I thought the owls seemed rather strange today....Copper Zen said:[small]...I'm having a Twin Peaks kind of day...[/small]
That doesn't make any sense. You're saying people should trust a developer based on what they have made before to make something new, but that's not what people are gonna want if they fund it. They're gonna want more of what they already love about the developer.Alterego-X said:It seems to me the first half with the generic rant about kickstarters is entirely self-contradictory.
On one hand, Yahtzee is chastising the people for blindly throwing their money at Schafer and letting him build anything he wants, at the same time chastising the system for only producing games that people know they want in advance.
If anything, the former negates the latter. In a traditional transaction, people only buy what they expect to like in advance, but with crowdfunding, there is a chance that if they pay based solely on trusting a publisher's track reckord, it might surprise them with something unexpected.
Funny, but it does bring up something interesting about the game. It's surprisingly not broke. For awhile it was going to be an "Early Access" game, but they decided agianst it since the first part is pretty much done. Say what you will about the gameplay and stuff, but I didn't hit any bugs or see much (besides a couple eyes) that should be fixed. It's nice to play a game before it was even released that actually works.canadamus_prime said:So it sounds to me like this game is kinda broken. ...I'll go now.
Schafer claims that Psychonauts 2 would have cost at least $13 million to make. He only thought Broken Age would cost a few hundred thousand and ended up spending, what, like $8 million? So, I don't think he was over-estimating when he said that.T3nno said:all that money would have been better used for a psychonauts 2
Well I was just making a very bad pun, it does still sound broken in the sense that Yahtzee describes the girl's story as a mess and it doesn't seem to have any connection to the guy's story. I don't know I haven't played it.Clovus said:Funny, but it does bring up something interesting about the game. It's surprisingly not broke. For awhile it was going to be an "Early Access" game, but they decided agianst it since the first part is pretty much done. Say what you will about the gameplay and stuff, but I didn't hit any bugs or see much (besides a couple eyes) that should be fixed. It's nice to play a game before it was even released that actually works.canadamus_prime said:So it sounds to me like this game is kinda broken. ...I'll go now.
Then they would have pitched that, instead of the point-and-click adventure game that they did.Auggey said:What if Double Fine wanted to make an experimental free-roaming, third-person shooter where you switch from character to character randomly and also there are no humans or something ridiculous to that nature? No one would have given them any money because they weren't doing what they are famous for.
I was just about to write up the same thing. The 45second video ad keeps going on loop and I can't see the video at all.Angry Canadian Gamer said:I'm getting ads and no actual ZP video. Is something borked?
Same for me. No video.Angry Canadian Gamer said:I'm getting ads and no actual ZP video. Is something borked?
Aye, I'm getting the promotional video of the Escapist shows, not the actual episode, no matter how much I refresh.Angry Canadian Gamer said:I'm getting ads and no actual ZP video. Is something borked?