Riven - Original vs Remake #shorts #comparison

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[mistersurrealist]

Oh there's less magic without the real living actors. That's one of the aspects that made the original so special. The environments do look STUNNING though.

[danielostrom]

OG ftw. They should have composited in live actors.

[DC-wefv]

I miss this style of graphics so much, the age of point and clip puzzlers was my childhood and id go back to this anyday.

[tri-washington]

The original just looks better for the live action, obviously the remake is still better graphics-wise, but the original live actors just gave it that extra detail and sense of immersion.

[pakkitman]

the character models are, thankfully, the only real downgrade in the remake. being able to finally just...stand in Riven and see the waves crashing around the islands is a real treat.

[hito-sama]

I still a newborn when this game came out and took me this long to find out about this game 🗿☕

[BlenderDProjects]

One reason they needed to go 3d was because of VR support, you can't have 2d sprites in actual 3d. Another was probably due to the original video being so low res, and many of the original actors have died since, so recording again would have meant new actors anyway. I think if you can look past the characters, everything else is phenomenal.

[lacryman]

The 3D characters modeling is very ugly compared to the astonishing work done for the rest of the game.
It is just like if you have a 2010 3D model put in this 2024 game

[svsproductions]

There were a number of games like this that weren’t just on PC, I’m forgetting if it was PS1, 2 or Sega Saturn or Dreamcast but there games where they’d use real video of actors and at the time being only 10 or so I thought for sure this was the future of gaming but after just a few yrs this technique disappeared entirely and for the next 20 plus yrs later no amount of improved graphics have matched it. And I don’t understand why it didn’t take off or grow. Isn’t it easier to insert a recorded video of someone into an environment than creating an entire character from scratch?
Even today, for me at least, an extremely grainy version of a real video is more engaging than any graphics rendering. Journeyman project on PC was phenomenal for this. Especially cause when viewing on the screens of the time the DVD quality video characters did not appear pixelated as they do on modern devices. It literally felt like you were playing a game within a movie

[lightbug]

My guess is that those models were made with Metahuman (Unreal Engine 5). That's why all of them look lifeless and fake.
The rest of the world looks fantastic!

[jameswayton]

First thing i'm going to do is see if there is a mod then just plays the old video instead with this remake. The difference is honestly crazy.

Also what games have real footage of real people acting like that? Don't know any.

[SonnoMaku]

They should have recorded new actors to play the roles. Those models and animations look horrible.