I still hope that's just because they didn't have a tester with a 3-core rig.
It can't be that badly optimized, can it?

There's a long archived stream on YouTube from one of the testers and during it he mentions that they expected a lot of the AMD-related issues to crop up post-launch due to the fact that none of them during the testing period had access to any AMD hardware. So you're probably not far off with that guess.

He does mention that he feels pretty confident in Samuel Villareal's abilities to patch the game into a working state once they start sifting through the bug reports though.

I feel the smarter thing to do would've been to expand the testing phase through open sign-ups (or something similar) to ensure that they had a larger range of diverse hardware to work against, especially given that they knew that the game inside the KEX engine was going to be relatively demanding anyway.

and yet if you buy and play play games on a regular basis, the saving of so much as a £1 does eventually add up to some fine amount of change.

Truer words were never typed. :p

Given how long it took for the first remaster to hit that price (and even then, it seems to have only done so to ensure people bought it and would potentially take advantage of the discount for the second), a year seems overly optimistic.

Assuming (even with the cagey responses they've given) that they bought, at least, all the Turok N64 title rights, and they're working on either 3 or Rage Wars as the next release, it'll probably be another instance where the really steep discount only shows up when either of those is nearing launch.

Fair enough, but that's rather exceptional. Remastering has been Nightdive's core business for years and I find it hard to critize them for it (+ it's what sets them apart from other studios). If you prefer DOS versions, there are many titles available on GOG, which is great. Personally I don't enjoy running games in a tiny window using emulators.

Nicola Sturgeon is a useless arrogant brainless twat who does NOT speak for Scotland, there have more true words ;)

I'm not Scottish, but whilst I agree with you 100%, i'd prob remove that comment, as it can get quite vocal with anything surrounding Scotland and the whole other thing, and this is hardly the place. :P

It's okay, everyone hates my open non left wing opinion anyway. I'm sick of those gits trying to force us to live and think their ways and there need to call me a racist due to my intolerance of the people scrounging money and housing from my country. I'm use to it and don't care. I just won't reply, no point in arguing with those who think that they're always right. It's like a never ending circle of sorts. :P

Tiny window? I am not sure what you are talking about. Perhaps you meant low resolution?

I don't know exactly what he is talking about but the NES Emulators I have used do give you a pretty small game screen.

You can tell the emulator to upscale the image to a higher resolution in a larger window, if your computer has the horse power to do so.

Thanks. It's an NES Emulator so I should have the power.

I may have a unique setup since I run a few DOS games on a virtual machine, ergo no fixed resolution. The VM (usually running at 1080p) basically scales down to whatever the DOS application runs at. And I really don't enjoy low-res titles running fullscreen on a 1440p 27" monitor.

Things like System Shock Enhanced Edition scale beautifully in my VM environment and I'm able to run it windowed in 1080p.

But that's just me and not an issue per se. Turok 2 is a different beast though (which will have to wait until the macOS port is out).

Maybe it can. I don't know from what systems these reports are, but considering the graphics quality of the game this does not sound like optimization:
- <i>low framerate around 20 to 30</i>
- <i>it does have a few random performance dips, even on my rig that can max most games out</i>

Especially their overly professional style to work as described here: