By timely, you mean their October 2016 estimate? I think that's a reasonable release goal.
Mighty No. 9 made about 4 mill and (aside from a shitty community manager), the only problem we're getting is a delay... and that for extra content that backers are getting for free anyway.
I wasn't talking about Mighty No. 9, but good for them. Yeah, some kickstarters work out. And a lot don't, that was my point.
The first act of Broken Age was almost exactly what I wanted...
I have an unopened Cary Elwes version, Kati and I are supposed to team play it someday for funsies.
Most big games have secured outside funding in advance, which is fucking with the KS system because it makes people expect more for way, way less. inXile may not have a backer this time.
It's okay. He did a fine job, it's just kind of a meh game, as far as playing it goes. Actually, the banter between Tony Jay and Cary Elwes is the highpoint of the game.
Basically this. Gameplay-wise it's exactly like every other isometric hack/slash of the time, as there were a ton of them on XBox/PS2/PC around that era. The dialogue, voice work and overall writing makes the game shine a lot brighter than it would have otherwise, though.
Yeah. There were some elements, like the summons, that felt kind of half-finished. Overall it's a good game, but one I was satisfied to rent, not own. It did have one nice feature, though - all the vendor trash loot was instantly converted to coin for you.
My first reaction was literally "Why is this on Kickstarter? Haven't they been showing off trailers and gameplay for months? Who was paying for THAT and why aren't they funding the entire game?". Not saying they shouldn't be doing a KS or anything... simply that I thought this was already almost ready to be released, given how much of it we've already seen.
That's incredibly impressive.
Personally, I'm not a fan of that style of game. But I know it has a very solid following, so I hope it does well as another "fuck you" to Konami.
It has to be discouraging to see the masters of these kinds of games strike out on their own though... I mean, do you really want to run a new Mega Man game in competition with Mighty No. 9? Not only are the fans not going to stand for it, you have a slim chance of defeating the master of that style of game in his own work. Same with Igarashi and the others: who wants to duke it out with the master?
You think too highly of consumers. Given the choice between Mega Man XII: return of the reboot, by Unknown Company Drone #84601 or Unknown Game Name, by The Absolute Master of the Craft ,the One and Only, most people will still buy the first, because they recognize the game/IP name. The amount of developers whose name will actually sell a game is pretty limited. American McGee, Sid Meier,....For some unknown reason, Peter Molyneux, and that's about it.
Hideo Kojima? Tetsuya Nomura? Hironobu Sakaguchi? Suda51? SWERY? Tim Schaffer? That's just all I can think of without really trying. There are a lot of names that can sell titles, if you look outside the US market.
Yes, and I'll just repeat what I meant (but didn't write, apparently): those names will all draw SOME money from a SMALL part of the population. The vast majority of gamers aren't aware of any of those names. Frankly, I'm an involved gamer, I spend more time reading up on games than I do actually playing them, and several of those you mentioned don't ring a bell at all. SOME fans know, and care. MOST fans don't. You're mistaing the vocal and visible part of a fandom for all of it.
