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

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[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty hyped

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Let's goooo

[–] echo64@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

(Aside from Europe on nintendo)...

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] simple@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year 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.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.ml 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] JamesBean@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.zone 1 points 1 year 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.