username_1@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
We already have a community maintained newDark engine. Don’t see any reason for the commercial remaster. Especially from Nightdive. Their remasters are boring. They avoid improvements unless it is inevitable. Their recent System Shock 2 (Thief 1 engine by the way) remaster was… the same game community made a decade ago. Boring.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What if I told you that remasters aren’t solely or even mainly targeted at existing fans of the game who, yes, may be familiar with community mods and source ports?
They’re also - perhaps primarily - for people who are otherwise interested in playing the game but don’t want to piss about with extra downloads, patches, and config files. Especially on console.
username_1@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Modern players who never played original won’t play this remaster: it would feel too archaic by modern standards. And Nightdive’s conservative approach doesn’t address this nuance in any way.
afaix@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I would play it just for the addition of gamepad controls, that’s the biggest hurdle for me with these classic dos/early windows games
username_1@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
That’s very crazy reasoning. On par with “I like when read.me has not more than 50 ‘O’ literals” :)
Anyway, I was talking about modern players who haven’t played original.