STAR WARS™: Dark Forces Remaster

There are fan mods for Dark Forces that look as if not more impressive available for free (DarkXL for example). I'm more than happy to buy Dark Forces again if it's remastered, but this price is an absolute joke. I'll wait until this is on sale for a reasonable price.

First, I *am* very glad to see Dark Forces get some love! But this costs more than I paid for the ORIGINAL in the mid-90s! What are you thinking?? We have lived with the old graphics for almost 3 decades, I can still run the original (for free), mods still work (for free), mouse support and everything else I ALREADY HAVE FOR FREE. So what, EXACTLY, are you *really* offering for such an exorbitant price, hmm? Sincere question - I know you went back and forth with the maker of The Force Engine and some others to use tidbits of FREEWARE. Now you're selling us freeware and charging half of a triple-A production price? Cute. Very cute. Perhaps whenever this is 85% off and I feel like showing a token of appreciation to Nightdive for taking up this project, I will purchase this. but honestly - if you want that kind of money, you better bring more to the table! Like, oh, something more flexible for modding? Maybe like a GZDoom for Dark Forces? THAT I would buy! Especially if it was simpler - whenever I played DF as a kid, I always wanted to pull a Remote droid out of my pocket and sic it on Imperial officers while cackling madly... hell, if you had included even THAT as a new weapon, I would have bought this at (2/3rd's) the price asked for. If the DLC was free... Maybe make a randomly generated mode? Maybe add in cut content that LucasArts just couldn't do in the time allotted? Maybe... But nope. You had THREE DECADES. And all we got is what we already have (again, FOR FREE) with a higher pixel count and not needing DOSBox. Nothing left to say, except thanks for the effort and nice try. You get slightly more than the lowest score for the attempt, and the fact that *if* the original DF stops working on modern systems, we will have an alternative - preservation of history is important. But essentially selling freeware is pretty damn low.

No free save in the missions where we have that with the original game plus mod? Make something like that as an add-on or trophy for playthroughs for people with time and label it as extremely difficult or something that makes it look cool. Hardly anyone needs the game that way.

Like everyone else who saw the price, this remaster will flop hard. 20$ is the highest it should be without any discount. You'd easily sell more copies if the price was reasonable. Sometimes it is best to lose a bit of revenue in order to make your product reach as many people as possible. This is not rocket science. It is basic marketing 101. Then after a longterm sale, you jack the prices back up but instead of 20$, you charge 25$. I'd be more than happy to work for the GoG marketing team just so I could bring my expertise to a gaming platform dedicated to preservation

Firstly, i bought the original in 1995 and still play it every now and then using dosbox. Love the masterpiece of its time that it was, back then. (with all the flaws it had, judging both now and then - i game saves, anyone?) Secondly, i was eager to see the remastered, considered buying it Third, i haven't bought the remastered. And at this stage, i wont. feels like the dev (and gog) are withholding info: All Screenshots are from cztscenes, NONE from actual gameplay. Usually, gog supplier a good choice of Screenshots, so NOT doing it here stands out, in a way. Do the actual in game Graphics suck? Is there no i game Graphics at all, yet (i. E. Is dark forces remastered in a playable Status at all? I cant tell. Don't help, that the Video - which may or may not Show gameplay - isnt playing for what ever reason, at least for me). Also, looking at the cutscene Screenshots, i dont really see a difference, aside from having been upscaled and mushified. Frankly, if thats what the in game remasteringus, too, asking 40€ is quite steep. Provider Screenshots that Change my mind, and i will reconsider, but like this, it smells like, well, something gog doesn't do: a ripoff.