The Lamonster
Member
How are the PS4 controls compared to mouse and keyboard?
Any platform you guys recommend over the other?
Any platform you guys recommend over the other?
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Full Throttle Remastered |OT| Whenever I smell asphalt, I think of Maureen...
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Sir_Crocodile
Member
Didn't feel like it
mindatlarge
Member
Had this as a kid, one of my favorite adventure games of all time. Looking forward to picking this up.
Perfectly fine on ps4. You can toggle interactive highlights(though a bit spotty currently and doesn't always work for some reason). But the right stick will also jump to each point of interest available which limits pixel hunting. Though Full Throttle is arguably the least fickle adventure game in the genre when it comes to this sort of thing.
Even the biking segment worked just fine and gave me no issues. I'm nearly done with the game and I'd argue that it looks and plays great on ps4. A lot of work definitely went into the reworked assets and it balances a near perfect line between maintaining the original art and cleaning up the look.
It actually wasn't that bad, it's not a pixel but rather a baseball sized stone that you have to kick, using the remastered highlight function will help you see it if you are having trouble as well.
Played it multiple times back in the day on PC, played through the whole thing on PS4 yesterday and it felt great, no complaints.
Ml33tninja
Neo Member
Man, I needed a guide around the temple sequences because the puzzle beginning to make no sense. However, the plot is still interesting and I love the characters so far.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
I found a couple of locations where the interactivity-highlighter marks objects that aren't present until later in the game.
This scene doesn't quite look finished either... (late-game location)
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2834/33973101622_699501218a_o.png
This scene doesn't quite look finished either... (late-game location)
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2834/33973101622_699501218a_o.png
Those cut off mountains on the left side give me MI1: SE vibes.
Was the road and rocks next to it also just a palette swap in the original?
As much as I appreciate the effort to update the visuals, I think I'll only be keeping the audio remaster in. The original style was lost in translation. Double Fine did a much better job with DoTT, everything I've seen here isn't bad, but I think it's subpar to the original art, albeit higher resolution.
petethepanda
Member
Maybe I'm mistaken - it's been probably 10 years since I've played through this - but didn't this used to play an instrumental version of "Born Bad" during the motorcycle combat segments? (Edit: I guess it was maybe only playing on the main highway.)
I have fond memories of that Gone Jackals album Bone to Pick. My parents surprised me with it by sneaking it into my equipment bag so I'd find it after hockey practice as a little kid. I listened to the hell out of that CD, and christened a few stereo systems with "We Want Our Brothers Back."
I have fond memories of that Gone Jackals album Bone to Pick. My parents surprised me with it by sneaking it into my equipment bag so I'd find it after hockey practice as a little kid. I listened to the hell out of that CD, and christened a few stereo systems with "We Want Our Brothers Back."
Sir_Crocodile
Member
No update showing for me.
Unless you're using GOG Galaxy, I hear updates come down faster with galaxy, but I still use the gog downloader instead.
Tizoc
Member
Ah well the download completed, maybe the counter was messed up.
Also seems I needed to update the GeForce Experience program as the game would crash whenever I ran it
MilHombreLobo
Member
Looks much better now.
Tizoc
Member
Well yeah, it's the original game and what you did in the original works with the remaster.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
No shame, this is one of the worse lucas games puzzle-wise. Some of them are pretty obtuse, and the backgrounds often don't make clear things are selectable.
The remaster includes an option to show all hitboxes I think, which may help you. I don't really like that option in P&C games though, it's like a tacit admission from the developer that they messed up.
Gamecentral just gave the remaster 6/10, noting many of the issues raised in this thread (only the art is an issue specifically from the remaster though)
http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/20/full-throttle-remastered-review-easy-rider-6585452/ (contains one small puzzle solution)
Yeah I'm using the hitboxes so I'm not pixel hunting and still stuck, and have been for an hour.
As someone who finished Monkey Island and Grim Fandango as a kid I'm too proud to look up a walkthrough though. Will try again tonight lol :|
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Ah. Well if you're still stuck later hit up the thread and we can try hints rather then full on solutions if you want.
Yeah, I think the name was Mark Crowley. I googled some stuff and searched the Double Fine forums but couldn't come up with anything.
I didn't look that long though.
Yeah, still stuck. I've used the lockpick to open the door to the the security plant or whatever it is & hid while the cops in the hovercar look for me. They've gone up a ladder & left their hover car but no idea what to do.
Also still can't get Todd's door open with the chain.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
For the tower
check out the hitboxes on the hovercar.
opening the door won't help you get into the junkyard, but doing something else with it may help.
Already tried interacting with the hover car, all he says is "i wont touch anything without wheels" lol 😁
EDIT:
omg just found what you meant I'd looked in this area for so long the pixel hunting is ridiculous! Even when I pressed the dpad it wasn't clear as it just highlighted the whole hover car so didn't realise you could interact with the gas tap...
After finishing it, I would rate this as a so so remaster. The art is really questionable in certain places, especially with anything involving 3d renders. There's a lot more cohesion and better understanding of color choices and contrast selection in the original that's seemingly absent in the remaster in many scenes. The audio has also been a mixed bag. A lot of sudden cuts and awkward transitions with background music, audio clipping and some really harsh sound effects (you'll notice a lot of this while going through the old mine road).
I'm still really glad to replay it all over again, I've cleared this game dozens of times.
I'm still really glad to replay it all over again, I've cleared this game dozens of times.
sandkiller
Member
The one i remember is Legacy by the Gone Jackals.
Did they change the intro song??
Zvonimir Boban
Banned
haha that puzzle took me fucking forever when I was a kid.
Siphoning fuel
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Glad they helped!
No, soundtrack is untouched.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
For the Wall Kick near the end of the game; I got it on my 2nd try :V
There is a protruding piece of rock that if you kick at the right time it'll open the door
Man this game really is short
Still...I enjoyed it, I feel like it could've had more but it was a fun romp overall.
They had to cut a third of the game out due to time constraints, I assume because of how long the mine section and the video stuff were taking.
Of course it'd still be the shortest lucasarts P&C game either way.
Tizoc
Member
Remind me where I can read about that?
Sir_Crocodile
Member
I hadn't noticed before how they actually had a CGI model for Ben, and halfway through that bike sequence in that timecode it morphs into pixel art.
Aizo
Banned
Elbows too pointy. 6/10 at best.
xenorevlis
Member
Has anyone experienced a crash on the PS4 Pro? I know this game has PS4 Pro support, but an acquaintance is claiming you have to disable boost mode to keep it from crashing. Wonder if it was just circumstantial.
I agree that the art in general could've been better, but regarding the 3D stuff, there's no way to make a render that would match well with that art style. They got away with it in the original because the resolution was so low the 3D models basically became pixel art, and as said above by jett, the two styles "morphed" together. It's a lot harder to do it in high definition.
Also those audio issues were present in the original. Since they've only remastered the original audio, there's not much they could've done. Personally I think the new mixing and remastering are way better, especially for the voices and those sweet Gone Jackals tracks.
I agree its a lot harder to do, but it's definitely not impossible. A lot of more recent anime shows integrate or merge CG within more traditional methods. Whether Double Fine had the money/intent to implement this however, is the question. Given how the sales projection for such remasters is probably modest, its understandable.
As for audio you're right - just seems strange to not address those issues since they're already taking the time to "remaster" the game.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Best thing in full throttle is still the "Increased Chances" song that plays in Todd's trailer.
Love that song, it's hilarious, depressing and creepy in equal measures.
Love that song, it's hilarious, depressing and creepy in equal measures.
test_account
XP-39C²
Beat the game a few days ago, great game! I remember a friend had the original back in the days, but i never beat it then.
I remember a friend had the original back in the days, but i never beat it then.To say that its completely off model is pretty hyperbole, in my opinion. And if its that one scene/screenshot only, i dont think it really matters to the overall game.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
I think it looks pants, but at the end of the day I don't care because the original game is there and hasn't been messed up like double fine did with DOTT.
Original game is worth the money on it's own, even with the all the old issues.
Original game is worth the money on it's own, even with the all the old issues.
RAIDEN1
Member
This thread's official title should change to "Full Throttle: The one-hit wonder" because at the end of the day more than 20 years on, we STILL never got a sequel, and the fact that a third of the game had to be left out is shocking, more so with the case that it is not as if DF were being stretched to their limits when producing this re-master, they only seem to bring out one game a year (correct me if I am wrong)....
What SHOULD have happened is all the parts to this game that remained on the "cutting room floor" should have been added on to this version, as and where possible, when the developers knew that the biggest drawback to the game is it's longevity and the fact that it has next to no replay value...(not as if there are multiple endings in this version) surely it couldn't have taken them a YEAR just to "re-master" to the level that they have done with the game....it's a MASSIVELY missed opportunity I feel that the one time there is a possibility to add MORE to the game they still didn't add anything substantial...it's not as if the original game spanned 6 CD's or anything...One year gives you ample opportunity to really go to town on re-mastering it adding bonus features, content, deleted scenes etc...as well as the usual commentary gameplay..
Anyway rant over....just had to get it off the chest!
What SHOULD have happened is all the parts to this game that remained on the "cutting room floor" should have been added on to this version, as and where possible, when the developers knew that the biggest drawback to the game is it's longevity and the fact that it has next to no replay value...(not as if there are multiple endings in this version) surely it couldn't have taken them a YEAR just to "re-master" to the level that they have done with the game....it's a MASSIVELY missed opportunity I feel that the one time there is a possibility to add MORE to the game they still didn't add anything substantial...it's not as if the original game spanned 6 CD's or anything...One year gives you ample opportunity to really go to town on re-mastering it adding bonus features, content, deleted scenes etc...as well as the usual commentary gameplay..
Anyway rant over....just had to get it off the chest!
This thread's official title should change to "Full Throttle: The one-hit wonder" because at the end of the day more than 20 years on, we STILL never got a sequel, and the fact that a third of the game had to be left out is shocking, more so with the case that it is not as if DF were being stretched to their limits when producing this re-master, they only seem to bring out one game a year (correct me if I am wrong)....
What SHOULD have happened is all the parts to this game that remained on the "cutting room floor" should have been added on to this version, as and where possible, when the developers knew that the biggest drawback to the game is it's longevity and the fact that it has next to no replay value...(not as if there are multiple endings in this version) surely it couldn't have taken them a YEAR just to "re-master" to the level that they have done with the game....it's a MASSIVELY missed opportunity I feel that the one time there is a possibility to add MORE to the game they still didn't add anything substantial...it's not as if the original game spanned 6 CD's or anything...One year gives you ample opportunity to really go to town on re-mastering it adding bonus features, content, deleted scenes etc...as well as the usual commentary gameplay..
Anyway rant over....just had to get it off the chest!
A lot more work goes into these remasters than you're giving them credit for. It takes a lot of effort to hand draw every single animation frame, and there is a hell of a lot of animation in this game. The budget gets set by Sony, which pretty much decides how much employees and resources they can put onto this. By all accounts, it's a very small team.
They were never going to add more content. Ben's original voice actor died years ago, there was no way they would get the entire crew back to work on more of this game, and any additions after so many years would feel super clunky. It would also go against what they've always said these remasters are supposed to be - true to the original, warts and all, and a bit of historical preservation. A bluray update of an old movie classic with a bunch of extra stuff (they compare it to the Criterion Collection all the time).
PS4 port really isn't great. Crashed a couple times, for one thing, but the jumpy cursor is driving me nuts. When animation is happening, cursor movement is very choppy. The transitions between bike scenes and adventure scenes is also handled somewhat poorly at points. Also, small thing, but I'm disappointed that the clouds don't move when using the Remastered visuals. It was a nice touch with the original art.
Still great but these little issues are adding up.
Still great but these little issues are adding up.
xenorevlis
Member
Do you have boost mode enabled?
I know it shouldn't matter but now I have three different people claiming it is affecting their Pro enabled titles. Two say Full Throttle crashes and another says Horizon was crashing until they disabled it.
I've beaten HZD twice (nearly) and am 52% through Full Throttle with no crashes and boost mode enabled.