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Bioshock remastered
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12-09-2016 4:37pm#1
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First one's all I care about. Too bad you have to own 2 to get the update. When they showed console version of the 'HD' it looked worse than the original. This has happened before with many titles, their HD editions being worse off graphically. All I hope is that the negative mouse acceleration, deadzone, crashing, audio glitches and 30fps physics are fixed.
That said the reason I skipped 2 was primarily because it had sound glitches but from what I played it didn't seem as good as the original anyway. Considering purchasing 2 cheap somewhere just to get the update for 1.
I couldn't stomach Infinite. Alt F4'd after around 6 hours of terrible gunplay. Thankfully was just a family shared item. Didn't invest a single adam
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Just murmurs from another discussion forum but I heard someone say the glitches from the original game (30fps physics, audio issues) is still present in the remastered, has less settings in the graphic options, is bigger install size and needs stronger hardware for barely any payoff. Not sounding good. I don't see any videos about it from the few YTers I trust. Maybe I'll just play it and find out for myself. Speaking of which I found it added to my account even though I only have Bioshock 1 on steam (won it here!) although I'm pretty sure I had a physical release on my old family computer I couldn't be bothered finding it now considering I have the game.
Oh also to note you can't buy the original version standalone anymore. You have to buy the 'remastrered' version on steam now, indefinitely raising the price for these titles. If the murmurs about its glitches are true then this is one of the dirtiest cash grabs I've seen in a while.0 -
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How could it be considered a cash grab when they upgraded everyone who owned the previous versions for free and set the price of the Remasters to be the same price as the versions before them, also going so far as to include both executables when you buy the new version? As for pulling the original digital version itself from sale, that's pretty standard practice at this stage. Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Fahrenheit, Sleeping Dogs, Dead Island, Ori and Wasteland 2 are but a few examples.Robert ninja wrote: »Oh also to note you can't buy the original version standalone anymore. You have to buy the 'remastrered' version on steam now, indefinitely raising the price for these titles. If the murmurs about its glitches are true then this is one of the dirtiest cash grabs I've seen in a while.
The graphics settings for the first Remastered game are odd though. I'd wager they've just jacked all the settings available in the first game to High Detail by default in the Remastered version and used those settings in conjunction with the new textures to give it that "Remastered" look.
Generally speaking? It's cheaper. In this case? The team at Irrational are now a skeleton staff and probably wouldn't be able to handle this release as well as their own project. Also it's cheaper.TerrorFirmer wrote: »Yes, I've heard it's another Arkham Knight situation - how this keeps happening I just do not understand. Why are they handing off AAA games to unknown companies to make shoddy, sub-standard ports?
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Why should it though? They've just replaced the older version with the newer one at the same price while also giving you both versions when you buy it. I'd totally agree with you if they had actually raised the price of the Remastered ones or didn't give you the original SKU with your purchase but, as it stands, no one who bought the game recently or who intends on buying it soon is losing out. At this stage, the only real negative aspect is that they'll probably reduce the discount applied to the Remastered ones come sale time from the 80% level it had reached previously.Robert ninja wrote: »@gizmo
Because the original should cost less than the remaster and there's no way to buy the original and there's apparently still glitches, that's why. I won't consider it a cash grab until I confirm tonight if the glitches are gone. If they've fixed the audio, physics and crashes I can't complain.
I wouldn't hold my breath over the issues that were present in the original game. From reading about it seems most of the work done was on the presentation and platform support side. Most issues that were present in the previous version of the game are still there. The missing graphics options are probably still accessible in the ini files if you want to tweak them though. As for the reasoning behind it, well there's the one obvious one, it reduces the amount of testing that needs to be done on the PC SKU.
EDIT: Oh, totally agree on the Human Revolution front. I only played it recently and ended up going with the boxed Vanilla version of the game I had since launch over the Director's Cut I had picked up in the meantime since I really loved the original, more stylised look to the game. In hindsight, I'm also of the opinion that The Missing Link content would harm the pacing of the game had I tackled it in its integrated form in the DC but that's harder to say for certain after the fact. Either way, it's definitely a pity you can't get the initial version anymore.0 -
Game looks better all around by a little, which adds up to a lot. The framerate is solid, I'm getting 130fps with 130 being the throttle I put on my GPU (RX 480). I'll probably turn off the throttle to see how far I can push it. Lights look nicer. HUD is HD. And most importantly, physics are not 30fps! I'm not sure what FPS they are but from my eyes I think they have no lock so are probably hitting my screen's 120.
Biggest issues so far is the negative mouse acceleration & deadzone, lack of graphical options and Little Sister's face being revealed right at the start because of aspect ratio changes. I need to play more to see if the audio glitches are fixed which are very important. I'll have to get into some hectic fights with machine gun NPCs and bots since the glitch is when there's too many sounds at once. Saving system is still vanilla so there's no restrictions on checkpoints or any other console malarkey. A new difficulty is in the game I think. Survivor. Mid-game it warns you changing it will affect achievements. I don't care about achievements at all but nice of them to warn.
Overall not bad
Will update about sound glitch.0 -
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