vinnie245 Posted October 31, 2018 (edited) Nightdives been posting this image on their facebook the past few days. Its the cover to the shareware box of Blood, im guessing they finally coughed up the money needed to get the rights. Im hyped as fuck, about time we get a proper source port of Blood. https://www.facebook.com/NightdiveStudios/ Edited October 31, 2018 by vinnie245 23 Share this post Link to post
Phobus Posted October 31, 2018 If this is true, I look forward to play Blood for the first time. 0 Share this post Link to post
[McD] James Posted October 31, 2018 I'd rather see a proper source port for the game than see a remake/reboot. 8 Share this post Link to post
ETTiNGRiNDER Posted October 31, 2018 Not a huge fan of Night Dive but I suppose it's better than nothing. 0 Share this post Link to post
geo Posted October 31, 2018 I'm happy for everyone about this... but what about that much bigger System Shock remake? Don't we have a member of Night Dive in Doomworld? Wasn't there a fan remake in the works a few years ago? Fan remakes are far from official of course. 0 Share this post Link to post
Avoozl Posted November 1, 2018 I'm pretty sure that there is two members here and I think I know who they are. 0 Share this post Link to post
geo Posted November 1, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, Avoozl said: I'm pretty sure that there is two members here and I think I know who they are. I think I do too, but it's been a few years since I've recalled exactly who they are. They've mentioned it a few times. Perhaps in the Turok thread? 0 Share this post Link to post
Skeletonpatch Posted November 1, 2018 3 hours ago, geo said: I think I do too, but it's been a few years since I've recalled exactly who they are. They've mentioned it a few times. Perhaps in the Turok thread? A quick search of the Doomwiki reveals that Quasar (who literally posted just before me) and Kaiser both worked on porting Strife: Veteran Edition and that they both work for Night Dive Studios. I'd assume that they'd have a better understanding of the situation at Night Dive than anyone else here. I also assume that they won't be spoiling whatever it is Night Dive is teasing until the company actually does a press release. I'm looking forward to seeing what it actually is Night Dive is teasing, regardless. I've only played a small amount of Blood thanks to the DOSBOX port on Steam being less than ideal for me, and if this teaser is for an updated port I will no longer have any excuse to not play Blood! 2 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted November 1, 2018 I've worked on the re-releases of Turok, Turok 2, Noctropolis, Forsaken, porting 3 of these to the Xbox One, and other miscellaneous projects in that time. 8 Share this post Link to post
Avoozl Posted November 1, 2018 But what of Jace Hall? He was originally trying to get a hold of the Blood IP from Atari. 0 Share this post Link to post
Cynical Posted November 1, 2018 As someone who likes Blood, I'm not looking forward to it getting the treatment System Shock has. Also, their treatment of SSP means there's a chance that they're going to go on a crusade against Doom wads that use the Blood resources, which is pretty much every wad ever from the Russian scene. Good times are about to roll! 0 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted November 1, 2018 (edited) Nobody's going on any damn crusades. And it's not even the same team who would be working on it. 3 Share this post Link to post
Liberation Posted November 1, 2018 I’m fairly grateful to Night Dive, for grabbing all the retro games and selling them again in a legal format. Be interesting to see what happens with blood. 3 Share this post Link to post
seed Posted November 1, 2018 Should that be true I'm hyped, I wonder whether that's going to be a real source port, a remake, or whatever. Better than nothing anyway. Now I'm curious what Jace Hall had in store since he teased something related to Blood a while ago but no other news came afterwards. 1 Share this post Link to post
Dragonfly Posted November 1, 2018 (edited) I can't say if Night Dive are or are not releasing a Blood port, but if they do I'll finally be likely to play it! They did a stellar job with Strife: VE - I couldn't agree more with both Sparktimus' and Liberation's stances. Spoiler I guess Cynical is just being true to their namesake. Ignore them, just acting like a child with a grudge. Edited November 2, 2018 by Dragonfly 2 Share this post Link to post
Avoozl Posted November 1, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, Dragonfly said: I can't say if Night Dive are or are not releasing a Blood port, but if they do I'll finally be likely to play it! They did a stellar job with Strife: VE - I couldn't agree more with both Spactimus' and Liberation's stances. Reveal hidden contents I guess Cynical is just being true to their namesake. Ignore them, just acting like a child with a grudge. Why can't you play it with GDX Blood for the time being? Of course you still need to buy the game from either Steam or GoG. GDX Blood is so much better than using dosbox, dosbox was turning me away from playing Blood more than one playthrough every few months now I play it more often. Edited November 1, 2018 by Avoozl 0 Share this post Link to post
Sparktimus Posted November 1, 2018 6 minutes ago, Avoozl said: Why can't you play it with GDX Blood for the time being? Of course you still need to buy the game from either Steam or GoG. GDX Blood is so much better than using dosbox, dosbox was turning me away from playing Blood more than one playthrough every few months now I play it more often. BloodGDX is an absolute god send for the game and the way I currently prefer to play myself, but a game company who actually gives a shit about the IP itself getting the rights to it and releasing the game with an official source port of their own would only help the game. With all of the quality of life features ND gave to System Shock, it would be very keen to have something like that. 0 Share this post Link to post
Avoozl Posted November 1, 2018 Yes, but I meant that last comment towards Dragonfly. 0 Share this post Link to post
Dragonfly Posted November 1, 2018 1 hour ago, Avoozl said: Why can't you play it with GDX Blood for the time being? Of course you still need to buy the game from either Steam or GoG. GDX Blood is so much better than using dosbox, dosbox was turning me away from playing Blood more than one playthrough every few months now I play it more often. The real answer to this is I currently don't have the time. Also, having experienced both Strife and Strife: Veteran Edition, I can say with absolute certainty that I found it most enjoyable in VE. I know the difference is negligible, but I enjoyed myself and that's all that matters. I also feel like the chaps who work in the NightDive team deserve some credit and a portion of the financial input for keeping these ageing games alive. Regardless of if ND are releasing blood or not, I will eventually get it, so knowing about BloodGDX is a good backup solution, thanks! 1 Share this post Link to post
snapshot Posted November 1, 2018 2 hours ago, Agent6 said: Now I'm curious what Jace Hall had in store since he teased something related to Blood a while ago but no other news came afterwards. He said he didn't know yet what the Revival project would really be, you can read about this here, he had been teasing this idea since like 2012 or something, and nothing came out of it, safe to say there wasn't enough interest to support his idea, both on his side and the fanbase side. 0 Share this post Link to post
seed Posted November 1, 2018 2 hours ago, Avoozl said: Why can't you play it with GDX Blood for the time being? One word: Java. That's literally the main reason why some of us DOSBox Blood folk avoid it like plague since it's notoriously insecure, so if what Night Dive are cooking is a proper, non Java based source port a la SSEE/SS2EE that's great news in my book. @tempdecal.wad Yeah, I'm aware that nothing came out from the revival he teased back in 2012, but I also noticed he didn't really gave up on the idea since he brought it up again in 2016, so who knows. 2 Share this post Link to post
Avoozl Posted November 1, 2018 (edited) Do you know this from experience? I haven't had any troubles with java so far and I got an update not long ago, I really don't understand the problems people have been having with it. Also what is proper? This version did benefit from some of the leaked source code and reverse engineering, the game seems to work the way it was intended and I've played and enjoyed it many times now. Also I never said anything against Night Dive creating their own port. Edited November 1, 2018 by Avoozl 2 Share this post Link to post
Cruduxy Pegg Posted November 1, 2018 How do we know if they never talked to Hall? All we got is a photo so far. 0 Share this post Link to post
HavoX Posted November 1, 2018 (edited) 28 minutes ago, Agent6 said: One word: Java. That's literally the main reason why some of us DOSBox Blood folk avoid it like plague since it's notoriously insecure, so if what Night Dive are cooking is a proper, non Java based source port a la SSEE/SS2EE that's great news in my book. Hear, hear! Edited November 1, 2018 by HavoX 0 Share this post Link to post
seed Posted November 1, 2018 3 minutes ago, Avoozl said: Do you know this from experience? Not with Java specifically but other software and that can literally ruin your trust into them (among other things, to say so). A bit old but this article could probably still be useful. All of this is more than enough to make me not want to have anything to do with it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Avoozl Posted November 1, 2018 Looking through a thread on Duke4 some people have mentioned that the game works on the portable version of Java and something about it being less of a problem, I'm not sure how this can be validated though. 0 Share this post Link to post
Dragonfly Posted November 1, 2018 1 hour ago, Avoozl said: Also I never said anything against Night Dive creating their own port. Neither myself nor anyone else implied you do have anything against Night Dive? That said, you do kinda give off that vibe. :P I believe it's unintentional on your part, but your tone / persistence in regards to BloodGDX implies something against what NightDive might be doing. 0 Share this post Link to post