Flashback HD & The terrible truth of remakes

[tim]

The game is out on Xbox.

Everything is looking terrible, as expected. The animations are worse than 20 years ago. The colors, the mood, are totally off. The art direction is totally generic & bland.

Take a look by yourself :

http://youtu.be/fjuCebmbXK4?t=5m21s

Matthias :
I made a little landing page of my project here : www.behindnowhere.com

[Helm]

http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-flashback-hd/2300-7868/

Really now. Include the original in an ARCADE VIGNIETTE when the game was never in arcades. AND MAKE IT MANDATORY. No fullscreen.

[ptoing]

Wow, that is some seriously lame shit. What were they thinking?

[ErekT]

The animations are so very sloppy. What the hell is this? Heh, shee-it...

@tim
I like the atmosphere in that. Will be cool to see more

[Seiseki]

Wow, that is some seriously lame shit. What were they thinking?

That they could get away with it, and maybe they can?
We're quite a special bunch here on these forums and the game was obviously not targeted at us..

[ptoing]

So you think the average user would not like to have the option to play without the arcade can taking up half the screen, having a vigniette going on which darkens the borders of the screen, and instead play it fullscreen? No, surely not, people love to have no options and being forced to play something with filters or bullshit they can not turn off.

[Seiseki]

Oh, I just thought you meant the remake in general..

Looking at the comments though, people still buy the game, even if they complain about the it..

[ptoing]

Because people love to complain. Anyone knowing the original and getting the remake has too much money to burn.
But I guess it is more convenient than downloading DOSBox or an Amiga/Genesis Emulator or something. The original is not on GoG either it seems. For shame.

[Helm]

This is my only problem with this thing so far. I don't care about the remake, it's not harming the original. But the way they've packaged the original in here, and that it's the only legal way to have it on modern systems is completely insane.

[ErekT]

Little tricko to make their dodgy remake compare favorably maybe? That thing needs all the help it can get