First of all, TY for your reasonable, even respectful reaction and discussion, something that is all too rare in today's hyper emotional, partisan environment. We have an aversion to explicit, gratutous violonce and gore in modern video. Back in the day, these things were implied, and left to the imagination, like in the 1951 Thing, making it more effective, at least in my mind. As for where to view/stream the 1951 version, it used to be periodically shown on the TCM cable channel. There are any number of streaming services you might find it on, for a fee, of course. We have occasionaly run across it posted on YouTube. Here are some clips to get you started ~ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6wGM-eHNcJX15IF2OqSfLVUpXDWER50S
Luv ur AVA, from the classic, original Invisible Man(1933), with the inimitable Claude Rains in the title role. His mellifluous voice was full of dulcet tones!((;--))

Here's hoping they do more than just up the textures

Yes, please bring the original version too. Asa bonus, as separate purchace. I don't care if it works on Windows 7, 8, 10, 11. You can just give CD .iso! Game preservation!

I think both ways are good, depending on the viewer and what they're in the mood for

Robert Obsorne was fun to watch while growing up

Agreed.

Holy F***ing S**t!!!!

I loved this game, in fact I played this game before I watched John Carpenter's The Thing. After playing the game and being engrossed by the sense of isolation and distrust I watched the film and loved that too.

I cannot wait to play this bad boy again.

Cheers GOG, Nightdive you have a precious object in your hands, treat it well.

Nightdive Dives Into The Thing: Remastered | Deep Dive Episode 1

"In this episode, we’re taking a closer look at The Thing: Remastered with insight from our development team, as well as a special interview with Mark Atkinson, one of the talented directors and programmers behind 2002’s The Thing!"

I know this is only something of a sidenote in that video, but damn, that study about interest in strategic thinking and planning in games having fallen by 67% in the last decade is kind of depressing.

I believe I have this on physical disc (the original) unopened. If I'm not mistaken the box is white. I picked it up at CompUSA? If memory serves.

One day I'll have a look see. If I no longer have it that means I sold it on eBay which would have been majorly stupid of me. Hopefully I wasn't majorly stupid.

I sold all my Unreal physical games on eBay last year for a few hundred dollars which in retrospect...regrets I've had a few.

I just did. This game was a pain in my ass growing up but if they fix it I would want to play it again.

The Thing: Remastered Devs On Preserving Its Original Spirit and Balancing Gameplay Mechanics (Shacknews)

"CEO Stephen Kick and Director of Business Development Larry Kuperman were kind enough to answer all of our burning questions about this mind-blowing announcement."

Good info.

The small number (4, I believe) of pre-determined, story-driven transformations remain, so it'll still be possible to get a "false-negative" test result on certain NPCs prior to those particular moments, but there's nothing much to be done about that without redeveloping the game/story significantly (which obviously isn't on the cards). On the plus side, it sounds like they've put in a lot of efforts to make the remaster look as similar to the film as they can manage (evidentially the art team as a whole are big fans of the film, and they have access to higher-fidelity assets than were used in the original game), and so players who love the film should get an even-bigger kick out of that side of things this time around.

I thought the original release was a fun game with some genuinely interesting mechanics which the game never quite made enough (overt) use of. If you push the boundaries, though, then you can clearly see them in action -- I once caused an unarmed NPC to freak out so badly that they took my gun off me, attacked me, then hid and cowered for a minute before suddenly killing themselves. The systems are there, driving things all the time; it's just not always very apparent. The systems also have constraints of course, and some of those, once observed, made things more predictable/safe for the player than was desirable.

I've no idea whether the remaster will be any different in those respects -- there is certainly scope for improvements! -- but the game was still fun regardless of its flaws. I was glad I hadn't paid the full retail price for the original, but as a budget title I definitely got my money's worth from it, and I enjoyed it to the end.

That's what I feared. The forced transformations were really a let down.
And I doubt they needed to change the game significantly to fix it, but it simply required more money that the minimum..

I remember this from the Spoony episode. Looks like they just up-res'd the textures and improved the lighting.

I loved that episode :)

I'm pretty sure NightDive also made some changes and did some bug fixing.