The loss of the uncompressed Blade Runner (1997) assets is probably one of the biggest PC gaming tragedies
I think Grim Fandango is a bigger loss.
>>12254379It’s weird how good that game was. Crazy that no one talks about it.
>>12254379But if it had pin-sharp backdrops, McCoy and most of the NPCs would still be represented by blocky voxel figures. Better backdrops would make the voxels look even worse by contrast.Graphics are not the only issue with this game. Much as I liked it in my youth, I increasingly find fault with it now. Westwood's Blade Runner is at its best when it's recycling scenes and characters from the film. When it introduces its own characters, they tend to conflict with the established, grim tone, as with the standup comedian in the club, or the equally wacky gun shop guy. You don't see dorks like these in the film.The only good original character is Lucy, because in hindsight it's very funny that the game allows you to elope with a girl of fourteen and presents this as one of its happy endings. But there's a problem with Lucy. She's supposed to be a sympathetic character – possibly the only sympathetic character here – but she does something that makes no sense, and lessens my sympathy. The opening scene shows that Mr. Runciter expects Lucy to provide sexual favours as part of her job, and that Lucy hates this. The question is: why does she go to her place of work dressed like a half-naked goth prostitute if she doesn't want the attentions of the dirty old man who runs the place? If Lucy is supposed to be using her feminine charms to take advantage of Runciter, then she should have been written as that cynical kind of character, and not as the innocent waif she is.
Ugh, some things are better in 'standard def.' All the actors in movies look like shit now. Pixel art is quirky and cute now, not well thought out to take advantage of the nature of the CRT... there used to be a real art to these things.Now you just shove in shaders and polygons and it poops out. No need to worry or think about things people used to hand craft.
>>12254379Very sad indeed
>>12254379why not just uncompress them
