I honestly don't think this looks very good. The lighting and assets look good on their own, but this remaster completely changes the art direction of the original, and it ends up losing a lot of the atmosphere that the original had.

I hope they make some last minute changes, or we at least get a mod to restore it to the original game's aesthetics.

I think a simple color grade, and tweaking/removing some of the lights could basically fix it, so I'm a bit surprised they took this approach. It looks like they prioritized tech demo over faithful recreation.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago

Yeah, the lighting was done for the regular lighting system. If you change that, you change how everything appears and basically have to redo all the lighting in the game.

[–] darkkite@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

I think it looks better just some parts are probably too bright compared to the original but the shadows being physically accurate is a noticeable improvement.

[–] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It'll probably be heavily modable , at least I hope so.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 7 points 1 week ago

It's just a mod for HL2, so I imagine it can be modded the same way as HL2