Wot in fuck?

>give us STEPPEBUX, oynon
Calm your tits, apparently the devs partnered with the company to handle marketing and renaming the project is one of their decisions, but IPL still has full creative control over the project and will handle everything that actually counts by themselves.

>>388931327
I'm not worried about the game. I honestly doubt IPL would partner with anyone who would limit their creative control. I'm more so confused about the retarded name change. Why call it 2? They couldn't have possibly changed that much shit. It's still gonna be the same plot right?

>>388931512
Apparently it was to avoid confusing the game with the previous Pathologic titles. I also don't get it, to be honest, since I prefer the original name.

to be honest, IPL always had troubles with naming their games

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>>388931512
It's a questionable decision at best.
There was a lenghty discussion yesterday, and as far as we know, IPL partnered with Tinybuild for the whole marketing and distribution thing because they ran out of money, but keeps total creative control.
It seems, however, that Tinybuild forced the new title on them, "to prevent confusion". Which totally doesn't work, as everyone now thinks it's a sequel. Which it isn't.

English fans are worried because "Pathologic 2" sounds silly, and Russian fans are worried because "Mop" instead of "Mop. Утoпия" is too generic and isn't representative of the game.

>>388932278
I'd rather blame localization teams.

>>388931180
So by this being a remake and all, should I simply hold off on playing the HD classic and wait for this?

>>388931180
Actually Pathologic 2 is pretty smart, even if its the same story and stuff. There are lot's of franchises that always reboot in every entry.

But of course, now it IS confusing because there has been talk about a remake and some will be confused of it's disappearance... ara ara.

>>388932629
Devs say they're so different that they're basically different games, even the story. Classic HD is very much worth playing.

Yeah
Pathologic: Subtitle would be the best name

>>388932913
oh interesting, I'll do that then.

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PLEASE DEAR GOD DONT FUCK UP PATHOLOGIC I'VE BEEN WAITING THIS SHIT FOR 12 YEARS

So is the demo not available anymore or am I not looking hard enough?

Why not the original slav title - Plague; Utopia

>>388933406
Because it doesn't really work in english

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>>388932629
The eternal question that pops up in every thread.
The short answer is, we don't know. Nobody knows.

The long answer is : original Pathologic will ALWAYS be worth playing. However, it's not easy to get into, and has its fair share of flaws. Our collective hope is that the new Pathologic (I refuse to call it Pathologic 2) will not only improve on those shortcomings, but also retain everything that made the old game so unique. If that hapens, then the old pathologic will effectively be made redundant, and we safely say "just play the remake".
But nobody knows if that will happen. Nobody knows what the new Pathologic will be like.
So, until release day, I can only tell you this : play the old pathologic; if you can't get into it, try the demo for the new pathologic.
On top of all that, while both games share the same setting, the story will - supposedly - be different enough to warrant playing both games.

And of course, if you decide to play old Pathologic, don't actually play the original 2005 release. Play "Pathologic : classic HD"

>>388933497
What do you mean.

>>388932629
Play HD as Bachelor. He was the focus of development and his campaign is the best. If you like it, there would still be two more characters to play as in the remake.

>>388933406
Because that original title was actually a pun that does not work when translated.

>>388932843
No, it's not. Outside of most people just finding it ugly, it cause a wide-spread confusion and panic, with multiple people thinking the remake was cancelled and Pathologic 2 being a completely new game that is a direct sequel to original Pathologic, tons of people saying "well is there even a point in playing a sequel when I did not play the first one..." etc...
It's actually a puzzlingly stupid decision. But luckily it should not affect the quality of the game itself.

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>>388933691
>his campaign is the best
wrong

But yeah, he should still start with Bachelor

>>388933579
>What do you mean.
It's a word-play in Russian. "Mor" means plague or pestilence, but it's also the phonetic transcription of the name More (as in Thomas More, the author of the book Utopia).

>>388933579
The original title was Mop. Утoпия, pronounced Mor. Utopia, meaning "Pestilence. Utopia"
It's a pun on Thomas More's Utopia.

>>388933703
>>388933497
If you mean the fact that Mop. Утoпия sounds suspiciously like Thomas More - Utopia (the book), the devs admitted long like ago that its a pure coincidence

>>388931327
Whoever they partnered with is an idiot. If they had half a brain they would have just added a subtitle.

>>388933895
They might change the title again down the line, I don't think this is a deal breaker in any way.

>>388933535
I was thinking of playing classic hd earlier, actually.

I know I've seen an image floating around of a beginners guide to Pathologic. Can someone post that?

>>388931180
will they change the "journal" menu? i hated the one in Marble's Nest

>>388933703
This every single word. It must be one of the most retarded things I have seen in marketing, it's like they tried their best to rape any form of common sense.

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>>388933846
>the devs admitted long like ago that its a pure coincidence
Do you have a source on that ? I have no reason to think you're lying, but that just seems too much of a coincidence to me.

>>388933983
there you go.

>>388934053
>Do you have a source on that
Literally wikipedia (slav one) my dude

>>388933846
>the devs admitted long like ago that its a pure coincidence
Uh, no. In fact they called attention to how obsessive they are about puns all the time, including their latest statement they made on VK in which they flat out say "it was time we realized that somebody who did not base their game's name on a really lame pun might be more competent to market our game?"

Fuck me, half of Pathologic is based on pun.

>>388934119
>иcтoчник нe yкaзaн
You may be right, but I'd still like the source on that interview.

It's not definitive, right?

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>>388934545
The title ? Who knows. It is for now, but if they changed it once, they can change it again.
The real issue is that the decision seemingly didn't come from IPL, but from Tinybuild.

>>388934692
Tiny Build better keep their fingers away from the actual game. I will never forgive them if they ruin it