Rune II - abandoned by Human Head Studios, still causing drama - coming to Steam on November 13th

You could download it from file sharing site and form your own opinion?

 

if you may answer these questions, plox:
- how big is the download size?
- how big are the islands?
- is exploring the islands fun for someone, who liked the environmental art/design of Skyrim (=snow, mountains, forests, rivers, viking themed villages)?
- are there sidequests?

 

- IIRC 25-30GB.
- They aren't big, and your character is very fast, so they feel small. It's hard to convey distance, but let's say that it takes longer to run from Riverwood to Whiterun in Skyrim than it takes to cross the biggest island I've found.
- No. The world has NOTHING. Seriously, no villages, no NPCs, no cool unique locations, NADA. Besides Loki, even the bosses are just pallet swaps. It's all just generic snowlands with some chests throw around with weapons & materials. Oh, and the enemies level scale. The island with Lv 1 bandits becomes overrun with Lv 10 cannibals, all loot is random, pure decline.
- There are no NPCs in the game, you just have a list of optional tasks like "Kill 5 wolves". When you do that, you automatically get some bonus XP or item. That's it.

 

You sure you didn't play NWN OC?

 

holy moly. I ran across the entire land of Skyrim, north to south in ~49 minutes. and I considered that too small, especially after playing Daggerfall for so long.

this sounds so amateurish. what have they been doing all the time? and how does this barebones content equate 25-30 GB??? such a shame.

 

Piracy is wrong!

 

you dont say...

 

Bethesda intentionally destroyed developer of 2012's Prey 2, Human Head, by starving the studio of resources to force it into a corner where Human Head would feel like they had to sell the studio to Bethesda for a far-below-value price in order to survive. Human Head did not give in to Bethesda, and as a result of having no income from Prey 2 after having spent its resources making Prey 2, couldn't afford to make another big-title game:



It had taken from then until now for Human Head to recover enough financially to be able to make a new big-title game. Human Head's first big-title game since 2006's Prey was Rune II.


Bethesda reportedly did the same thing to Arkane Studios:



Opening the Scrolls: Unpacking the Shady and Scandal-Plagued History of Bethesda / ZeniMax

 

Escalating...: https://www.rune2.com/topic/complaint-filed-for-rune-ii-assets/

 

Damnation

 

daily reminder that zenimax/bethesda is a malicious rotting pile of sentient, ancient human shit (´・ω・`)

 

True, true....we also know jack shit about what happened with this game, who started what and who's at fault.

 

The publisher secured the source code: https://www.rune2.com/topic/rune-ii-assets-acquired-and-next-steps/

But the legal battle is not over: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-01-03-rune-ii-source-code-returned-to-publisher

 

thank you

0:19 ehh...

 

I have not been following this game, but I enjoyed original Rune quite a lot and this horrendous shit makes me pretty sad...

 

I actually plan to check out this game once they're finished with, you know, finishing it. From what I saw at launch it looked like a solid basis for a fun little aRPG, only horribly undercooked.

 

waiting to hear if the 1.1 fixed enough to make it playable, or is it just barely beta level still lol

 

Not really interested in the game, but seeing a publisher actually attempt to fix the mess they were left with rather than just cut their losses is pretty cool.

 

What is with all the light-beams?

 

This is Gothic remake again

 

The whole game is still just a large outdoor map with no dungeons. There's no amount of patches that can fix that.

 

And i thought Rune Man was bad sequel ...

 

7 bucks rn. Bought it.