(yeah and also it will be annoying to manage the originals via gogrepo, since they won't be classified as games anymore but just extras)

Maybe the GOG page is just inaccurate. THey don't even list controller support.

Clearly that's not an option. How would publishers make money on remasters then?

the originals... wasnt one of them crap and the other quite good?

They do.

"Support for modern gamepads (XInput)"

https://i.imgur.com/VhJ1FXE.png

I cannot really share the euphoria about this announcement. The current Bloodrayne games are working well, even under Linux. And the listed enhancements do not look like they are worth a remake. Upscaled videos? Improved effects, meaning more flashy games? No, thanks!

Companies rather should focus on making new, innovative games and leave good old games alone. Increasing the price and removing the original versions from sale just looks like another cash grab. At least the original games still will be available as extras and the upgrade is free for current owners. Like other people above I also would prefer when the original versions would keep their own game entries and would not be added as extras only.

And please GOG, do something to keep the original game cards accessible, at least for the owners of the games!

There is no gamepad symbol there. It only says "cloud saves, overlay, single player". So I think in the same way they didn't bother to add all languages. Let's see.

Anyways, just the day before this announcement I was thinking of replaying them. I'm not the biggest fan of the series but it's ok for its times. And getting them for free it's ok, otherwise I'd be happy with the old versions. I'd be more interested in a new platformer like Betrayal. Oh, they don't show controller support even for Betrayal, I guess they just don't care and the store page info is meaningless.

Depends on what you mean by working well. The first game is perfectly playable but unless you lock the framerate at 30, the sound and especially the voices and ambient sounds keep cutting out pretty regularly due to the game being unable to handle unlocked framerate. Voice lines cut too short, scripted sounds not playing, that kind of stuff. If they fix that, that alone would be worth it. But the fact that they don't mention anything framerate related in the changes worries me that it might be left unfixed.

I played Bloodrayne 2 too and it worked fine but I played the CD version, not GOG, so can't tell how whether that works completely without issues.

Does it have to be a 30 fps cap or would it also work with 60 or 144?

IIRC, anything above was causing sound issues. I had to make some edits in config files. It is a pretty commom problem it seems. I think I found the solution on the Steam forums.....

Yes. This was the thread I think. The 3rd post is what I had to do. It lowered the framerate to 30 (or maybe even lower) and introduced a slight input delay but it fixed the sound issues.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/3810/discussions/0/846939071459233552/

People keep saying in that thread that the GOG version works without problems but I played the GOG version, on Windows XP at that, and still had the sound issues unless I made the change in RENDER.INI

Actually I would've preferred the solution with different library entries. But you can't please everyone :D

Given the fact that Steam also shows audio for several languages (instead of subs I might add) I'd say that THEY might be incorrect here. Do such dubs even exist? I honestly don't know here.

You did not have problems when trying to play this game with a gamepad? Imo this is the biggest reason why this "remake" is really a good idea, since the game obviously was designed with a gamepad in mind.

I just hope that happens for games that are coming AFTER the update as well, like Skyrim, that new edition is absolute garbage with the Bethesda Account integration and the mess they made of everything by linking so heavily to it.

Now if only we could mark things we own that were re-released by someone else later on off the list...

Getting sick of seing Fallout 1 & 2 + Tactics keep popping up telling me I don't own them...

I have never heard of this rollback function. How does it work?