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by adeyke » Tue Dec 17, 2013 6:43 pm
It's great that the game is being made available again, and it's great that your skill with the installers is being recognized.
However, I must admit that the news of the remake doesn't really excite me. From what I hear, the game is full of dead ends, random deaths, and unforgiving timed sequences. So unless they're also modernizing the game design, I don't think it's a game I'd be interested in playing. That's not to say it's necessarily a bad game, just that it's not my cup of tea.
Also, if the screenshots they've posted are any indication of what the game will actually look like, I really take issue with their description of those as "state of the art". The original game had the very limited 160x200 resolution and 16 colors, but it used those amazingly well. At that resolution, it's necessary to simplify and iconify things to even make them out. For example, you can't have a grey item next to a grey wall, so one or the other will need to be colored. And small objects either need to be enlarged, or you'd just accept that it's only going to look like a pixel. The remake screenshots have a resolution of 1920x1080, so they don't have any such restrictions. And yet, it looks to me like, for the most part, they're just directly modelling the original artwork in 3D and slapping on some generic textures. The result is something really bland, amateurish, and lifeless.