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Its getting controller support so im excited for it

[–] addie@feddit.uk 79 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I didn't ask for this.

The original looks fine; it's gone from 'okay for 2000', through to 'dated' and back to 'retro charm' again. Plus you can turn up the resolution and fps to silly levels, which wasn't the originally intended effect but is pretty nice.

All early 3D games look so bad that the slight year-on-year improvements are nearly irrelevant now. A hideous AI texture 'upgrade' doesn't bring it to to modern standards, and distracts from the truly amazing game behind it all.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The funny thing is the original is only playable with fan patches so technically I can see demand for a remaster. They just really fumbled this in a weird way.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago

I didn't ask for this

Ok, Adam

[–] FarceOfWill 5 points 1 week ago

I didn’t ask for this.

What a shame.

[–] mohab@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (13 children)

I didn’t ask for this.

My first thought. I still regularly see the original in top 10 lists to this day. Not sure who asked for this.

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[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

As a fan of Brutalmoose’s retro streams, this is an affront

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I’m honestly quite tired of remasters. Why can’t we see some new original games?

The original Deus Ex is this bizarre mixture of jank, camp, and sheer brilliance. So much of what made the game amazing was unintentional and contingent with the era. A remaster is never going to be able to recapture that lightning in a bottle. It’s always going to be soulless.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

TBH I am happy they're remastering some older games. I missed out on a lot of stuff because I was doing other things when a lot of highly regarded games came out (sold my PS1 to buy crack). So I've recently got a steam deck and played bioshock - really enjoyed it - and system shock is in my queue. I'm not sure I'd have been so keen to try them if they'd had the original graphics, that shit looks so dated now. But yeah, maybe they're taking the remaster thing a bit too far.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The Enhanced Edition for System Shock makes it perfectly suitable for anyone used to FPS controls, the "remaster" changes so much that it is hardly the same game.

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The original Deus Ex is perfectly playable today as long as you follow a guide to get it patched up and configured for a modern system. Plus it runs at a rock steady frame rate on any PC today, whereas it didn’t at the time of release (it was very laggy, buggy, and crashed a lot).

The game is definitely meant for mouse and keyboard though. You need some very high precision aiming and a steady hand to cope with the scope wobble (unless you train to master level).

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I really liked Human Revolution.

Never finished Mankind Divided though

[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Never finished Mankind Divided though

Neither did Eidos-Montréal, apparently.

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[–] Hubi@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mankind Divided was the best Deus Ex since the original tbh. Such a shame that we'll never get a sequel.

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[–] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not sure it's going to be soulless, but the problem is that the main premise is the government of highly competent psychopaths manufactures an emergency to gain total power, while the population withers. A cautionary tale, if you will.

The thing is that in reality, the government of highly incompetent psychopaths is gaining total power absolutely unopposed, while half the population applauds.

That would make the remake sound positively cozy.

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Making something new means taking a risk. Maybe it won't sell well. So it's more beneficial to profits to re-make something that has already proven its worth.

That's how modern AAA devs operate. That's why every AAA game in a franchise feels pretty much the same. And that's why indie and AA games are far superior.

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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Capitalism. Remasters are easy money. Originals are risky investments. It's always about the money.

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[–] tio_bira@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

It goes from early PS2 graphics to mid PS2 graphics

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wrapped plastic - not fantastic.

Everything's got that wet toy sheen. Wow, so realistic. Much specular.

[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

everybody knows shiny = real.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

That game was never about the visuals anyway.

[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (5 children)

We already have mods like GMDX (moddb/GOG). Also you need better specs to run it than Mankind Divided. It's going to suck.

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[–] heavy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

You don't play OG deus ex for the graphics or... Combat tbh, but this seems like a half ass coat of paint instead of anything of real substance. You can already play Deus ex on modern hardware so I don't know what you're really getting here.

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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly I rather have Nightdive studios remake it

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago

I demand a reremake

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

holy shit that looks bad.

If you have deus ex through steam, you can also get revision through steam and revision looks pretty good in my opinion.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 12 points 1 week ago
[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know the headline references it, but it's amazing how much it looks like Invisible War.

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I recently replayed IW and the overall looks just seem so much more... coherent? I guess? It's hard to describe but in comparison the Remaster looks like it's assets from different games merged into one.

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[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I bet there's modpacks out there that make the game look 100 times better than this remaster.

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[–] NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wonder if they're still dealing with engine limitations? Not excusing them, because the feedback is actually on point if you see the screenshots/trailer. But I'm wondering if there's a poly count limit or something.

They're clearly bolting on the graphical improvements on top of this antiquated engine, rather than rewriting it. I wonder if they need to "trick" the engine (like with RTX Remix, where the game isn't "aware" of the changes).

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 19 points 1 week ago (9 children)

These are the recommended system requirements. Not sure what they are doing behind the scenes but they are absolutely ridiculous for a game of this scope.

[–] NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's even dumber: look at the minimum requirements, too. The insane difference between the minimum and recommended tell me that it's the original engine with a ton of shit bolted on top.

That's the only reason they'd recommend a 2080 or above -- just sheer brute force. I hope I'm wrong, but I smell an unoptimized rerelease. Someone mentioned this studio remastered a Star Wars game (I forget which) and apparently it didn't go well.

We needed Nightdive studios for this.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Aspyr is the company, it's not really a 'studio' - they're a porting house that used to port PC games to MacOS, poorly (but beggars could not be choosers in the post win95 world, crappy Aspyr port or none at all)

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Windows 11

Get the fuck right out of here with that shit

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That's really a shame. Deus Ex deserves a full ground up remake.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I said when they put the trailer out that it didn't look any better than the Revision mod and I got shit for it.

[–] Someone64@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

Aspyr doing their usual...

[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Useless like most of remasters

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[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Somethingsomethingsomething UNATCO? 😶

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