Tuesday, August 22nd 2023
NVIDIA Announces Half-Life 2 RTX, an RTX Remix Community Project
NVIDIA RTX Remix Community is a group of game developers remastering popular games from the past. "Quake II RTX" and "Portal with RTX" were extremely well received, and the community now turned its sights to a cult classic—Half-Life 2. When it came out in 2004 (that's 19 years ago!), Half-Life 2 already set standards for realism, and invented several new gameplay mechanics. It is believed to have edged past "Doom 3" in art direction and production quality for the time; and now the RTX Remix Community is inviting game modders to join the effort at this page.
Four of HL2's top modding teams, known as Orbfold Studios, is leading the effort within the community, at remastering the entire game—an effort on a much larger scale than "Portal." The remaster will include full ray tracing effects, support for DLSS 3 Frame Generation, RTX-IO, and modernized assets (higher resolution textures, higher poly-count models, with support for modern surfaces and geometry. The teaser from NVIDIA includes a picture of the HEV Suit from the game, and a scene from the game showing just how much more advanced the game is shaping up to be! The company didn't announce any timeline to go with Half-Life 2 RTX, since it is still in development.
Four of HL2's top modding teams, known as Orbfold Studios, is leading the effort within the community, at remastering the entire game—an effort on a much larger scale than "Portal." The remaster will include full ray tracing effects, support for DLSS 3 Frame Generation, RTX-IO, and modernized assets (higher resolution textures, higher poly-count models, with support for modern surfaces and geometry. The teaser from NVIDIA includes a picture of the HEV Suit from the game, and a scene from the game showing just how much more advanced the game is shaping up to be! The company didn't announce any timeline to go with Half-Life 2 RTX, since it is still in development.
28 Comments on NVIDIA Announces Half-Life 2 RTX, an RTX Remix Community Project
After Portal we get HL2?
...ah man now I want Dark Messiah of might and magic in RT.....or l4d, that could be interesting.
But yeah still...
I see they're making morrowind, and I hope that trend continues. There are so many great games that would be amazing to replay using RTX.
I mean the poor running on AMD hardware there has a lot more to do with Nvidia then AMD as well, its just kinda anti AMD in its setup.
This is marketing.
But yeah, if RTX Remix becomes a bigger thing Nvidia might be a good idea. Deus Ex and Thief 2 would definitely sell me on it...
Japanese gamers play 100+ hr RPGs with enormous amounts of written dialogue (and the Japanese read *everything*) and most of them are young:
www.gamesindustry.biz/report-almost-half-of-gamers-in-japan-are-in-their-late-teens
The average American gamer under thirty looks at two sentences and thinks "TL;DR".
Hogwarts was the most successful one this year and it's also pretty lengthy. Your arguments make no sense
I've watched plenty of people playing BG3, DOS2, etc, and they just blast through the dialog. This is why I don't like playing co-op in my RPGs.
Wether you gonna get more than single digits FPS is another story ofcourse.