How do we feel about the remake?
S'cool
>>696951347How do we feel about the faggoted OP?
SR was never good
>>696951347Since you stole my screenshot, i am testing a "if SR got a 3dfx treatment" preset with more pronounced colors and shadows, and i discovered some fun stuffYour health bar is animated and it uses a flickering spiraling animation when its full, something i never noticed for years.Though is giving me PoP T2T vibes, on which i had fun as fuck playing on PC back in the 2000's with a gamepad.
>>696951347the remade graphics look like shit, but other than that its...uh... soul reaver but for 30 dollars now?
>>696951347First time playing them. The story and voice acting are great. The gameplay is not.
>>696952768No it doesn't
Been pushing boxes for days, can't quite understand the craze, feels like nostalgia is just another phase.
Do people really care only about Soul Reaver 1 and 2? What about Blood Omen 1 and 2, and Defiance?
first impression was rough and it took me a while to get going but now it's OKcrushed the first boss and quit the game for today
>>696952627>Your health bar is animated and it uses a flickering spiraling animation when its fullliterally HOW did you never notice this, you'd be looking at your health as it depletes and thats why it depletes to begin with
i've unlocked the third plane after the mortal plane and the spectral plane: the aspyr plane
>>696951347I dont play remakes so its instantly garbage. kill yourself and your entire studio
>>696951347The remaster for SR1 is actually pretty good, it just made everything look better and smoother while preserving the original artstyle. It didn't ruin anything or downgrade anything.But replaying SR1 as an adult honestly soured me on the game a bit. The world and atmosphere was cool and mysterious just like the first time but holy hell navigating the world and playing in it kinda sucks. There's endless tedious block puzzles, traversal is frustrating, the FOV is tiny and the map doesn't help with navigation, etc. I've played a lot of metroidvanias and honestly compared to them SR1 is a tedious metroidvania, even though the interconnectedness is cool.The story is great of course but it feels like the game is 5% story 95% trying to flip a block while spiders drops from the ceiling to interrupt me.It's funny how I used to hate on SR2 as a teenager because I thought it went too far in streamlining and simplifying the gameplay.. but now that I'm playing through everything again I ended up liking it better than SR1. LoK's main appeal was always the story and dialogue, and now it's a relief that the main meat of the game really is about story and dialogue instead of endless block puzzles, and the story really reaches its peak here. Shame the remaster kind of ignored SR2, it made very few changes and most of those are sidegrades or even downgrades (especially Mobius he looks awful and less expressive)
>>696954153I never noticed it mostly because it is so subtle even with emulation that only if you tweak the gamma a bit or even on tb you notice it.reshade i am trying to make here made it quite noticeable, also the environment became more colorful.
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>>696954284spooky
>>696954513t-posing is a feature, not a bug
>>696954489This is the shitposter trying to derail the SR threads right now mentioning shitcast as "better than the remaster and PS1"
>>696954747take your meds then fix the game, aspyr shill
>>696955025And Zoomer kun? if anyone were to give a single shit about old game AI, fags like you would be bitching over Doom 2 Revenant missiles having ghost damage til this day.
>>696955194the human vampire hunters in SR1 are a special case.Their AI changes depending on how you deal with them in your first encounter.If you don't hurt them and kill vampires, they'll drop to their knees and raise their hands in worship.If you kill the first one, they'll always be hostile.
>game now looks almost exactly as it did on the pre-rendered cinematics>bandwagoning retards complainRetarded posers
>>696955461It is the same autistic shitter from the TR and nightdive threads using the same retarded baits.he was banned from /vr/ recently if my memory is right for trying to incite flame wars there.
>>696955025IIRC, the humans weren't hostile in the first game either if you didn't attack the civilians.
>>696955025>>696955989you can also drain a bit of human's life directly if you press soul suck in touch range if you don't aggro them
Did they fix the statue?
>>696951347Before someone Bitches about the Cathedral, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmDDT88chJM it was going to be bigger until the original ending was cut and Accessible AFTER you beat Zephon.>>696957936Yes, she got more ass and thighs alongside a newer mesh.
>can't imbue soul reaver with flames from a flame throwerGAY
>>696951347the low texture work forced my brain to invent details, now everything looks cheap.
>>696951347THREAD THEMEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ0tEZup-Qc
>>696951347It's a remaster, not a remake.
Does the new day/night cycle seem broken for anyone else? Ever since I got the Reaver from Kain it's been ridiculously dark in exterior areas, borderline impossible to see at all in some places, and I have no idea when or if day is ever coming back. Pic rel is just outside the silenced cathedral.Yes it is a pirate copy fuck you this is why I pirate
>>696955025That human in particular is a choice. Attacking him makes all other humans hostile while leaving him be makes them worship you. Disingenuous faggot.
>>696958656Nice
>>696959545It fucks with puzzles too. Previously the devs used beams of sunlight to signpost paths and stuff but it doesn't work except at the peak of daytime.
>>696959571See the config files, it must be a line where you can change the cycle.
>>696951347The only thing good about Soul Reaver is the PS1 art style, the voice acting and maybe some of the story (cutscenes). The remake removes the charming PS1 graphics, so you're stuck playing a shittier version of the game.The gameplay itself is a slog. Pushing crates for hours, dull, slow combat. It's really just the atmosphere and vibes that make the game... which are once again diminished by losing the PS1 aesthetic.
>>696960429This game would have been the perfect candidate for having the graphical upgrades be toggle able like in the new Tomb Raider re-releases.
>>696960579doesn't it have a toggle? saw some threads on steam mentioning it
>>696959545That kinda looks good though
>>696960429>>696960579Are you guys trolling or are you actual shitposting retards?
>>696960689It does have an instant toggle, the guy you're replying is a retard
>>696951347>remakeIt's remaster, not remake. They changed textures and upgraded some models but gameplay remained exactly the same and is very dated by today standards. Even draw distance is unchanged.
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>>696961017Every faggot is whining over the gameplay right now and demanding a "modern day remake for sensibilities" and it is every fucking journo giving a low grade.These people never played videogames at all and played interactive Movie VN's off a Sega CD game.
>>696960832They are both. They're /vr/ anons spewing their elitist shit outside of their containment board.
>>696951347The same as I feel about all remakes, remasters and rehashes. They serve zero purpose
>>696961718>The same as I feel about all remakes, remasters and rehashes.They make you angry because you're a retarded third worlder?
>>696955025It's a left over bug from the pc version, on the psx he will attack on sight
Why does Dumah have a stand?
>>696951347I like it so far, playing it purely from memory
>>696961561i wish you knew how bad /vr/ got the instant they allowed 6th gen threads, it wasn't great before but now it's closer to being /v 2/ than ever
>>696961835Keep consuming your slop goylem
>>696962192Keep being a subhuman.
>>696962264Poetic coming from a nigger
>>696962402Sorry thirdie, but I'm white. You'll always be a subhuman.
>>696962004is that the main guy from Gargoyles?
>>696962191They drive me up the fucking wall. I can understand being pissed at changes that take away your personal enjoyment, but the bitchin doesn't fly with me when there are optional modes.
>>696962441Whatever you say Tyrese
They actually gave the statue a nicer ass.
>>696951347W O K EOKE
>>696962768see>>696962684retard
>>696962848Ignore him, he is special and said the same towards TRR, only to be raped by half of /v/.Next he will post dreamcast emulated shit
>>696955025>>696961985you are both dumb. I replayed the psx version a couple weeks ago and it's just like that.That guy is straight up paralyzed the first time you meet him and will not attack or do anything, he will straight up not even animate. Unless you attack him in which case he fights/dies and then all other humans are hostile forever
>>696959545>>696960802Okay, well I checked my monitor settings and apparently I've been running some fucked up color and brightness settings for a while for some reason. With some adjustments it looks fine now. Figured that may have been the case since no one was really commenting on it and I thought I was going insane.
>>696962684By making the statue's shoulders wider and the head smaller, this is why the remastered version looks masculine.
>>696963798Yup, as I had thought. Pretty much everyone complaining that night time is too dark or that the game is bugged and stuck at full-dark is actually playing on a borked brightness/contrast setting LMAO.inb4 watch aspyr cave in and remove the daynight cycle because too many mouth breathers couldn't be assed to check their monitor/tv settings
>>696964091The shoulders aren't wider, you don't know perspective, and you don't know anatomy. The only relative changes made were bigger boobs, a more pronounced hourglass, and a bigger ass. You are a mentally ill shitposter. You should kill yourself.
frog party let's gooooooI had forgotten just how low your falling speed is in SR2 compared to SR1
>>696964120No, the lighting is still fucked and removes effects that were present in the original.
I hate Square so much. Why the fuck did they even buy this IP if they were just gonna do nothing with it for 20 years?
>>696964241>The shoulders aren't wider, you don't know perspective, and you don't know anatomy.You're bind anon.
>>696966217Yes, ESL third world subhuman shitposter, the shoulders got more round. They did not get wider. That's what happens when you can make them round instead of triangles.
>kinetic blast can push a block>but only in physical formI was stuck for 10 minutes because I had not idea the spirit form one didn't work and that's the one I tried. A lot of the "puzzles" feel really arbitrary.
>>696966361The shoulders LOOK BOARD now. I don't give a shit that they're smoother polygons, they make the statue's frame look masculine.Read what I have written and understand the arguments about aesthetics.
>>696952627>"if SR got a 3dfx treatment" preset with more pronounced colors and shadowsWhat? First of all you have to reduce the color pallet to 16bits. Instead of changing the gamma lol.
>>696966934>they make the statue's frame look masculine.No, they make them look human because they're round. The tops and sides are in the same places.>Read what I have written and understand the arguments about aesthetics.I read what you wrote. You don't have an argument about aesthetics, you just want to shitpost like every other mentally ill third worlder who gets mad at games they don't understand and tries to fit in too hard. It's not woke, it's just a round shoulder instead of a an awkward flat one. And don't pretend it's an aesthetic issue when you don't know anything about anatomy or drawing.
>>696967141>No, they make them look human because they're round. The tops and sides are in the same places.You're an absolute retard who doesn't understand shoulder to head ratio when it comes to the differences in men and women. It has fuck all to do with the roundness but the distance of the tip of the shoulder to the head.
>>696967141>>696967348Not only that but the thickness of the statue arms in the remake are thicker, making them look more masculine. That is a typical marker of sexual dimorphism in the human species.
>>696951347>devs partnered with the fan artist that made the HD texture mod use her textures as the basis with the upgraded polygon count>lead artist for original soul reaver was a consultant for the art direction for the remake>devs used analog archived recordings for remastering the dialogue>restored an entire cut day/night mechanic>restored maps that were cut in the last couple weeks of development because they wouldn't fit on the discHoly Souly
>>696967348>You're an absolute retard who doesn't understand shoulder to head ratio when it comes to the differences in men and women.No, you're a demented third world shitposter trying to talk about basic drawing concepts you just looked up without paying attention to how having actual round shoulders inherently changes the model from a flat polygonal one to a realistic one. No, they didn't slight widen her shoulders and throw off the ratio to make her more masculine. They just made the silhouette round instead of blocky. I'm going to repeat this because it bears repeating: You are a mentally ill third world shitposter who complains about games you don't play because you mistakenly believe you're on a crusade against woke games. You're not. You're a fucking retard.>>696967660You don't know anything about biology, you dumb monkey. The only overt change to the size and proportions was making the ass bigger. Rounding out the lines that are already there does not make her look masculine, it makes her look human shaped.
>>696967052you can do that with 3dfx leifxi haven't tried with Quake 2's 3dfx shader yet on moddb.>>696967660The thickness of the arms are the same retard, the statue ALWAYS Was like that due to ingame collision, and mesh limitations, but then you are a dumb shitposter who is pulling the same debunked shit from the other remaster threads while larping as a oldfag.Fucking russians i swear it...
Do the cheat codes for the reaver still work?
>>696961469you should really take a few days away from these threads bro
>>696966454It's well established that you can't interact with objects in the Spectral Realm. By the time you get that power you shouldn't even have to think about it.
>>696969064You can't grab and touch them, but I'm still shooting blasts of compressed space time energy with a magic sword.
>>696967932yes
>>696969326Irrelevant.
>>696969326you're shooting blasts of compressed spectral energy in the spectral realm
This is bullshit. I burned him.
>>696951347sr1 gameplay is filtering me, it's not fun>nooo you suck at gamesbeen playing games longer than you live guaranteed, there's no reason for traversal and puzzles to be this tiresome and inconvenient
>>696969705he TANKED that
>>696969728You suck.
>>696970886He's right. It is a very tedious game.
tomb raider aged like winesoul reaver aged like milk
>>696955025that's actually intentional, his A.I. was disabled because too many people would kill the hunter and then make all humans aggressive
Who made these gashes in the wall where Malek's tomb used to be? Ostensibly the graverobbers, but who moved his tomb? Where, and why? When? None of the other tombs have these scratches.
>super magic sword that vampires are afraid of can't actually hurt the strong vampires>only random environmental tricks canOkay.
>>696972807malak's soul was bonded his armor as punishment for failing to protect the circle, he made the gashes.
Gay/Night cycle sucks.Wish you could turn it off.
>>696972867might have something to do with the thousands of years between when they were all humanoid and becoming abominations.of course, it might've worked on melchiah, but you don't have it yet.
>>696972807there is no tomb for malek, he got sodomized by mortanius and then killed by vorador, the gashes were made by kain once he broke into the tomb because he hated malek for being a pain in his ass during blood omen 1
>>696972592this is retarded, it has no dialogue, how are you supposed to know
>can't figure out how to beat Dumah>give up and look it up>I was on the right track leading him out of the room but he got hard stuck on an invisible wall which I assumed was the limits of where his AI could go because I even tried to unstuck him>it turns out that this here is what kills him>>696969705Well that's some bullshit.
>>696973569its even worse if you do what he did and just assume that because you don't take any damage and enemies don't take any damage, it won't damage dumah either.
>>696973326the game manual mentioned that humans might worship raziel if he spares them, the game is pretty black and white about it, if you spare the first human they will worship you- the moment you kill one they will all be hostile forever
>>696972867What the fuck are you on about?
>>696973326because i shit you not it was a bug in OG SR1, where the hunter wouldn't attack you AT ALL, also if wasnt uncut it would give a hint about the human citadel where the priestess is.THIS GAME NEEDS A DIRECTOR'S CUT WITH ALL SHIT IN IT AS A FALSE ENDING
>>696953202SR1 has really uneven pacing. 15 minutes of cutscenes, 6 hours of box puzzles, and maybe 5 minutes of boss battles. 2 heavier on the story (with puzzles being restricted to one big megapuzzle in each forge), and felt more comfortable.
>>696973917That was actually my webm. After torching Dumah, that enemy was still there. I knew that enemy didn't die because it wasn't "real fire" and was just a scripted thing, but Dumah stopped right outside of his throne room when I tried to kite him out and even doubling back around him and hitting him didn't make me him chase me out. After a while I gave up and looked it up. I guess his AI got stuck on an invisible wall.
>>696965045Proof? The only problem I've seen with it is that the transitions between interiors (with static lighting) and exteriors (affected by day/night cycle) are a hard cut-off point in the environment and it looks kinda rough. But I didn't see any visual effects that didn't work because of it. If there's broken visuals it's probably an independent issue that has nothing to do with night-time
The remaster is solid, but it needs work. I notice flickering geometry here and there, mostly around the edges of the screen. There are seams in the environments where I don't recall there being any before. Some objects, like a dead body near the start of Raziel's Stronghold has transparency applied to it in the classic graphics, for some reason. Shadows are improperly cast by the cocoons in the Silenced Cathedral. The surface of the water around the pistons in the Lighthouse area is missing entirely after activating them. And the day and night cycle just makes shit too dark.I hope they continue to work on things post-launch because this could be the definitive way to play Soul Reaver if they do. Until then, Dreamcast is still king.
>>696974175Original.
>>696974029Raziel said that that when Kain takes out the Soul Revear, everyone knew they were dead. When Raziel gets the Soul Revear, it can't actually kill any of his brethren.
>>696974029he's bitching that he can't roll slop in this game, he wanted to kill the bosses by spamming attack with the reaver
>>696974453>wanting the super awesome mega weapon that came from BO that gets talked up in the game when you get it to actually kill things means you want to iframe rollSo exactly how fucking retarded are you?
>>696974175>>696974401Remaster.
lol
>>696974575Because there's an ENTIRE cut day/night cycle they restored for this game, you stupid fucking zoomer.
>>696974447It fucks up Zephon real good and Dumah is doping on spirit juice so it's okay for him to be fine.
>>696974681the amount of effort they put into it diminishes as it goes.
>>696974746Yeah, and it fucks with effects that were previously used to guide players. This is one of those instances where it wasn't cut for resource reasons, it was cut because it's shit.
>>696974765>It fucks up Zephon real goodNot really. Fire fucks him up.
>>696972913>>696973135So it's just an ornamental space honoring him, but with nothing to inter. I always wished Malek got more screen time and feats. Same for the rest of the circle too. t. never played Blood Omen
>>6969746812 felt like it was fine the way it was. Just XInput made it worth the release.
>>696974962It completely destroys his legs.
Huh. Never noticed this place is open air.
>>696952768It looks like the pre-rendered cutscenes which is what people wanted.
>>696975079Yeah, but you can't hurt his main body without lighting the little cocoons on fire.
>>696974860https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN16KVrEP8QIt was cut for time. The interview has some of the team leads talking about how that mechanic, the smokestack, the undercity and two of the bosses were all cut for time and memory limitations. Stop posting about shit you weren't alive to experience.
>>696975214Because you can't reach his body.
>>696975369You can actually swing at his head when he lunges down at you.
>>696975367>no timestampShut your worthless shitskin mouth. There are multiple instances light shafts used for guidance.Does your retarded ass really think the devs wanted unkillable bosses because it was dark outside? Get real.
>>696975367Ignore the nu CD tranny, he still foaming that people are playing this game and using the shitcast as a shitpost fuel.
>>696974681That describes Soul Reaver 2 even without considering the remaster
>>696975367Not that anon, but brother, whether it was or was not cut for time doesn't matter. It absolutely does affect the game negatively in a number of ways.
>>696975367>timeand the "time" is the amount of work to make it work with environmental guidance
It very badly needs bug work to the extent I am fearful of the future of the franchise and how shitty a new installment might be with this level of QA.
>>696974545its just a plot device not a fucking nuke superweapon, calm your tits bitch nigga, it wasn't even that good in bo1
>>696975024>but with nothing to intercorrect, his body was completely destroyed and his soul fused to a suit of armor
>>696975743>its just a plot deviceThat's gay.
>ton of bugs at launchI can see them releasing a post-launch patch one month after the release, just like what they did with the first Tomb Raider collection.
>>696975835in soul reaver 2 it also sucks your life if you swing it too much, the reaver is all legend no actual bite, in defiance when raziel purifies it and allows kain to see the elder nigga it still cannot kill him, only cut off his tentacles a bit, we never got to see the true ending of the saga so nobody knows if the reaver can be made stronger
>>696975998Raziel purifies Kain, not the Reaver.
>>696975998>in defiance when raziel purifies it and allows kain to see the elder nigga it still cannot kill him, only cut off his tentacles a bit, we never got to see the true ending of the saga so nobody knows if the reaver can be made strongerThere is no reason for the series to continue beyond Defiance because fate has been successfully broken. It is only a matter of time until the Elder God is killed. I honestly find this ending more satisfying than having any definitive conclusion, plus there's isn't a Raziel/Kain dynamic anymore.
>>696975998It fucks up bosses in BO.
>>696975641I like it but I get why others don't. He's pivoting from his original assertion >>696974575that the game was bugged so it's not a genuine argument anyhow.>>696975646The time was figuring out how to make it work with the memory limitations. The cut levels literally couldn't render fully with 2mb memory limit. The day/night cycle had knock-on effects with environmental lighting that artists would have to iron out by hand and required much more disc memory for added textures.
I always thought this line was so fucking cool. Well, the whole introduction to the Drowned Abbey, really.
>>696976091wrong the reaver gets purified and it allows kain to see, he's not pure at all he's an ugly nigga
>>696976493shame the level is actually 5 minutes long, at least with the new camera it takes nothing to reach rahab
