The drama and weirdness across the disastrous Blade Runner: Enhanced Version remake continues this week. Final time we checked in, consumers had been very sad on the state of the sport, and the creators of a well-liked and long-running fan model had been stiffed by the discharge of this newer version.
Now some modifications have been made, a minimum of on the Good Outdated Video games shopfront. When Nightdive’s Enhanced Version was first launched, it took the place of a devoted recreation of the unique 1997 recreation that had been reverse-engineered by followers, eradicating not simply the flexibility to obtain this model, however scrubbing its constructive evaluations as properly (the remake, at time of posting, has an total ranking of 1.5/5).
An try to rectify this was made when the Enhanced Version began bundling the fan model alongside it, which means anybody shopping for the newer recreation would get the older one without spending a dime. However this additionally meant that anybody eager to play the fan model must be shopping for the Enhanced Version, giving Nightdive the cash for one thing they didn’t make (and doubtlessly paying for a model of the sport you didn’t even need).
So Good Outdated Video games have now made one other change, this time enhancing the Blade Runner retailer itemizing to default to the fan model, with Nightdive’s recreation now obtainable individually from a drop-down menu. Each choices value the identical sum of money, and the Enhanced Version nonetheless consists of the fan recreation without spending a dime, however the older fan-made recreation has had its constructive suggestions restored (at time of posting it’s at 4,7/5), and if you wish to purchase simply that version, now you possibly can.
Since that sounds extremely complicated, right here’s what the GoG retailer itemizing truly seems to be like. Purchase the highest one and also you solely get the fan model, with the cash going to Blade Runner’s rights holders, Alcon. Purchase the second and also you get each, with the cash going to Nightdive.
Word this solely applies to the GoG itemizing; on Steam the one model obtainable is the Enhanced Version (which once more consists of each model), although it wasn’t as huge a deal on Valve’s shopfront because the fan-made recreation had beforehand solely been obtainable on GoG, so it hadn’t been displaced.
