We here at DSOGaming are huge fans of sci-fi movies. And as you may have guessed, we love Blade Runner. Blade Runner 2 will be shot this Summer, so we were kind of wondering whether a new game based on that franchise was under development. And while there is nothing on the horizon as of yet, Polycount’s member Josh Van Zuylen released some screenshots from his Blade Runner project in Unreal Engine 4. Do note that this is still a WIP project. Enjoy!
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BR – The game which was a great spin off would desperately need a remaster or a proper remake but that wont happen as Sierra/Westwood no longer make games because they dont exist. BR – The film was a box office bomb in 1982 and universally panned, even Harrison Ford hated it! I thought it was the most depressing film that I have ever seen. So wheres this new love for this so called film coming from really? I dont get that part, perhaps someone can elaborate a little?
It’s not a film for everyone, one of my favorite personally.
Why do you like it? I said why I hated it. A film about a psycho killer that runs around and kills people in a hellish dystopian world ?!
Is not about the plot, it’s about the world, the aesthetics.
Isnt that like saying you like a game because it has nice graphics but is as shallow and empty like Battlefront?
But game aren’t movies. Interactivity is the key difference here.
But the Bladerunner film world looks like a hellish depressing dystopian hellhole.
Yes, and that’s the point. The world of the movie was created to resemble that.
I would certainly not call that a plus!
Each to his own I guess. 🙂
Each to his own indeed!
All movies aren’t meant to evoke feelings of glorious happiness. Yin and Yang, you can’t have happiness without sorrow/gloom to balance it out or else where’s your point of reference? It makes you appreciate your position in life to see things so bad like that. Look at some of the games people consider the most atmospheric and greatest games on PC… STALKER, THIEF, DEUS EX etc, all with dreary worlds. I don’t think it’s a coincidence.
The much more mainstream classic Mad Max 2:The road warrior wasnt exactly set in a nice post WW3 world either and still it wasnt as depressing as this film was to watch. That film was also from 1982.
I would, the world in that film is meant to bring you down into the same melancholy that everyone there is feeling, the earth has been gutted by humans and the well off have deserted it. 95% of the planets animal species are extinct there is literally almost nothing left and the people there are living off of scraps. It’s meant to show that humans are not the end-all be-all of whats good in the universe. Giving rise to the question of why can’t a replicant be considered worthy of the same rights of humans when humans aren’t the greatest examples of life. It all revolves around the question of what it means to be human. Sort of why people love planescape:torment, it asks questions about who we are and what makes us who we are.
The style, the themes, the question it poses, the visuals, the music, the tears in rain speech, idk I like it.
Vangelis did awesome job, music is just out of this world!
Movie is awesome especially Directors Cut, “Tears in rain” is one of my favorite movie scenes of all time.
Why did it bomb so hard in 1982 then?
Lot of great films bomb, people didn’t like it or didn’t “get” it than. But it’s clearly the most influential sci-fi film of the last few decades, and has gained a cult following since.
The film that was in theaters was not the same film everyone is watching these days. It had a completely different ending and was paced differently with many scenes that are in the new cut missing. The original was a faster paced film with many of the impactful scenes cut out because they thought moviegoers wanted a faster movie. The problem is that it lost almost all the atmosphere and impact along with the deep philosophical component that was the main purpose of the movie to begin with. It was born out of “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” with many questions being raised about what it means to be human. If a replicant(android) has the same feelings as us, builds memories like us, learns like us, mourns like us.., are they not allowed the same rights? What makes us any more deserving of rights? Don’t they deserve the right to freedom and pursuit of happiness as well?
And still, the current version of Blade Runner is not what book was about. It touches some points, but it’s like these two things are in completely different planes.
The directors cut and that the cop is a repblicant himself. Nice huh?
So instead of doing something you enjoy you rather come here to hate the movie some more. Or maybe you enjoy hating movies, either way someone touched you in your childhood. Hope you find peace.
Make a good film sci-fi film next time like Mad Max 2:The road warrior.
Blade Runner suffered from same problem, that Kingdom of Heaven did. It was butchered to oblivion on release. It became cult classic after they released couple of Director Cut versions and added deleted scenes.
a lot of fantastic movies bombed in their theatreical release. Citizen Kane, Brazil, The Wiazrd of Oz, The Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club, the list goes on and on.
Box office success doens’t reflect the quality of a movie, just its marketing.
That is not what the movie is about at all, it’s about replicants striving to live their lives with humans trying to cut their lives short. It’s asking questions about what it means to be human and if a creation can be considered human if they possess the traits “we” consider human. It just so happens that a slave replicant has to murder people to try to gain his right to live life without it being cut short by his human overlords and the cop who is hired to hunt him down for his crimes.
The original theatrical release was panned, subsequent re-cut releases are what made people love the film.
Meanwhile – Blade Runner in Cryengine ~7years ago:
http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/131010-/blade_runner2-noscale.jpg
While those UE4 pictures from article up look awesome detailed in its all PBR glory, they are missing the futuristic-noir atmosphere of Blade Runner.
duuuude
call me a f’ing weeb but those japanese neon lights are amazing
Looks better in CE2 …