Now that I am playing Soul Reaver 1 and 2 remastered I recall playing some pirated copies of the game in PS1 but there was one in particular which was more or less like the original, however there were some minor differences in menus and other UI elements, however, the biggest one were two cutscenes, one of them, the intro where Raziel speaks to the elder god for the first time he uses a very different tone when he says "I am destroyed!" instead of some kind of resignation while falling oh his knees he kneels down like if he was punching the ground so he delivers the line with anger instead. The other one where he sees the sanctuary of the clans for the first time since his dead he calls out the elder god asking how long he is been gone, to which he responds "A millennium... or a moment..." something that is not present, the last major difference is that no matter what I did, once I reached Melchiah's territory the game would fail to load anything else.Probably a leaked pre-release version, but I always wonder if there was a way to go further into the game for that copy.Also, fuck Ascendance.
>>736648079They really dropped the ball with the Defiance remaster visually. It's overly-bright in so many areas and every NPC that isn't Raizel or Kain look like total dogshit. My jaw dropped with how bad Vorador looked. The awful new lighting wasn't helping it either.
>>736648881By contrast, SR1/2 are too dark, I had to use reshade to compensate but I could not download an actual preset because there is only one at nexusmods, I am not making an account just for that... or anything from there actually.
>>736648881The whole series remaster dropped the ball, Soul Reaver's characters are very detailed and then the environments are just the PSX ones with higher res textures, which is extremely noticeable while playing, especially with how many environments are de tailless corridors.I think one thing these remasters exposed is just how meh the games themselves actually are, Soul Reaver 1's combat sucks ass and the game is overly reliant on block pushing puzzles, and abilities like constrict having few uses. Soul Reaver 2 was even worse, with Soul Reaver 1 you at least got to go around to loads of interesting locations like the Human Citadel, the Drowned Abbey and the Silenced Cathedral, in Soul Reaver 2 you walk up and down the same locations in different ages with the game replacing interesting locations with those temples.The remasters were certainly a good way to experience the games but they were still a let down. Even though it has it's problems Ocarina of Time 3d was a great remaster of the original games with the environments and characters being touched up to be consistent with the art design from the original game, it looked and felt great and that should have been the approach with these remasters.What the fuck was Ascendance, I'm not touching it but it looks tone deaf, Legacy of Kain was always Horror Zelda, and it did a good job at that with the first game, why the fuck did they decide to make what looks like a Metroidvania instead of another top down Zelda style game.
>>736649393Ascendance is basically "what if LoK had a strong independent woman who needs no man behind the scenes?"
>>736648079>Probably a leaked pre-release versionIt was, same thing that happened to Resident Evil 2 my fellow macaco.
>>736651283I was always under the impression that maybe if it wasn't a pirated copy it may have had at least a proper end instead of just the game freezing.
>>736650281Ascendance was the last shot of getting ANYTHING in the series and you blew it away because you couldn't handle a single female character with an agency and her own volition in the story.Good job.Enjoy Oblivion.
>>736651608I don't care if she was female, sadly the plot was pure fanfiction, a vampire woman who is Raziel's sister, equal or better than both Raziel and Kain, retconning several plot points like why Raziel grew wings, she is aware of every conspiracy, etc., sorry but she is just too bloated in the "Rey Skywalker" department, "anything" is not good enough man, I don't need scraps for further closure on the series, for all intents and purposes the saga just had an open ending and that's it.
>>736651843THEN ENJOY OBLIVION!!1
>>736651843Yeah, she does feel like some fat LoK fangirl's Mary Sue OC, in that she's the smartest and the bestest and whole series plot is retconned to revolve around her.
>>736651998AUGGGGH MY EYES
>>736651998"Given the choice, whether to rule a corrupt and failing empire or to challenge the fates for another throw, a better throw against one's destiny, what was a King to do?"
>>736652075Not only that, it is clear she was one of those "razielfags" I used to talk about long ago, people who can't let go of the poor guy after Defiance's ending, the kind of person who said the sequel should have Raziel returning, the whole "she convinced Raziel to evolve to prove himself to Kain" and still, despite "knowing everything" the story is playing on the "Kain was jealous" angle, as if the writer never played anything except Soul Reaver 1.
>>736648079https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCZXvblpNSM
>>736654032Me right now
>>736654032>>736654250Was this made before the whole AI voice cloning trend?
>>736654832Of course not.
>>736655451Then was it recorded by the actors or very good imitators I guess.
>>736655497It was made by AI you retard.
>>736654032Still a better story than LoK Ascendance
>>736648079I don't know how or why but there are two versions of the intro.https://youtube.com/watch?v=tkkmm9vqbHQhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=4DOKzTHaPfMThe first one is the one I know from the PSX version. In the second one even the text is changed. "The gift continued to evolve" wasn't in mine. And in this second one "I stood wiht Kain and my brethren..." Is absent. Maybe it's from a demo or the DC version?
>>736656304"the gift continues to evolve" was used in the official PS1 version for sure, but the pre-release dump I played didn't have it if I remember correctly.
>>736648079Bump
I wonder how they do the whole facial movement since the remaster graphics are "superimposed" into the old ones or something, still not familiar with the technique.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H60p9xYoPyQ
>>736659821>3:40Always found this part pure kino
>>736659821The models are superimposed, yes, but the remastered faces simply have facial rigging this time around that allows them to move their lips and whatnot. It's not like they are interfering with anything. The same technique was used in the Tomb Raider remasters.
