I never asked for this.
what a shame
It looks like absolute shit.
Hot take: Games this old should not be remastered, it doesn’t go well. If you want to play a piece of gaming history, you should experience it as it was, graphics and all.
Once this shit comes out, the biggest impact it will have is to muddy the waters as to what someone means when they say they played Deus Ex. Did they play the original and presumably had to jump through some hoops to get it running, or did they play this abomination that is probably tons worse and obviously tons less optimized? Who knows.
I think this is more a really bad remastering than proof that remastering an old game can’t work, though “remaster” has always seemed like kind of a fuzzy category to me anyway, this case especially (it looks like an atrocious remake to me).
I greatly enjoyed the System Shock (1) remake. All the atmosphere and none of the 90s jank.
Tbh, THe original System Shock is barely a fps game, it’s like a weird first person point and clicker
There’s a remaster mod that is quite good. It definitely can be done.
The Dark Forces remaster a few years ago was good.
Yeah, but the publisher can trick people into buying this instead of the original at a fraction of the cost, that’s gotta count for something
trick people into buying this instead of the original
in a lot of the cases they just de-list the original so you’re forced to buy the remaster actually
Yeah, they usually do that, but at least for now the original Deus Ex is still for sale on Steam and GOG.
RIP original Warcraft III among many others.
Warcraft III
did they ever fix the connection issues?
If you want to play a piece of gaming history, you should experience it as it was, graphics and all.
You should experience it as the community around the game experiences it, which means lots and lots of mods.
Storage 20 GB available space
The original Deus Ex ran on HDDs that had less total storage space than that.
Why is Paul Denton like 50 years old in the remaster
MJ12 must have forgotten to take him out of the tank and he overcooked
Hey so what if we added lighting to the game. Not with any specific art direction in mind, just add lighting.
This is how all remasters do it. I swear there’s some class every game studio puts their artists through since like 2010 that says “more light is better, end of story” and they execute anyone who dares make a dark scene
Can we swap them with the modern movie lighting guys?
you’re a genius
Fatal Frame 4 was originally dark, grey and desaturated but the remaster just made it extremely blue lots of bloomy yellow light everywhere
I mean, he is actually in his 50s in Deus Ex.
He is? I assumed he would have been like 35 at most. Him and JC seem pretty young in terms of their voice and appearance
He was born in 2018, which would make him 54 in 2072 when Deus Ex takes place.
Damn. Like I said, JC especially comes across as pretty young
i bet you could mod the OG game and make it look better
I bet you could make the OG game from memory on the PS1 and make it look better
It’s also being remastered by Aspyr which to me = fuck that shit, sticking with the original with patches.
I haven’t played them but the Tomb Raider remasters they did seem pretty cool to me. The choice to update the character models to how they looked in PS1-era promotional renders is a neat idea
It’s amazing because it looks like an Unreal Engine indie game for PS4, but even those would probably be more optimized
Some of the older games on pc especially deus ex makes me extremely nauseous. 10 minutes is all I can handle before feeling as if I am going to pass out and that is after whatever tweaking I did. Never had the problem when I was still a kid but I played on a crt monitor. I don’t really get motion sickness unless I try to read books on a bus and it doesn’t even happen on a train but some games like deus ex are just unplayable because of this.
Why is it that when they “remaster” old as shit games, they always end up eating up way more storage space, requiring top of the line graphics, and all that to look worse? (Well, I like the Khajiits in the Oblivion remaster, but I just really like anthro kitties no matter how they’re drawn. The Argonians look less boopable in the remaster.) Not to mention requiring much newer everything than the original. Not everyone’s got a brand new computer, you guys! Especially people still playing really old games!
14·5 days agoKitties
Them’s the best! Hug shaped! (Also, I love how I look in cat ears. Specifically tiger ears. I make a cute Tigger.)
Why
Would you be learn that it’s the profit motive? Make some dogshit game that coasts on nostalgia, don’t give enough time to artists or programmers because quarterly profit, and maybe depending on who’s publishing and what the deal is, use the whole thing to help push new consoles (and besides, making things more broadly compatible means more time and money spent)
Daaamn you made me look up the khajit because I hadn’t seen them and you’re right they look really good.
This almost got me to play the remaster but then I realised the modding community for it is dead as fuck because the mixture of UE and Gamebryo made it too difficult to mod and people don’t care enough about it to learn or push through the barriers.
Think I’ll pass. But those khajit do look good.
Yep. The khajiit look a lot like ESO humanoid khajiit, which are… certainly more “anime catgirl/catboy” than older ES khajiit models. But, the fur isn’t as detailed, and I like my bipedal kitties made of fluffy, lol.
They look like they just said “fuck it let’s lean into the furries”.
They do. But, eh, hug shaped cats are hug shaped cats, I just want to see something fuzzy.
Khajiits in the Oblivion remaster
i did dislike the mane that they’re all given, thankfully you could mod that out
Wait they all have to have manes in the remaster? But a lot of khajiit shave their manes to show reverence for their spiritual leader!
Being a lore nerd is nothing but pain and suffering.
im not sure if it’s a mane but eh
Pretty sure if it’s long enough to braid you’d count that as a mane haha
well you can choose between being a jungle cat or a desert cat atleast ugh bethesda please why did you make 12 different furstocks in lore if you’re going to give us the same cathay every time??
Actually in Morrowind we see the suthay-raht, who are unique in being digitigrades so they can’t use normal shoes. In Arena and Daggerfall we see the ohmes and ohmes-raht furstocks, known for being so elf-like that they tend to tattoo themselves to avoid any chance of being mistaken for elves.And then in ESO we see a whole bunch of different furstocks, because ESO is incredible.
But yeah I agree, I think there should be a lot of options for Khajiit characters. Especially NPCs, there should be a couple of every furstock to be found in every game IMO. Yeah, not many alfiq would want to travel and have to deal with foreigners who would treat them like housecats, but there would be a few, especially traveling among other Khajiit. Especially when we keep in mind that even two cathay can make an alfiq child (or any other furstock), so families should look very diverse when we see them.
ESO is pretty fun this is true, you also have a butt slider in that game.
There’s a couple of mods for Morrowind that allow you to play as most of the furstock and the Tamriel Rebuilt stuff (Cyrodil and Skyrim too) use a lot more varied forms of khajiit, so that’s something.
foreigners who would treat them like housecats
Alfiq mob boss who pretends to be a rich, senile old lady’s housecat. You are contracted by the watch to find proof the old lady is running her deceased husband’s organization.
Why didn’t they just let nightdive handle it?
If we’re being honest here, it’s probably not the games requirements but the requirements to run modem windows.
Why re-release the game for Windows XP when the main issue with playing old games is compatibility with modern systems.
If you want the game to run on a pregnancy test, go download the original.
This is just typical Aspyr. They flew under the radar back when their bread and butter was shitty mac ports (looking at you, KOTOR and Civ 6) but have gotten more attention since they started doing bare-bones remasters of otherwise fantastic games.
That screenshot has the distinctive look of one of those ID tech 4 FPSs. Man’s got that Prey (2006) lighting. All that time and resources, and the tech needed to run it, just to make it look like a quake 4 mod.
