So you agree with me.

Looks pretty alright to me. It's not a huge improvement but a good enough excuse for me to play this game again.

It's really a wonder that it gets this treatment at all AND  an addon next year. Maybe if enough people buy it we'll get a sequel.

Good ol' times when every year there was another GPU gen and both companies at each others throat...

I looked a bit more into it and people are actually being locked out of the DLC from the game, as well as encountering other bugs, so I wouldn't say it's a perfect port. If people are having problems, people are having problems. I ain't gonna be one of those "works for me" = no problems kind of people. Even if it did work for me, I'd want the issues resolved for others.

It may get one, but like I said, the bugs are going to have to be resolved if they want more people to buy into it. I'll probably get it at a deeper discount, and when the majority of bugs are fixed. I was also hoping the lighting and textures would be upgraded, but that doesn't seem to be the case, hence why I'll wait for a deeper discount. 

Not really a troll given that he works for AMD.

That said, some are saying that it won't be Big Navi because one of AMD's heads, Scott Herkelman, hasn't retweeted nor liked that post... f*cking social media.

At least not all is lost, nowadays we're having that with CPUs.

Aha yeah. I still have my trusty HD4850 in the attic somewhere from many years ago. I'm hoping AMD pull something out with Big Navi, I have a feeling its going to surprise a lot of people. If it performs similarly to RTX 3080 while costing less it might be a good alternative to the RTX cards

I'm pretty sure AMD is hard at work with RDNA 3. We need more competition to drive innovation and prices to sane levels. I mean look at prices for the 3K series, they are obviously looking at the competition for pricing. If AMD keeps up without massive delays they can be back in the GPU game. Lets also not forget Intel are entering the ring soon as well lol. Its going to interesting times ahead.

This is a classic THQ move, they did the same when they acquired the Titan Quest IP. A remaster edition with all content and two expansions shortly after. I like it, it's a good way to revitalize aging games. I played the heck (heck & slash genre?) out of TQ and went back when THQ re-released it with new content, I think it's a pretty clever move. At least it works on old dogs like me.

KoA is a fantastic game, played like a sharp and action-oriented MMO without the "MO" bit and too much grinding. Combat is really fun and very varied depending on which path you choose. I might get the remaster when the expansion comes out.

The biggest difference here is that THQ gave the new Titan Quest (and doth Darksiders for those that had the DLCs) for free, while this one comes only with a temporary 50% discount.

Things are changing...

That's true, but the expansion packs were priced normally though and you had to own the base game before getting the free upgrade. But, yeah, it's quite different. It's still a decent strategy to get people either back into or introducing them to aging IP's such as this.

3080 benchmarks got leaked.

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1m5411b7NG

Max settings for all of these

Forza Horizon 4 - 4K at 150FPS
Far Cry 5 - 4K at 100FPS
Borderlands 3 - 4K at 61FPS
Horizon Zero Dawn: 4K at 76FPS
Assassin's Creed Odyssey: 4K at 67FPS

Shadow of the Tomb Raider:
RTX with DLSS ON - 100FPS at 4K
RTX with DLSS OFF - 84FPS at Native 4K

Control:
RTX with DLSS ON - 100FPS at 4K
RTX with DLSS OFF - 50-60FPS at Native 4K

Death Stranding:
DLSS ON - 160-170FPS at 4K
DLSS OFF - 100FPS at Native 4K

and the 3DMark benchmarks just for fun

3DMark Fire Strike Performance: 31919 (+25% 2080Ti, +43% 2080S )
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme: 20101 (+24% 2080Ti, +45% 2080S )
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra: 11049 (+36% 2080Ti, +64% 2080S )
3DMark Fire Strike Time Spy: 17428 (+28% 2080Ti, +49% 2080S )
3DMark Fire Strike Time Spy Extreme: 8548 (+38% 2080Ti, +59% 2080S )
3DMark Fire Strike Port Royal: 11455 (+45% 2080Ti, +64% 2080S )