Legacy of kain remastered

[Anonymous No.11123310]

for those who are unaware.
Confirmed soul reaver 1 and 2 remasters got leaked a few days ago.
In the spirit of this news, a legacy of kain thread !
Hopes of the remasters, general discussion of the series and its potential future ?
How are they going to rework the terrible control scheme of soul reaver 1 ?
Would young people even care for this ?
Do you even care anymore ?
All this and more ITT.

[Anonymous No.11123401]

>>11123310
I remember renting the first one once and it seemed neat but controlled like ass. If the remake came with a demo I would definitely try it to see. The base idea with good controls could be cool.

[Anonymous No.11123403]

>>11123310
>terrible control scheme of soul reaver 1 ?
It was better than TR back in the day, and the remastered TR1-3 did a fine job of presenting a modern option.

[Anonymous No.11124065]

SR1 and 2 but not BO? Wow you fucked up

[Anonymous No.11124510]

>>11123310
>Confirmed soul reaver 1 and 2 remasters got leaked a few days ago.
Weren't they supposed to appear at Comic-Con? Was disappointed when nothing happened.
>Hopes of the remasters, general discussion of the series and its potential future ?
If they do well, then I hope BO1,2 and Defiance get some love.
>How are they going to rework the terrible control scheme of soul reaver 1 ?
Like >>11123403 said, TR Remastered added Modern Controls (I still prefer tank) but they worked well enough even for a grid based game. Should be much easier to implement into SR.
>Would young people even care for this ?
Probably not unless some popular youtuber does some retrospective video and then they pretend to get excited
>Do you even care anymore ?
I haven't played any of them since the early 2000s so I'd for sure check them out.

[Anonymous No.11124547]

[Anonymous No.11124570]

>>11124065
no defiance either.
I can understand omitting blood omen 2 as who really gives a fuck about that.
I am ambivalent to the news, on one hand I'm happy as the series is having a mini revival as of late and there's still no real gothic series that stepped up to fill it's boots.
on the other, all the original voice actors are either to old or dead to reprise their roles and I don't trust modern game standards to not just turn it into a dark souls clone if there was a new entry provided the remaster exceeded sales expectations.

[Anonymous No.11124579]

>>11124510
>Weren't they supposed to appear at Comic-Con? Was disappointed when nothing happened.
No.
dark horse put the wrong plaque out on their new LoK models and accidently leaked it, though I'm cynically inclined to believe they did it on purpose, gamescon may have an official announcement.
>If they do well, then I hope BO1,2 and Defiance get some love.
seems likely if they sell decent enough.
>Probably not unless some popular youtuber does some retrospective video and then they pretend to get excited
this seems most likely.
some prominent youtubers such as hbomberguy have made references to LoK so i could see that happening.
>I haven't played any of them since the early 2000s so I'd for sure check them out.
it's also important to remember that the games have been quite inaccessible for a while.
SR 1 and 2 both had emulation issues that weren't fixed until recently and non of the modern pc ports actually work.
it's only in the last 1 - 2 years you can actually easily access the series via emulation and gog.

[Anonymous No.11124583]

pic related was the leaked image.
it has been proven real.

[Anonymous No.11124639]

>>11124579
>SR 1 and 2 both had emulation issues that weren't fixed until recently and non of the modern pc ports actually work.
Which issues for emulation? I've heard the Dreamcast version of Soul Reaver was the best (I played it for playstation) but I actually went ahead and nabbed both emulated versions of SR recently. I saw a youtuber show off an HD overhaul for the emulated DC version which looked neat. So those roms should be fine now?

[Anonymous No.11125297]

>>11123310
>Hopes of the remasters, general discussion of the series and its potential future ?
i don't particularly have any hopes for the remasters. not really implying that's a bad thing. just don't have strong feelings about it. well, aside from wasting dev time on 2, that game fucking sucks. it's cool they'll exist at least.
>How are they going to rework the terrible control scheme of soul reaver 1 ?
i never had a problem with it. but i'm sure it will just be a HD reskin anyway so probably nothing.
>Would young people even care for this ?
i don't know. gonna assume the worst and doubt it though.
>Do you even care anymore ?
honestly no. defiance left some shit in the air but it was a fine way to end things. and purely as games and disregarding the story, i only really liked playing BO1 and SR1. SR2 is trash. defiance and BO2 are alright.

[Anonymous No.11125310]

>>11123310
Why those and not the first game, that actually could use a remaster

[Anonymous No.11125759]

>>11124639
Soul reaver 2 would always hang on a cutscene roughly 20 mins into the game and its only the recent builds of pcsx2 that have fixed this issue.
the PSX version of soul reaver 1 had graphical issues out the ass when i was emulating it on duckstation last year, though i can't speak for the dreamcast version.

[Anonymous No.11125816]

Zoomers won't even understand half the dialogue because they talk longer than 30 seconds.

[Anonymous No.11125830]

>>11125816
Kain's a total legend, fr. Everyone talks about him, but only a few peeps really get it. He used to be a normie like us, but he got so done with humans that he made me and my crew. I'm Raziel, the OG he created. I was there with Kain and the squad when the empire first kicked off. Been vibin' with him for a whole millennium. As time passed, we started losing our human vibes and leveling up to god-tier. Kain would transform and get new powers, then we'd follow suit and power up too, until I eventually out-leveled Kain. But for my rebellion, I got a different kind of "reward": endless suffering. It was a lock that I'd be damned forever. Me, Raziel, stuck burning in the depths of the lake of the dead for eternity.

[Anonymous No.11125897]

Why does this board get hyped about remasters? They aren't retro and you literally already have the best version?

[Anonymous No.11125912]

>>11123310
of all the franchises to bring back, why this? the games were basically reskinned Tomb Raider ripoffs. not horrible but certainly not great.

[Anonymous No.11125942]

>>11123310
i downloaded the SR1 steam version a couple years ago and got filtered by the fact that your health drains when you're in the "light" realm. like why?

[Anonymous No.11126090]

>>11125897
Nobody's getting hyped though ?
I just wanted to discuss it because its a long dormant ip that's getting a revival

[Anonymous No.11126092]

>>11125912
I'd argue lok has a very unique atmosphere / story and excellent voice acting so it is worthy of having a remaster, especially if stuff like gex and bloodrayne got them

[Anonymous No.11126151]

>>11123310
Soul Reaver already has an unofficial HD remaster.

Fun Fact: The texture artist who made this also worked on the recent Tomb Raider 123 remasters.

It wouldn't surprise me if they used her textures for the new Soul Reaver remasters and it turned out exactly like how the Tomb Raider 123 remasters did, with switchable graphics and all.

And that's a good thing!

>Unofficial HD remaster
https://www.sr1hdremaster.com/home
>Texture Artist bio
https://www.theancientsden.com/portfolio

[Anonymous No.11126158]

>>11126151
She even went the extra mile and made a manual for her remaster. Did i mention that is is FREE?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k70rkxsx3SAm__-bcvlUmH7z56zXxlDi/view?usp=sharing

[Anonymous No.11126859]

>>11126151
I appreciate this person's passion for the franchise but half the environment textures in the TR remasters looked like shitty AI upscales.