Just a little article from me today. I’ve been enjoying a few cyberpunkish things recently:

  • Psycho-Pass
  • Dark Rain
  • Cyberpunk 2077

…which reminded me that there was a semi-recent effort at bringing the classic Blade Runner PC game from 1997 to a new era of gaming. It didn’t land very well (everyone hated the smoothed graphics nonsense they did for it), but on a subsequent update they did fix that.

Anyway, that recollection led to me installing it on my OLED Switch, which then made me appreciate the atmosphere and environments, the beautiful backgrounds and so on. The backgrounds in this game are truly top-notch.

SO, if you’d like a little rambling about how Westwood went against the grain when 3D gaming was really taking off, and instead focused on a point-and-click adventure, then follow the link as per usual:

https://gardinerbryant.com/when-other-games-chased-polygons/

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The first cyberpunk (with magic and fantasy mixed) game I played was Shadowrun on the SNES. The Blade Runner game is definitely something a game I missed back then and wish had experienced it in that time period. Maybe I prefer the ScummVM version based on Windows CD with 1.8gb size, just so I can play it in RetroArch with my favorite configuration and shaders to mimic an old screen.