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Blade Runner is being remastered
Here’s a new snippet on what they’ve been doing with the remaster
So, basically, they are at least running the cutscenes through an AI upscaler, which was something I expected. While I do like the smoother frame rate of the upscale, they still have to think a bit more about it, as some of the original texture details are smoothed out in the process.
Looks like a great game so far. Glad to see this game getting a remaster after all these years. It’s going to sell very well when completed.
I enjoy playing adventure games on my Alienware M17 r4 and my Nintendo Switch OLED.
I don’t really like the upgrade I’m seeing on the video, and they still have to show so much more for their remastering work.
I guess it’s technically the minimum they could do and show, considering this is just a cutscene. In-game models, backgrounds and the effect on each other (shadows, fog, lights, etc) is a very different and complex beast to improve upon.
I noticed the cutscene does not feature subtitles. I’m still wondering if (and also worried that) they’ll “borrow” work that we at ScummVM did for UI enhancements, the subtitles and transcript, content restoration, bug fixes without properly crediting the people that did the work.
Blade runner remaster is coming on
June 23rd of this year.
https://gamerant.com/blade-runner-enhanced-edition-release-date/amp/
No in-game visuals?
“Going on means going far - Going far means returning”
I bet this will be no different, or even worse, than the original game. Too bad, because it’s a great game.
I’m a bit worried about this, as there’s no official footage of the remastered version besides that one old upscaled intro video they showed a year back.
Yeah all this is odd, if the game really does come out Friday, I’m sure we’ll see clips of it. This is definitely a wait-and-see for me
« The remaster is currently touting upgraded visuals across the board, including reconstructed and improved cinematics, which also now run at 60 frames-per-second as opposed to the 15 frames-per-second originals, modern gamepad support, anisotropic texture filtering, and SMAA Anti Aliasing. The PS4 Pro and Xbox One X versions have already been confirmed to support 4K output, and the trophy and achievement lists have also gone live.»
There are no textures in this game, unless they replaced ALL the in game pre-rendered models. They obviously just slapped a scaler on it, and called it a day. Otherwise, they would have showed footage already. I’m not holding my breath here.
“including ‘reconstructed’ and improved cinematics”
yeah right! is it VR now, come on!
A little more info from the ps4 store.
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition is a faithful restoration of the classic adventure game featuring:
*Reconstruction and upressing of original Westwood VQA Videos
*Cinematic Video frame rates updated from 15fps to 60fps
*Modern HD Display
*Enhanced “Knowledge Integration Assistant” (KIA) and clue user interface
*Enhanced Subtitle support
*Modern gamepad support
*SMAA Anti Aliasing
*Anisotropic texture filtering
Held off buying the original when it re-released on GOG as the remaster announcement came so soon after. Nightdive usually do pretty good work, no? I’ve bought a few of their remasters, but I do agree it’s odd we don’t have more media.
I think this is one of the upcoming gamesp I checked on for status updates at the end of the year. Let me see what I can find if I jump back in that rabbit hole.
edit: Blade Runner is being released digitally on Thursday. From what I can gather, they worked with what they had, without the original video material. Since Blade Runner is a rather FMV-heavy game, using filters and tweaking here and there is basically as much as you can remaster in that department. It’s supposed to have modern controller support, which is nice. There appear to be some graphics settings you can adjust as a player, to make it work on your screen of choice.
A little more info from the ps4 store.
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition is a faithful restoration of the classic adventure game featuring:
*Reconstruction and upressing of original Westwood VQA Videos
*Cinematic Video frame rates updated from 15fps to 60fps
*Modern HD Display
*Enhanced “Knowledge Integration Assistant” (KIA) and clue user interface
*Enhanced Subtitle support
*Modern gamepad support
*SMAA Anti Aliasing
*Anisotropic texture filtering
Not much new here.
-Videos are just upscales. *Reconstruction*. Pfft.
-Upping frame rate won’t add any detail.
-Modern HD display=upscaling.
-Enhanced KIA - already implemented by ScummVm
-Enhanced subtitle support - already implemented by ScummVm
-Gamepad support - could use any key mapper
-SMAA Anti aliasing - more smeared “upscaling”
-Antistropic texture filtering - again, there Are no textures in this game
I’ll pass.
A little more info from the ps4 store.
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition is a faithful restoration of the classic adventure game featuring:
*Reconstruction and upressing of original Westwood VQA Videos
*Cinematic Video frame rates updated from 15fps to 60fps
*Modern HD Display
*Enhanced “Knowledge Integration Assistant” (KIA) and clue user interface
*Enhanced Subtitle support
*Modern gamepad support
*SMAA Anti Aliasing
*Anisotropic texture filteringNot much new here.
-Videos are just upscales. *Reconstruction*. Pfft.
-Upping frame rate won’t add any detail.
-Modern HD display=upscaling.
-Enhanced KIA - already implemented by ScummVm
-Enhanced subtitle support - already implemented by ScummVm
-Gamepad support - could use any key mapper
-SMAA Anti aliasing - more smeared “upscaling”
-Antistropic texture filtering - again, there Are no textures in this gameI’ll pass.
Cool i will wait and see what it looks like, if it is really 9.99, I still might buy it to play it on my big TV so I don’t have to run a HDMI cord from the computer to the TV.
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