You don't know the half of it! Last night he sent me THIS!

that's heaven bro, heaven.

Just got it. Only thing i'd like them to add is an option to save whenever we want. Prehaps turn that feature on or off like we can do with the others. (I know we have to find save points.)

But other than than very impressed. Its alot better than running it with REminiscence.

that was a joke BTW. I don't need Serren filing a defamation suit against me. :P

You've seen the videos and screenshots of this release with some enabled features you can turn off. So no, that's NOT enough to make an *cough* experienced judgement. You simply have not seen the game when features are turned off.
I have to say that I really don't understand the devs here. They even advertize with the fact that "the original" is still available (GOG seemed to have change the game description it seems or I am misremembering) so they must know that there are people out there who would like to play the original as it was back then. Looking and sounding as it did back then. Hard to imagine that this would be impossible. Some would even consider "Choose to play with the original graphics and sounds from the 90’s and face an unforgiving difficulty." to be false advertizing.

Still bought it ... just saying.

Edit: I cannot find this anymore.

Wouldn't that look like the original Amiga or DOS version? Isn't that one of the bullet points?

Considering that in the meantime, between the original game release and this one, someone has already done better with remaking the engine, this release seems very sloppy. Slapping a smudgy filter on top of the low resolution version of the game is not remastering it.

To me, Castle of Illusion, Day of the Tentacle, DuckTales, Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2 are examples of remastering old games. This version of Flashback is on the same level as Simon the Sorcerer "remastering".

That means it's another RE4/PS2 GTA. Exclusive only for a brief time.

At least, that's what i guess.

And people like you is why we can't have nice things.

You have to see all bullet points here. If you don't like the filter (most don't) of course you'd need to turn this one off. The question remains if you still would have advantages in the remastered version without those filters and there are still several bullet points left.

So in the end you'd always need to decide for yourself if the additional features you are getting are worth the money for the remastered even if this "feature" would only mean that the game runs properly on newer systems. Afaik that's something the mentioned REminiscence already did but according to this the remastered version seem to run better here. Maybe Pond86 could tell us the advatages between this version and the REminiscence version?

Monkey Island imo also is a very bad example for "good" remastering since mostly everybody disliked the new artstyle.

winter sale ? within 2 or 3 weeks?

i think 22 purchases since april till now
roughly 2-3 game a month ( including sales with cheap DLC)
Sounds a lot but it isn't, its nothing compared to the 2014 and 2015 ( joined 2014 and had zero games :D)

Anyway unless dozens of real Good old games ( 2d games , and no flashy fighting games/ paralax scrolling platforms and more like this ( hundreds of games were made in the past i seen 1,000 ;s of games in the last 40 years :D) arrive my wallet will stay closed, unles a few new good HOG arrive , which would be near impossible cause i own every artifex game , and many other casualgames)

my external wishlist: screenshot PC DOS BOX version

withing DOSBOX you can set things like fullscreen windowed
, and make the graphics looks less blurry by making them 'smaller' , normally you can do that using DXwnd , run old game set it to windowmoede and all pixelsoup look a lot better, it's smaller but it looks better.

Anyway i turned all new settings off cause my eyes hurt looking at the game with all the filters on, so i tried the 'original' and wow, thats like ministeck , so that was a no go aswell, so i have the old dosbox version , works a charm.




check: flashbackdos.jpg

Being able to change the colour of Conrad's shirt does not merit a bullet point. Nor do most of the other enhancements. You have more options on how to play using REminiscence.
But it was still remastered. Whether someone likes the art style is irrelevant. The developers clearly spent time and effort on redrawing everything.
Your screenshot has some kind of smudgy filter or scaler applied to it. That is not how the original looks.

Yes i remember those versions , didnt buy them, because of a job well-done: my eyes loved the new look ٩(×̯×)۶

But which feature is worth the remastered and which not still is a purely subjective thing. I do agree of course that adding a smudge filter should not be everything the remastered should offer - but is does not. Since I never played the REminiscence version allow me to ask you if I will be able to do the following on it:

- For the first time ever, play the Director’s Cut version featuring 2 exclusive cutscenes
- Want to practice on a specific level? You can now play any completed level during the main adventure
- Replay any cutscene that you unlocked from the menu
- Jukebox: listen to the game's soundtrack
- Completely remastered sound and music,
- A brand new "Rewind" function, variable according to the level of difficulty

Since those are the main reasons I bought it.

On that we do agree. A lot of work went into it.
I have to agree here as well. It looks awful to me.

You are absolutely right, but it still is a dosbox version but within DOSBOX numerous things can be set....
anyway its all over the internet allmost every old site , abdanoned games site and dozens of more sites .

i have the new game, bought it i have around 2200 differnt games bought (digital only) all paid for ,and loads of paid for DVD's ( retailstore, Amazon etc etc etc) ,even old cd's tapes, videotapes and spend way too much cash to the entertainment business, also have 500 retail games on 140 dvd's ( thats around4 to 5 games on each disc) .

Yes not drinking, smoking, no holidays, no hobbies, saves some cash to spend and buy items to enrich the entertainment industry, somone has got to do it ٩◔‿◔۶

Now that we have the Flashback remaster - what are the chances of the Gods remaster coming onto GOG too?