PowerSlave Exhumed - remaster of console versions by Nightdive Studios

[schru]

It's true, though. The aim should be to replicate the original renderer and only use hardware acceleration to boost performance, if possible.

 

[fork]

These assholes (the studios specialising in remasters of decades-old games) are soul- and talentless parasites, they don't care about the originals one bit other than the opportunity to make as much money from them with the least effort in as short a time as possible. They're the scum of the industry, even worse than woke AAA devs, because they don't even try to do something original, they leech of the nostalgia of people who don't know how to emulate these titles or run them on modern systems, they bring emulation from a grey area into illegality and they taint the originals and rewrite gaming history, because how would younger people, playing these games for the first time, know how much better the originals were?

 

[LESS T_T]

And he put more brown.

 

[Bad Sector]

The "more brown" version looks much closer to the Saturn version. It isn't exactly the same but i do not think this is meant to be a 100% replication anyway.

 

[Reinhardt]

Wait, slave? In current year? I'm literally shaking rn!

 

[thesheeep]

Wait, slave? In current year? I'm literally shaking rn!

Wait till someone remakes Slave Zero.

 

[LESS T_T]

He spent too much money putting all that brown so he had to cut pixel budgets. Low-res (supposedly original resolution) rendering mode.

 

[LESS T_T]

February 10.

 

[fork]

Play on an emulator.
Playstation version is superior btw.

 

[Btan0]

Play on an emulator.
Playstation version is superior btw.

Nah, that'd be the Sega Saturn version I'm afraid. The Playstation version had smaller levels and lighting was much more flat.

 

[fork]

The smaller levels are way better though.

 

[toughasnails]

How many people actually PLAYED the Saturn version? I see it constantly invoked in discussions of this game but not that many people actually owned Saturn, I don't know anyone who did, and the emulation lagged behind.

 

[randir14]

 

[LESS T_T]

Well yeah, out now.



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

 

[Sukhāvatī]

 

[Wunderbar]

So it's neither a remaster of PC version, nor a port of console versions. Just a weird mod/fanfic with elements of both versions crammed together.

meh

 

[luj1]

green scorpions were iconic, why are they red crabs now?

 

[Sukhāvatī]

Crabs were Saturn, scorpions were PSX; both are in this version.

 

[luj1]

Man there are so many different versions of this game out there..
Quite a bit of history too.

 

[luj1]

Coincidentally I am replaying the game just now (on original hardware) and funny enough I'm stuck at the Sunken Palace of Khnum again. I remember being stuck there in the past, in every single playthrough actually, and I pray to god I may find the way to the Symbol of Power soon. Fuck!

Edit: Jesus, I found it, and of course I drowned, again!
Edit2: Meh, it's a 2 minute level if you know thw way -.-

great level

 

[randir14]

I think I found a progression breaking bug. It was the level where you first encounter cat women and lasers guarding a key. I fell into a section with two hallways and the only ways out were two locked doors that required keys that I didn't have. I ran around pressing E everywhere to look for secret doors, and I couldn't jump back up.

 

[toughasnails]

So it's neither a remaster of PC version, nor a port of console versions. Just a weird mod/fanfic with elements of both versions crammed together.

meh

?
Maybe his editing confused you bc NOTHING from PC version is here nor did he ever claim otherwise. It's a combination of PSX and Saturn versions as advertised.
And tbh I wouldn't be opposed to them mixing in gorier spritework from PC and it certainly wasn't out of place.

 

[Feyd Rautha]

So it's neither a remaster of PC version, nor a port of console versions. Just a weird mod/fanfic with elements of both versions crammed together.

meh

They should have put the protag voice acting from the PC version in there as well I think. Build engine games needs a wise guy.

 

[Darkozric]

Interesting, as an Egyptianfag I might give this a try when I'm in an Egyptian mood. Apart from Stone Prophet there aren't many choices anyway.

 

[Tel Velothi]

Nice boomer shooter, boomer