The youtubers fanboing over this and telling people to go and buy the games pissed me off, not surprised this happened. They've also been trying to gush over the dark forces remaster and everybody knows these are inevitably lazy as fuck ports where the most they've done is the bare minimum to get the game running on modern PCs.
I think this is potentially a last hail mary from the industry before the big boys finally start dying off. EA have been doing this too with putting the classic C&C games on steam so clearly even the C&C remastered release isn't making them enough money to cover the costs of their constant ESG pandering and neverending failures. Quite a few people reporting problems with those games as well by the way.
These people can't even be trusted to do a basic port effort of the classic games and it's extremely annoying. I also find the pricing of these games incredibly cheeky. I love it when they slap the remastered label on this shit too and they try to charge £50+ and it makes you wonder if anyone praising them for this is potentially being paid for it because that's what the industry is still like and it's becoming more and more obvious with the frequently borked releases.
I saw Dark Forces remaster last week and at a glance I’d guess they packaged up a community made modern engine with the original files, maybe running textures through some filters, and said “here you go it’s a release”. Ok, fine, but $30 come on! There are brand new games that launch at $30 with way more effort put in, several of which I’ve done the unthinkable and bought for full price.
All the youtube videos I saw on this were of the pre-release PC version meaning there was no multi-player yet, and it was so fucking stupid. Battlefront II from 2005 is already on Steam and runs fine. This is a lazy, good for nothing port.
The youtubers fanboing over this and telling people to go and buy the games pissed me off, not surprised this happened. They've also been trying to gush over the dark forces remaster and everybody knows these are inevitably lazy as fuck ports where the most they've done is the bare minimum to get the game running on modern PCs.
I think this is potentially a last hail mary from the industry before the big boys finally start dying off. EA have been doing this too with putting the classic C&C games on steam so clearly even the C&C remastered release isn't making them enough money to cover the costs of their constant ESG pandering and neverending failures. Quite a few people reporting problems with those games as well by the way.
These people can't even be trusted to do a basic port effort of the classic games and it's extremely annoying. I also find the pricing of these games incredibly cheeky. I love it when they slap the remastered label on this shit too and they try to charge £50+ and it makes you wonder if anyone praising them for this is potentially being paid for it because that's what the industry is still like and it's becoming more and more obvious with the frequently borked releases.
I hope they go fucking bankrupt.
I saw Dark Forces remaster last week and at a glance I’d guess they packaged up a community made modern engine with the original files, maybe running textures through some filters, and said “here you go it’s a release”. Ok, fine, but $30 come on! There are brand new games that launch at $30 with way more effort put in, several of which I’ve done the unthinkable and bought for full price.
All the youtube videos I saw on this were of the pre-release PC version meaning there was no multi-player yet, and it was so fucking stupid. Battlefront II from 2005 is already on Steam and runs fine. This is a lazy, good for nothing port.