This is me.
It's money on the table. I'm considering playing another Soulslike in the near future and if Sony doesn't release Bloodborne PC then I'm going straight to Lies of P.
Get it together, Sony.
Timing it closer to the rumored movie maybe? Sony seem pretty big on that multimedia approach now.
If I had to guess I'd say it's probably because From had to be involved, and they were busy with their own new stuff so schedules never lined up. (also in terms of other Sony ports etc.)
I'm sure it'll still happen eventually though: while there's plenty of other cult hit stuff they could being back unlike those Bloodborne would also be a safe bet In terms of return on investment.
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No, it was a game that started development as a PS Move game even, that's how involved in it Sony was.
Oh, I had no idea. I thought Sony offered them a publishing deal for exclusivity.
Sony is the publisher, and own the IP, they commissioned a different studio to make the remake.
Original was made by Supermassive. Remake is by Ballistic Moon.
I suppose it's better to not release anything, rather than releasing a phoned in effort.
This *will* happen one day, but they probably want to get from soft involved in some capacity, which means it will take longer than if Sony just did it themselves.
Nah, both videos do a good job talking about how the art style changes missed the mark repeatedly. FROM is VERY deliberate with their environmental design, so you have to really pay attention when changing stuff.
View: https://youtu.be/5lx0CRVVvV8?si=4tSHPqYNwzvo0oga
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QT6aJspFQg
If this ever comes out to PC, you better believe someone out there is gonna fix it to look more like the original. xD
While I enjoyed the remake, Bluepoint took far too many liberties with it artistically/visually. Only FromSoftware can do what they do.
I don't trust Bluepoint to do this justice.
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Like Demon's Souls I'm convinced the only way the original will be properly preserved is if/when it becomes playable through emulation.While I enjoyed the remake, Bluepoint took far too many liberties with it artistically/visually. Only FromSoftware can do what they do.
I don't trust Bluepoint to do this justice.
At this point it's got to be a deliberate move by Sony just to piss people off lol
and it works :(
and it works :(
I think one thing these criticisms miss is that they deny the possibility for works to be transformative.
Going off the first video's criticism of the Boletaria, I'll use the "plant growth" example.
So in OG Demon's Souls Boletaria is a workmanlike, functional castle. Allant might be considered--based on this context--to be a guy who reached out to Soul Arts and fucked everything up because he was in a harsh world and genuinely was doing something pragmatic (like his castle): get greater power to better defend his people.
In Remake, it's overgrown with leaves and shit. The analysis is like "well, Ostrava says he's been gone for a bit, and came back, which means that all this overgrowth only happened while he was gone, which is literally impossible as it would take decades to occur. Therefore Bluepoint misunderstands timelines but just did it because of the rule of cool."
The more generous (and more interesting) interpretation is that this is just a different world in a different context. The video points out that Boletaria is more opulent and stylish in remake than the original: couldn't it instead be assumed from context it follow that Allant (or Boletaria's leaders, generally) has a habit of letting his reach extend his grasp? He had the opulent castle built, but couldn't maintain it...maybe the overgrowth was there before Ostrava even left? And in this version, Allant reaches for the Soul arts without considering the consequences or his own ability to control the outcome?
All of this is subtext in either game anyway, but if there's enough for the player's imagination to connect the dots, then I think that's fine, even if those dots are in slightly different places.
I prefer the OG to the Remake, but I also don't think changes--even big ones--are inherently bad, and stories have changed in retellings since forever. DS Remake is perfectly cromulent IMO.
I wonder if the thought was "if we just make a port of this onto PC and PS5 it still won't even look as good as the DS remake from Bluepoint so it'll likely disappoint a lot of people into not buying it."
I really don't want to have to keep a PS4 or 5 around 10 years from now just to be able to play one of my favorites. I have a few PS3's in my closet for PS2/3 stuff that never got proper ports or remasters and I hate it.
I really don't want to have to keep a PS4 or 5 around 10 years from now just to be able to play one of my favorites. I have a few PS3's in my closet for PS2/3 stuff that never got proper ports or remasters and I hate it.
Speak for yourself. Give me the best looking remake evaaaaaaaaaaaar
Forget starfield, we might see Gears of War on playstation before we see bloodborne at 60fps on any ps console.
It is a remake so it's their own style ultimately made to be their own thing not a 1:1 but had it included a toggle or even just included a port of the original I don't think the push back would exist as strongly.
That way remake style can be acknowledged not as something of a replacement/'we made it better' but more as it's own interpretation. I feel personally this is one of the ongoing problems of games vs film or other media is that rarely is it carried into the future. A remake of a film doesn't come with the same disregard of its prior incarnation.
You get it.
I'm sure games will get there eventually...as backwards compatibility/continued support gets better, I think that will help a lot.
Like you said, if OG Demon's Souls came on the disk (or even if you could buy OG Demon's Souls today, right now, on PS5 and it ran ok at a modern resolution) I expect people wouldn't make as much of a fuss.
Games are unique in that remakes often feel like "this is the official game, now, and that older version is never coming back". With movies or books, you aren't limited by hardware obsolescence. If A Star is Born 2018 really grinds your gears, switching back to A Star is Born 1978 just means putting in another DVD to the same player (usually).
Well, for one what you're talking about above is changing the story of the original. Which, okay sure, but then why did they publicly seem to be adamant they were doing no such thing but doing an as accurate as possible remake?
But secondly, if this interpretation were to hold true, that Boletaria is obsessed with aesthetics in a very gaudy way, then why is that not seen elsewhere outside of the outward facing gothic architecture?
While I enjoyed the remake, Bluepoint took far too many liberties with it artistically/visually. Only FromSoftware can do what they do.
I don't trust Bluepoint to do this justice.
How can anyone look at this and think it needs a remake. It looks prefect and only needs to be played on higher settings on PC/PS5.
Im totally fine with a port and I'd personally prefer that. If it ends up getting a remake instead, I'd hope there is a way to change between old and new graphics like in Halo CEA. I feel like that's the best of both worlds.
I was just positing it as a theoretical, it's not my actual reading.
I didn't even really bother to "read" the remake too much. I played the everloving fuck out of the OG, so for me I approached DS Remake as almost like a museum tour or amusement park personally...oh, that's nifty. Oh that change I don't like. The music here is good. They really should've touched up those maneater animations, geez. I like this weird blacksmith apron armor set!
Basically I'm pointing out that it is still possible for a player to have dialogue between their experience and the game environment. That might result in something that's not quite a 100% reflection of the original vibe, but I think the fact that that give-and-take can still happen means Bluepoint basically "gets it" from my view, even if some of the notes hit a little different. A movie comparison for me would be Nosferatu vs. Werner Herzog's version. Very, very similar, but just different enough and
I think trying to "100%" any work like that is a bit of a fool's errand. If that's what Bluepoint actually set out to do, a lot of these "BZZT, WRONG!" takes would have more merit.
No remakes please. Just a port with better resolution, higher frame rate and proper frame pacing. That is it. Not a damned thing more. No sequels either.
A good game should be left well alone.
A good game should be left well alone.
Sony doesn't realize that they could realize a Bloodborne Remaster which is literally the exact same game with a 60 FPS frame rate, sell it at full price for $70, and that, personally, I would write multiple tweets about what a rip off it is before immediately buying it on release day.
Yeah, but only becasue sequels aren't happening. The buffer for their PC stuff is obviously only going to get shorter.
I know rightIt's like sony is actively dodging porting the games I want to PC.
I absolutely despise the art direction in the remake, it's so tacky that it feels like anti-From. There are armor sets that look like the costumes in the god awful Bee Gees Sgt. Peppers movie from the 70s. It's a disaster, which is a shame because it's an impressive job on every other front. I still play it, but it's like the weird 80s Sean Connery Bond film that just doesn't sit right in the oeuvre.
I've been waiting forever for Demon's Souls. Thought it would come after the average performance, and then after the Elden Ring hype, then after the 2 year window...It's like sony is actively dodging porting the games I want to PC.
GoT too.
Those two games (alongside Bloodborne) were exactly the ones I was thinking about while making that post. It's pretty mind boggling that not even one of these has even been announced.