You possibly can as soon as once more purchase the fan-created ScummVM launch of 1997’s Blade Runner journey sport through GOG. The fan model was faraway from the shop somewhat over per week in the past when Nightdive Studios launched their very own Blade Runner: Enhanced Version, then swiftly bundled along with that remaster when folks complained.
Head to the Blade Runner web page on GOG and it’ll default to the fanmade model. You possibly can click on a dropdown marked “Version” with the intention to swap your buy over to Blade Runner: Enhanced Version, do you have to want.
Each variations price the identical and the Enhanced Version nonetheless comes bundled along with the fan model. That signifies that you are successfully making a selection over who you need to give your cash to: Nightdive Studios for the Enhanced Version, or the Blade Runner sport’s rights holders for the fan model. As a result of, no, there is not any model of this the place the followers get any cash for the years of labor they put in reverse engineering Westwood’s authentic sport to run on fashionable computer systems.
All of that is has turn into a problem as a result of the Nightdive Studios model is inferior to the fanmade Blade Runner launch in a number of methods. Its makes an attempt to extend the decision of pre-rendered scenes, and to make use of machine studying to show 15fps video into 60fps video, lead to a sport that loses the environment the unique captured so effectively, and typically simply appears to be like outright ugly. There are additionally glitches, as Alice0 lamented when she performed it for us at launch.
The Enhanced Version does have controller help that the fan launch lacks, and it is also playable on console. On PC, nonetheless, Blade Runner: Enhanced Version has a score of 1.6/5 from GOG consumer opinions. The fan launch, which was first added to GOG in 2019, has a 4.7/5.