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QuakeCon is upon us once again, and with it, Nightdive Studios surprised the veteran PC gamers, continuing to revive old and beloved IPs back from the grave, and this time, they chose one of the great titles from the PC back in 90s, with a remastered re-release of not only Heretic, but also Hexen, combined in a pack called "Heretic+Hexen".

Both Heretic and Hexen were released back in 1994 and 1995, respectively, and both use a modified version of the Doom engine by Raven Software back in the day, with the usual 1st person gameplay that made Doom so unique, but also, giving it an interesting spin with a medieval essence, magic, gothic architectures and delving more into puzzle solving than what Doom did with both Doom 1 and Doom 2, and that is what separates both Heretic & Hexen from the typical "Doom clone" to give it its own unique style and feel.

This brand new re-release of both titles includes a complete package for both games, to make it available and in the best presentation both games ever had, with the package including the following games and episodes:

• Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders
• Hexen: Beyond Heretic
• Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel
• Two all-new episodes created in collaboration between individuals at id Software + Nightdive Studios:
  • Heretic: Faith Renewed
  • Hexen: Vestiges of Grandeur

As for new features, both releases include the following:

• Online cross-platform and local split-screen deathmatch and co-op modes
• Toggleable enhanced soundtrack from Andrew Hulshult
• In-game mod support
• Behind the scenes vault with concept art, monster information and more
• Support for community-published and features mods
• Improved performance with support for modern hardware, including 4K 120 FPS on consoles, modern controllers, and widescreen monitors
• An array of accessibility options, quality-of-life improvements, and engine fixes

This package is a must-have for anyone interested in the golden age and the surgeance of FPS on PC, with almost all the major FPS titles that made PC gaming so unique back in the 90s being remastered by Nightdive, although we're still missing a remastered version of Wolfestein 3D.

Heretic+Hexen is available right now on Xbox (+Game Pass), PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, and PC with Steam and GOG.
The Steam release of the remastered pack includes the original DOS versions of both games as well!

 

[such]

I play og doom wads with free look enabled (zandronum) and it doesnt have this issue, its something baked into this port

It's the other way around. What you see here is the default/correct vanilla behaviour while Zandronum and GZdoom can render game (OpenGL, I'm guessing) so that you get a modern vertical look. Try switching the renderer to software and looking up and down then. This is one of the reasons why some people prefer other source ports: you need to adjust quite a few default settings in these to even start getting close to how OG Doom looks and feels.

 

[lincruste]

Doom the Dark Ages should have been a Hexen game.

Damn fucking right. Stupid marketing trying to capitalize on DOOM brand. They'd make a DOOM Tetris if they could.

 

[VinsCool]

Damn fucking right. Stupid marketing trying to capitalize on DOOM brand. They'd make a DOOM Tetris if they could.

Hey now I actually would love to see that!

 

[such]

Hey now I actually would love to see that!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Doom/comments/50vt4m/tetris_in_doom_snapmap/

 

[FemtoFalcon]

I play og doom wads with free look enabled (zandronum) and it doesnt have this issue, its something baked into this port

Some source ports render the game in proper 3d, doom and in some extent Duke nukem used the same methods of wolf3d where it is just layering 2d assets and just stretching and skewing based on perspective as most pcs at the time relied on cpu and software rendring hence why it took time way after original release to have proper 3d acceleration support.

It explains why console ports of doom struggled unless it was a proper rewrite to take advantage of video/3d hardware.

 

[AsmodeusMac]

​

QuakeCon is upon us once again, and with it, Nightdive Studios surprised the veteran PC gamers, continuing to revive old and beloved IPs back from the grave, and this time, they chose one of the great titles from the PC back in 90s, with a remastered re-release of not only Heretic, but also Hexen, combined in a pack called "Heretic+Hexen".

Both Heretic and Hexen were released back in 1994 and 1995, respectively, and both use a modified version of the Doom engine by Raven Software back in the day, with the usual 1st person gameplay that made Doom so unique, but also, giving it an interesting spin with a medieval essence, magic, gothic architectures and delving more into puzzle solving than what Doom did with both Doom 1 and Doom 2, and that is what separates both Heretic & Hexen from the typical "Doom clone" to give it its own unique style and feel.

This brand new re-release of both titles includes a complete package for both games, to make it available and in the best presentation both games ever had, with the package including the following games and episodes:

• Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders
• Hexen: Beyond Heretic
• Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel
• Two all-new episodes created in collaboration between individuals at id Software + Nightdive Studios:
  • Heretic: Faith Renewed
  • Hexen: Vestiges of Grandeur

As for new features, both releases include the following:

• Online cross-platform and local split-screen deathmatch and co-op modes
• Toggleable enhanced soundtrack from Andrew Hulshult
• In-game mod support
• Behind the scenes vault with concept art, monster information and more
• Support for community-published and features mods
• Improved performance with support for modern hardware, including 4K 120 FPS on consoles, modern controllers, and widescreen monitors
• An array of accessibility options, quality-of-life improvements, and engine fixes

This package is a must-have for anyone interested in the golden age and the surgeance of FPS on PC, with almost all the major FPS titles that made PC gaming so unique back in the 90s being remastered by Nightdive, although we're still missing a remastered version of Wolfestein 3D.

Heretic+Hexen is available right now on Xbox (+Game Pass), PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, and PC with Steam and GOG.
The Steam release of the remastered pack includes the original DOS versions of both games as well!

I wish Nightdive wold/could make a remastered King’s Field!

 

[Jayro]

How dare you say something so wrong and low quality bait

He's a forum troll with some of the shittiest takes on the forum.

I'm excited for these games, this is the first time they've gotten some love since their release.