Remaster DOW SoulStorm?

BridgetFisher

It would be nice to see a remaster with a graphical upgrade to DOW1 Soulstorm. Would be legendary if the team at Relic could maybe leave the files open or the structure there so the community who enjoyed modding the game wouldnt feel left out either so they could make things that help make a great game even greater.

For a really old game there still an active player population it seems almost 1k http://steamcharts.com/app/9450
(Would love remasters of all the originals and would gladly throw money to a kickstarter if needed to show some love for Relic.)

Katitof

HD remasters are desperate & lazy cash grabs feeding off nostalgia of older consumers.
They are cancer of gaming industry and a waste of effort that could be much better spent creating or improving modern product.

• DoW1 is alive exclusively thanks to one mod that disregards all balance for the sake of more of everything and caters exclusively to ffa clusterfuck players, so its not even original content that people go for.

Remastering game with dead ranked play makes as much sense as trying to make travel by horse wagons popular again, because it was so amazing back then and some people still do it nowadays.

StarSauron

I can't play soulstrom, it does crash online most of the time and the zoom is bad (too low).
Would buy anytime a remastered version for modern PCs.

@Katitof said:
HD remasters are desperate & lazy cash grabs feeding off nostalgia of older consumers.
They are cancer of gaming industry and a waste of effort that could be much better spent creating or improving modern product.

• DoW1 is alive exclusively thanks to one mod that disregards all balance for the sake of more of everything and caters exclusively to ffa clusterfuck players, so its not even original content that people go for.

Remastering game with dead ranked play makes as much sense as trying to make travel by horse wagons popular again, because it was so amazing back then and some people still do it nowadays.

If gaming industry is not able to make good new games, like DOW3 disaster, so its better if they simply remake good old games.

Draconix

@StarSauron said:

If gaming industry is not able to make good new games, like DOW3 disaster, so its better if they simply remake good old games.

Ummmm.......... Not sure if just remaking good old games is always better idea. Look what happened with Heroes of Might and Magic 3 HD.

BridgetFisher

@Draconix said:

@StarSauron said:

If gaming industry is not able to make good new games, like DOW3 disaster, so its better if they simply remake good old games.

Ummmm.......... Not sure if just remaking good old games is always better idea. Look what happened with Heroes of Might and Magic 3 HD.

Good vid that discusses why Heroes of Might and Magic 3 HD sucks

If relic watches that, id second saying it again that a remaster should be almost a clone of the original or whatever the recent up to date version is of soulstorm, no added units, no removing features or maps, 100% mod support. No adding content, save that for a new DOW1 based game if they think of anything.

Like others said, seems if they cant pull those qualifiers off, then it wouldnt be worth it. A remaster with just a graphical update would be nice.

Endstille

Nah I dont want to see Soulstorm again, the game had its own time and that is long gone. The mod for it is real trash. I want to see DoW3 improved and not money/time wasted into an old game that is dead.

Endstille

@TripSin said:

@Endstille said:
Nah I dont want to see Soulstorm again, the game had its own time and that is long gone. The mod for it is real trash. I want to see DoW3 improved and not money/time wasted into an old game that is dead.

You say DoW 1 is dead, but there are more people playing DoW 1 than DoW 3.

http://steamcharts.com/search/?q=dawn+of+war

DoW1'sLifeMatters

No there are not. If you need glasses, buy them 300 more in thirty day average. To be accurate DoW1 is being played by 700 people less.

Draconix

@TripSin said:

@Endstille said:
Nah I dont want to see Soulstorm again, the game had its own time and that is long gone. The mod for it is real trash. I want to see DoW3 improved and not money/time wasted into an old game that is dead.

You say DoW 1 is dead, but there are more people playing DoW 1 than DoW 3.

http://steamcharts.com/search/?q=dawn+of+war

DoW1'sLifeMatters

Still it seems that Soulstorm has too low playerbase for a RTS just like Dow 3.

I guess that RTS is really unpopular in this current times. Yes there is Starcraft 2 and Company of Heroes 2, and there even is upcoming SC1 remaster, but for me it is still too few to make RTS popular like it was in its golden times.

Katitof

@TripSin said:

@Endstille said:
Nah I dont want to see Soulstorm again, the game had its own time and that is long gone. The mod for it is real trash. I want to see DoW3 improved and not money/time wasted into an old game that is dead.

You say DoW 1 is dead, but there are more people playing DoW 1 than DoW 3.

http://steamcharts.com/search/?q=dawn+of+war

DoW1'sLifeMatters

Matchmaking dead = competitive scene dead = game dead

If I wanted to goof around I would... just play DoW1.
I've got bigger shot at competitive play here, in DoW3 + DoW3 population will explode with new factions, DoW1 not.

Endstille

@Katitof said:

@TripSin said:

@Endstille said:
Nah I dont want to see Soulstorm again, the game had its own time and that is long gone. The mod for it is real trash. I want to see DoW3 improved and not money/time wasted into an old game that is dead.

You say DoW 1 is dead, but there are more people playing DoW 1 than DoW 3.

http://steamcharts.com/search/?q=dawn+of+war

DoW1'sLifeMatters

Matchmaking dead = competitive scene dead = game dead

If I wanted to goof around I would... just play DoW1.
I've got bigger shot at competitive play here, in DoW3 + DoW3 population will explode with new factions, DoW1 not.

Yes and I really would wonder how people would react if they suddenly change course and make anything regarding DoW1. People should stop clinching onto the past and improve the future. I want to see the same and more support for DoW3 as the other games got.

Gorb

Moved to Legacy Discussion.

BridgetFisher

Personally I dont care about average player pops, but care what players think. Players like us who are fans and post saying a remaster would be welcome is all that matters. As a gamer if a few want it then probably alot of gamers want it too which is normal and the original games have legendary followings and whole communities of their own full of what businesses like and thats potential customers!

GeneralSkull

any body notice in soul storm in the sisters stronghold in the corner of the map why are there necrons appearing in an over grown space launch pad and then die with purple words coming out of them

CANNED_F3TUS

@BridgetFisher said:

@Draconix said:

@StarSauron said:

If gaming industry is not able to make good new games, like DOW3 disaster, so its better if they simply remake good old games.

Ummmm.......... Not sure if just remaking good old games is always better idea. Look what happened with Heroes of Might and Magic 3 HD.

Good vid that discusses why Heroes of Might and Magic 3 HD sucks

If relic watches that, id second saying it again that a remaster should be almost a clone of the original or whatever the recent up to date version is of soulstorm, no added units, no removing features or maps, 100% mod support. No adding content, save that for a new DOW1 based game if they think of anything.

Like others said, seems if they cant pull those qualifiers off, then it wouldnt be worth it. A remaster with just a graphical update would be nice.

All you get out of remaster is a graphical update but with the same engine... Nothing else.

charlando

@CANNED_F3TUS said:

@BridgetFisher said:

@Draconix said:

@StarSauron said:

If gaming industry is not able to make good new games, like DOW3 disaster, so its better if they simply remake good old games.

Ummmm.......... Not sure if just remaking good old games is always better idea. Look what happened with Heroes of Might and Magic 3 HD.

Good vid that discusses why Heroes of Might and Magic 3 HD sucks

If relic watches that, id second saying it again that a remaster should be almost a clone of the original or whatever the recent up to date version is of soulstorm, no added units, no removing features or maps, 100% mod support. No adding content, save that for a new DOW1 based game if they think of anything.

Like others said, seems if they cant pull those qualifiers off, then it wouldnt be worth it. A remaster with just a graphical update would be nice.

All you get out of remaster is a graphical update but with the same engine... Nothing else.

Cant be much of a graphics update if it uses the same engine.

CANNED_F3TUS

@charlando said:

@CANNED_F3TUS said:

@BridgetFisher said:

@Draconix said:

@StarSauron said:

If gaming industry is not able to make good new games, like DOW3 disaster, so its better if they simply remake good old games.

Ummmm.......... Not sure if just remaking good old games is always better idea. Look what happened with Heroes of Might and Magic 3 HD.

Good vid that discusses why Heroes of Might and Magic 3 HD sucks

If relic watches that, id second saying it again that a remaster should be almost a clone of the original or whatever the recent up to date version is of soulstorm, no added units, no removing features or maps, 100% mod support. No adding content, save that for a new DOW1 based game if they think of anything.

Like others said, seems if they cant pull those qualifiers off, then it wouldnt be worth it. A remaster with just a graphical update would be nice.

All you get out of remaster is a graphical update but with the same engine... Nothing else.

Cant be much of a graphics update if it uses the same engine.

SC BW disagrees the graphic updates were pretty major feeling still used the same engine. All they do is polish graphics thats it really.

charlando

@CANNED_F3TUS said:

@charlando said:

@CANNED_F3TUS said:

@BridgetFisher said:

@Draconix said:

@StarSauron said:

If gaming industry is not able to make good new games, like DOW3 disaster, so its better if they simply remake good old games.

Ummmm.......... Not sure if just remaking good old games is always better idea. Look what happened with Heroes of Might and Magic 3 HD.

Good vid that discusses why Heroes of Might and Magic 3 HD sucks

If relic watches that, id second saying it again that a remaster should be almost a clone of the original or whatever the recent up to date version is of soulstorm, no added units, no removing features or maps, 100% mod support. No adding content, save that for a new DOW1 based game if they think of anything.

Like others said, seems if they cant pull those qualifiers off, then it wouldnt be worth it. A remaster with just a graphical update would be nice.

All you get out of remaster is a graphical update but with the same engine... Nothing else.

Cant be much of a graphics update if it uses the same engine.

SC BW disagrees the graphic updates were pretty major feeling still used the same engine. All they do is polish graphics thats it really.

Its still 2d sprite graphics.

GeneralSkull

HEY EVERYONE
is any of the older DoW games still played online by plays such as Dawn of war 1 to 1.4 to dawn of war 2 to 2.3
if so pls tell me how to join them and give me the names of the servers

GeneralSkull

its all here