What if Destiny of the Doctors had a remake?

[Mystic Monkey]

TARDIS Wiki article: Doctor Who: Destiny of the Doctors[tardis.fandom.com]

To those not familiar with the game it was a 1997 game (which means the game is nearly 23 years old) where you play as a creation of the Doctor called Graak who is tasked to save seven incarnates of the Doctor from The Master. Graak explores the bowels of the TARDIS to find and rescue the Doctor.

The reason why I figured it be good to remake as a VR game is because the game itself is a first-person view game where you steer the Graak. Also like Edge of Time there is little interaction with actual people. The Doctor and his past companions communicate with Graak through monitors and communicators. As a remake it could have other various puzzles and implements to make use of VR.

[Omega Man]

^^^Yeah i would be up for that, still have the game in a cupboard somewhere, doubt it would even run on present systems. lol

[Mystic Monkey]

Originally posted by Omega Man:

^^^Yeah i would be up for that, still have the game in a cupboard somewhere, doubt it would even run on present systems. lol

I really don't get why old games and programs can't run on modern computers. You'd think it be cinch for Windows 10 to run a game for Windows 98.
But yeah a remaster of DotD would be great, especially for VR.

[Frodonator]

Originally posted by Mystic Monkey:

Originally posted by Omega Man:

^^^Yeah i would be up for that, still have the game in a cupboard somewhere, doubt it would even run on present systems. lol

I really don't get why old games and programs can't run on modern computers. You'd think it be cinch for Windows 10 to run a game for Windows 98.
But yeah a remaster of DotD would be great, especially for VR.

To start they remove some of the protection from windows that old games used and that's even if you can get it to install.

Microsoft could put a built in emulator to allow you to install and play the old games.
PC's have more than enough resources to run an emulator and a old game.

[Mystic Monkey]

Originally posted by Frodo:

Originally posted by Mystic Monkey:

I really don't get why old games and programs can't run on modern computers. You'd think it be cinch for Windows 10 to run a game for Windows 98.
But yeah a remaster of DotD would be great, especially for VR.

To start they remove some of the protection from windows that old games used and that's even if you can get it to install.

Microsoft could put a built in emulator to allow you to install and play the old games.
PC's have more than enough resources to run an emulator and a old game.

My brother did try to explain it to me why old games can't play on new computers but it went mostly over my head.

I compared it to like the Sumarian language. Sumarian was a language written by humans long a go but just because we're humans doesn't mean we can read old languages.
So maybe modern computers can't play old games because the programming is too ancient for them to understand.

[Mystic Monkey]

Bumping because I'm still curious if a remake of DotD would be an interesting proposal for a VR Doctor Who game.

[Omega Man]

Originally posted by Mystic Monkey:

Originally posted by Omega Man:

^^^Yeah i would be up for that, still have the game in a cupboard somewhere, doubt it would even run on present systems. lol

I really don't get why old games and programs can't run on modern computers. You'd think it be cinch for Windows 10 to run a game for Windows 98.
But yeah a remaster of DotD would be great, especially for VR.

Basically windows has evolved so much since 1997 that running DOTD on a modern PC would be the equivalent of trying to run a video cassette on your spotify account. lol

Windows 7 was the last OS that would run the game with some tweaking, W8/10 just won't run it.

[Mystic Monkey]

Originally posted by Omega Man:

Originally posted by Mystic Monkey:

I really don't get why old games and programs can't run on modern computers. You'd think it be cinch for Windows 10 to run a game for Windows 98.
But yeah a remaster of DotD would be great, especially for VR.

Basically windows has evolved so much since 1997 that running DOTD on a modern PC would be the equivalent of trying to run a video cassette on your spotify account. lol

Windows 7 was the last OS that would run the game with some tweaking, W8/10 just won't run it.

Unable to play a cassette tape on your computer I can understand given it's completely different devices.
But digital content is... well, digital. I mean, I guess it's like trying to learn ancient Sumerian. Just because it's a language we once had doesn't mean everyone today can understand it... but still you'd think there be such emulators and programs to play games of yesteryear's.

[Omega Man]

^^^I have no doubt DOTD could be made to run on W10, but the problem is who is going to spend time and possibly money getting it to run, that is the biggest issues with legacy stuff today, who will make them run?

[Mystic Monkey]

Uh.... compatibility mode I guess?
Still a remake would be nice. Especially VR.

[Omega Man]

^^^Compat mode was never meant to be a fully fledged legacy support feature, it was a coin toss if anything worked via it, but the biggest issue old games have today, and moreso old windows OS games, is that almost all have no idea what a 64 bit OS is, so most just fail at launch as the games are looking for a 32 bit OS and they can't find it, so the just stop, hence why W7 32 bit was the last OS that would run this game with minor tweaking......and i would and do pay good money over at GoG to get all my old games back again running on a modern system, but i doubt they will ever get the licence from the BBC to sell a GoG version of this game, but we can but hope. ;)

[Mystic Monkey]

That's understandable given at the time the computers were regarded as "cutting edge".

Only way I can see a DotD game happening is a fan remake. And given I barely made much headway with my Unity projects I doubt I can spearhead such a project.

I mean, yeah, I could probably remake DotD by myself if I actually played the game well enough to be familiar with the layout, the gameplay and if I had the textures and maps of the game I could perhaps recreate from but I don't have any of that. But I don't know nearly enough on Unity to make such a game.