opinion on these guys?
Greedy jews for taking the original System Shock 2 off Steam and forcing people to buy the $35 remaster. Thankfully there's piracy, but it's still a shitty move.
Hit or missSome remasters are pretty good, others are pointless and you should just play the fan source ports like the Blood one
>>736452472I'm not sure if that's up to them, if you already owned original versions of Doom, Heretic or Hexen you got the enhanced versions for free
>>736452203i think their studio needs to go down with the trump killer
Didn't we just have this thread yesterday?
>>736452561It would be unironically better for the world if Trump got shot and Trump died as a martyr instead of a huge disappointment
>>736452203Things like system shock 1 enhanced are based, things like their system shock 1 remake are whatever, and things like this >>736452472 are scummy jew shit. They're a mixed bag.
>>736452664It's better for young conservative men to realize the mainstream conservative movement is zionist and doesn't give a fuck about Americans.
>>736452664ok muslim lover
>>736452203They make overall good remasters. RS and DOSBlood are the only ports that have weather effects. Also it is impressive how that KEX engine in on UE1 level by now.>>736452472That's just Atari being jewish.>>736452664Only if a non jewish lover Republican would take over.
>>736453028>non jewish lover [member of either american party]Doesn't exist
they put out good stuff with a lot of care and attention to detail apart from the blade runner remaster but since they were bought by atari their stuff has become like 3 times as expensive as it used to be as far as new releases go >>736452472yeah I blame atari for that one too but to be fair you've had 15+ years to buy ss2 for a dollar
>>736452203they make money off the backs of others work but it's work that has been cast aside like garbage so who can blame them. They do an alright job of it, could use a reverence.
>>736452203They're a bunch of con artists with shitty business practices that are defended by e-celebs on their payroll.It's only because they made the SS1 remake as to why people treat them as if they're not totally useless and shitty in every other aspect.
>>736452203>gets bought by Atari>begin raising the price of their remasters except for the ones that Atari had no part in like Hexen and DoomI think the remasters are fine, good even. But not worth the asking price the parent company is putting on them. Removing the purchase option for the actual original version of a game and only include it in the remaster just to justify the price is also really fucking shitty and almost antithetical to their founding philosophy.
They only make remasters to put PC games out on consoles as admitted on the doomworld forums. Literally only consolefags praise them and a bunch of dumb leftist civvie11 fags keep blaming Atari for them being a bad company because they have no understanding of the business world and professional work conduct and just assuming CORPORATE BAD is their answer to everything because they're retards that excuse developers from any blame. They don't assume bad employees.It's like how those retards who liked Arkane Studios made excuses for them being a bad studio to have released Redfall. When they were always a garbage studio that only really had a decent but still mediocre game like Dark Messiah of Might and Magic under their belt and everything else they made was shit.Nightdive couldn't even deliver on the System Shock 2 VR port they promised because they're a bunch of liars and have a million excuses for everything.Stephen Kick should be dropkicked in the head.
The SS remake is the only thing worth a damn theyve put out, and that took them 7 years.
>>736452203Assholes
>>736452203hate them, simple as
>>736460669They fired him earlier this year anon.
>>736452203Decent remasters and ports that appeal to people who just want a way to play them on modern systems, but always overpriced.
If you don't already have it I would highly recommend grabbing Quake 3 when it goes on sale. It's rumored to be the Quakecon remaster this year.
>>736337301>>736452203Are you a Nightdive employee or some kind of market research guy? Anyway I already answered you in the first thread.
System shock remake was greatSystem shock 2 rerelease was a massive pointless waste of time
>>736452740Neither party gives a fuck about America. Mainstream politics doesn't give a fuck about America. That's been the case for decades. Where we are now is simply the result of about a half century of kicking the can down the road and making some issue someone elses problem ad infinitum.
>>736452203I think it's time for another Blood remaster.
>>736462010Yeah Blood 2 lol
>>736459515what's wrong with releasing for consoles?
>>736452203I like them, the Turok remasters were cool.
>>736452203I wish they'd remaster some console exclusive gems like Black or Urban Chaos, I don't want another Blood remaster.
I played the Thing remasteredIt was excellent
>>736452203Fags with TDS and no talent. The Killing Time remaster does seem to have actually been worthwhile though.
>>736452561Who cares? Trump's just another fucktard in a long line of fucktards who just kind of figure they'll just fuck things up and let the next guy in office sort shit out
>>736452203They brought a lot of old FPS games to Steam, even console ones that would have died on those consoles, and they've done it faithfully. FPS CHADS have a lot to thank them for.
>>736462568you don't play games, jewpuppet
>>736452203As bad as Aspyr, if not worse.
They make nice remasters but I won't buy a single one due to their TDS.Don't even care if it wasn't Trump, I just want these people to shut the fuck up, nobody cares about your worthless political opinions, make the games and fuck off.
>>736461373>who just want a way to play them on modern systemsThat's what DGVoodoo is for. Something you drop into your steam folder, set up the parameters and then just launch regularly from steam (or your gog library or whatever). It's not always ideal when you scale things to widescreen resolutions as the UI is tiny sometimes. But it's never been a deal breaker for me.I suppose the remasters could be rock bottom shit like how The Commandos series was treated but i don't know when Nightdive remasters specifically will start showing their value other than having brought some console games to PC.
>>736452203Decent remasters/rereleases for the most part if you need one (you're a consoletard or the game you're trying to play is truly difficult to get working in 2026) but I hate all the shilling and glazing.Also any new art they add tends to be very mediocre and not up to the standards of the original assets (and definitely isn't going to blend in stylistically) but that's a problem with modern indie game art and especially pixel art in general.>>736462218>BlackYes if not ND at least someone should really do this.>>736464632>FPS CHADS have a lot to thank them forIt's not that difficult to set up DOSBox for say Blood (which ND managed to fuck up anyway...)>even console ones that would have died on those consolesPO'ed is trash though and I've never played it but I strongly suspect Killing Time is trash as well. Powerslave (aka Exhumed) is decent and deserved the port.
>>736464743there's no way they're that bad
>>736468075Aspyr's crime was being lazy in using lazy AI upscaled textures and in the case of Deus Ex being the worst one ever where they screwed up all the models, environment textures and then made a severe clash with the lighting. They screwed up one of those older Star Wars games ports a long time ago. Otherwise it's not that much different to Nightdive since they themselves have done flawed remasters.
They're cool. I pirate every remaster they put out.
>release 1488 years old source code under the GPL>refuse to use anything from the actual Build engine in their shitmasters of Blood>refuse to license the Blade Runner from the ScummVM guys, only to make another shitmaster>have the original game code of Blood, no plans to release it to the public, periodNightdive Studios is cancer.
>>736452501Refreshed Supply is the better version of Blood.
>>736468374>lazy AI upscaled texturesIt's what Aspyr and Nightdive both do, and it's why I consider them equally awful. Shouldn't give money to either company imo
>small indie studio, please understand
>>736452664He killed the idea that voting makes a difference to GOP voters, it was worth it.
20$ for their remasters was already steep, 30$ is just lmao
>>736468470Why have they focused on Blood so much (released twice) when the source ports were already fine? NotBlood is the most near flawless version of the game you can play outside of dosbox.I would scratch my head if they were to even consider Shadow Warrior when VoidSW does a fine job too and you're not missing that much outside of dosbox. It might not be as accurate as NotBlood but it seemed to function correctly when i played it. Outside the minor sprite fix you have to make on the katana for widescreen.If source ports exist it seems rather pointless to me.
>>736452472Sc2 is Jewish
>>736459515>It's like how those retards who liked Arkane Studios made excuses for them being a bad studio to have released Redfall. When they were always a garbage studio that only really had a decent but still mediocre game like Dark Messiah of Might and Magic under their belt and everything else they made was shit.This has to be bait.
>>736469067>If source ports exist it seems rather pointless to me.They do it for the console market, which is their biggest money maker.
>>736468374Aspyr's crime is letting tomb raider 1-3 remastered get a shit challenge mode update that broke the game while still not even trying to fix long standing issues.
>>736452203they shouldn't exist and they produce nothing of value yet the zoomers who don't actually give a shit about any of the games they remaster suck them off like they're the second coming of christ making an old game run on new PCs is as easy as just dragging dgvoodoo2 in its folder and starting the game. we do not need overpriced ugly remasters with shitty modern console UIs. these talentless hacks can't make their own game so they leech off of games made by actual developers while acting like greedy jews >>736461669some of them definitely post here at least, I've seen kaiser talk about how /v/ and /vr/ really hate him
>>736452203Og system shock remake was really good.
>>736469515but it took too long to make, so they probably won't shell out for remaking 2.
>>736469284Is it bait to call anything not called Dark Messiah and Might and Magic bad? because that's what I'm saying. It would be too generous to call Arx Fatalis a good video game. It's one of those games i really wanted to like but its flaws were too hard to ignore. I can enjoy it at times whilst being completely frustrated with it other times. Perhaps its a step up from their later works but not by much.Dishonored was basically just poor mans Thief casualized shitty mess that wasn't concerned with being a competent stealth game. Prey 2017 was a mediocre System Shock clone. Death Loop was complete trash.They never did anything right other than kicking orcs off cliffs simulator.
>>736460669>>736461137Edward was always such a passive aggressive tool. Almost any time people provided a bug report or legitimate criticism, he made it a point to give them attitude in response if there was even a tiny thing they misunderstood or got wrong.
>>736452203They game us ludo so i like them.
>>736453028>That's just Atari being jewish.Nightdive delisted the original Shadow Man when they released their remaster. And this happened before the Atari acquisition, you disingenuous motherfucker.https://www.gog.com/forum/general/shadow_man_delisting/page1>New York, NY (May 15, 2023) - Atari® announced the closing of the acquisition of Nightdive Studios, a full service game development and publishing company based in Vancouver, Washington.
>>736469621After loving ultima underworld 1 and 2, yeah, I admit I've always felt nothing but confusion about why arx gets sucked off so hard.It's not a shit game either, definitely not garbage on tier with underworld ascendant, and they tried some things that they deserve credit for. But it's lacking. A lot.
>>736469621>Dishonored was basically just poor mans Thief Dishonored was not a game about thieving, and people who keep making this comparison are basically setting themselves up for disappointment. It made a few references and thats about it. I do agree its stealth mechanics leave a lot to be desired, but its really not a bad game by any means.>Prey 2017 was a mediocre System Shock clone.Prey 2017's biggest sin was simply using the Prey name, which wasn't even arkane's decision. Game itself was good.
>>736470304>I do agree its stealth mechanics leave a lot to be desired, but its really not a bad game by any means.I liked Deadly Shadows which Harvey Smith expressed regret in working on i believe. I don't know why they flipped so hard from having worked on a real stealth game to what they later came up and never even thought to listen to the people who liked Thief for the second game in the series/improving on the issues with the first games mechanics. Whilst TTDS (thi3f) was not perfect it was miles ahead of Dishonored.It still had advanced sound propagation and dynamic lighting based detection. My issue is primarily with this part. I'm not exactly the biggest fan of cover based-line of sight detection to begin with because it's my belief that shadow based model allows for more interesting stealth gameplay. I'm more in favor of light and shadow based detection. But what makes their own developmental preferences for their design far worse was the gutted sound detection model.The Thief games (splinter cell included for the stealth genre) have variable movement speed based sound detection that uses a movement based toggle key bind that is used to move across surfaces at the appropriate speed otherwise it determines whether enemies in the area will hear it. Instead with Dishonored it replaces any aspects of slower movement with crouch walk and because of that all sound is uniform nor is there any specific mechanic that translates any of that into the same thing.There is also absolutely no differentiation in floor surface sounds too so from principle alone it wasn't concerned with being a good stealth game. You can walk on a supposed to be loud stone floor surface to a carpet and it will sound exactly the same in Dishonored and it also corresponds the same with the AI.>Dishonored was not a game about thievingIts an Assassin's fantasy. It's Altaïr steampunk and it's lame.
>>736471480Also worth mentioning that the game allows you to play like a super hero and zipping around levels with blink thus trivializing their own stealth aspects they designed.
>>736471480Yeah, I really do wish the light-based and sound-based systems of Thief and Splinter Cell would get utilized more in games.I still liked Dishonored for what it is, but its certainly no hardcore stealth game.
