Risk of Rain Returns – Launch Trailer

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• Poggervania@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So… why did this need a remake, exactly? Thought we had the original and the sequel on modern systems.

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  • 7lbmonkey@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This was a project by the original developers, not by gearbox. The original game, while incredible, had stability, optimization, and probably most importantly, multiplayer issues.
    The community had asked for a way to play together online without third party solutions, but the code base needed to be rebuilt to facilitate that.

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  • JamesBean@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gearbox bought the franchise from its original devs about a year ago, and this is one of their attempts to capitalize on that purchase.

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    • poke@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hopoo, the original devs, were already making this and got to finish working on it after the purchase. It adds new content and refines the gameplay of the original (movement feels better and the game just generally plays better) - it was also designed with modding in mind.

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    • Lilli@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think that’s the case at all. Gearbox is developing a mobile game to take advantage of owning the property, along with whatever they plan to do with Risk of Rain 2 now. Returns is from the original studio and is more of a love letter / farewell to the franchise.

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    • 7lbmonkey@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This project was an effort by the original developers, not by gearbox.

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  • TheEntity@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We didn't. The new publisher (Gearbox) apparently did.

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• jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m pretty hyped

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• turkalino@lemmy.yachts ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Only played the second one, loved it. Is this worth a shot or would it just feel like a stripped down version of 2?

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  • simple@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The mechanics are similar but it’s a very different game. I would say look up gameplay and decide for yourself if you’d enjoy a 2D version of Risk of Rain.

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• tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Let’s goooo

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• echo64@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  (Aside from Europe on nintendo)…

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• Glemek@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I recently got back into the 2nd one, and have been pleasantly surprised by how much is happening with them both. What with 2 getting some more DLC aswell. I don’t know that I will double dip on remake for a while, and the gacha game is a miss for me.

  I hope infusion still works how it does in the original, instead of how it works in ror2 though.

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