It doesn't even justify to be a separate game, imo. This should have been a free upgrade for all owners of the original. A 50% off code is rather a bad joke than a serious offer. Bad move Harvester Games.

Where? When I go to http://harvestergames.com/ and click on Downfall I get redirected to http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/downfall.html which tells me: "Sorry, the page you were looking for could not be found."

Don't misunderstand me: in other cases, you could absolutely use "into": "Don't go into it", "Don't go into that; but not "Don't go into there." I can't really explain it, but we just don't say that. Probably just another on the Giant Pile of Things in English which Are Horribly Inconsistent and Make No Sense. =D

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Even with the 50% discount this game with a few upgrades still costs 50% more than the original cost me.

I don't expect things for free but I would've jumped at a follow up day one full price, this? no chance.

I do. Just look at freshly released Shadowrun: Hong Kong Extended Edition (and Dragonfall: Director´s Cut) and you will understand why. Both of those games were significantly remade, extended and optimized.
For free (for those who owned the previous version).

That´s why.

Thank you!

I like the improved graphics of the redux version, but due to the heavily increased system requirements I will not be able to run it on my system. Sorry Harvester Games and Screen 7, for now you aren't getting my money because of that.

But the original, free version of the game even seems to run under Wine. So personally I can see this change positive now. I was on the fence to buy the original game. I've missed it on the last sale half a year ago, otherwise I probably would feel cheated now. The 50% discount for owners of the original game is not really a good offer.

Edit:
I'm just playing the free version of the game. Is it a limitation of the free version or maybe a problem in Wine that the game does not have voice-over? Or did the original version of the game also not have voice-over?

A 50% discount on a new game isn't a good offer?

The free version is in no way limited. It even comes with the soundtrack. It had no voice-over. That's why I don't get why the people are whining that the remake costs money. It's - save for the story - an entirely new game.

Wishlisted, but I'm unlikely to get it now.

Sometimes it is the case that a released version of a game is lacking in some meaningful way and that is why a game gets an 'extended', 'remastered', or 'call it whatever' version after official release. I cannot stress enough that this is not the case with Downfall (2016). I say this as a player of not just Downfall (2016) but as a player of the original release, now called Downfall (2009), and a player of The Cat Lady: I say this as someone familiar with Harvester Games' work.

This is not a simple graphics upgrade, addition of voice acting, change of music/sound, or an extension of gameplay. This is a reboot of the first game and so much more that I don't want to spoil for those who have yet to play. The graphics and graphic style is reminiscent of The Cat Lady and perfectly in line with that. The gameplay is in line with The Cat Lady, a plot point-as-gameplay decision game, and doesn't have the puzzles or the combat/chase sequences in the original game. There is voice acting and an appreciably different yet faithfully similar script. The soundtrack is even different.

While it is entirely appropriate to poke at the industry for regularly doing less than its best and, sadly, phoning it in all too often, it is simply not the case for Downfall (2016) and you are speaking from a position of complete ignorance. There is no way that someone who played the 2009 game and then the 2016 game can throw that accusation against Harvester Games and Downfall 2016 in good faith.

I do probably complain a bit much and am a bit negative too much perhaps. Negativity comes from life sucking and being exhausted at trying to make it not suck and just feeling defeated over and over again. But then, I find wayyy too many people being wayy too positive about things too often. Yay-sayers for everything when the world is in a terrible terrible state and they just focus on the good things so they can remain blissfully ignorant instead of seeing the whole picture to get a real sense of reality.

As for this specifically, I just see the general knowledge of the english language (of course this only is aimed at people who have English as their first language) going downhill continuously, and it gets perpetuated by the media because that's where people are seeming to get their education from these days. Yes, sometimes it's character representation, but very often I just find it to be poor writing abilities, and that it passes as acceptable frustrates me, and that it perpetuates poor word-usage/grammar frustrates more.

I also have an issue with/am generally against redux/remaster/remakes/reissues, etc., so combining that with this, I posted negatively. I liked the look of the original Downfall, I don't like the look of this. I especially don't like that there is not a single detail about what has been done to make it a "bold reimagining" that gives a "completely overhauled retelling." Ugh. Why did they feel the need to overhaul and retell it? Did they not achieve the vision they were striving for when they first made it? What makes the re-imaging bold? Does that mean that the first realization was not bold, but bland?

Nah, I understood what it intended, my question is: did the writer do it intentionally or do they just have a poor grasp of language or simply not pay attention to, re-read, proof-read, edit, their work? My "pet peeve" is with the perpetuation of the dumbing-down of people due to poor language use on a large scale by media, in general. My "pet peeve" is with writers not being held to a higher standard than what they are. They can pretty much right horrible trash and get away with it. It bothers me. Probably because I'm a writer it irks me more than others.
I appreciate it when people correct me. I like being shown how I can do better. I know I'm imperfect, but I also know that i can improve (everyone can improve), and I believe in/strive to have a supportive, helpful, caring community of fellow humans who help each other be the best they can be, improving each other by helping each other with their mistakes, downfalls, etc. Not any single person can do it all by themselves.

People get their egos involved and it messes everything up, becomes a personal criticism to your personal being rather than "hey, I was just trying to help you with something", because, really, who doesn't want to be better? And the answer to that is: lots of people don't care to be better. And that is another "pet peeve" I have, and part of the reason we are in such a terrible state as a human race, because people have gotten used to lazy convenience and just getting by on as little effort as possible instead of trying to do better for themselves and the world on a whole.

It shouldn't be a BATTLE, it should be a collective effort to improve ourselves. Please, any time you see me mis-use some words or that I could do something better, point it out in a non-dickish way, and I'll highly appreciate it.

I absolutely agree with all of your post. Everything in it. You are absolutely right.

I picked that single bit simply because I couldn't find anything either. Not even Google knows. Kunovski told me on the first page they changed from point n' click to The Cat Lady engine & that's all I know & am likely to find out.

Again, I am not particularly pissed off at this game, even after the incredible post made by the publisher.

There are worse offenders out there. It's just something that kept grinding my patience & this one happened to be the one that did it.