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Gold Rush! Classic
Fantastic!
But unfortunately the remake doesn’t look good at all
It’s like the scenes were taken out from one of the Sims games.
I don’t get it. There’s this urge to make over all the classics as if they aren’t good enough anymore and on the other hand there’s the pixelated, blocky, voiceless retro trend in new games. Personally I want it the other way round: Leave the classics alone and stop producing new adventures that look and feel like they were made decades ago.
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I can’t say I am a huge fan of those new pre-rendered backgrounds, the art assets do seem to be a bit of lowpoly, almost like they’ve been made to be used in realtime engine rather than done strictly for pre-rendering in mind.
I do appreaciate the original release though, at least this way there’s a choice.
Not particularly interested in remakes, but I’m very keen on classics being re-released and optimized for modern systems, hopefully this one shows up on GOG as well.
Leave the classics alone and stop producing new adventures that look and feel like they were made decades ago.
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What Karlok said
For whom the games toll,
they toll for thee.
Not particularly interested in remakes, but I’m very keen on classics being re-released and optimized for modern systems, hopefully this one shows up on GOG as well.
It will be available on their website. It is DRM free, if that is what you were thinking about.
I checked the video of the “Classic” version of the game.
Did the original “Gold Rush” from 1988 really only have PC speaker sound?
I thought games were using sound cards by 1988.
They should release a bundle for $15 or so and a bundle only.
Otherwise I can’t see many people buying the remake, which ironically looks dated already.
What price range can we expect for these?
I like the throwback look, honestly, im speaking in general. I want games that look great and feel new so to speak, but I absolutely love seeing games releasing with a throwback look. As a gamer that’s been gaming 30+ years now, im very fond of the old days.
I checked the video of the “Classic” version of the game.
Did the original “Gold Rush” from 1988 really only have PC speaker sound?
I thought games were using sound cards by 1988.
Gold Rush was one of the last of the AGI games, Sierra’s engine before they introduced SCI with King’s Quest 4 (1988), which was the first Sierra and one of the first PC games to support a sound card. There was some overlap of AGI and SCI games. On the PC the sound indeed came through the PC speaker. However, AGI was originally developed for the PCjr, which had three voice music with noise channel for sound effects. The Tandy enjoyed the same sound capability.
This new release of Gold Rush! is set to use Tandy sound with its three voice music with noise channel. Also worth mentioning is that this is version 3 of the game and has no manual check copy protection.
Thanks for the information about AGI. Very interesting.
This new release of Gold Rush! is set to use Tandy sound with its three voice music with noise channel. Also worth mentioning is that this is version 3 of the game and has no manual check copy protection.
Will it be possible to switch between the original and the updated graphics with the “Remake” version (the way you could with Monkey Island Special Edition)? That would be an interesting comparison.
Not particularly interested in remakes, but I’m very keen on classics being re-released and optimized for modern systems, hopefully this one shows up on GOG as well.
It will be available on their website. It is DRM free, if that is what you were thinking about.
Well, yes and no. I’m happy to hear that a DRM-Free option is available, but even so I would like to see a GOG release.
Will it be possible to switch between the original and the updated graphics with the “Remake” version (the way you could with Monkey Island Special Edition)? That would be an interesting comparison.
I think this would be a neat feature in every remake. Though there’s cases where it would be impractical because of changed content, but it would be nice none the less.
Well, yes and no. I’m happy to hear that a DRM-Free option is available, but even so I would like to see a GOG release.
Why? There would be no advantage to a GOG release other than to add a box on your GOG account page. BTW, I am the one that did some of the Sierra GOG releases. They use my resources for most of the Sierra games that I did not do.
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