Remake in 3D

[idum]

Why aren't there any plans to remake broken sword in 3D? In 2024 it should be possible to remake the original game in a proper 3D environment.

[Angelos]

3D is disgusting

[Canyons]

Why don’t you show us how it’s done then OP

[asdf]

no one likes 3D point and click games. broke sword 3+4, monkey island 4, grim fandango, ankh, etc. they all could be way better if they werent 3D

[verdeAntico]

The fact is.. there is not a true reason to do that.
Broken Sword and his backgrounds are history and I prefer to enjoy that.
Still, for a remake.. there is bad 2D and bad 3D as good 2D and good 3D.
No reason to prefer one over the other.
I usually particularly like games as the old Silent Hill, Final Fantasy, Parasite Eve, Resident Evil ... with 3D characters in a 2D background with fixed cameras.
I like 3D engine that simulate 2D as in new point and click adventures too, like Runaways or Daedalic or in fighting games as the lasts Guilty Gear, Dragon Ball FighterZ or GranBlue Fantasy Versus.

[idum]

Originally posted by asdf:

no one likes 3D point and click games. broke sword 3+4, monkey island 4, grim fandango, ankh, etc. they all could be way better if they werent 3D

They are old games. Since then progress has been made in the gaming industry. A good team can achieve that.

[TheComplexByte]

I personally prefer 2D point&click adventures even in 2024. It suits them better imo. I liked them more that most of the 3D attempts.

[verdeAntico]

I would like to say that I prefer 2D and 3D is awful.. in a sense is true.. that's what I feel and certain games are really gorgeous and funny and colored and wholesome.. but then I remember that my favorite point&click is Syberia so I have to admit 3D get the job done too.

[webfischi]

Originally posted by asdf:

no one likes 3D point and click games. broke sword 3+4, monkey island 4, grim fandango, ankh, etc. they all could be way better if they werent 3D

I don't think 3D Adventures are bad from Ankh* going forward, which includes games like Dreamfall: The longest Journey, Haunted*, The Book of Unwritten Tales* or Jack Keane*, because they finally learned how to do them, and were designed with 3D in mind. But a game or series that is 2D should stay 2D even when remade.

I finished the first Syberia recently, and that indeed would have been better in 2D, it almost felt like a WALKER simulator. But that was released 3 years before Ankh, therefore excluded from my first claim.

*May be better with German dub

[Shephard]

2D / 2.5D is better.

[LucifersBeard]

Because hand drawn art is so much better.

[verdeAntico]

Originally posted by Shephard:

2D / 2.5D is better.

I don't like the 2.5 tag very much; it's ambiguous.
I think you mean a 3D graphic with a 2D environment/movement but I'm not sure because usually in point and click you can move in 3D (or not just lateral).

[The Traveler]

Beyond a Steel Sky is done well and it's 3D. Espceially after the first game doesn't feels off nor as bad as BS 3-4.

[Shephard]

Originally posted by verdeAntico:

Originally posted by Shephard:

2D / 2.5D is better.

I don't like the 2.5 tag very much; it's ambiguous.
I think you mean a 3D graphic with a 2D environment/movement but I'm not sure because usually in point and click you can move in 3D (or not just lateral).

Moving "in 3D" doesn't mean it is true 3D.
It feels like it, but it is not a 3D game.

[Malleys]

Sam & Max trilogy or Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures are fully 3D and are excellent classic adventure games. There's terrible 2D games and great 3D games, what really matters at the end is the puzzle and game design.

Answering OP's question, because remaking Broken Sword 1 from zero in 3D would be a stupid decision that would require huge amounts of money and resources that wouldn't recover it's costs and wouldn't satisfy neither the developers nor the fans.

[Chewnackers]

it looses its charm & character i.e. what makes it broken sword it simply would not be the same if it went full 3D