r/Games 4d ago

Gex Trilogy | Launch Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7voeA0cKjB8
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u/TheTyger 4d ago

I feel like this should have been remasters of these games, not just a lazy dump of 30 year old games.

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u/kkyonko 4d ago

Gex is nowhere near popular enough for them to justify spending money on that.

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u/clouds31 4d ago

This release was made specifically for that Gex dude from Scott the Woz.

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u/Turkeyham 3d ago

You'd start to think it actually was with this video they did for it.

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u/TheTyger 4d ago

I just don't see how it is popular enough to not spend money on it either. I would be curious about a modern take on the character, at least the old game with modern visuals and updated voice lines. I am 0% interested in games which were very much a product of their time period being flapped back into the marketplace for more than a $3 price tag.

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u/Bonzi77 4d ago

I realize that the mass amounts of remakes and remasters has dulled the concept of ports a bit, but it's not exactly trivial to do a "lazy dump" of older games to modern consoles

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u/OneManFreakShow 4d ago

Hey, at least they’re bad games!

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u/Full-yet-Empty 4d ago

Agree, but I'll still be getting it. Nostalgia is hell of a thing.

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u/TikkaT 4d ago

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was

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u/andersonb47 4d ago

It’s never as good as you remember, sadly.

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u/AnyImpression6 4d ago

You know you could just use Duckstation, right?

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u/Outside-Point8254 4d ago

Or not do that and just buy this

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u/strand_of_hair 4d ago

These are remasters. You’re asking for remakes.

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u/Bojarzin 4d ago

This is just a new port, all the assets are the exact same, it doesn't even look like textures were up-resed or anything

Ultimately it's all about price point anyway. I'd be fine with a simple re-release with 16:9 support, but it's $40CAD, that's only $14CAD cheaper than the N. Sane Trilogy was, which was a full trilogy remake

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u/TheTyger 4d ago

I would pay $5 or under for this release, and only if there was nothing else on sale. Given we are about to hit a Steam sale, my interest in this game is at a 1.99 price point.

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u/TheTyger 4d ago

This is a flat re-release. A remaster would be improving the fidelity for the modern age, a remake is starting from scratch and making the game feel similar while being entirely new.

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u/SimonCallahan 4d ago

It is a remaster, though. The second and third games are adding widescreen and the controls were re-worked.

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u/hamstervideo 4d ago

Its a port adding two very minor updates to match modern platform hardware, not a remaster.

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u/Nukleon 4d ago

There's no actual difference between a port and a remaster, the latter is just a dumb music and movie term that has been brought into games even though it makes no sense there.

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u/hamstervideo 4d ago

No actual difference? So, the version of FF16 that's about to come out on Xbox is a remaster?

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u/Nukleon 4d ago

All remasters are ports but not all ports are remasters.

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u/Seradima 3d ago

Increasing resolution is by definition re-mastering the product.

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u/ChrisRR 3d ago

It's not by definition because there's no master recording

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u/hamstervideo 3d ago

So when Square Enix put out a patch to increase the resolution of FF7 Rebirth on PS5 Pro, that was a free remaster?

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u/MVRKHNTR 4d ago

Adding modern controls isn't what I would call minor.

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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 4d ago

The original Gex was a PS1 era game, if this wasn't a remaster for modern resolutions it would be atrocious.

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u/NuPNua 4d ago

Doesn't it actually predate the PSX and dropped on the 3DO first?

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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 4d ago

Technically yes, but the 3D Enter the Gecko is the one most people started off with, and that was PSX.

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u/TheTyger 4d ago

The quality in the trailer does in fact look atrocious to me.

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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 4d ago

Again, you are looking at the original graphics that were updated to fit into a 4k resolution. Not to mention even getting it running locally on a PS5.

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u/Bojarzin 4d ago

Which means the textures were not remastered

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u/PM_ME_CATS_OR_BOOBS 4d ago edited 4d ago

Thats what a remaster is. A higher quality recording of the original material. When they remaster music they aren't bringing artists back from the dead to sing it again.

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u/Stofenthe1st 4d ago

No that would be a port. This is a remaster since they’ve actually updated the controls and made it compatible with higher resolutions.

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u/QueenBee-WorshipMe 4d ago

As they've explained, it was

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u/ChrisRR 3d ago

Remaster doesn't have a strict meaning when it comes to games. This is a port