John Carpenter's The Thing: Remastered by Nightdive Studios

[luj1]

yeah, not on the level of blood, but it gets too much hate imo... it had some style and innovative weapons

 

[Semiurge]

They tried and failed to get remasters of the No One Lives Forever games made, but because the IP is in legal limbo and partly owned by multiple companies, no one is willing to make it happen. Blood II is a very likely possibility, since Atari owns the IP now I believe. But it would take a lot of work to redeem that game. At the very least they can fix up all the bugs, improve the visuals and cutscenes, and send the hitscanners to hell where they belong ideally. But it would only turn a 3/10 bad game into a 5/10 average one.

Shogo would make for a better remaster, and let's add the first F.E.A.R and Condemned to that list because why not.

I don't see their remastering Blood 2 as very likely, it has such a bad reputation. But then if they're remastering The Thing, anything's possible. They just wouldn't devote as much attention to it as they do Id/Bethesda games.

Condemned rests in the firm grip of SEGA, but an entity such as Nightdive might just manage to loosen that grip. It really just needs a graphical upgrade and its good to go.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

This remaster feels like a bigger and bigger waste of time. There's like what, maybe 5 people on the whole entire planet that was asking for this? There's a gazillion other more deserving games.

 

[JDR13]

blood 2 is a good game

 

[Fedora Master]

This remaster feels like a bigger and bigger waste of time. There's like what, maybe 5 people on the whole entire planet that was asking for this? There's a gazillion other more deserving games.

I get the feeling marketing people are looking at "omg underrated unknown classic games" zoomer YouTube and make their decisions off of that.

Seriously, the only reason anyone even knows about this game is the post facto streams that exist because the game is so jank.

 

[Infinitron]

Welcome to the first episode of Deep Dive, a show by Nightdive Studios to cover games – past and present – with artists, developers, and special guests from around the industry.

In this episode, we’re taking a closer look at The Thing: Remastered with insight from our development team, as well as a special interview with Mark Atkinson, one of the talented directors and programmers behind 2002’s The Thing!

 

[Infinitron]

In this bonus episode of Deep Dive, Locke sits down with Nightdive Studios' Art Lead, Joel Welsh, to discuss how the art is progressing on The Thing: Remastered! Please note the images shown in this episode are early works in progress. It's important to the Nightdive team to be transparent with the community about how the game is evolving.

 

[Baron Dupek]

 

[Hagashager]

Wasn’t this game pretty shit

Depends, did you watch the Spoony Experiment back in the day?

 

[NecroLord]

This remaster of the 2002 canon sequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 horror classic The Thing features some of Nightdive’s most impressive visual upgrades to date. In addition to improved models, textures, and environments, new dynamic lighting, and 4K resolution at 144 FPS, we’ve worked with the original development team on an assortment of gameplay improvements.

Notably, the advanced fear/trust interface where your influence on your team’s psychological state directly impacts whether or not they cooperate with you. Are you brave enough to join Cpt. J.F. Blake and his team as they investigate the chilling events that transpired at Outpost 31? Find out when The Thing: Remastered releases on PC and consoles later this year.

Stay tuned for future announcements!

What's with that awful bloom/weird lighting?
That wasn't in the original game.

 

[Infinitron]

Releasing tomorrow? https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/11/29/next-week-on-xbox-new-games-for-december-2-to-6/

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Interesting. I doubt I'll get it, but I did enjoy the first one.

 

[DemonKing]

Interesting. I doubt I'll get it, but I did enjoy the first one.

Yeah it was ok but seriously flawed. I don't expect the Nightdrive version to do anything to fix the flaws - they'll just do the minimum to make it run on modern systems.

 

[kites]

So they’ve reworked the gameplay as well like the fear/trust systems? That blurb a few posts above is a little ambiguous. I haven’t played it since it came out so I don’t remember how much of it was story-based or emergent

 

[JDR13]

Yeah, they've apparently overhauled the infection system too. It used to be that some team members would always reveal to be infected at the same places in the story which sort of killed the whole mystery of it. Now it will be truly random.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

Releasing tomorrow? https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/11/29/next-week-on-xbox-new-games-for-december-2-to-6/

Shadow drop a fucking remaster to a game that never even had a cult fanbase to begin with? Sure in this year of our retard 2024 that is insane enough to make sense. I was actually going to buy this but if they really release it this weekend when I have a short paycheck I will NEVER buy the piece of shit.

 

[Grauken]

Releasing tomorrow? https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/11/29/next-week-on-xbox-new-games-for-december-2-to-6/

Shadow drop a fucking remaster to a game that never even had a cult fanbase to begin with? Sure in this year of our retard 2024 that is insane enough to make sense. I was actually going to buy this but if they really release it this weekend when I have a short paycheck I will NEVER buy the piece of shit.

Are you one of those people living from paycheck to paycheck?

 

[Jenkem]

they did the same thing for killing time and maybe even po'ed iirc.

 

[NecroLord]

Yeah, they've apparently overhauled the infection system too. It used to be that some team members would always reveal to be infected at the same places in the story which sort of killed the whole mystery of it. Now it will be truly random.

Really?
So anyone could get infected?
There are some areas where you need to have an engineer to fix fuseboxes so you can progress further.
I imagine they won't get infected and transform before they can fix those fuseboxes.

kites The fear and trust systems were alright.
However, your party members only rarely (if ever) freaked out and required you to give them an adrenaline shot to get them to come to their senses. I remember testing it and they used to shoot randomly for a while before dying of a heart attack or blew their own brains out (if they had a weapon).
With trust it was pretty simple. Give them a weapon to raise it or destroy a Thing creature in front of them. Healing them also slightly improves trust. Using a Test kit on yourself to prove you are not infected highly increases trust.
In case of friendly fire they turn hostile only if you shoot them outside of combat, and not accidentally while fighting Thing creatures or Black Ops.

 

[Infinitron]

https://af.gog.com/en/game/the_thing_remastered?as=1649904300

H. P. Lovecraft's Cat

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

 

[Infinitron]

In this episode, Locke sits down with Mark Atkinson, Technical Director on the original release of The Thing.

 

[Necrensha]

Eh, the original was just okay. Even with the revamped infection system it still is just your average console shooter.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

So it's the same game. Ngl, when I was a child playing this game, i was terrified, and my young butthole was clenched so tight. I believe the only reason this turd was remastered was to help elderly child molesters take advantage of 2002 children who played this game. Old fuckin perverts. Fuck this game, it was never good!

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

Yeah I bought the game but I'm not gonna brag about it. It scared the shit out of me when I was small and the movie is my favorite of all time. Whatever