Okay everyone, time for some rumors. ShopTo has just listed a HD version of Sleeping Dogs that will be coming on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. While Square Enix has not announced anything as of yet, we kind of understand why this would make sense for it. After all, GTA V is also coming to current-gen consoles.
The big question now is whether this is actually legit and whether this HD version will feature more graphical improvements than those found on the PC version. Let’s not forget that the PC version sported specific features and came with a HD Texture Pack.
Let’s hope that this will be a proper HD remake of United Front Games’ sandbox title.
Stay tuned for more!
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It was pretty HD on PC the first time around with the HD texture package. This must be more of a current gen. HD “remake” for consoles. Good game btw!
so no graphical stuttering this time around then?
Look at these poor devs, porting the PC “HD” version to consoles from a PC version that was a console port anyway. Consoles desperate for games, clearly and devs cashing in on the “HD” remake bandwagon.
square enix just cant get enough of these HD remakes. First Tomb raider now this. Watch there be hitman abosolution and deus ex HR somehow too…
Yep and all PC ports which the PC has been running 1080p/60fps anyway.
Wrong rely….sorry.
why do you care? youre gonna play it on ps4 at 900p cause thats all you do.
Nice try on baiting…now shoo troll..
shoo troll? haha, what are you? gay? a gay console peasant, nice.
Dude just stop. You are seriously an annoying idiot. Go troll somewhere else.
u mad bro? lol deal with it scrub
ya probably should warn you, if you say anything against him, he will just call you a console fanboy or scrub… thats his choice of trolling.
trolls gonna be trolls.
Just curious, in what sense do you refer to the game as a “console port”? Did they mention the lead platform for development somewhere?
Sleeping Dogs is a console port to the PC version with DLC HD textures and AMD features, optimised, it’s also very CPU bound which is a dead give-away somewhat
Hmm, well I just googled it up, and it seems that it might’ve indeed been a port. But considering how good a port it was, I’d be almost fooled to think they made a PC-specific version separately.
Not really, the mouse and keyboard control is pretty poor and inconsistent.
I played with M+K and didn’t find anything really wrong. Apart from the fact that the guns wouldn’t shoot sometimes in bullet time mode.
And that’s not wrong enough?
No, didn’t hamper my enjoyment of the game since you absolutely need to use bullet time just around 2-3 times in the main mission. Your fists are more than enough the rest of the time.
Yea I was completely surprised at how good the game was and it looked great too with the HD textures installed.
had no problem with it either but i did not played it on release day but a couple of months later, so i guess it was patched.
you are right but i am not upset about it because i think it’s a great game and i don’t mind them keeping the franchise fresh in the consumers eyes with this “re release”.
Well, this is probably Nixxes and United Front Games again. Remember that it was Nixxes who did the original PC ports of both Tomb Raider and Sleeping Dogs (and Deus Ex Human Revolution). Originally, United Front Games developed Sleeping Dogs for consoles.
Later, it was Nixxes who did the PS4 version and United Front Games who did the Xbox One version of the Tomb Raider HD re-release for next gen.
So this sounds like it’s just more of the same from them, taking the PC port Nixxes did and porting it over again to next gen consoles. In response to the complaints from PC gamers about Tomb Raider for PC not getting the next gen improvements, perhaps Nixxes is also making sure to keep the PC version updated this time?
It makes a lot of sense since it’ll be easy to do and the PC version and a PS4 version would be very easy to make. I think the Xbox One version might be a bit more difficult to do and maintain similar quality because of the reliance on ESRAM that the PC version wouldn’t be built around, but the PS4 version should be relatively simple to pop out.
Let’s make an HD version of an already HD game. Makes perfect sense.
Well, “HD” is a bit of a strong word, more like, High(er) Resolution Textures, with a lot of jaggedy edges, VERY shitty Cinematics, multitudes of unpatched Bugs everywhere………….
So yeah, Sleeping Dogs 2.0? Bring it on <3 (With Upgrade Discount plox).
In short: Marketing. Bloody f’ing marketing.
Sleeping Dogs HD??? This game is a stuttering mess that runs 45-55 fps on my gtx 770. With incredibly annoying spikes. They really are trying to cash in. Shame on square first Tomb Raider Definitive Edition which didn’t even came to PC and now Sleeping Dogs.
Although I gotta say after Watch_Dogs, Sleeping Dogs is a pretty a great game that never got fixed.
the stuttering was more an issue when it was released. They had a patch about a year ago that relieved all of that. Haven’t had stuttering since. There was also a huge issue with slowdowns during the day due to the increased shadow complexity but they somehow fixed most of that. I will say it plays decently smooth now.
Have you tried it recently with the new Nvidia drivers that add a shader cache and cut CPU usage? They made a big difference for me in Saints Row 3.
Sleeping Dogs with high textures ran perfect on my hd5850 when i played it, no stuttering, really good, i remember thinking about how good and optimized the game was. I loved the mele combat and environment kills.
Well you do have an amd card. The game is an amd optimized title. So that would make sense. With that said I think its now on par for both cards due to nvidias recent driver improvements. I might boot it up again soon and replay it. Great game.
I have a GTX 760, I get ~60 fps with every setting maxed out except AA on high instead extreme
It’s well optimized game IMO
it got better by the time, at first it wasn’t as smooth as it is now. yeah 660ti everything on max runs always 60fps
Uh, isn’t Tomb Raider Definitive just Tomb Raider PC for New-Gen Consoles? >.>
no, it has better and more optimized tressFX but worst textures and no tessellation
Lol filthy pirate, you should download the game fresh or look for updates. And update your drivers filthy pirate.
All steam users of Sleeping Doges are playing it smoothly, and probably 120fps with a GPU like yours (if you even have it in the first place) filthy pirate!
Well that was quick… “HD” remake everywhere ?
Guess Microsoft opened the floodgate with their Halo collection thing.
Release date is 21-11-2014. Show me idiot who will buy this shit instead of GTA V?
Don’t really understand why there’d be another PC version unless it has added features, this re-release is mostly to get people hyped for Traid Wars, which I’m suprised wasn’t even shown at E3 ,also this is one of those hidden gem kinda games where mostly alot of people never played or heard of it, hopefully I won’t have to repurchase the whole game again plus DLC.
It was already HD on PC and now it is going to be HDer .
Still not interested…
So, is this 2020 already or what?
Yeah don’t think its worthy to purchase again on PC.
I am playing Sleeping Dogs right now and love it….good fun game!
Traffic distance is crap, depth of field too near and the cars disappeared into it, jump and run are bound, run feels too robotic.
Already played it on my PC and finished it to death.