That's all nice bulletpoints, but the sound is curiously omitted. The Dark Engine games used to support A3D back in the day, so I'm curious how's the sound going to fare in this KEX remake. Not to be a party pooper, but it's not a definitive release without proper 3D sound at least on the level of A3D. Grab your headphones and have a listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ng_bGozSo [External Link]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX2xICHnivw [External Link]

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I completely forgot it existed. EGS really does have that effect... Glad it's being, well, actually released, and hopefully it'll sell.

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I think all this means the game will be technically playable which shouldn't be confused with 'comfortably playable'. Wouldn't get my hopes up, basically.

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Making C:S2 actually functional and maybe even optimized would've been a much better way to celebrate, but hey, we can wait until the hardware overpowers whatever they did to the game as well. I'm sure we'll all be laughing about it in a decade or so.

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Unless you're a competitive Civ player or something, I can't see any reason to buy this now vs in 8 years when it's patched and discounted. They're openly fleecing the fanbase, and they're expecting to be thanked for it, because, what, they're considering patching in naming cities? Or, a UI that's functional?

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Too bad Red Alert 2 wasn't included, but this is still... unusually awesome.

Does make one hope we might see a proper new C&C game one day.

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Yeah, get rid of that team that more than likely has just gone through a tough project, probably bonded in the process, and gained life and dev experience in favour of... not really capitalising on that in any way. Yeah, scattering all that to the wind seems like the most sensible choice. Then, some months from now, start a new team, because that video games division you have isn't making video games for some reason.

And all that coming from suits who can only fail up.

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Yeah, Valve/Steam sells the protection of rights which is why they needed to get sued in Australia in order to implement a refund policy. Also evident in how they changed the wording regarding Steam selling games to not actually 'selling' you anything - that you needed to just accept or get f'ed if you felt like keeping the stuff you bou... temporarily and possibly revocably licensed on there. Pure customer rights advocacy reigns supreme at Valve, clearly.

Valve is a business, not your friend. They're private, so they're not focused exclusively on the next quarter, hence why their service is allowed to be better than the industry standard. That is about it.

And Linkedin is an absolute dystopic hellhole all the way down.

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I have nostalgia for Commandos and its numerous clones, but those were very irritating games to play.

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You really need to read up on what happened to Harebrained, and pay attention to the timeline. Paradox gutted that studio well ahead of the release date of their game, then just straight up dumped said game months later like it was radioactive.

It really looks like Paradox made a calculated decision to basically all but kill the studio out of pure malice. Look at Prison Architect. Look at the Star Trek game, and the messy development of that. Cities: Skylines 2. Probably Vampire. I mean... one developer and one project? Sure, they probably screwed up, it happens. Every single non-first party ending up a complete catastrophe? Clear mismanagement and publisher incompetence. That's why some people aren't super happy about this acquisition. Paradox as a publisher has a body count at this point that can't be ignored.

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