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Games remade that come to mind, some from the same people or reusing the old codebase: * Warcraft 3 remastered * Theme hospital -> TwoPoint hospital * Dungeo

by srgpqt 5y ago

Games remade that come to mind, some from the same people or reusing the old codebase: * Warcraft 3 remastered * Theme hospital -> TwoPoint hospital * Dungeon Keeper -> War for the Overworld * Jones in the Fast Lane -> No time to Relax * System Shock * Descent -> Overload and also Descent Underground

ethbr0 5y ago
Nice to see Descent getting remade. I remember the extra DoF (and later, indoor / outdoor environments) blowing my young mind. Also, TIL Volition was a spin off / successor of Parallax Software. Descent is still one of my favorite 90s-era boxes. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Descent_cover.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Descent_cover...
- ckozlowski 5y ago
  One of my favorites as well. To clarify, it was remade. Overload is a remake of Descent all but in name. Mike Kulas and Matt Toschlog, the original Descent programmers, lead the effort along with a number of other Descent 2 and 3 veterans. The story even carries a lot of references to the original game. As I understand it, Parallax lost access to the title, but retained all of the other IP, including the story. It's an excellent game, and plays very much like the original, just updated. There's a very active community for it on Discord. Unfortunately, as the team said themselves, Overload didn't do too well in sales, and so they've largely ceased development. The game had a number of patches though and it's quite stable. The community still runs frequent events and new levels are being made for it. The creators are active in the Discord as well. "Descent Underground" took a much different path, and bore little resemblance to the original except for 6DOF and the name. It was going to be a team shooter as I recall, but after their kickstarter, they missed release dates and never went into early access (that I recall). The title eventually was pulled from Steam and last I heard, was still in perpetual limbo.
yawnxyz 5y ago
Descent would be so crazy as a VR game... I remember being getting lost pretty much all the time...
- toast0 5y ago
  Descent launched in 1995 with support for stereo displays (or maybe it was added in a patch, I can't find the patch notes, anyway it was supported within the support window) I'm not sure if there's good support for the modern crop of stereo displays though; I think Overload does have VR support though.
taurath 5y ago
Warcraft III Reforged (not remastered) is one of the biggest tragedies. It was released completely buggy, without about half of the promised features, featured an IP restriction that any map made using their map editor is Blizzard's to own (see: the entire MOBA genre that was created only due to blizards map editors). The worst part was this: Warcraft III Reforged was made into a PATCH for the original game. So if you had the original game, and perhaps STILL PLAYED the original with all the mods that made it so continuously popular in the first place, you don't get a choice, you had to upgrade to their new buggy experience. https://www.fanbyte.com/trending/warcraft-3-classic-owners-are-forced-to-download-reforged-instead/ https://www.fanbyte.com/trending/warcraft-3-classic-owners-a... So they literally replaced the old, extremely beloved game, with a new buggy engine and pretty much destroyed the entire community built around the game.
- taneq 5y ago
  Blizzard has been dead for years and the remaining shell is just trying to beat the last few gold coins out of the corpses of their titles.

by srgpqt 5y ago

ethbr0 5y ago

Nice to see Descent getting remade. I remember the extra DoF (and later, indoor / outdoor environments) blowing my young mind. Also, TIL Volition was a spin off / successor of Parallax Software. Descent is still one of my favorite 90s-era boxes. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Descent_cover.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Descent_cover...

ckozlowski 5y ago
One of my favorites as well. To clarify, it was remade. Overload is a remake of Descent all but in name. Mike Kulas and Matt Toschlog, the original Descent programmers, lead the effort along with a number of other Descent 2 and 3 veterans. The story even carries a lot of references to the original game. As I understand it, Parallax lost access to the title, but retained all of the other IP, including the story. It's an excellent game, and plays very much like the original, just updated. There's a very active community for it on Discord. Unfortunately, as the team said themselves, Overload didn't do too well in sales, and so they've largely ceased development. The game had a number of patches though and it's quite stable. The community still runs frequent events and new levels are being made for it. The creators are active in the Discord as well. "Descent Underground" took a much different path, and bore little resemblance to the original except for 6DOF and the name. It was going to be a team shooter as I recall, but after their kickstarter, they missed release dates and never went into early access (that I recall). The title eventually was pulled from Steam and last I heard, was still in perpetual limbo.

yawnxyz 5y ago

Descent would be so crazy as a VR game... I remember being getting lost pretty much all the time...

toast0 5y ago
Descent launched in 1995 with support for stereo displays (or maybe it was added in a patch, I can't find the patch notes, anyway it was supported within the support window) I'm not sure if there's good support for the modern crop of stereo displays though; I think Overload does have VR support though.

taurath 5y ago

Warcraft III Reforged (not remastered) is one of the biggest tragedies. It was released completely buggy, without about half of the promised features, featured an IP restriction that any map made using their map editor is Blizzard's to own (see: the entire MOBA genre that was created only due to blizards map editors). The worst part was this: Warcraft III Reforged was made into a PATCH for the original game. So if you had the original game, and perhaps STILL PLAYED the original with all the mods that made it so continuously popular in the first place, you don't get a choice, you had to upgrade to their new buggy experience. https://www.fanbyte.com/trending/warcraft-3-classic-owners-are-forced-to-download-reforged-instead/ https://www.fanbyte.com/trending/warcraft-3-classic-owners-a... So they literally replaced the old, extremely beloved game, with a new buggy engine and pretty much destroyed the entire community built around the game.

taneq 5y ago
Blizzard has been dead for years and the remaining shell is just trying to beat the last few gold coins out of the corpses of their titles.