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Posted March 20, 2018
Hot spot indicator? What sorcery is this?!

Simon the Sorcerer & Simon the Sorcerer 2: 25th Anniversary Edition are coming soon, DRM-free to GOG.com.
He can be arrogant. He can be obnoxious. He can drive your favorite fairytale characters nuts. If that wasn't enough, he's now also enhanced for his 25th Anniversary! Sporting a modernized control scheme, upscaled visuals, new animations and the option to mix and match all the cool new features with those of the original versions, Simon is back and ready to point & click his way into infamy once more.

The Anniversary editions will be released on April 3rd. The original versions will be removed from sale and added to these as a bonus goodie.
Each Anniversary Edition will cost 8.99 USD.
Owners of the original games will get a 50% discount on them.
Getting both Anniversary editions will grant you a 10% bundle discount.
Posted March 20, 2018
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gamesfreak64: I own dott and full throttle remasters , the only little problem is the engine is too heavy on my cpu, so i have set the settings in the game to lowest and now the game is still 'hot' but won't burn my cpu.
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vulchor: I have a 7700k and GTX 980 Ti and there are scenes in Full Throttle (like the intro) that slow down and are laggy. That was my biggest (and really only) gripe about the remaster. I did play at 2560x1440p, and now I have a 4K monitor, so the high resolution may have something to do with it, but even more so is bad optimization. But it's kind of understandable considering they had to replicate the way the old engine worked, which redraws the whole scene every frame.
nice setup you have:D

my dinosaur:(2009)

i5 750 8 gb ram
2.67 GHZ quadcore
GTX 750 ti 2 GB ram

17inch CRT monitor (digital screens no go for me)

my GPU is the best part now, i dumped my old GPU (dated 2009)


These guys make great games but they know little to nothing about PC performance..... maybe its the engine they use.

bad performing engines:


Wintermute (player) and visonaire ( awfull performance, only runs perfect on a very expensive pc with 3 or 5 coolers cause things tend to get hot)

more garbage:
xna framework
Unity (awfull !!!)
80% of my Unity games perform bad and the devs are either too ignorant to see the problem or they dont know what they are doing .....

Anyway back in the 80-90s they used something else cause i never had any performance problems with CPU
( commandos classics, fallout classics, and any game like that: age of empires 1 and 2)
seems today's developers lost it somehow: cant develop a good performing game.( too much clickandplay and drag n drop)


It is common a bad or slow GPU might mess up, but CPU problems are very common with badtools ( like the ones i mentioned above) to day they klik and play games together with some drag and drop and voila we have a game
cause coding by hand became too expensive, it looks like they use some adobelike scripting cause there is a lot of bad code around pretending to be a game.
Posted March 20, 2018
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Holy shit those are some horrible filters they've got going on in those screenshots. Let pixels be pixels!
Posted March 20, 2018
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I actually got really excited when I first saw this announcement, Simon 1 & 2 are some of my favorite games and it would be brilliant if they got a remastered edition, but then I saw it was just like the mobile ports - graphics is just ScummVM filter (which make the graphics look worst) and I suspect the enhanced music is the material recorded by James Woodcock (that is available for free).
Posted March 20, 2018
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tomimt: For anyone wondering, the "stunning HD mode" is just a terribly implemented scaler that makes the games look like molten wax.
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Cadaver747: Sold! You should work in advertisement ;)
There's not enough love given towards molten wax, I say.
Posted March 20, 2018
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What the fuck is HD or good about this? Moneyhungry fraud is what this is. Those are the same graphics with an buttugly emulator filter overlay. Fuck off
Posted March 20, 2018
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The trailer looks like it is just original game in ScummVM with the HQ2X filter turned on. No better audio quality, no redrawn graphics, no nothing.

If true, this is quite insulting, trying to sell this as a special edition. Unless there is some goodies included like a making of or similar.

Edit: reading the store page they promise MT32-music. Pre-recorded audio or are they including the MT32-roms with ScummVM? Don't think the latter would be allowed so it has to be the former.

Oh, I get it. Looks like it is just a port of the mobile phone versions to PC, hence the "hotspot-based controls"
Post edited March 20, 2018 by Lafazar
Posted March 20, 2018
Any info on a Simon the Sorcerer 4 rerelease? Cheers
Post edited March 20, 2018 by deja65
Posted March 20, 2018
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I posted this the other day and I'll post it again.

Absolutely the laziest remastering possible. Stick it through an upscaling filter like you can (but shouldn't) do in ScummVM. It also looks like they have the aspect ratio wrong.
Post edited March 20, 2018 by SirPrimalform
Posted March 20, 2018
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Lafazar: Edit: reading the store page they promise MT32-music. Pre-recorded audio or are they including the MT32-roms with ScummVM? Don't think the latter would be allowed so it has to be the former.
I agree with the below quote regarding the music tbh.

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Ingsoc85: I suspect the enhanced music is the material recorded by James Woodcock (that is available for free).
If they were just adding a filter and porting their touchscreen version, why would they do a silly thing like re-record the music?

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Lafazar: Oh, I get it. Looks like it is just a port of the mobile phone versions to PC, hence the "hotspot-based controls"
Yep. Which is the issue I have with it. If they actually released something that was re-done then it would be fine. But nope. They have just slapped a filter from ScummVM, and made it touch screen and thats about it.

Also the icons on Simon 2 look ugly now in the hud on this, compared to the original.
Post edited March 20, 2018 by Pond86
Posted March 20, 2018
I hope this means Simon the Sorcerer 4 will make a return and bring the others in the series along with it. :)
Posted March 20, 2018
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Breja: I love point & clicks and I never played Simon the Sorcerer, so this looks like a perfect opportunity to finally do so. Looking forward to it (though when I actually pick it up will greatly depend on the price).
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amok: WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

This game contains pixel graphics!

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
I don't mind pixel graphics in old games. My problem is not with pixel graphics as such, never was (though I'm not a fan either). My problem is with clinging onto pixels in new games for nostalgia's sake or using nostalgia as excuse for laziness or cheapness, and with how generic and ugly many of new games with pixel graphics look. My problem is with nostalgia being a ball and chain of gaming, hampering creativity and with people praising and rewarding redundant catering to their nostalgia instead of innovation, originality and uniqueness.
Posted March 20, 2018
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amok: WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

This game contains pixel graphics!

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
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Breja: I don't mind pixel graphics in old games. My problem is not with pixel graphics as such, never was (though I'm not a fan either). My problem is with clinging onto pixels in new games for nostalgia's sake or using nostalgia as excuse for laziness or cheapness, and with how generic and ugly many of new games with pixel graphics look. My problem is with nostalgia being a ball and chain of gaming, hampering creativity and with people praising and rewarding redundant catering to their nostalgia instead of innovation, originality and uniqueness.
Well, to be fair adventure games have such a small market that most of the time these pixels is what a game can afford.

About the release: so a scummvm version with the James Woodcock soundtrack and the default filters? I am so not it. Though Simon 1 is a pretty lovely game.
Posted March 20, 2018
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After the stunning HD remasters of DoTT and Full Throttle, this looks really awful.
Posted March 20, 2018
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Just one question: Why?
Posted March 20, 2018
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I see that GOG has stealthy edited their original post to include:

Each Anniversary Edition will cost 8.99 USD.
Owners of the original games will get a 50% discount on them.
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