RTX is Reviving Your Favourite Games
Just look at this picture of Portal. Just… look at it. Finally – an official way of bringing these games into the modern era, and it’s shocking how well it works. And even more exciting, this will be part of a free tool which modders will be able to use to make other previously unmoddable games look just as good. I’m skeptical of just how well that will work – the proof is in the pudding – but for now it’s nice marketing idea, and it means we get this very pretty mod/DLC for Portal . Graphics aren’t everything – I said just that with the Last of Us Remaster . But there are lots of older games that could do with a spruce up. And if they’re available for free, if they can be quickly and painlessly upgraded, and if they’re open to everybody, there’s absolutely no downside in these improvements. They will bring someone in who wouldn’t otherwise have played. Reviving the Classics So even as only a visual update, there could be bigger implications for these games. Another title s...