Bioshock: The Collection announced.

This is what it looks like now when you go to launch them. The update also broke all my settings. :rolleyes:

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Is this even with some other goal in mind, besides just dragging quality of life through the mud?

I seem to remember some rumors about either a sequel, or something else? If this change doesn't even bring along something more significant it'll truly be an idiotic move. I hope they're not idiots.
 
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I seem to remember some rumors about either a sequel, or something else? If this change doesn't even bring along something more significant it'll truly be an idiotic move. I hope they're not idiots.
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2K supposedly has a studio working on Bioshock 4 since 2019.

There have been rumors leaked about the setting but nothing confirmed.
 
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Not specifically related to this update, but save games aren't working for me with Bioshock Remastered.

It seems to be W11 related - but I can't be sure.

It just says "failed to save game" after a while. What's funny is that it CAN save the game SOMETIMES - I just need to wait for the magic moment.

I googled the issue - and found a bunch of players with similar issues, but no solution is working so far.

I haven't the stamina to do a deep dive into this shit, so I'll just pass on it.

I'm playing Dishonored anyway :)
 
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Not specifically related to this update, but save games aren't working for me with Bioshock Remastered.

It seems to be W11 related - but I can't be sure.

It just says "failed to save game" after a while. What's funny is that it CAN save the game SOMETIMES - I just need to wait for the magic moment.

I googled the issue - and found a bunch of players with similar issues, but no solution is working so far.
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Christ almighty, what an embarrassment. The quality of life meme just gets better and better. :(
 
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Christ almighty, what an embarrassment. The quality of life meme just gets better and better. :(
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As I said, it's not related to this launcher update :)

It happened before as well.

But it's amazing how many issues the Remastered versions seem to have. The fact that they have the balls to call a launcher no one in the world would ever want a "QoL update" is quite amusing.
 
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As I said, it's not related to this launcher update :)

It happened before as well.

But it's amazing how many issues the Remastered versions seem to have. The fact that they have the balls to call a launcher no one in the world would ever want a "QoL update" is quite amusing.
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Oh, I missed the part about not being related to the launcher.

Yeah, Bioshock 1 Remastered was pretty stable for me. Very few issues compared to Bioshock 2 Remastered, which crashed constantly and in the worst moments. But after some fiddling, which I don't really remember, it turned a lot more stable and was able to finish it.
 
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But it's amazing how many issues the Remastered versions seem to have. The fact that they have the balls to call a launcher no one in the world would ever want a "QoL update" is quite amusing.
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At this point, the Bioshock remasters are among the worst remastered games I've ever seen.

First, they don't even look significantly better than the originals. Then they're a complete joke from a technical standpoint, and they've only gotten worse over time despite multiple patches.

I can't get vsync to work no matter what I do. Antialiasing never worked as far as I could tell, and now I can no longer get Nvidia's DSR to work with them either. With DSR, I could eliminate the aliasing, and the games looked great at 2x my native resolution. Without it, I don't even want to play because of how bad the aliasing is plus the flicker from no vsync.

My only hope is that someone comes up with a mod to fix these issues because I know 2K isn't going to.
 
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XCOM and Civilization got some pretty terrible launchers a year or two back. They're also 2K Games. I wonder if that's the source?
 
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Didn't read all of the tweets, but the Antarctica and "open-world" thing was leaked some months ago. Well, rumored - anyway.

I'm cool with Antarctica - but I'm probably more into execution than premise. I don't really mind similar settings as long as they're done well.

I sometimes worry developers put too much emphasis on "being different" on a surface level - and not enough on understanding what the appeal was in the first place.

But I'm too much of a sucker for anything Shock to delude myself into thinking I won't be checking this out - almost regardless.
 
So, I finally figured out some of my issues with Bioshock Remastered.

As I mentioned before, I couldn't get DSR to work for me in the Bioshock games. What I hadn't noticed until the other day though was that DSR wasn't working in *any* game for me. I realized it when I was messing around with Dead Space and saw that I no longer had DSR resolutions available there either. I hadn't noticed it before because I hadn't played any older games lately.

On a whim, I disconnected my HDMI cable from my TV, and that solved the issue. I have no idea why having a 2nd display connected (but not on) would disable DSR, but apparently it did for me. At least I can make Bioshock look decent now and it ran flawlessly in the short time I tested it.

It doesn't change my overall opinion of the remasters though. They're still crap. :)
 
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