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Anyone got the manual on PDF or where I can DL it?
 
So the Enhanced Edition is dropping on Steam tomorrow (US time, or something), so I go through their product page,

store.steampowered.com

Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition on Steam

Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.
store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com

and I came across this,

The developers describe the content like this:

The original Blade Runner game was developed in 1997 and the depictions of violence that are present reflect that.
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now I have probably played this game around 10 times, and... eh, are they insinuating what I think they are insinuating?

Just to put it out there, the violence in this game is subtle. There are topics which may be sensitive, but you need to have intelligence to think into those themes. I know that most people click through their games.
 
My very first pc game (along with tomb raider 2). Still have the original jewel case discs. Played it so many times over the years. Even in my last playthrough I learned things about the game I never knew about and saw things I've never seen before because I tested the game a couple of years ago for the guys who worked on this enhanced version.

Still one of my all time favourite adventure games.
 
wbot said:
My very first pc game (along with tomb raider 2). Still have the original jewel case discs. Played it so many times over the years. Even in my last playthrough I learned things about the game I never knew about and saw things I've never seen before because I tested the game a couple of years ago for the guys who worked on this enhanced version.

Still one of my all time favourite adventure games.
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I see there isn't too much changed about the game,

Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition is a faithful restoration of the classic adventure game featuring:
  • Reconstruction and upressing of original Westwood VQA Videos
  • Cinematic Video frame rates updated from 15fps to 60fps
  • Modern HD Display
  • Enhanced “Knowledge Integration Assistant"" (KIA) and clue user interface
  • Enhanced Subtitle support
  • Modern gamepad support
  • SMAA Anti Aliasing
  • Anisotropic texture filtering
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GOG's version is "ScummVM" powered, and you can manually apply scaling should you desire. I guess the NDS release have enhancements, some visual improvements and well a rate increase. The KIA and clue mechanic is the usual layer now included with adventure game remasters. I guess the new kids can't solve moon logic.
 
To me it looks pretty much the same. Really very little has been changed/enhanced. But I guess it's cool that console players can play this classic for the first time.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
So the Enhanced Edition is dropping on Steam tomorrow (US time, or something), so I go through their product page,

store.steampowered.com

Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition on Steam

Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.
store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com

and I came across this,



now I have probably played this game around 10 times, and... eh, are they insinuating what I think they are insinuating?

Just to put it out there, the violence in this game is subtle. There are topics which may be sensitive, but you need to have intelligence to think into those themes. I know that most people click through their games.
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Well if they drop the content then it's just another hard pass for me. I'll decide what I want or don't want to consume whether it's porn, the spice girls or spider man comics. Anything / anybody otherwise can kindly ****-off.
 
Herr der Verboten said:
Well if they drop the content then it's just another hard pass for me. I'll decide what I want or don't want to consume whether it's porn, the spice girls or spider man comics. Anything / anybody otherwise can kindly ****-off.
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Happily, this isn't a case where content is removed, but that is a real odd note to have unless they are talking about pixelated violence, but I think it has to do with the themes though these same themes are more so emphasised in today's creative works.

Silly thing to nit-pick on, I know, but I also know what is being talked about on adventure game related discussion boards. It is like things made in the 80s/90s are an issue.

Anyhow. Those who haven't played Bladerunner the game, pick it up tomorrow it is a good, but short, game.
 
What's you favourite ending btw?

For me it's where
you save Crystal, she survives and she leaves with Ray, all reps dead. Although I do like Lucy a lot. I just always found that Ray-Lucy relationship a bit weird.
 
wbot said:
What's you favourite ending btw?

For me it's where
you save Crystal, she survives and she leaves with Ray, all reps dead. Although I do like Lucy a lot. I just always found that Ray-Lucy relationship a bit weird.
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Hard to say, though I remember some endings they aren’t all still in my memory. I would say that I liked some sequences more so than others. It was quite a cool mechanic to enhance replayability.

This game had odd triggers on some progression points, so much that I believed the game was bugged. I don't believe I had these issues with the ScummVM version... I can't tell.
 
I've seen all endings and pretty much remember them all I think. I think I even remember exactly what to do to get specific endings although there are some things that are randomly generated when you start a new game that also determines if you can get certain endings or not.

Don't think i've ever encountered any odd triggers or whatever.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
Happily, this isn't a case where content is removed, but that is a real odd note to have unless they are talking about pixelated violence, but I think it has to do with the themes though these same themes are more so emphasised in today's creative works.

Silly thing to nit-pick on, I know, but I also know what is being talked about on adventure game related discussion boards. It is like things made in the 80s/90s are an issue.

Anyhow. Those who haven't played Bladerunner the game, pick it up tomorrow it is a good, but short, game.
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That's rather silly to begin with: 90s violence is just as bad as 20-22s cult(s) of sensitivity.

edit.
In any case, what about this did you want to discuss specifically?
 
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Fulcrum29 said:
So the Enhanced Edition is dropping on Steam tomorrow (US time, or something), so I go through their product page,

store.steampowered.com

Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition on Steam

Armed with your investigative skills and the tools of the Blade Runner trade, you'll be immersed in a world that lives and breathes around you with breakthrough lighting and visual effects. Your ability to survive will be put to the test in the richest game environment ever created.
store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com

and I came across this,



now I have probably played this game around 10 times, and... eh, are they insinuating what I think they are insinuating?

Just to put it out there, the violence in this game is subtle. There are topics which may be sensitive, but you need to have intelligence to think into those themes. I know that most people click through their games.
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Maybe it has something to do with the murdered animals?
Also a more sensitive topic today than it was in the 90's
 
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