@Berenzen: Ah. So something like the Diablo series or the early Fallouts, more the latter than the former given its strategic approach to combat. Makes sense.
Serial Killer Round 43 - Welcome to the Killtona 500 (Finish Line Reached! Race is Over!)
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@Berenzen: I loved Alpha Protocol. It was fantastic game that suffered from some crippling problems.
Give Obsidian some proper funding and an very meticulous QA team and they could probably make a really great game with this.
It's really too bad that I'm not a huge fan of the whole Dungeon Crawler at an Isometric view. I'd probably jump right in on this otherwise.
Give Obsidian some proper funding and an very meticulous QA team and they could probably make a really great game with this.
It's really too bad that I'm not a huge fan of the whole Dungeon Crawler at an Isometric view. I'd probably jump right in on this otherwise.
Color me skeptical, but I have serious reservations about any game that is trying to get funding and hype because it's made by particular people...and releasing pretty much nothing else about it. Yes, they have a nice, glossy résumé; and, the studio appears to be made of talented people. But they're still people, and times have changed. All that being said, I'll be keeping my fingers crossed.
And what the difference between that and them trying to pitch to a developer? They're trying to make something that a publisher won't normally say yes to, so they have to go to the populace.xTwinkiesx said:
You see, showing people a buggy-ass unfinished product that can change mid-game. Why do you think video games companies have NDAs? What they would show would be basically a pre-alpha build that isn't in any way reminiscent of the full game. That isn't exactly what you would call good marketing. So yeah, I fully understand why they didn't show any gameplay or anything else.
Anyway, J.E. Sawyer stated that they'd slowly be releasing a few details about it- no gameplay, but possibly a general outline of the world- as time goes on, but they didn't want their pitch video to go on for too long, so instead a few blogs about The Black Hound and Building Worlds were written by Josh in order for people to get a general feel for what they were going for.
Honestly, what do you expect? A full demo, they gave you the pitch, if you don't want to invest, you don't have to, but that's about the extent that most pitches consist of. Think of it as them applying for a job, they have their resume- their list of games that they've made- and you're choosing whether or not to pay them for the job they've applied for- making the game they're pitching to us.
@Berenzen: Don't get me wrong, I'd probably go right to Kickstarter if I needed funding for a game, too. I think everyone here knows how effective it can be. And from reading their pitch, I got the impression that they already had an idea of who they wanted in on the project; and, a big-name developer would probably pick their own team for Obsidian to work with.
I'm not saying that anything you've said is wrong, because it isn't and I completely understand why they're doing what they're doing. And the fact is I really have nothing I can say back at any of it. Call me selfish, call me short-sighted, call me part of the problem. I'm just saying that, personally, throwing money into anything before I even know what it is seems kind of silly. And that's all I have to say on the matter.
I'm not saying that anything you've said is wrong, because it isn't and I completely understand why they're doing what they're doing. And the fact is I really have nothing I can say back at any of it. Call me selfish, call me short-sighted, call me part of the problem. I'm just saying that, personally, throwing money into anything before I even know what it is seems kind of silly. And that's all I have to say on the matter.
@RaNDM Investors that won't fund that style of game, which they obviously want to make. Hell, it's going to be PC-only, you really think that any publisher will say yes to that?
Obviously you don't like kickstarter, but keep your misinformation to yourself. You seem to think that Obsidian has piles of money to throw around, which, judging by the layoffs they had to do, is obviously not the case.
Obviously you don't like kickstarter, but keep your misinformation to yourself. You seem to think that Obsidian has piles of money to throw around, which, judging by the layoffs they had to do, is obviously not the case.
If the people that keep getting killed/executed are the people that actually vote (it seems we have a shortage of those) then my bet is on the killer.
@Twinkies: You got that right. Half the people left haven't even voted yet. I really dislike having to go begging for votes. But now I issue another deadline. If I don't have quorum from the voting public by the time I return to the city tonight, I will execute one of the non voters.
Alright, here's the plan. We put a giant dome around the "town" we're in, and wait for someone to try and leave. That person, would logically be the killer, as they would be escaping their crimes! The plan, is foolproof!
*Walks off to make some calls*
*Walks off to make some calls*