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[ManaByte]

Blade Runner

In 1997 Westwood Studios released a title that won universal praise from gamers and crit

www.gog.com

Only $10 for one of the best PC games ever!

 

[Alexios]

I assume it uses ScummVM by default given its recently added (and somewhat hyped) support for BR?

ScummVM

ScummVM is a collection of game engines for playing classic graphical RPGs and point-and-click adventure games on modern hardware.

www.scummvm.org

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Holy shit!

Bought.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

Graphics and storyline are still top of their class in the genre.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Yeah, that's a pretty huge win for them. No interest in PnC games, myself, but it's still cool to see that one finally get revived.

 

[HotPocket69]

So....is there now a way to get this onto a Pi?

I need it. I need it bad.

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

I never thought I'd see the day...
Sequel please!

 

[hariseldon]

You beat me to it. HOLY FUCKING SHITBALLS! Instabuy. One of the all-time greatest games ever fucking made.

 

[Vampire On Titus]

Played this earlier in the year w/ one of the win10 fan patches and it's a really good game. Iirc correctly there's over 10 endings depending on the choices you make. Some of those choices are subtle like neglecting to upload potentially self incriminating evidence to the BR database. Others are big like intentionally rigging the Voit-Kampf tests and retiring humans. It's kinda cool how committed they were to the realism of it. You have to figure out a lot of this stuff for yourself which is why I feel that Blade Runner really shines upon multiple playthroughs. If you're new be sure to read the manual before playing just to get the basics.

Also, man the environment art just kicks ass. If you're a fan of that 90's pre-rendered 3D style then this is some of the best available.

Once I played the game it really hit me how influential Blade Runner was on modern adventure games. There are no conventional inventory style puzzles & instead it's a about piecing together all the clues, finding out who is a replicant and deciding who's side you're on. A lot of fun, for sure.

This is a cool video about Blade Runner's development (with some mild spoilers):

 

[Slings and Arrows]

I remember the first PC I got back in '98 came with a boatload of software and games. Among them, the original Fallout and this magnificent spectacle of a game.

What an intro to PC gaming. Whew.

 

[hariseldon]

So....is there now a way to get this onto a Pi?

I need it. I need it bad.

In short, probably not. This release allows running on Linux of course and I think if using ScummVM it might even work on non x86 architectures, but I doubt the pi has enough grunt to do the job. I could be wrong of course but that's my gut feeling.

 

[ranmafan]

Fantastic news, and for Mac too! Absolutely will be picking this us soon. Been wanting to replay this for a long time!

 

[Spukc]

hmmm i might check some reviews first,
i love the screenshots

 

[ROMhack]

Ooo that is interesting. It's been in limbo for ages owing to what I presume is licensing issues.

Ars Technica did an interesting feature on it a while back.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

Never heard of this one! Sell it to me.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

Oh shit! I loved this game as a kid, but never managed to finish it.

 

[channie]

I assume it uses ScummVM by default given its recently added (and somewhat hyped) support for BR?

ScummVM

ScummVM is a collection of game engines for playing classic graphical RPGs and point-and-click adventure games on modern hardware.

www.scummvm.org

Yes it runs under ScummVM

 

[DavidGzz]

Bought! It was $8.99 for me. I remember playing this in my teens. Great game!

 

[Deleted member 17706]

Just bought it. While I was on GOG, I saw that they also added Warcraft and Warcraft II! Couldn't resist picking those up, too. Gonna have some fun nostalgia gaming this holiday break.

 

[drganon]

Nice. Even my worthless toaster of a PC should be able to handle this. I remember seeing a boxed version of this some 20 years ago in a store. I'm pretty sure it was before I even knew the movie existed.

 

[Hudo]

The most underrated adventure game ever! All hail Westwood!

 

[Spukc]

there are no 3d models in this game. Actors appear to be voxels how cool

 

[Fuz]

I wonder how they managed with the license.

 

[plushyp]

FINALLY I can play this scene without going to YT!

 

[OmegaSupreme]

As a huge fan of the film, I've always wanted to try this game.

 

[00_Zer0]

Thanks OP! I have been debating on whether to get a physical copy of this on eBay. Now that debate is over and I will be heading to GoG soon to purchase this classic masterpiece.

 

[DeepEnigma]

It still looks fantastic today.

Would love a widescreen 'remaster'.

 

[Vampire On Titus]

It still looks fantastic today.

Would love a widescreen 'remaster'.

Unfortunately EA lost the master code & assets for the game so any enhanced edition/remaster effort would basically have to be done from scratch. But it'd be so cool if someone did it. A remaster with a good ass commentary track would be amazing for Blade Runner because it's got such an interesting development history.

 

[hariseldon]

Unfortunately EA lost the master code & assets for the game so any enhanced edition/remaster effort would basically have to be done from scratch. But it'd be so cool if someone did it. A remaster with a good ass commentary track would be amazing for Blade Runner because it's got such an interesting development history.

True but the risk of it getting tweaked is pretty big - the Lucy storyline springs to mind.

 

[hariseldon]

Not the game, just something fun I found.

 

[ClanOfNone]

This is awesome, I missed this back in the day and had thought a re-release was impossible.

 

[petran79]

Licensing such a huge property is no small feat. This week GOG is the winner of the video game industry, especially with Cyberpunk on the horizon

 

[channie]

GOG just added 4 more languages to the release!

 

[Solomeena]

If you consider yourself someone who enjoys classic games, get this fucking now. I remember buying this when it first came out 3 centuries ago as a young lad, it was a great fucking game and the graphics back then we're killer .

 

[hariseldon]

Bladerunner is the first game that made me care about the characters.

 

[Dazrael]

I remember having this back in the day and installing it on my PC hard drive. It took up the entire HD! That’s how awesome it was.

 

[xrnzaaas]

That's awesome news. I thought the game would be lost forever.

 

[Panajev2001a]

Holy shit!

Bought.

Same!

 

[hariseldon]

That's awesome news. I thought the game would be lost forever.

.... like tears in the rain.

 

[Space Runaway]

I remember this game needing like 1gb of space or some shit and thinking that was insane. =P

 

[EightBit Man]

To think I used to own this game and later selling it because I didn't even take effort to try it out properly. One of the many questionable things I did.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

ON IT!!!

 

[hariseldon]

To think I used to own this game and later selling it because I didn't even take effort to try it out properly. One of the many questionable things I did.

Time to fix that.

 

[Cravis]

Haven’t bought anything off GOG in ages. That changes tonight. Love this game so much.

 

[Ovek]

Amazing game and it is easily in my top ten games of all time.

 

[akaijin]

Do we know if the fmv are from the better (and very rare afaik) DVD version?

 

[RAIDEN1]

Bit of a minor miracle to see this game, on GOG, seeing as the original "source code"/original code for the game is lost....hence why we never got a HD-remake, or potentially any DLC to it, I tried the game few years back, great atmosphere but just couldn't quite get into it, as much as say a Monkey Island for example...

 

[sol_bad]

HOLY FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just insta bought the shit out of this game.
I've never played it. I'm going to play it straight after Fallen Order.

*EDIT*
And just randomly throwing this out there, Hellblade is on sale on GoG/Steam at 66% off. I think it's a historically low price.

 

[Vampire On Titus]

Did another run today & got a new ending. It's pretty nuts how many of the different endings I've gotten are still satisfying. Typically in games with multiple endings there's the one actually good one and a bunch of far less satisfying or blatantly "bad" ends. But I'm on my 4th with Blade Runner and they've all been cool so far.

Does anyone know if the difficulty settings change anything plot wise or is it just the shooting?

 

[hooijdonk17]

I still own two copies of the original game, but this is one of the best Adventure games ever made and everyone should play this game at least twice (sincerely different plots and endings.)