RizzoCuoco: Been playing it, and I'm very underwhelmed. It's not a remaster at all. It's simply a mod of the original game at best. The textures for SR1 are great, but they messed up the day-night cycle making the game too dark at times. It is also now choppy with frametime stutters using original graphics. In other words...i think the work Wrace did is far superior to what is happening here.
SR2 already looked good, but they messed that up too. The reskinning is ok, but lacks facial animations. The textures are also downgraded in many many places.
The main issue here...Aspyr didn't do much at all. The director for this game is Raina Audron (real name I don't know). Raina Audron is not a professional at all, but merely the most obsessive LoK fan the world has ever seen. She also directed TR remasters. The only other real work she has ever done is a fan mod of the Saturn version of Soul Reaver. Hardly enough to get credentials to work professionally. As such, all these wacky decisions were made by her to suit how she wanted the game to be. Now, we have some clout chasing fan thinking they are awesome when they didn't do a damn thing at all, but modified someone else's work...poorly.
Worst of all, these are the folks who shit all over Wrace constantly for actually making the game work for 25 years on PC.
So, while i'm glad to see it back....these wacky fans need to sit down. I've never seen folks revel in work that is not theirs at all. Credit where it isn't due as it were.
No one sh!t on Wrace, for any meaning of that. Except for himself. He otherhand do sh!t on community. He prohibited to share even what is not his work, and he make Soul Reaver 1 been rollbacked on GOG and probably why its not restored to store.
Ofc he would said its not his fault. He can do said whatever he wat. Dont you dare to say same sh!t. When it's just him its his issue, when its more - its ours all issue. You do worst han him. Moreover, you do blame here persons who unaware of Wrace and his behavior at all. Did Wrace himself knew someone - someone personally as you said here - sh!t on him?
>I've never seen folks revel in work that is not theirs at all
Erm... Which remade-remake you know is not "folks in work not their"? You know, all original game esigners goes to kickstarter and unable to get enough money. When its coe to officially remaded games - publishers never brought original designer to work on it. Its always some random people working with random original version, not ultimate better not very original one. Just random platform region and revision. There is Crock Remaster where they said PlayStation version was original and base for remaster, while its a sega-sony port and worst of all 3 platforms version. Some cases worst, some easier. Soul Reaver 2 is ps2 game, sr1 at least ps1 are ok as original, better if they base on DreamCast. Crock and Driver dilogies are in more danger to be screwed since there is no superior versions there been each one have one advancements (even Driver 2 PS1 exclusive are - it has 4 revisions incl regional and modern devs should investigate them all).
As result, as another person. You just said no sense and no truth things. Its like you say Wrace mod is better, which is not truth - they not better of each other, having same functionality. By default remaster better in that - it wont alter original game. Wrace mod better - it alter original game and for free. Very depend on point of view.
Two misjudge here and above.
