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[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[–] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How about yall make 1313 or remake kotor like you said you would.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How about letting Larian remake KotOR?

[–] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I meant that Disney should stop saying they are going to (re)make something to just cancle it after making progress on it and releasing trailers for it.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Oh no doubt. I’m just saying that letting Larian have access to Star Wars would easily net billions.

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Imo the KOTOR games do not need a remake. A remaster? Maybe for KOTOR 1 and definitely for KOTOR 2, if only to add the Restoration Mod to it.

I’d rather they either try to get 1313 greenlit somehow or have Larian do a KOTOR 3.

[–] thrawn@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

1 just needs a graphics remaster while 2 does need some more work. Even TSLRCM isn’t enough, but it probably wouldn’t need too much time to really integrate the content a little more coherently.

But yeah, K1 is basically perfect as is and K2 would be with a bit more development time. The remake looked good visually in the five seconds we saw but I have a weird feeling that the actual game would’ve been worse.

Strangely tho I’d prioritize remastering K1 and 2 over making a 3. It would be good to get new generations of players on it before beginning a third

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

Damn, Larian is really gonna get all the Bioware sequels, eh? Larian Jade Empire when

[–] delitomatoes@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

Give us Republic Commandoes!

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

That's cool but I don't think the gameplay and level design will hold up very well to today's standards. This was basically a Doom 1 type game, but with jumping and maybe full 3D? Or was it 2.5D like Doom where you couldn't have floors over floors?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It was more advanced than Doom, but not quite Quake levels of 3D. You had verticality and rooms over rooms (or at least it was faked really well), but the enemies and such were still sprites. The level design actually does hold up pretty nicely, considering it wasn't just random mazes, but more based on the "reality" of the setting. Tho I don't think it holds up as well as JK2, personally.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

The engine could truly have rooms over rooms, it just couldn’t render them in Dark Forces. Eventually (after Dark Forces) it was updated to make that possible.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You actually could have floors over floors, but the game just wouldn’t render them both at the same time.

As for it holding up, Boomer Shooters are in vogue right now. There is a market for these games existing in an accessible way where the player doesn’t have to do a bunch of tweaks to get it running.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I remember I didn't have a mouse and it was fucking hard

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I used to be pretty decent with the arrow keys, but once full 3D games like Quake 2 started being standard I had to switch to mouse. I remember I switched to mouse and arrow keys for a long time, then finally went WASD.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 6 points 11 months ago

I was too young for this at the time, but I have fond memories of Dark Forces II and its FMV cutscenes, which blew my mind at the time. I hope they remaster that one too (though I'd love a full-on remake, if allowed to dream).

[–] doktorseven@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Just use the Force Engine, free software reimplementation of the engine and point it to the original.

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

This has a cool post number from lemmy.ml

[–] CarlsIII@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago