Thing is many who are mad about the VA change wouldn't care if they hadn't admitted they changed the VA purely on basis of race along with speaking in a manner far too well known as buzzword phrasing of dishonest hypocrite types plus they literally had a 15 minutes gameplay trailer with the O.G va and then they change the va later on on the bases of race reasons alone rather then talent with race having abit of a deciding factor plus the added factor is the reasons they gave for changing VA's paint the ones deciding this as more racist then prior viable(even though I never seen em as racist) because the VA is of I think it was Koeroen descent rather then Lo Wangs canon race factor.. thus it paints it as the age old ''You all look and sound the same'' talking piont that was a racist line years ago style of thing as it paints the picture of those in the studio the sort of people that lump all far enough eastern races as one and the same factor

You see the issiu here? They recast after having atleast 15 minutes but likely way more if not the whole game cast by the same va sense 2013 and it was purely on race reasons they did not skill factored in at all.. And even then they couldn't get that right

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None of the Shadow Warrior games play the same.

Original was a spiritual sequel to Duke Nukem.

2013 was a Painkiller clone.

2 was an ARPG looter-shooter.

3 is a movement shooter in the style of Doom Eternal.

Blame the steam foum-eers for that, they wanted this, and yelled as much in the suggestion thread by the devs.

I'm well aware of the situation. Actually, if I weren't well aware of the situation I wouldn't even have bothered with this post. That's one pretty long ramble without respect for the structure of sentences, grammar or how to express arguments in a convincing manner. You really need to take a step back and calm down, a lot.

If anyone else is as stupid as myself (probably not, but who knows):
1) go into the Game Library
2) select Shadow Warrior 3
3) select "View Downloads"
4) klick on "more"
5) klick on "Serial Keys"

I don’t know where you get your categories from.
Originals were FPS using the same engine and style of the day.
2013 was an FPS with mostly waves but not that much painkiller esque. It had a heavy focus on great story, secrets, and upgrading fixed weapons.
2 was Borderlands. Shallow repetitive levels using the same few blocks. Weapons which didn’t matter apart for those who play Excel. Had no humour, no story or plot, characters were all just checkboxes. In fact it had nothing at all which made either of the previous sets good, it was a completely different game/genre and shouldn’t have been called shadow warrior, perhaps BorderWarrior or ShadowLands. It did however have a good engine once you turned off all the glaring horrific special effects to be able to see it. Note it wasn’t an aRPG at all as far as I can tell??
3 has apparently gone more towards its origin, ditching the Excel and randomisation. But I don’t know anything further. If you mean movement shooter as in doom eternal was mario doom then I suppose, it that isn’t a positive thing!

No, it was not. Loot in an FPS does not instantly equal Borderlands. The guns in SW2 are static. The only thing that the loot consists of is upgrades and they drop in such quantities, it doesn't really matter. You don't have to spend hours grinding in hopes of finding a single useful gun, that will lose all value anyway in 4 levels due to scaling, where a random white gun will start doing more damage than your "legendary".

Loot is absolutely not the end all be all like in Borderlands. It is mostly just a supplementary system to toy with the dozens of available (pre-determined) weapons. I love Shadow Warrior 2 and find Borderlands quite boring after a while.

The main problem with SW 2 was the level "design" though. I'll give you that.

I am calm you just want to devalue the legit reason people don't like the change and care about the change when otherwise they wouldn't have.. After all why else bring it up in the first place how you had in your first comment? Also It was late and I was tired on my end when I wrote that last message... so it was quite poorly worded and structured do to trying to avoid the so called political terms and such the mindset the devs and studio had used to justify the change they spouted off..

Is something wrong with the Deluxe Edition or why is it still "Coming soon" on the store page and on my wishlist?

Well other than in borederlanda you get different whole guns each time, and in sw2 you get talisman that could be plugged not one weapon, not sure how it’s different? TBH guns in sw2 were so underpowered most of the time, even after spending some hours clocking the numbers, that it really wasn’t worth it. The main problem though with sw2 was lack of focus, no story, no plot, no route through, no point, just pick a randomised level for no reason, go and try out the trillion co himations of talisman you get from more or less every enemy as none of them seem to make any difference.

cool. Much better quality than the Steam stream I was watching yesterday

The difference is, that the upgrades drop very often and the possible affixes that can show up on them are quite limited, meaning it doesn't take hours or dozens of hours to get what you need. And once you get your bearings, you can ignore the bad ones, limiting it even further. Doing a revision of gems after every story chapter takes 1-2 minutes at worst if you know what you're doing. You also have the weapons always available and never have to re-farm them at a higher level. Borderlands is a game that expects you to grind, be it experience or items with 5% drop rate from a specific boss. You can play the entire Shadow Warrior 2 just going forward and using what you find along the way. And really optimizing your upgrades is necessary only if you intend on pushing high Insanity levels. And even then, you will eventually reach the overpowered stage, where everything just melts no matter what.

Guns only feel underpowered if you are using them improperly, like an enemy being resistant to an element of your main weapon and refusing to switch to a different one. You have 8 slots for weapons for a reason.

But I agree with the lack of focus. I love the game mostly because of the incredibly well done shooting. The rest indeed leaves a lot to be desired.

Another game I will have to put on the wishlist. You can never have enough Wang!

What is the name of the theme that plays during the fight in the dragon nest (with the ancient cock?). I didn't find it in the soundtrack.