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[–] Sims@lemmy.ml -4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"You do need to own a copy of the game to play it with OpenTS"

Arg!! I love these passionate re-imaginations, remakes and whatnot of old games, but they are already developing with AI, so why are they not generating a new asset resource that replaces all the original proprietary stuff!

Anyway, I hope we soon get complete asset replacement for ALL the old games Diablo, C&C, Baldurs gate and hundreds of other old classics that all have an open engine that still relies on shtty original copies of proprietary assets. Nobody cares about these corporate parasites anyway, so f'em..

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So we should use corporate shitty AI art to replace the beloved artwork of classic games instead of just pirating or grabbing from Internet Archive? Bold take in a place like Lemmy.

[–] narwhal@mander.xyz -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Beloved artwork does no good if proprietary. OpenTTD does it best, making their own assets to replace the originals, but not everybody can put that much effort. I would rather have game with generated assets than no game at all or having to go through the hurdles of pirating abandonware.