release of Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition Its release on Nintendo Switch in June should have been celebrated. Instead, it became a living nightmare for the team at Nightdive Studios.
in a recent interview with PC Games Nthe company’s director of business development, Larry Kuperman, explains in great detail how this highly anticipated point-and-click adventure game, originally released by Westwood in 1997, went from excitement to disaster. Did.
“The ship date and in retrospect I am 100% responsible for not changing the ship date. The ship date was chosen because it coincided with the 40th anniversary of the movie. Really great for the fans.” It’s going to be cool.”
He further describes the state of the game at release as a “perfect storm” of studio challenges leading up to release. He believes these “human issues” have made the studio better.
“If anyone thinks they’ve said around the table that they’re going to ship a game that doesn’t live up to Nightdive’s standards, either for economic reasons, or our apathy, or whatever, those things – That didn’t happen… The root cause of this outing was due to a human issue. There could have been smallpox epidemics, these just happen.”
Dimitris Giannakis, Enhanced Edition’s lead producer, described the release as “death by julienne.”
“There were a lot of little things about the game that upset or annoyed people. I’ve heard feedback like Or “The game doesn’t have a brightness setting. Can I set it?”
Luckily, Nightdive is working around the clock to improve the state of the game across all platforms, and the studio is rolling out the original version of the game due to a bad reputation for remasters.of The game also received quite a few patches – Fixed a set of options and added many improvements.
Another patch is currently in development. Nightdive is looking to add features like a toggle option between original and enhanced videos, as well as improvements to the UI, menus, and more.
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