Ulythium
Full Member
Lily-livered
Posts: 7,093
Member is Online
|
Post by Ulythium on Jun 6, 2024 20:45:45 GMT
Reckon a lot of studios are looking at them now as the safest project rather than trying a new IP.
True, but that didn't stop EA being dissatisfied with how the Dead Space remake sold (and shelving/killing the IP as a result).
|
|
|
|
Post by baihu1983 on Jun 6, 2024 20:49:34 GMT
True. Though that looked to have a much bigger budget than a lot of remakes get?
Still typical shit from EA.
|
|
Blue_Mike
Full Member
Meet Hanako At Embers
Posts: 5,365
|
Post by Blue_Mike on Jun 6, 2024 22:50:06 GMT
Give Me Deus Ex
|
|
|
|
Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 6, 2024 23:11:14 GMT
Those Embracer cunts own the IP.
|
|
|
|
Post by baihu1983 on Jun 7, 2024 4:09:06 GMT
And already cancelled a new game.
Okay it looks cleaner..
|
|
malek86
Junior Member
Pomegranate Deseeder
Posts: 3,247
|
Post by malek86 on Jun 12, 2024 5:05:26 GMT
Demo for Riven is out. Never thought I'd see those islands in 3D.
|
|
|
|
Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 12, 2024 5:19:01 GMT
And already cancelled a new game. Okay it looks cleaner.. I don't really get this recent trend of remastering games that still look fine. (I was actually looking at grabbing Yooka Laylee for Switch a few days back, and I didn't feel like the graphics were dated) Maybe it's because I'm playing on Switch and/or a mid range laptop, but the original usually looks fine to me, if not better. Brothers, Life is Strange, etc.. have all had remasters that seemed at best unnecessary, and at worst seemed worse than the original. Maybe some people like them, but they seem like cash grabs to me. Unless it's moving it to a new platform or something useful. I guess i'm not enough of a graphics person. |
|
Cappy
New Member
This is my message.
Posts: 644
|
Post by Cappy on Jun 12, 2024 8:52:40 GMT
We used to call those sorts of releases ports. Maybe there's a set of numbers somewhere that suggests that marketing any sort of port as a 'remaster' sells more copies.
|
|
|
|
Post by crashV👀d👀 on Jun 12, 2024 9:09:39 GMT
I thought we already did this .. anyways my vote goes for the strike series, jungle/desert/urban ITS HAPPENING!!! |
|
|
|
Post by simple on Jun 12, 2024 17:38:03 GMT
With a new medieval themed Doom coming soon and Quake 1 and 2 having had recent(ish) polish up jobs it’d be nice to see a Heretic/Hexen/Hexen 2 bundle put together for consoles.
The original Doom games are available and look good so presumably it wouldn’t be that hard to do a job on some or all of these.
|
|
|
|
Post by simple on Jun 12, 2024 17:39:48 GMT
Reckon a lot of studios are looking at them now as the safest project rather than trying a new IP.
True, but that didn't stop EA being dissatisfied with how the Dead Space remake sold (and shelving/killing the IP as a result).
Its sad that what killed Dead Space both times around is that EA seem to think the series should be selling like COD for some reason. |
|
|
|
Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 12, 2024 20:04:04 GMT
Indeed a lot of publishers have seem to forgotten the model of big games supporting smaller projects. Now everything has to be massive disregarding how much money some of these big publishers are making. Don't get me started how much cash EA makes from FUT alone.
|
|
Ulythium
Full Member
Lily-livered
Posts: 7,093
Member is Online
|
Post by Ulythium on Jun 12, 2024 20:23:18 GMT
That's what really pisses me off about the Dead Space situation - EA makes insane amounts of cash each year from FUT and MUT, yet they never seek to reinvest any of it (hundreds of millions of dollars, remember) in supporting their smaller franchises.
Yes, they're a company. Yes, they exist to make money. Yes, their shareholders want more ivory backscratchers. And no, they're not a charity.
I know all that, but I don't much care.
Dead Space Remake may not have made much of a profit, if it made one at all, but it got Metacritic scores in the high 80s on all three platforms. How many other EA releases have achieved that within the past decade? You could probably count them on the fingers of one hand.
If I were Android Wilson (© Jim Sterling), I'd want to keep some critical darlings alive and well alongside the lootbox-ridden trash I crapped out each year, if only to maintain for a little while longer the facade that EA is a video game company that gives a shit about video games.
|
|
Derblington
Junior Member
Did you know I have a girlfriend
Posts: 2,129
|
Post by Derblington on Jun 12, 2024 20:59:48 GMT
Isn’t that exactly what EA Originals is doing? (Re. Supporting smaller projects)
|
|
Ulythium
Full Member
Lily-livered
Posts: 7,093
Member is Online
|
Post by Ulythium on Jun 12, 2024 21:09:47 GMT
Derblington I'm referring to their (EA's) smaller projects, which seem to get compared to the yardsticks set by FIFA and Madden and shitcanned when they don't stack up. Originals does support smaller third-party projects, I'll give you that, but even those are sometimes held hostage by unrealistic expectations. Take Wild Hearts, for example: did EA really think it would match up to Monster Hunter, a 20-year-old franchise, after one game?
|
|
Cappy
New Member
This is my message.
Posts: 644
|
Post by Cappy on Jun 12, 2024 22:34:59 GMT
Dead Space games did really well, unfortunately they were spending far too much money. The bet seemed to be that they would be doing Resident Evil numbers at least, which was an incredibly risky bet.
Horror games as a whole are pretty niche, Resident Evil takes most of the pie, Silent Hill has sometimes broken the Million mark but after that it starts to fall off dramatically into the territory of games that don't even hit the one hundred thousand mark Worldwide.
|
|
Reviewer
Junior Member
Posts: 4,446
Member is Online
|
Post by Reviewer on Jun 13, 2024 9:18:01 GMT
I thought we already did this .. anyways my vote goes for the strike series, jungle/desert/urban ITS HAPPENING!!! There's this too: |
|
richardiox
Junior Member
Semi proficient
Posts: 1,653
Member is Online
|
Post by richardiox on Jun 13, 2024 9:54:06 GMT
Reminds me how much I used to love the Choplifter 2 arcade game, Peterborough Ice Rink 1987-1990.
|
|
|
|
Post by Wizzard_Ook on Jun 14, 2024 21:43:53 GMT
Talking of EA being bell ends, still surprises me there’s no dragon age 1 & 2 remasters. Been meaning to try them out for… 15 years .. and now with veilguard coming out suddenly have the urge to get round to playing them. Don’t have a series s/x or a pc so a bit shit out of luck atm
|
|
|
|
Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 15, 2024 5:52:57 GMT
Yeah, as a non-player, I mentioned in the Dragon Age thread that it was a bit weird, especially in light of the Mass Effect ones.
Though I guess Mass Effect was a bigger more mainstream franchise.
The way people talk about DA1 and 2 it sounds like they're both great games with clearly understood flaws, and a remaster would be a chance to fix those flaws. Shrug.
I do have them both on PC, and I've never played them. DA1 just sounds too big and intimidating. Though I was looking into it and there are mods to skip The Fade and The Deep Roads, which sounds like it'd shave 6 hours off the playtime.
I just don't really have time for 40+ hour games these days.
|
|
hicksy
Junior Member
I'm good for some but I'm not for everyone
Posts: 1,567
|
Post by hicksy on Jun 15, 2024 6:21:56 GMT
/would love DA remakes but will probably turn up 2 yrs after Veilguard…
|
|
Ulythium
Full Member
Lily-livered
Posts: 7,093
Member is Online
|
Post by Ulythium on Jun 15, 2024 10:39:19 GMT
Those Embracer cunts own the IP.
I think this goes for Thief as well, so that's two of the classic 'immersive sim' franchises that are lying dormant thanks to Embracer.
Not that these series were doing brilliantly under Square Enix's management - between their meddling in Mankind Divided, and the calamitous Thief 2014 - but I'd rather just about anyone else had the rights, all things considered.
If only Nightdive could license the IPs from Embracer and make those games available on all modern platforms!
|
|
|
|
Post by Aunt Alison on Jun 15, 2024 13:49:35 GMT
No immersive sim in Thief. It's pure stealth
|
|
Blue_Mike
Full Member
Meet Hanako At Embers
Posts: 5,365
|
Post by Blue_Mike on Jun 15, 2024 14:04:25 GMT
I'd be happy enough to see a fan remake of Deus Ex, if it was done to the standard of Black Mesa.
Hey, there's an idea. Deus Ex: Source Engine Remake. |
|
|
|
Post by peacemaker on Jun 15, 2024 14:09:38 GMT
I haven’t read the posts yet and I’m sure there are many great suggestions I haven’t thought of yet but immediately after reading the title I thought it has to be Bloodborne! I would immediately buy a ps5 for it.
|
|
Cappy
New Member
This is my message.
Posts: 644
|
Post by Cappy on Jun 15, 2024 14:15:24 GMT
If you want a Thief experience with even more immersion you could just nip out and do some shoplifting. Purloined Mars Bars taste the sweetest of all.
I decided to take a trip down memory lane and boot up Ridge Racer Type 4. Overall, it just made me feel a bit sad. Why can't we have things like this anymore? It's just fun, that's all it needed to be.
I think it was around the PS3/360 launch where it all went wrong. We're going to do physics! More 'realistic' than ever before! Everything touched by this was significantly less entertaining. Ridge Racer 7 and Unbounded were just too finicky in their handling to just pick up and play. GTA IV was so bad I took a cab everywhere and never touched a game in the series again.
EA seem determined not to give us a Burnout collection, surely Bandai Namco could give us a Ridge Racer collection, arcade and PS1 versions of everything up to the PS2, mainly just rendered at HD resolutions with minimal alterations. Please.
|
|
|
|
Post by baihu1983 on Jun 15, 2024 16:27:25 GMT
Pretty sure Burnout 3HD alone would sell better than a lot of what EA have released over the last 5 years.
|
|
hicksy
Junior Member
I'm good for some but I'm not for everyone
Posts: 1,567
|
Post by hicksy on Jun 15, 2024 16:31:21 GMT
After Dragon Age mentions thought good point. Worth a spin on Game Pass then looking closer realised it’s not a GOTY version and wtf how much for the dlc’s?!? Then realised of course… EA money grabbing barstewards that they are…
/deleted
|
|
|
|
Post by baihu1983 on Jun 20, 2024 16:23:54 GMT
Going to skip this one.
|
|
|
|
Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 20, 2024 16:26:25 GMT
And already cancelled a new game. Okay it looks cleaner.. I don't really get this recent trend of remastering games that still look fine. (I was actually looking at grabbing Yooka Laylee for Switch a few days back, and I didn't feel like the graphics were dated) Maybe it's because I'm playing on Switch and/or a mid range laptop, but the original usually looks fine to me, if not better. Brothers, Life is Strange, etc.. have all had remasters that seemed at best unnecessary, and at worst seemed worse than the original. Maybe some people like them, but they seem like cash grabs to me. Unless it's moving it to a new platform or something useful. I guess i'm not enough of a graphics person. Honestly I agree. Though my first thought was "why, it was only released a couple of years ago", but nope, it was 7 years ago. Still seems very unecessary to me. |
|
