Before you hate, listen to this...

[Master of Horror]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkwpa5YPhx8&ab_channel=ArsTechnica
The game was restored with back engineering from information from the original disc based game, the source material was lost years ago in a studio move and with that being said It is now playable on modern hardware and consoles and that is a miracle, It will be patched so please be patient with this labor of love. Thank you Nightdive for providing the original game as well as the extra content versions.

[jkhristian]

I figured that was what happened. Sometimes the original raw data gets corrupted over the years. That's what happened with Beamdog. Bioware said they would give them all the data for Baldur's Gate, (which they did.) and they were excited because they had planned to just use the higher res uncompressed graphics. But they found out upon recieving it that it was all corrupted after they had announced it. Really just bad luck and getting overexcited. But they were crucified for it.

[SirBrutal]

they should have just done a full remake then. lots of cheap game engines they could have used.

[f5f9]

Hand!
I remade the classic version purchased on GOG last year, it worked great and was still with the wonderful original dubbing in Italian.
On top of that, apart from some slightly smoother surfaces, the ancient pixels are seen as in the original.
It seems like a scam to me, if you make an "enhanced" version you improve the original, it doesn't make it worse

[El-DoX]

Originally posted by Anarchist Jurisdictor:

Here's a list of improvements to the game Nightdive had nothing to do with:

https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Blade_Runner#Improvements

i'm really tempted to buy this """"enhanced"""" only for the updated GOG version with all restored content (i see a lot of things from my first run over two decades ago) and other original languages. honestly GOG still remain a tremendous better version.

[joridiculous]

Originally posted by El-DoX:

Originally posted by Anarchist Jurisdictor:

Here's a list of improvements to the game Nightdive had nothing to do with:

https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Blade_Runner#Improvements

i'm really tempted to buy this """"enhanced"""" only for the updated GOG version with all restored content (i see a lot of things from my first run over two decades ago) and other original languages. honestly GOG still remain a tremendous better version.

You should have bought it before GOG deleted the ScummVM version so they could stuff it into this abomination. Must ♥♥♥♥♥♥ move by gog

[El-DoX]

seriously? it's a shame then... so to play the original director's cut i must download (restored content) the CD images of the game and download the latest scummvm?

[Purple Tentacle]

Originally posted by El-DoX:

seriously? it's a shame then... so to play the original director's cut i must download (restored content) the CD images of the game and download the latest scummvm?

Here on Steam it gives you an option to play the original game or original game + restored content when you click the play button.

[f5f9]

Whoever rapes masterpieces must be punished

[Master of Horror]

Originally posted by f5f9:

Hand!
I remade the classic version purchased on GOG last year, it worked great and was still with the wonderful original dubbing in Italian.
On top of that, apart from some slightly smoother surfaces, the ancient pixels are seen as in the original.
It seems like a scam to me, if you make an "enhanced" version you improve the original, it doesn't make it worse

Link to your remaster please.

[f5f9]

https://www.gog.com/en/game/blade_runner

[D e a k u l]

That's the game's original GOG release that uses scummv, not a remake or remaster.

[M0butu]

I will not pay Nightdive for a game they didn't make.

[nope]

"It will be patched so please be patient with this labor of love."

Why release it then, if it wasn't ready? Why not release it as Early Access until we reach a point where unearned patience isn't asked of the consumer? Why tarnish their own launch and release something in such a woeful state?

Who was forcing them to push the EE out (to multiple platforms, no less) while knowing it was not release-ready? They are both the developer and publisher, so either way Nightdive eats the blame on this one.

Sad, since this was one of my favorite adventure games that I really hoped would get more positive recognition... seems unlikely now, with a bunch of spicy reviews hanging over its head for the foreseeable future.

Seems like Nightdive may want to reassess their priorities if it's resulting in product launches such as this. Maybe hold off on physical releases and console launches when a remaster is released in a state where the best fix is giving us back our access to the original game? Maybe it's best to properly QA test your project before selling it to the public? Maybe that's just me being old fashioned and too used to the uncool side of project management, oh well!