Kingpin Reloaded Is Embarrassing 

Why would they lie about that??? Like, we can see it.

Going in for the kill

​@@AvalancheReviewsTo try and save face among the stupid/ blind majority.

@@AvalancheReviews What's crazy is that you've got free AI upscaled texture packs for other games like Half Life that actually look pretty good. Not only do I think AI should only be used for noncommercial projects like that but it looks like people making noncommercial projects are the only ones who actually do it with some semblance of competence.

That's what I thought, it has that "look" of AI upscaling.

Idiocracy is so close

Simple, they didn't want to spend much for it. They probably assigned some random dev to it with a minimal budget and time.

@@phaolo6 But like pointed out in the video, this was still in development for years. You'd think they'd get somewhere close to the goal with that amount of time.

The problem is the developers. 3DRealms just doesn't make good games anymore. Ghostrunner is the only game they've had any hand in recently that's rated above "mixed" on Steam and they weren't the primary developers, they had assistance from multiple other studios and One More Level were the primary devs. They had no involvement in the Ghostrunner sequel and that's being rated just as highly. Embracer has effectively killed 3D Realms and it's just heartbreaking to watch them continue on as a shell of their former glory.

They were clearly just going through the motions with this one. They simply didn't care.

I find it funny how there's still people hating on Nightdive, just because.

At least they actually stand behind their remasters and fix them worth a damn if they are buggy... this is made by a company that "remade" (ie. took a huge piss all over) Rise of the Triad... by making the 2013 game....

Only exception as far as I can tell, was Blade Runner Enhanced Edition, and I don't know what caused Nightdive to release the state it was in along with temporarily inability to purchase the ScummVM release.

Nope, they did a great job on the turok trilogy

​@@TheDRODORpartially, T3 came without multiplayer and they charge more than usual.

not only was it ai upscaled, they must have ran it through the model once and took the result without previewing it lmao.

Well... AI doesn't exist yet...

They did press the upscale button by hand..

@@Afternoon-T I'm convinced nobody at the dev studio played that remaster. Sending a game out like this is bullshit

NOBODY FUCKS WITH THE JESUS

Is it bad that I like this art style? Lmaooo I’ve never played or even heard of the original but this game looks so funny I want to play it the new one, the squiggly lines makes it look like if ed Edd and eddy ppl made a pc boomer shooter

​@@lorddeeceeThe original Quake 2 engine had this same effect.

Complete pass from me as well, I expected them to fix the hideous wobbles and they didn't even try. Nightdive at least has the skills and ability to fix it. I know some love it, and I am all for the wobbling being a toggleable option--but that wobbly crap looks awful nowadays. There's a reason the most in-demand options for PS1 emulation are dithering and wobbly texture fixes, the wobbling looks like trash lol. But then you boot up MGS1 with all the fixes and its a gorgeous piece of game now, even with the old ps1 models.

I feel so fucking bad for the devs, they were NOT the right studio for this and working on it must have been miserable

@@cacomeat7385 Yeah, 3DR should've given this project to Nightdive

I like how this hits my driving experience so perfectly. Chef's kiss.

I think you're right. The cutscene stuttering must signify the police stopping them for inspection every quarter mile.

Pretty much the same with most remasters, if there are fan versions def play it, if theres a "official" remaster just ignore it

The biggest thing is, a game like Kingpin has such a devoted fan base you could easily find mods for it to help put it in widescreen or add QoL improvements the remaster should have had.

I thought gamers would learn that by now.

Oh they're owned by Embracer Group? They dead, then. They just shuttered New World Interactive, who actually had a decent game out and making money. Hell, I think we know who to blame for this now.

Yeah I guess Embracer is proof that the "perfect world" everyone wants where some company buys up old and beloved properties to reboot them isn't as easy as you think. Tho they really have been just gobbling up properties the past few years, not surprised they're axing some stuff.

not all hope is lost.. There is still Graven. i remeber playing the demo of that and really enjoying it. full release is out end of next month.

​​@@DorrajI like Embracer Group. They brought Destroy All Humans 1&2 back from the dead. Tomb Raider is also on the way.

@@djam7484 I hope it's good, but that's another title that got launched with very little content and has advanced at a snail's pace since. I hope it doesn't launch cut back.

I know, isn't it great?! 😂

Yep, same here. Such a shame.

Ditto

They should have just left the original as is and made it multi platform with modern additions.

Looks, sounds and plays worse :D

@@humanplayer6864 Nobody would've liked having to upgrade to a 4090 to run a "remaster" of a 90s game.

In order for it to "look nice" - there would have to be tons of additional set pieces, geometry and level detailing, - and that's a lot of work. Something that these guys are evidently incapable of. Once a designer starts putting dubious engine whirligigs upfront, while actual creativity goes to the back of the bus, and then "leaves the building" - it's all over. Not even worth a look. Too many developers confuse Nvidia tick-boxes with creativity, and/or resolution with detail. Especially when it comes to "remastering" something. 🙄Basket case, basket case...

Nothing wrong with Unity, it's just an engine, the problem is the lack of effort in porting the game over.

Hell, I've written less messy Unity games than this. Not an engine thing. Just an incompetent development in so, so many ways.

Let them remaster Return to Castle Wolfenstein as well while at it ^^

Blade Runner Enhanced likes to have a word.

@@pastichiorocker that's just one rotten apple out of many they actually done right. Sounds like you're completely writing them off just for a point and click no one likes to play.

@@pastichiorocker BR:EE was a mistake. At the end they hit a deadline and had to ship due to contractual obligations, that's the danger of doing things the legal sellable way as Night Dive specializes in. Westwood's Blade Runner is a mindnumbingly complicated game using a renderer nobody else in the industry used or ever will use, and the only documentation is the painstakingly reverse-engineered ScummVM port-- over a decade of painstaking work, which couldn't be used by NDS because it was under the GPL license making it incompatible with a console release. BR:EE sucks, it's unplayable and unfinished... but it's not lazy. They bit off way more than they could chew and got burned, and it really should have been cancelled. The fact that the ScummVM release of the game happened between its project start and its release makes it even more confusing on the outside, but Night Dive didn't have a decade to work on it. It's not indicative of their work which is otherwise top notch.

@@pastichiorockerand I’ve been to prison before and now I got full custody of 4 kids and do a job most people don’t want to do….you can’t win them all…like I was saying my ex wife likes to remind people of somebody’s past….😅

Absolutely, I did the same. I remember it being well received but never really got the exposure or appreciation that a lot of other FPS got at the time. I spent a lot of time playing the PC Zone magazine demo, which for some reason seemed to be a lot more brutal than the final release. Perhaps things were toned down a bit to make it more 'palatable' for a wider audience.

Yeah, I think Soldier of Fortune coming out a year later made a lot of people forget how surprisingly grisly Kingpin was.

Before my time, so for me that kind of experience was in the masterpiece FEAR. But really it always needs to be in more games.

Yeah sure mate, same with me, and after this game could not anymore fulfil our morb... curiosity simulation fantasies, we moved on to Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend

@@meanmole3212Just you. I've never actually played a Postal game. Put I have seen them being played on RU-vid... I don't get the big deal tbh. They're not particularly shocking.

Same here. This game sold albums. :)

At this point, studios should just hire some modders who love the games they work on and give them 2-3 years full time. 100% sure we would have so much better games.

DEMASTERED

Well apart from the Rott reboot

​@@KillBoyUKnightdive didn't do the rott reboot

I am a fanboy of Nightdive but I also know when to admit they have had some mishaps. Blood and Bladerunner are notable examples of being released in pretty bad shape. To their credit they did rectify their mistakes pretty quick.

@@CaptToilet I’ve never played either of those so my bad. I wish they’d port blood to console though.

​@@CaptToiletBlood had some problems also because of the rights holder. Most of the time Nightdive is on the ball though.

Yeah, the censored version straight up bleeped the profanity, and the utter lack of blood just looked and felt weird.

you could tell they were really excited about how they were one of the first games that had people saying "fuck" in it lmao

​@@user-wy4sy2re8cThey weren't though...

​@@user-wy4sy2re8cDuke nukem was swearing back in 96 and others

@@user-wy4sy2re8c hearing "FUCKER" every 20 seconds was a special experience as a kid

@@NetSraC1306 F-Bomb Simulator '98

The same time Half-Life came out, everywhere was Half-Life.

Well you weren’t even alive so

it should hit sharper like it would with lower bitdepths, you shouldn't really see far away that it's washed out, it should just be fogged out.

I mean that's literally how all icons are made, shape tools and fill effects, usually in Illustrator.

@@cenciende9401 nah this is a really specific kind of look, when i was a kid (like 7-10 years old) id make "comics" in powerpoint using its super simple shape tools and these pickup icons absolutely SCREAM the same vibe my comics would have. (Except i stopped using gradients, and swiched them out with transparent shapes id overlay on top that would act as my shadows) It's just, there's something VERY amateurish about their design

@@cenciende9401 Its been a while since I've seen someone miss a point so hard

Ikr

For the LAST TIME. Rockstar themselves have nothing to do with it, it's always the publisher/parent company Take-Two

​@@humanplayer6864supporting piracy and blatant stealing just throws your own hole argument out the window

Don't forget Sega and co.

Just pirate the original if you want to play it. Who cares? What would the creators' cut even be after 24 years?

At least they’re not like EA

Also available on Steam around $11 in Canada, so I mean there is that wherever you live, though remember Steam runs DRM. Can not pay with debit card though.

Greed.

It genuinely got a laugh out of me 😆

This game originally used the Quake 2 engine.

Yes, i even found a notepad file from a developer on the cd that kinda wants to apologize for all the violence

@@df71091 They went through the trouble of adding a censorship setting in the game mostly to appease watchdog groups, even after issuing a statement maintaining that the game was never meant for children at all.

Same, i had no internet and no basic english skills... The moment i found out that i have to crouch and interact with bodies to loot was such an opener😂

Yes i was glued to my PC's in the 90s as a young teen they should have used something similar to the GHOUL damage model rendering system that soldier of fortune had for the remaster..

Fucking same. I literally just woke up, looked up Kingpin reloaded after months of forgetting about it; saw it was released and said “oh shit” and ran to my laptop to check it on Steam Saw the reviews and just went “damn” this year sucks

Unsubscribing. Unacceptable.

Wouldn't be the first time

​@@darthcinema4262repetition?

​@@Indy_Bendy*reputation*

nightdive had nothing to do with this lol

@@Indy_Bendy He meant Reputation. Typos happen

It’s his job

being a snitch? @@LOL-zu1zr

hot damn a TRIPLE negative

Duuuude I still have my box my Voodoo 3 came in because I thought the cover was bitchin when I was 13. Remember that shit with the persons face covered in glow in the dark tribal paint? Good times.

@@jackcoleman1784 baldur's gate 1 and 2, thief dark project, Half-Life.... Good times

It all comes down to Slipgate lack of focus, afaik they are developing Wrath, Graven, Tempest Rising, Phantom Fury, and this.

Why let the communities fix their mess in the first place? It should have been delayed until it was ready after that re esl trailer... unless something more sinister was happening, like what happen with Embracer Group.

Modders probably could have done a better job, and that's crazy to think about

their days are numbered too, parent company not doing good atm

They didn’t fix Bombshell either, they simply aren’t good enough and at this point I believe they don’t care as well.

Bad remasters make it stay that way, too. If Nightdive had worked on this, the game could've potentially reached a wider audience, but people just look at remasters like this and assume the games were always bad.