Yeah so if you like BloodGDX, then keep using it. If you don't want this remaster in your library, just hide it. I don't bother playing the original Bioshock releases, so I just hid them.

The only thing I can kinda understand is the increased price, but again, if $5 extra is really the make or break for you, you probably should be worrying about money for other, more important things.

So long as the price isn't ridiculous, I don't see the problem. This entire remaster at full price is $10.

The principle is nonsensical to me. You don't have to use a particular feature if you don't want to. I hardly touch the multiplayer for any of the games I buy, so should I ask for a discount to just buy the single player portion of that game? No DRM is perfectly understandable. Glitches with the website, even if I don't mind it, is understandable. This is just unintelligible to me.

In some countries that's actually a good amount of money. :|

(I'm not trying to say the price isn't fair by pointing that out, btw.)

If your country is like Venezuela or Zimbabwe with hyperinflation, again, you have a lot bigger things to worry about.

Again, I always just look at it as value for money. If there's something I'm disinterested in, I can just disregard that and look at the value proposition for the stuff I want. $10 isn't that much money, so it can be worth it. I bought Doom 2016 solely for the single player for $60 and was perfectly satisfied. I didn't ask id Software to provide me a cheaper version that only had single player.

EDIT: And really, it's just the money side of things that I can even slightly understand and sympathize with. Had this Blood Remaster been the exact same price as One Unit of Blood, then I would see absolutely no reason why the original would need to be separate.

To the first part: I agree, but sometimes one must have some entertainment of some sort to make life more bearable no?

2. What about car parts(as an example)? You can buy a car battery without buying the entire car. Should you have to buy a new car every time you want to replace your car battery?

And I m sure everybody would agree then.
If you'd have to pay the same price I would sell the rest of the car and keep the battery - win win :)

1. If anything above $5 is too much, I'd question if they even have a computer capable of playing games, even old ones.

2. Bad comparison. Cars are very expensive items. That's why I put emphasis on price. This would be if a car battery cost as much as a car, or if a car battery was only $5 cheaper than a car. If that's the case, I might as well buy a new car.

Any of you guys tested this release with mods / custom levels ?

Good point, but I would think if one tried "selling" their "car" in this case, the site would frown upon such. ;)
You'd be surprised....what if someone got a pc as a gift? Also some countries(iirc) get free basic internet.

Also: The comparison is bad, but the basic underlying premise is still valid imo,.

Even though I don't see the point in Night Dive doing this "Enhanced Edition" of a game that wasn't "lost" or impossible to find (up until yesterday you could buy the original version on pretty much all digital storefronts), I still bought it because I'm a huge Blood fan (and, yes, make all the jokes you want about "if you're such a huge fan, why aren't you calling it 'One Unit Whole Blood'? LULZERS, I'm a GAMER!!!!!1").

This port has some things I like, and a few others that are worrisome, so far. I really like the fact that, unlike Duke3D and most Build sourceports, this runs on extremely weak machines (like my own), which is great. It also has options to turn on some graphical crap, I guess, but I haven't -- and won't -- try it, as I'm happy with the way the game looks out of the box, and this version lets you play as vanilla as it gets. I never had any issues with the original's mouselook, but I like the fact that they made it A LOT more smoother. As for the control layout, it's nice of Night Dive to make it "contemporary" FPS control scheme by default (WASD, Spacebar to jump, E to use/interact, C to crouch, etc), but you could fully rebind the original's keys already, so this is just a nice gesture on their part, saving the players some trouble. It's also not bloated, the installer is ~150MB and the installed game takes up less than 200MB, which I think is awesome.

Now, for the things I'm having trouble with: the game has some strange artifacting right from the get-go, it's minor and it doesn't get in the way all that much, but I never experienced any of this in the original. The main issue, though, are the saves. The game freezes for a bit EVERY TIME I try to save it, and if I try quicksaving it freezes indefinitely, making me shut it down via Task Manager. Now, as much as I love Blood, I'm not an oldschool FPS "uber leet pro", so I tend to play these old games on the easier difficulties and abuse the save system as much as they let me, which in this version of the game is simply not feasible, as every attempt at quicksaving will just freeze the whole thing. And while manual saves do seem to work, they also freeze the game for a bit, and become even more cumbersome to use than saving in the original version.

All in all, I kind of shrug at having purchased this. For the game it is, €10 is more than a fair price, I don't think they're ripping people off by selling it for this price. Plus, if you already owned the original (which I did), you end up paying €5, a steal for this game. Collectors keep spending ridiculous amounts of money on the same versions of the same games -- and they won't ever play them because it "ruins the mint sealed box" -- and most gamers find that "impressive" and worthy of praise, but they will get mad when people buy a game they already had, digitally, just because we like the game or the devs and want to support them. I'm not particularly ecstatic for this purchase, but I don't regret it, either, and with some work (PLEASE, Night Dive, do fix the saves!), it has the potential to be the definitive version of One Unit Whole Blood.

1. Then they should probably just sell that PC to buy food.

2. No, because the underlying premise is highly based around the price, aka value proposition. That's why I brought up a counterexample of if a car battery cost as much as a car or was only $5 cheaper. If that's the case, then you might as well buy the car.

How does the multiplayer even work in this version?

Is it Lobby based or LAN only? Because if it's the latter then it sucks.

1. Good point, but as I said before: Some would rather have some entertainment than more basic needs.....just as many of us buy tons of games and amass backlogs when we have other things we could spend the money on.

2. Also a good point.

Because, well, for example, someone might need the original version without a remaster with a surcharge on the load?

Bioshock was not previously available here. Thus, we were able to buy the remaster and get the originals. The game has become available for purchase here.
Now the situation is the opposite: we had the opportunity to buy the original, and now we have taken this opportunity. The game has become unavailable for purchase here.

But you understand that a person who was able to acquire a bank card and money on it to buy games must be smart enough to distinguish between two versions of one game?
Although, of course, one clever scientist said: “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

I am sure it is very comfortable living in the USA and telling people from poor countries how they should spend their "only 5 dollars." You would be more convincing if you moved to one of these countries and showed by example. And while you did not do this, you did not convince anyone. Don't waste your time writing new comments that are even more useless for everyone.
And, by the way, if you do not understand something, it may be you. There are people with a lack of empathy.

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