I now own these games. The gamebox is sitting on my desk, still in its perfect plastic wrapping.

I'm not allowing myself to play it until I've transcribed my Lorne interview.

Where are the sound files you were going to upload for me?

Well, if you hadn't left your computer idle, you would have received the URLs for them already.

I wanted to have a listen through them first to make sure there wasn't too much personal stuff on them. You'll understand when you hear them.


Belated thought: That's probably actually because it's being rendered for 3d TVs.

I don't follow the connection.

The extra processing needed to render everything twice means that image quality has to be sacrificed in order to maintain the frames per second rate. It's been a common complaint to pretty much every 3d game.

A friend of mine has apparently beaten Ico in under 2 hours on the rerelease.

He's had my copy of portal 2 since May though and hasn't beaten that

Your friend needs to get his shit together.

EDIT: And that was before I'd processed that it was your copy of Portal 2. Tell him you want it back in 3 weeks because you want to play the DLC or something. A time limit does wonders to efficiency.

We weren't looking at it in 3D at the time. Plain old 2D.

I think the implication is that a game with 3D support will always be rendering twice under the hood, so that if you switch between having 3D enabled and disabled the change will be seamless.

Whether or not that’s true is beyond my technical knowledge.

It would also be daft. It's permissible to have a seam when switching between display modes.

Jak and Daxter have been rumoured to get a HD Collection.

I would kill for a J&D collection...Hell, I want Jak IV! Screw Uncharted!...Sorry Nate, heat of the moment.(And I meant Nathan Drake, not you Nate, lol)

Didn't they make a Jak 4? Or was that Lost Frontier game a spin-off of some sort?

Those mother fuckers need to make a R&C Collection, Up Your Arsenal is one of the best games I have ever played.

Also, Devil May Cry is going to get an HD collection.

yeah, lost frontier's a spin off by high voltage games. The R&C size matters guys. Its alright...camera's shitty.

I don't think that that is true, but they might not have had the budget/time to create (and/or store on the disk) both medium- and high-res textures and models. Given that 3d was a goal for them, they might have comprimised by only putting only the medium quality versions.

I would kill for the original Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon HD Collections.

Such a shame the rights have been bought by another company...

I can't see Crash Bandicoot HD remasters being given much love. That series has been pimped and sold and beaten and bashed beyond all recognition. Spyro I wouldn't know about, but judging by the current direction of the series… =/

at least crash and spyro are on psn. And they were always owned by universal-naughty dog and insomniac had to leave them behind...*sniffle*

I would love to see classic Crash and Spyro remasters, but at the same time part of me knows they wouldn’t be the same.

Also, I’m kind of getting sick of all the HD remasters. Fuck’s sake, I want to see new games, not live in the past.

Remasters of the original games will get so much love. The old fans of the series would just be all over them (Including me). Its true that Crash and Spyro have been slaughtered by other companies but the remasters would be nothing like those dreadful games.

I don't mind a couple of HD remakes but I agree completly. New games damn it!

Ugh...*goes play Crash Warped*...I love you, you goofy ass marsupial...

Who? Isn't Crash a coyote?

He's a bandicoot...

Crash is a bandicoot. Only coyote I know is Wile E.
edit: Damn, beat me to it. lol

I didn't even know that bandicoot is a real animal.

Yup, here's one.
http://photos.rnr.id.au/mammals/Band...rne8184660.jpg

Damn bandicoots raid our kitchen if we leave the door open.

I meant from the developers, not from the gaming community. Obviously the gaming community loves the early Crash games.

I think even if you got a developer who cared about those games to put love into a remake, I just don’t feel it’s worth it. Crash and Spyro were both based around very cartoony art styles, and I don’t think those would benefit hugely from an extra dose of polygons.

HD remakes are better-suited to games with detailed and realistic art styles.

Stealing all your apples and smashing your crates.

They're wumpa fruit, damn it!

I was about to say that, lol. And your batteries for their sister's laptop. And wtf happened to Crash's girl? She just went....poof.

You mean Tawna from the first game. She ran off with Pinstripe.

She was removed and replaced with Coco because she was felt to be not kid-friendly. She eventually reappeared in a DS spin-off game.

I just like to pretend everything past Crash Warped didnt happen. xP

That Crash game for DS was awful. My friend has it.

I’d contend that everything past CTR was mediocre or awful.

Hay, everyone! Remember when we had a thread about Ico and SotC? It used to be such a nice thread.

If there's a mod who can understand any of what's been posted in the last few days, perhaps s/he can sort out what posts should be moved to a new thread. Otherwise, next offtopic posting gets an infraction. Kapish?

And on that note I wanted to know, did they really completely screw the 60 fps out of these? Originally that's why I wanted these updates...The concept of SotC playing at a full 60 fps had me so excited. the framerate was the only issue in the original.