The drama and weirdness across the disastrous Blade Runner: Enhanced Version remake continues this week. Final time we checked in, consumers have been very sad on the state of the sport, and the creators of a preferred and long-running fan model had been stiffed by the discharge of this newer version.
Now some adjustments have been made, at the least on the Good Outdated Video games shopfront.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 sport that had been reverse-engineered by followers, eradicating not simply the power to obtain this model, however scrubbing its constructive critiques as nicely (the remake, at time of posting, has an total ranking of 1.5/5).
An try and rectify this was made when the Enhanced Version began bundling the fan model alongside it, that means anybody shopping for the newer sport would get the older one without cost. However this additionally meant that anybody desirous 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So Good Outdated Video games have now made one other change, this time modifying the Blade Runner retailer itemizing to default to the fan model, with Nightdive’s sport now out there individually from a drop-down menu. Each choices value the identical sum of money, and the Enhanced Version nonetheless consists of the fan sport without cost, however the older fan-made sport 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 may.
Since that sounds extremely complicated, right here’s what the GoG retailer itemizing really seems 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.
Observe this solely applies to the GoG itemizing; on Steam the one model out there 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 sport had beforehand solely been out there on GoG, so it hadn’t been displaced.
