Imagine an Unreal: Reforged-game, ala what Black Mesa did for Half-life 1. The original Unreal 1998 game remade with a modern game engine, with a love for detail, polish, and the original atmosphere and storyline, and very faithful also to overall map layouts and pacing.
The charm of UT99 (I believe) was its roughness and ultimately; its simplicity. Hearing some of the dev work around how they had to push the map to their limits with a polygon count and how the textures feel so 'grimy' what make UT99 stick. It is in my honest opinion that future iterations trying to modernize the look of the weapons made it actively worse. Take the Flak Cannon for example; a beast of a weapon that looks dopey but you fear and respect it It's 98 and 99 versions that is. The 2004 iteration looks more practical (and I admit I kinda like it) but UC2/UT3 just went overboard and looks unrecognizable. UT4 reins it in a bit, but in my honest opinion; it looks over designed and loses the simple grime and charm the UT99 weapons did, I mean, the sniper rifle wasn't anything special, it was just an honest-to-god sniper rifle that someone picked up from the store or a swap-meet, not this high-tech piece of fashion. Automag/Enforcer was the same way, scrappy as hell, memorable as all can be. So the best thing a remake for UT99 would just be updating the graphics but not changing the model for the weapons to look any newer or futuristic.
Every single time I hear any version of this I just can't sit straight. I feel so much energy is boiling over inside that I have forgotten about. I love it. It's a shame that Epic games strainght up murdered a game franchize. I understand Epic, as Fortnite has brought them way too much money and they want to milk it, but hell... They should at least resurrect and have a small team work on the Unreal tournament they swept aside a while ago. Could be a nice Esport game.
minus the Esports side, i wholeheartedly agree! Jesus christ, the have so much fucking money that even a re-release of ´99 and ´04 should´ve already happened as a test ground for interest in the IP...
Now go and listen do "Space storm" from back old duke 3d. That main theme is unmistakable. Someone reputable should totally ask Alexander if he got inspired back when writing go down.
At least in UT2K4 Go Down was also called "HyperBlast Redux". That´s what i remember or I'm wrong? Also the "Go Down" for UT2017 belongs to @Necto Ulin, he made that remix and deserves recognition. Regards
I feel you my friend. I was 13 when UT99 came out. So much fun with friends. So many LAN parties. My son is closing to the age to start playing shooters together. I will walk him through all of my childhood games. This will be included for sure.
@@Mart-E12 DUDES we are still fucking playing. Literally everyday, we have an active AS and DM community. Just let me know if you want in. We hang out in discord voicechat everyday and fuck around for hours.
UT3's fits the theme of the game perfectly... a massive step back. That course correction with UT4 might be the greatest thing I've seen and heard in a long time... too bad FoRnItE had to go and cock it all up for Epic, way to sell your souls guys.
But UT is very much alive nowdays... And legend is even 99, though I was 3 years back than, I remember playing it when I was 6... Then yea.... 2004, best game of all time for lan parties...
