NVIDIA Announces Half-Life 2 RTX, an RTX Remix Community Project

[TheDeeGee]

For me this is the only reason I feel bad for selling my 3060 Ti for getting an RX 6800.

RTX Remix isn't NVIDIA exclusive, any ray tracing capable card can play RTX Remix games.

Wether you gonna get more than single digits FPS is another story ofcourse.

 

[Apocalypsee]

Looks good...but I'm tired of remastering already. I wanted new games. I prefer to play old games like they used to.

 

[cvaldes]

Looks good...but I'm tired of remastering already. I wanted new games. I prefer to play old games like they used to.

As far as I can tell, no one has taken anything away from you.

These developers were modding before. They weren't writing new games.

And based on the quality of many new releases and IP, I'd say that bringing the best of these old franchises to a new audience is great. Not all new games are great. Did you enjoy Forspoken? Wo Long? Redfall? Gollum?

Shakespeare is still performed on stage. People still sit in concert halls to listen to Bach. Wagner Ring cycles take place every year at multiple venues across the globe. You can watch restored versions of Hitchcock movies, Casablanca, etc.

Heck, your comment is almost ironic since your TPU avatar features a video game character from 2001. Would you play a remastered version of Max Payne?

Remember that Max Payne doesn't run flawless on modern systems (hardware and software) as documented at PCGamingWiki:

Max Payne - PCGamingWiki PCGW - bugs, fixes, crashes, mods, guides and improvements for every PC game

www.pcgamingwiki.com

A remaster would clean up much of these issues and make it easier for newcomers to install and run the game without employing a bunch of workarounds.

And remember that people are playing on different hardware in 2023 than they did in 2001. A game like Max Payne was designed for CRT monitors at much lower resolutions, lower refresh rates, and limited color range. On a modern 4K LCD or OLED monitor, those textures look terrible and the low-polygon count models look very primitive.

Sound design has also progressed. Today's gaming gear features 3D spatial audio, something not widespread twenty years ago.

That grainy, blotchy VHS tape of Sir John Gielgud playing Hamlet simply doesn't cut for some today, including some who might have watched him live on stage.

 

[Apocalypsee]

As far as I can tell, no one has taken anything away from you.

These developers were modding before. They weren't writing new games.

And based on the quality of many new releases and IP, I'd say that bringing the best of these old franchises to a new audience is great. Not all new games are great. Did you enjoy Forspoken? Wo Long? Redfall? Gollum?

Shakespeare is still performed on stage. People still sit in concert halls to listen to Bach. Wagner Ring cycles take place every year at multiple venues across the globe. You can watch restored versions of Hitchcock movies, Casablanca, etc.

Heck, your comment is almost ironic since your TPU avatar features a video game character from 2001. Would you play a remastered version of Max Payne?

Remember that Max Payne doesn't run flawless on modern systems (hardware and software) as documented at PCGamingWiki:

Max Payne - PCGamingWiki PCGW - bugs, fixes, crashes, mods, guides and improvements for every PC game

www.pcgamingwiki.com

A remaster would clean up much of these issues and make it easier for newcomers to install and run the game without employing a bunch of workarounds.

And remember that people are playing on different hardware in 2023 than they did in 2001. A game like Max Payne was designed for CRT monitors at much lower resolutions, lower refresh rates, and limited color range. On a modern 4K LCD or OLED monitor, those textures look terrible and the low-polygon count models look very primitive.

Sound design has also progressed. Today's gaming gear features 3D spatial audio, something not widespread twenty years ago.

That grainy, blotchy VHS tape of Sir John Gielgud playing Hamlet simply doesn't cut for some today, including some who might have watched him live on stage.

I really didn't want to elaborate on this but since you asked, NO I won't play a remastered Max Payne. I have a retro gaming PC with appropriate monitor and hardware to play such games. I know the problems of Max Payne in modern hardware as I already tried it, but modding community fixed it, without tinkering how the game feels. Max Payne uses EAX so it sounded good out of the box, they should've continued with hardware accelerated sound like it used to.

You didn't see GTA remastered and how messed up those are? IMO those are quick cash grab which something I won't support. Instead of luring people into nostalgic, give a new game. I want GTA6, Half Life 3, or Episode 3, Elder Scroll 6, more quality single player campaign. Stop this remaster already. New audience didn't like the game of old, only people asking for remaster is the one who used to play it.