Yes, you could argue that the remaster is free to gamers who own the original two games but to me, this is a flawed argument because this shocking level of complacency damages PC gaming and also their own reputation. Let us be frank, the console port has just been dragged and dropped onto PC with little consideration for what our platform needs, none of the original bugs have been addressed and I'm really angry with all relevant parties for letting this happen. Unfortunately once again we see the PC port and PC gamers being treated like an afterthought. ![]() Although founded in 2010 Blind Squirrel have actually worked on some pretty high-profile games such as XCOM and Borderlands 2. The company who have worked on the port are aptly called Blind Squirrel and it would seem they have done a great job of the console updates. In other words, ladies and gents this PC remaster of Bioshock 1 and 2 is a mess and certainly falls short of what I would class as a 'remaster' by a considerable margin. There have also been reports of widespread crashing, framerate stuttering, awful mouse smoothing which you can't turn off (unless you hack the ini file) and settings (including the games difficulty) changing at random. ![]() ![]() There is a lack of support for 5.1 surround sound which again beggars belief in a modern game. This is frankly a bizarre move to release a game on PC with the bare bones graphics options but to also actually remove the ability to change texture and shadow quality. The first and most obvious faux pas is the change in graphical options of which there are actually less than when the game first launched.
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