Risk of Rain Returns is now available on Steam and Nintendo Switch!Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1337520/Risk_of_Rain_Returns/ Nintendo: https://...

(This is a remake of the original Risk of Rain, out now)

  • Poggervania@kbin.social
    104·
    11 months ago

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

    • 7lbmonkey@kbin.social
      16·
      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.

    • TheEntity@kbin.social
      26·
      11 months ago

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

      EDIT: Apparently it was already started by the original devs even before the acquisition, see the comments below. I must admit, the multiplayer was wonky so there is some merit to it.

    • JamesBean@kbin.social
      49·
      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.

      • Lilli@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        5·
        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.

    • simple@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      5·
      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.

  • Glemek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    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.

    • deadh34d@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      God ror1 infusion was so amazingly broken, I loved it. Definitely looking forward to slime trailing whole screens with acrid and having thousands of hit points again.