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I understand it, it's just annoying that it has to be this way.

But also: FUCK, I'M GETTING HYPED. I hope they weren't made by the THPS5 team.

 

I think THUG is better than both of those in terms of gameplay but 3 and 4 are definitely better "classic TH games" than 1 and 2 imo. But yeah it is what it is.

 

No it's the Crash remake people.

 

Would kill for a THUG 1&2 remake instead.

 

I trust Vicarious Visions as developers, they're a really good studio, but given Activision's recent track record trying to revive this series (THPS HD and THPS 5), I'm pretty nervous about it.

Cautiously optimistic though.

 

I keep seeing people and publications call it a remaster, so I watched the video and its clearly a remake?

 

It’s the original code so idk

 

People still can't tell the difference between the two and it boggles my mind

 

Always leads some people to be disappointed when they're expecting a remake and it's a remaster

 

Omg it's only on the epic store hahaha pc nerds gonna be so mad

 

Who tf texted @Dirty Sanchez lmao

 

My uncle that works at nintendo

 

anyways i just finished Dragon's Dogma and im gonna make a probably long post about it rn because this is a video game thread and i wanna. no spoilers

- i finished the game in 30 hours and 34 minutes, having also done a healthy amount of side stuff - i'd wager about 25% of the total available side quests.

- quest design/motivations are pretty MMO. a lot of fetch, kill x of y, etc. that said, i really enjoyed most of them. they provide a valuable excuse to uncover the map and to get some good rewards, and none of them are terribly time consuming once you unlock the games version of fast travel.

- the fast travel ties into one of the couple of gripes i have overall - poor signaling. fast travel is, to my memory, never explained. you obtain items that when combined allow you to fast travel selectively. youd never know it if you didn't read the item descriptions before dumping them in storage to free up bag space, or worse, selling them. more confounding is that you get a lot of one time use versions of the fast travel item (ferrystones) from beginning to end, despite getting a version with infinite uses almost immediately... but the game doesn't tell you. its automatically put into your item storage at one specific inn. if i didn't Google how to fast travel relatively early, i would've inevitably run into a lot of frustration. same goes for crafting- never tutorialized. you find it or you don't.

- the game is easy. early on you're met with what i consider the perfect level of challenge. you pick a route, and you either narrowly make it through that path's enemies or you get smacked so hard you know to return later. after the start of act two, though, all bets are off. i never once felt like i was grinding, but i don't think i died in combat once beyond that point outside of being thrown off cliffs etc. i missed the early feeling of challenge pretty sorely at later points.

- THAT SAID - COMBAT. IT'S SO FUN. they nailed it. even mowing down early zone enemies upon backtracking is fun. the larger scale fights are fantastic, though lacking in variety. to my memory there are seven "big" monsters including the final boss (not counting reskins) that allow you to scale them and are generally a blast. for two of the monsters, you only encounter them once each, which is a shame. i wish there were five or so more because they were handled so damn well. every creature from wolves to snow harpies had a lot of care put into their design, AI patterns, and attacks.

- there's a bit of a "win however you want" vibe. one cyclops was fuckin me up so i led him off a cliff. hearing him scream all the way down and getting the full battles xp was so fun, and i really felt a sense of agency the whole time

- on that note, the game was built with respec'ing in mind. i stuck with my original class but you can swap between all nine of them for little expense or effort. will def be playing with builds more on my hard NG+ run.

- the story fuckin sucks. bad lol. the overarching plot re: the dragon works fine for what it is, but there is a terrible weightless love story in here too. also i can't go to into it with spoilers but there is a plot hole so big that i genuinely thought i had broken the quest order and skipped something huge. like, its a big big plot hook and it disappears in the literal next frame, never to return.

- there are a ton of quest boards and NPCs to get quests from that you just don't pass very regularly, so i came upon a large amount of quests well past the point that they were of value to me. this really could benefit from being more centralized. again, signaling.

- my biggest takeaway is how much this game respected my time. it was fun THE ENTIRE way. if you do something cool, you're showered in gold and gear. big quests felt big, some of the set pieces were downright stunning. it was never a slog. 30 hours to finish an epic fantasy rpg is pretty much unheard of these days. theres like another 40 hours of postgame to look forward to, but if i stopped here, i would feel like i got a complete experience that most of it's contemporaries wouldve slapped an extra 60 hours of slog onto just to bolster pr speak about how "big" the game is. can't praise this aspect enough.

this reads more negative than i actually feel about it, because the brightest points can't be talked about too in depth with any level of brevity because the game pretty much [is] the brightspots. moment to moment its a blast. it may be my favorite action rpg, and action rpgs may be my favorite genre. it doesnt innovate much or go too bold in any direction, but it feels like the people making this game knew what the best parts of its peers were and put a ton of care into iterating on them.

i love this game to bits thanks for coming to my tedtalk

 

Def interested in the THPS remake/remaster, cautious because Activision and I don’t really believe them when they say original gameplay but I do dig the soundtrack.

 

While I’m at it, THUG 2 would’ve been a much better game if it didn’t revolve around Bam Margara and his man boy antics

 

What is the difference?

 

Remake - Making new assets and making it look and play more in line with a current day game.


Remaster - Take the old code, crank up the graphics sliders and resolution and that’s about it. Think of it like taking the PC version from when it launched and running it with resolution cranked up.

 

What would the new Ratchet and Clank be considered? It's kinda both tbh

 

New R&C is a full on remake

 

That’s def a remake.

 

Fair enough, I just remember alot of it being the exact same with better graphics and alot smoother with some new levels and gameplay thrown in here and there

 

Man, the Tony Hawk announcement is the first time I've been excited about a game in a long time haha

 

I played Tony Hawk 2 coooonstantly back in the day. I'd kill to have this remaster on Switch... Bummed they seem to be skipping that console.

Do you think there's any possibility of it being released on Switch eventually? I don't follow video game stuff much so I don't know if that's a thing they do or not.

 

Not only is that a remake, it's a full-on reboot of the fiction as well.

Examples of a Remaster would be the cleaned-up versions of FFVII, FFVIII, and FFIX that you can get on Switch or PS4 or PC.

Examples of a Remake would be the Crash N. Sane Trilogy and the Spyro Reignited Trilogy.