targeted at people who want to remember what it was like to be young. A texture pack and some gui changes does not mean you can charge full price again. At some point a stanky old matress can't be restored to the honeymoon suite centerpiece it once was. I am still pissed about the Monkey Island remakes. I think they are both good looking and I don't even mind the voice over... but they ruined the (non-gamepad) controls and you are unable to skip dialog without switching to the original version, which made them both impossible to enjoy for me. What a waste of money. "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katphood Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) PC gamers rejoice! Dragon's Dogma[ Online is coming out for the PC. Edited January 28, 2015 by Cat Food There used to be a signature here, a really cool one...and now it's gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noviere Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 (edited) Ken Levine’s New Game Is Open Worldish Sci-Fiish RPG What he’s got planned is an open worldish (“but not necessarily outdoors”) RPG, sci-fi, PC, probably first-person, chapter-like structure, brand new setting, add “ins” rather than add-ons, and a Passion System. It definitely sounds interesting! Edited January 28, 2015 by Noviere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmp10 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 PC gamers rejoice! Dragon's Dogma[ Online is coming out for the PC. It's also not meant for distribution in the west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I do love me some moon mars base but I'm on the fence about this ...for now Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tale Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 PC gamers rejoice! Dragon's Dogma[ Online is coming out for the PC. We all kind of saw this coming (in much the same way we saw Morrowind online coming, except it didn't), so I can't say I'm surprised. Disappointed but not surprised. The original game's a great game deserving of a better polished sequel. "Show me a man who "plays fair" and I'll show you a very talented cheater." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Yet more "Remastering" Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AwesomeOcelot Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Fahrenheit is one of the worst games I've ever played. The plot is nonsensical, the voice acting is awful, the characters and dialogue are really bad, and the gameplay mostly consists of QTE, including climbing up by virtue of pressing left or right for each grab/step. There's an interactive QTE sex scene, segments where you just piss about until timed events happen, and a lot of the time the game is a 3rd person fixed camera, from the most fustrating angles imaginable, like walking towards the camera. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tale Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 The first hour or so is great. "Show me a man who "plays fair" and I'll show you a very talented cheater." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sorophx Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 maybe they should just release the first hour as a mobile game 1 Walsingham said: I was struggling to understand ths until I noticed you are from Finland. And having been educated solely by mkreku in this respect I am convinced that Finland essentially IS the wh40k universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheChris92 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Ken Levine’s New Game Is Open Worldish Sci-Fiish RPG What he’s got planned is an open worldish (“but not necessarily outdoors”) RPG, sci-fi, PC, probably first-person, chapter-like structure, brand new setting, add “ins” rather than add-ons, and a Passion System. It definitely sounds interesting! What is this fascination with open worlds lately? I miss the days of tighter and narrower sprawly environments, like say the Spencer Mansion in Resident Evil, or even more recently, the Asylum in Arkham Asylum. It carries the good parts about backtracking, where familiarity with the environment felt nice and intuitive.. the place environment became home. Most open world settings as of late feel very unforgettable and unnecessarily padded.. to keep it on topic in regards to Levine, I'd say BioShock 1 had it right with Rapture. I hope this open world thing is just another phase the industry is going through before the next big thing arrives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoonDing Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 The ice skating and basketball QTE in Fahrenheit were brilliant. Better even than some QTE in Shenmue 2. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheChris92 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Ah, Shenmue, now there's a game that deserves a re-release or even better.. a sequel. It can't be bought anywhere anymore. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoonDing Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 More like sequels. Suzuki stated in a recent interview that ideally he'd need five games to finish the entire story. The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamoulian War Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Ken Levine’s New Game Is Open Worldish Sci-Fiish RPG What he’s got planned is an open worldish (“but not necessarily outdoors”) RPG, sci-fi, PC, probably first-person, chapter-like structure, brand new setting, add “ins” rather than add-ons, and a Passion System. It definitely sounds interesting! What is this fascination with open worlds lately? I miss the days of tighter and narrower sprawly environments, like say the Spencer Mansion in Resident Evil, or even more recently, the Asylum in Arkham Asylum. It carries the good parts about backtracking, where familiarity with the environment felt nice and intuitive.. the place environment became home. Most open world settings as of late feel very unforgettable and unnecessarily padded.. to keep it on topic in regards to Levine, I'd say BioShock 1 had it right with Rapture. I hope this open world thing is just another phase the industry is going through before the next big thing arrives. You know, Skyrim happened, and now everyone wants slice of this pie. Same like it was with MMOs few years ago. Every single open world game I played was so boring after a while, and as you say, the setting of them and story is completely forgettable. http://www.thejimquisition.com/2015/01/the-jimquisition-we-need-more-spencer-mansions/ He might be controversial sometimes, but this episode is exactly taken from my mind... I sometimes wish, that we could again get new Final Fantasy with HD prerendered backgrounds and static cameras. FF IX-2 made this way in collaboration with Sakaguchi-san would satisfy most of my wet dreams... Unfortunately this will never happen 1 Sent from my Stone Tablet, using Chisel-a-Talk 2000BC. My youtube channel: MamoulianFH Latest Let's Play Tales of Arise (completed) Latest Bossfight Compilation Dark Souls Remastered - New Game (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 1: Austria Grand Campaign (completed) Let's Play/AAR Europa Universalis 2: Xhosa Grand Campaign (completed) My PS Platinums and 100% - 29 games so far (my PSN profile) 1) God of War III - PS3 - 24+ hours 2) Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 130+ hours 3) White Knight Chronicles International Edition - PS3 - 525+ hours 4) Hyperdimension Neptunia - PS3 - 80+ hours 5) Final Fantasy XIII-2 - PS3 - 200+ hours 6) Tales of Xillia - PS3 - 135+ hours 7) Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 - PS3 - 152+ hours 8.) Grand Turismo 6 - PS3 - 81+ hours (including Senna Master DLC) 9) Demon's Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 10) Tales of Graces f - PS3 - 337+ hours 11) Star Ocean: The Last Hope International - PS3 - 750+ hours 12) Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII - PS3 - 127+ hours 13) Soulcalibur V - PS3 - 73+ hours 14) Gran Turismo 5 - PS3 - 600+ hours 15) Tales of Xillia 2 - PS3 - 302+ hours 16) Mortal Kombat XL - PS4 - 95+ hours 17) Project CARS Game of the Year Edition - PS4 - 120+ hours 18) Dark Souls - PS3 - 197+ hours 19) Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory - PS3 - 238+ hours 20) Final Fantasy Type-0 - PS4 - 58+ hours 21) Journey - PS4 - 9+ hours 22) Dark Souls II - PS3 - 210+ hours 23) Fairy Fencer F - PS3 - 215+ hours 24) Megadimension Neptunia VII - PS4 - 160 hours 25) Super Neptunia RPG - PS4 - 44+ hours 26) Journey - PS3 - 22+ hours 27) Final Fantasy XV - PS4 - 263+ hours (including all DLCs) 28) Tales of Arise - PS4 - 111+ hours 29) Dark Souls: Remastered - PS4 - 121+ hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agiel Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 (edited) Visitin' Nellis and goin' down the "Long 15" of the Mojave... ...in an F-15C Eagle: Pre-release footage showcasing the new Nevada Test and Training Range environment and EDGE 2.0 terrain rendering for Digital Combat Simulator. Edited January 29, 2015 by Agiel 2 Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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