Can't blame them for shifting focus away from a game that just doesn't perform well.

What you can blame them for is releasing a game in that state to begin with...

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I tried for a bit, but unfortunately they really messed up the procedural generation in this one.

It is a perfect example of how not to do randomness in games.
The same mission might be a total breeze or almost impossible, simply based on where you start in relation to your mission objectives and the enemy.
I went through a bunch of missions and the difficulty was all over the place. It went from extremely easy, to super hard, to back again. And when I had to do a mission again, the next time it was super easy, as the map generation had placed me right next to where I needed to be. Or it got even harder, as the enemy was put right between me and where I needed to be.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: Avehicle7887Risen 2, not the best game in the series but it's nice to be able to play it higher than 35 fps.

Only thing i remember about the risen games was Angry Joe and Jim sterling saying they were the worst games on pc are they actually worth playing ?

If either of these say a game is bad, it might as well be GOTY material...
Sure, they also rip truly bad games a new one, but they just mindlessly rip everything else, too. And give crappy games a thumb up, so... I'd not trust in AJ or Jim for anything except entertainment value and news.

That said, Risen 2 is the worst of the series, yes, both 1 and 3 are better.

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Yeah... some games make you feel like you were ripped off, paid too much money.

This game will make you feel like you ripped off the developer.
I honestly don't understand why they sell it so low, but it's their choice.

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What 80s were to music (and hair), 90s were to gaming.

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Awesome that someone from the community does it.
Sad that someone from the community has to do it.

On Razer, though: Are their products actually worth it?
From what I can see, their peripherals might be, but the actual laptops and desktops you could get way cheaper without the Razer branding.

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Quoting: adibuyono

Quoting: gojulSadly SuperTuxKart is far away from any commercial game like Super Mario Kart. One of the reasons is the number of weapons and their diversity, which clearly lags behind.

The graphic, I would say the whole graphic need a huge revamp.

Definitely.

Not talking about some AAA-upgrades, but what the game would need is a pass (or a couple of passes) by a real artist.
Just looking at the UI, you can see that almost every element is stylistically at odds with every other element. Which just makes it look unnecessarily cheap.

And the 3D art also has that problem somewhat. While levels themselves generally look like most things belong together, there is a contrast between levels and carts/characters, as well as effects.

Kind of shows that open-source projects generally only have coders and sometimes game designers working on them, only extremely rarely artists beyond contributing single assets.

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Being banned by EA is like being banned by the devil from giving him your soul...
People should be thankful.

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Mid 2020 does sound a bit optimistic to me.
The Vulkan rendering overhaul can be done by then for sure, but there are a lot more open issues marked for 4.0 than just that.

I'd say 2020 sounds realistic, still, but I'd put my money on the last quarter.

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I'm also quite fond of the game.

The only thing I do not like is the "timer" put on by the eventual appearance of the minotaur.
But at least you get a notification if the level you are currently on will be "visited" by the minotaur.

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