Malf on 26/11/2018 at 22:51
Hmmm, not a fan of the pixel smoothing in that video. Hope there's an option to turn it off in game.
henke on 27/11/2018 at 06:20
The blurb seems to suggest that is part of an optional "Modern mode".
I only ever played Flashback on emulators so I don't have any real nostalgia for it. I would kinda like to play it's sequel Fade To Black again tho. I never made it very far in it back then and I wonder if my evolved gamer skillz would let me progress further now.
Shadowcat on 17/12/2018 at 09:22
I see that GOG finally responded to the fact that their 10th Anniversary site redesign was/is horrible (and remains broken for a bunch of people).
(
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/anyone_disliking_the_new_gog/post1051)
Not a very useful response, mind, but a response at least.
If it helps anyone here (as it did for me when a GOG user pointed it out), a good replacement for the GOG home page is:
(
https://www.gog.com/frontpage/rss)
95% of the time that provides everything I wanted to know in a
vastly more agreeable and efficient manner.
Shadowcat on 19/12/2018 at 11:09
"Remastered" versions of Bioshock and Bioshock 2 have been released. ("Note: The classic versions of both games will be added as a free bonus at a later date.")
(
https://www.gog.com/news/release_bioshock_bioshock_2_remastered)
Currently 75% off, which I'm seeing as US$3.59 and US$5.49 respectively.
froghawk on 19/12/2018 at 18:31
My understanding is those are quite poor. They came out a few years back.
Sulphur on 19/12/2018 at 18:41
Well, BS1 Remastered had issues when I tried it. If your audio device had its default format changed in the device properties from 16-bit, 44.1 KHz to anything else, you wouldn't get any sound. Which was a bug from BS1 that was fixed back in the day. I also couldn't tell where the visuals had improved (and by some accounts, some of the water effects were actually a bit worse?), but IIRC they fixed the physics engine running at a separate temporal resolution (30 FPS), so that was an improvement at least.
Starker on 7/1/2019 at 09:15
A fantastic game. I spent many a sleepless night with that and Panzer General. Sometimes I look at my way too crowded GOG "shelf" and shake my head, but it's really nice to have evergreen classics like these ready at a moment's notice.