Was there really such a desire for a remaster?

[JiveTurkey]

This wasn't even really celebrated when it was released. It was a mid-tier survival action shooter at best, and terribly predictable at worst. Every human you encounter turns in to The Thing after they perform their function. So very dull.

[Buddy Christ]

Well, the infection system has been changed since it was not exactly impressive in the original version.

In any case, you are not forced to buy the remaster

[JiveTurkey]

Originally posted by The Buddy Christ:

In any case, you are not forced to buy the remaster:jawagrin:

No, actually, someone has a gun to my head right now.

[Cksalzy]

Originally posted by JiveTurkey:

This wasn't even really celebrated when it was released. It was a mid-tier survival action shooter at best, and terribly predictable at worst. Every human you encounter turns in to The Thing after they perform their function. So very dull.

yea this game needed to be remastered and night dive studios did a good job

[BR B-263-54]

Originally posted by Cksalzy:

Originally posted by JiveTurkey:

This wasn't even really celebrated when it was released. It was a mid-tier survival action shooter at best, and terribly predictable at worst. Every human you encounter turns in to The Thing after they perform their function. So very dull.

yea this game needed to be remastered and night dive studios did a good job

Why did it?

1. It wasn't acclaimed on release.
2. No one has really talked about it over the last 20 years.
3. It has to my knowledge not made it to best of list.

[Joe]

"The Thing" fans (me) have been living on the original film our entire lives.
in 42 years, we've had one bad cgi prequel and one video game which was better than it needed to be.
We have nothing. Let us have this.
An optimal scenario would be the licensers using this as a metric to greenlight a new "The Thing" game.
You underestimate how starving for content "The Thing" fans are and how popular the movie is, this release will make a healthy little profit.

[Silver]

Originally posted by JiveTurkey:

Originally posted by The Buddy Christ:

In any case, you are not forced to buy the remaster:jawagrin:

No, actually, someone has a gun to my head right now.

If so why have you not bought it yet?

[PJthePlayer]

Originally posted by BR B-263-54:

Originally posted by Cksalzy:

yea this game needed to be remastered and night dive studios did a good job

Why did it?

1. It wasn't acclaimed on release.
2. No one has really talked about it over the last 20 years.
3. It has to my knowledge not made it to best of list.

I enjoyed it back then, as did many others. A couple years ago I worked with a group of other fans to figure out how to get the old PC version working on Steam Deck, which was rather tedious and thankfully no longer necessary. Also, apparently a lot of Nightdive employees are big The Thing fans, and they managed to get the rights to do the remaster, so why not? It likely wasn't a significant capital investment for them, and it is currently #5 on the top sellers on Steam.

[BR B-263-54]

Originally posted by Joe:

"The Thing" fans (me) have been living on the original film our entire lives.
in 42 years, we've had one bad cgi prequel and one video game which was better than it needed to be.
We have nothing. Let us have this.
An optimal scenario would be the licensers using this as a metric to greenlight a new "The Thing" game.
You underestimate how starving for content "The Thing" fans are and how popular the movie is, this release will make a healthy little profit.

I'm a huge fan of the original film aswell (not the prequel.)

This wasn't a great game in my opinion and whilst better than alot of movie tie-ins it was fundamentally broken and just didn't deliver.

I never personally considered this game canon, for me only the original film is relevant.

[Omence072]

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[Joe]

Originally posted by BR B-263-54:

Originally posted by Joe:

"The Thing" fans (me) have been living on the original film our entire lives.
in 42 years, we've had one bad cgi prequel and one video game which was better than it needed to be.
We have nothing. Let us have this.
An optimal scenario would be the licensers using this as a metric to greenlight a new "The Thing" game.
You underestimate how starving for content "The Thing" fans are and how popular the movie is, this release will make a healthy little profit.

I'm a huge fan of the original film aswell (not the prequel.)

This wasn't a great game in my opinion and whilst better than alot of movie tie-ins it was fundamentally broken and just didn't deliver.

I never personally considered this game canon, for me only the original film is relevant.

I'm not saying the 2002 game is great, but it DID attempt to cover what was important in the film, IE, not just torching alien abominations but the psychological horror aspect. They could have just made it a bog standard third person shooter and they didn't, and I appreciate it for that even if it wasn't done perfectly. I'm a guy who doesn't ever consider "canon" in anything, outside of the original effort, everything else is a what-if. I think it's impossible to do a sequel to The Thing in any form without fundamentally changing what the film is. The original is a perfect, encapsulated story.
If they ever did another attempt at "The Thing" as a video game, I'd like to see them go down the Alien: Isolation route as a re-imagining of the original film and not a sequel or prequel and add an "Among Us" mode, except you know, actually scary.
Like I said, perhaps Universal will use the sales of this game as a metric for future projects. It isn't the best game in the world, but it isn't bad either, and it's worth supporting to see if maybe we can get one good final "Thing" product before we die.

[The Ludovico Technique]

Originally posted by Lucifronz:

It's definitely a game I think would have been better served with a light remake. Redesign some areas, fully rework the combat and control.

I came by to see if anything had changed. While it's nice that they improved the infection system a bit, this game needed far more than that to even come close to something I'd play again.

This is exactly where I'm at with this game. It didn't need a remaster, it needed a remake in order to have had any chance of living up to the ambitious game mechanics that the developers set out to achieve. This is..... half-assed.

I respect what Nightdive did with System Shock, but this is merely an upscaled PS2 game with some minor, mostly unremarkable tweaks. I'm not paying $30 for that.

[BR B-263-54]

Originally posted by The Ludovico Technique:

Originally posted by Lucifronz:

It's definitely a game I think would have been better served with a light remake. Redesign some areas, fully rework the combat and control.

I came by to see if anything had changed. While it's nice that they improved the infection system a bit, this game needed far more than that to even come close to something I'd play again.

This is exactly where I'm at with this game. It didn't need a remaster, it needed a remake in order to have had any chance of living up to the ambitious game mechanics that the developers set out to achieve. This is..... half-assed.

I respect what Nightdive did with System Shock, but this is merely an upscaled PS2 game with some minor, mostly unremarkable tweaks. I'm not paying $30 for that.

About sums up my feelings.

[Lardo]

Was there really a desire for a PO’ed remaster? ND does whatever it wants, unless there’s a copyright issue.

[Rammstein]

There is ppl who loved the original. Just like me. Ofc i wasnt blind, and noticed all the issues it had... But i still had lots of fun playing it.
Did it NEED a remaster? If theres Devs who think a game "needs" a remaster, then i wonder why does anybody even worry about that question? You like and buy it, or you dislike and dont buy it. I fail to see the issue.

[Wraithverge]

Originally posted by Joe:

"The Thing" fans (me) have been living on the original film our entire lives.
in 42 years, we've had one bad cgi prequel and one video game which was better than it needed to be.
We have nothing. Let us have this.
An optimal scenario would be the licensers using this as a metric to greenlight a new "The Thing" game.
You underestimate how starving for content "The Thing" fans are and how popular the movie is, this release will make a healthy little profit.

Amen brother ^^