• sbbq@lemmy.zip
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    11 months ago

    Oh wow, they made the 2000 video game look like a 2006 video game!

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      If they’d released this in 2006 I might have thought it was an improvement, but in 2025 if I’m going to play something that looks like ass I’m at least going to play the original.

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        I still think the original actually looks great, in a way. It’s so low-poly it transcends into a sort of retro-futurism. Who needs spheres when a dodecahedron already looks totally techno? Gunther’s face looks so angular you could cut glass with it? Well of course, he’s basically a robot!

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          Yeah I don’t disagree. The artistic direction is appropriate to the limitations of the time, as opposed to a few recent remakes like this one where the artistic direction consists only of “add more polygons and get it shipped”

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      To be fair the 2000 video did not look like a 2000 video game. As much as I loved it, it was ugly.

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      The peak of our civilization

      *Most of it actually looks better, not that I’ve gamed much recently. It’s that first swipe on the character that looks comical. The actual swipes on the gameplay look much better.

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    11 months ago

    Man, I’m always glad if the Deus Ex franchise gets some attention but this really doesn’t convince me at all. It just looks like one of those bad HD mods many games had in the early 2010s and it totally kills the aesthetic style the game had. DE1 is deserving of a Remake, not a soulless reskin.

    Deus Ex Revision is already the most faithful remaster IMO.

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    I came in hyped, thinking this was going to be another Nightdive remaster

    Then the trailer was ugly as all get out

    And that’s when I noticed… Aspyr. Ew.

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      11 months ago

      I was hyped as hell when I saw this, only for the comments to skewer it before I even had a chance to see the video. I’ll remain cautiously optimistic this will shock the company into stepping up their efforts to do this classic the dignity it deserves.

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      11 months ago

      It’s a shame because their original Tomb Raider trilogy remaster was really good.

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    Urgh.

    The remake looks shit, stop rehashing things lazily in a poor attempt to cash in.

    Part of the magic of these games is because the graphics aren’t that great and, the story and gameplay make up for it.

    Like the first half life por examplo

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    There was more footage shown in the PS State of Play presentation and it looks… dire. Genuinely worse than the original game IMO.

    Just look at this updated UNATCO notice board:

    STRATIGIES

    The whole thing smacks of exec-fuelled ‘just slap some new textures on it and ship it’ attitude.

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      11 months ago

      And by “new textures” we mean “just run it through a slop machine and don’t even look at it”

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    I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that at least a few opportunists in the industry are selling a shit AI remastering tool to studios with IP to monetize.

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    This looks like it’s the exact same game untouched except that the textures have been AI upscaled or something.

    Like holy shit, look at Paul he looks so dogshit compared to the original

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    This reminds me of the San Andreas remaster, where they unintentionally made the nut of a bolt into a circle, because they just let some program smooth out all the polygons.

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    If you’re on pc you’re better off using the original and surreal 98 to play in UE 5 with modern textures lighting and vr support less than $20

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    11 months ago

    Nope… The original game still works well… There is no need for this… And I don’t trust who is making this

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    How do you make Deus Ex The Invisible War look good?

    Have Aspyr remaster Deus Ex.

    Can’t wait to see LRG try to sell a $150 boxed copy of this with no CD in it.