I'm all about it, but what the fuck is up with that cover art for Hexen? It's awful. Here's the original:

It's correct on the select screen shown in the trailer, too. Teh fook?

I've had a quick play of it but first impressions are pretty obvious: They've done a magnificent job. So many tiny little improvements all over the place, many very subtle.

For Heretic, many of the gameplay tweaks seem to be informed very much by the Heretic mod "The Wayfarer's Tome" which rebalances the game in many subtle ways to make it much more fun and less grindy.

And for Hexen, you can just look at your map to see where you need to go next and the main hubs are given more visual clues as to how you're progressing and what is still outstanding. And little things that'd shit you to tears - the mage's ice shards can pass through frozen enemies so their statues don't bog down the fights anymore and centaurs/slaughtaurs no longer are guaranteed to turn into invincible turtles every time you hit them - they don't raise their shields as often and when they do, you can get around from behind!!

It's quite evident they've paid great attention and have had a finger on the community pulse for a while to smooth over some of the welts in the original games that they were criticised for, even when they first came out.

I remember getting hold of this game and the typing in the Doom cheat code for invulnerability. it kills you instantly! 😂

Fuck. Yes. Finally.

Anyone else ever play Blood?

“I want Jojo, Jojo, JOJO!!!”

I spent some good time with these two!

I have no recollection when I bought the original big bundle of id Software stuff, but looks like this got dropped to my Steam library anyway. Wait, what, I got the Doom 1/2 remake too? Very nice. See this is what we should encourage

ABOUT TIME! This was the one I was waiting for! I LOVED Hexen back in the day, I tried to play it on SteamDeck a few times, it never works out quite right. This is very welcome news!

So apparently I got it for free. I went to buy it (because duh) and its already in my library. Yay me!

Hearing that Reven secured a contract with Microsoft the other day had me wondering if perhaps they would try and revive these the way they did with Doom. This is a good indication that yes, they more than likely will end up making a new Heretic and/or Hexen 😃

So can we get Heretic 2 on Steam? Cause part of the reason we couldn't was because of Rights Issues between Activision and ID Software, but those are literally the same guy now (Microsoft)

See Also: Wolfenstein 2009

I got an email from Bandcamp about the soundtrack from Andrew Hulshult and had to check if these games finally got a remaster/re-release/sourceport.

Pumped for this, and I don't have to pay anything extra for the update, since I owned the old games on Steam already.

I went to buy it and found out that I already own it. Very nice.

I meet the specs easily, but they seem pretty high for 30 year old games…

I bought Hexen at one of those knife and gun shows that you have to pay to get into. 10 yr old me was way into it.

This is great news! I love these 2 games, especially Hexen! Be a lot easier to play them on steamdeck now!

Looks like mods are just starting to go up. Hopefully Jimmy (or a fan I guess) uploads his Faithless trilogy for Heretic. It mixes some elements from Hexen in and is one of the better fantasy boomer shooters I've played. Highly recommended when it's available.