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When Other Games Chased Polygons, Blade Runner Chased Atmosphere (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by PerfectDark@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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Just a little article from me today. I've been enjoying a few cyberpunkish things recently:

Psycho-Pass
Dark Rain
Cyberpunk 2077

...which reminded me that there was a semi-recent effort at bringing the classic Blade Runner PC game from 1997 to a new era of gaming. It didn't land very well (everyone hated the smoothed graphics nonsense they did for it), but on a subsequent update they did fix that.

Anyway, that recollection led to me installing it on my OLED Switch, which then made me appreciate the atmosphere and environments, the beautiful backgrounds and so on. The backgrounds in this game are truly top-notch.

SO, if you'd like a little rambling about how Westwood went against the grain when 3D gaming was really taking off, and instead focused on a point-and-click adventure, then follow the link as per usual:

https://gardinerbryant.com/when-other-games-chased-polygons/

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[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Try Cloudpunk! I really enjoyed that game.

[–] PerfectDark@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh I've been singing Cloudpunk's praises for years now! I even chatted to the devs 12 months or so ago about interviewing them, but that never panned out (sadly).

I think of this one in the 'perfect for Steam Deck/handhelds' territory, it suits it so perfectly...both in gameplay and in the vibe (very cyberpunkish) too. Have you seen they have a sequel of sorts coming up? Or at least a game in the same universe, called Nivalis!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1488490/Nivalis/

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yes, it’s on my wishlist!

[–] namelivia@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nice article! Thanks for posting it, I never had the chance to play this game but everytime I read about it I remind myself I should some day

[–] PerfectDark@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Then consider this your reminder to get to it!!!

Well worth it, and if you get the Nightdive 2022 remaster, don't forget to completely ignore their new graphics mode and opt for the original!

[–] robomuffin79@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Didn’t have a PC then so missed it. Anyone if it can be downloaded from anywhere? Plus Dune 2 - loved playing that on my Amiga

[–] Drasglaf@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Blade Runner is on gog, Dune 2 is probably abandonware at this point.

[–] JelloBrains@piefed.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Yes, Dune 2 is available on most abandonware sites, but you can get it at other sites like Nahoo, or my preferred is the Dune2k forum, they have a section with some bug fixes and other things done by the community to make the game better, specifically I want to say nyerguds is the patcher/bug fixer, something like that.