Dev wrote on Feb 20, 2012, 19:21:

wtf_man wrote on Feb 20, 2012, 19:09:
If they can make something on par with Grim Fandango, or the Monkey Island 1 & 2 remakes... I'll be very happy.

Tim has already talked about it in answering questions about it. Lucasarts never ever sells any IP's so they can't do anything with that. Lucasarts would rather the IP's rot away.

Hump wrote on Feb 20, 2012, 11:02:
Poor Day 1, a talented bunch but their timing always stinks. Forget about the official BT stuff in the pipelines but they will be competing directly with Hawken for the arcade gameplay Mech fans. One look at the Hawken videos and its clear that Day 1 is up against some fierce competition.

Creston wrote on Feb 17, 2012, 11:47:

nin wrote on Feb 17, 2012, 10:32:

Now he sees the reality and starts backpeddling

And you would too if the price tripled from when you originally expressed interest.

Did it though? I thought Tim Schafer said straight-away that Psychonauts 2 would cost ~ 19 million to make, and initially Notch's response was "okay"?

I understand that he's having second thoughts, but I don't think the two sides were talking about 6 million and suddenly boom, it went up to 19.

Prez wrote on Feb 16, 2012, 21:55:
I don't like being pithy

Verno wrote on Feb 16, 2012, 12:24:
Yeah I have to agree with you, I've never seen anyone say the Portal 2 puzzles were too difficult and frankly the thought of that feels a bit ludicrous.

Slashman wrote on Feb 16, 2012, 07:36:

LightAssassin wrote on Feb 16, 2012, 05:59:
Was interested in it until I found about no co-op... makes the game point less to me.

Yeah because no action game can possibly be fun or entertaining without co-op.

Jerykk wrote on Feb 14, 2012, 00:09:

I'd love to believe that the kickstarter fund would end up reaping a return to the 'investors' in terms of quality and adherence to some of the principles that made the classics of yesteryear, but I think mobs like Obsidian will still try to go for mass appeal etc rather than making a solid game.

I don't think they would. For one, customers would expect some details before investing their money. Things like the type of game being made and the estimated length of development, for example. I highly doubt Obsidian would just take all that money and use it to fund a prototype they can just show off to publishers.

Given the realistic funding that a Kickstart would provide (~$1 million), Obsidian would have no choice but to make a 2D, old-school, text-driven CRPG (like Planescape Torment). I sincerely believe that old-school developers like Avellone would love to do such a thing but the realities of business have made it unfeasible.

Dades wrote on Feb 13, 2012, 22:25:
That was fixed last version Creston, it no longer auto-updates when you have it turned off and it doesn't switch back.

commonperson wrote on Feb 13, 2012, 22:35:
Here's the thing, Double Fine has a mis-start or two (Brutal Legend which I enjoyed but wasn't a big success) but is a fan favorite (Psychonauts, Grim Fandango, etc.)

Prez wrote on Feb 13, 2012, 19:28:
Auto-patching feature (with the option to disable it if you prefer older builds).

Dev wrote on Feb 13, 2012, 04:56:

Orogogus wrote on Feb 13, 2012, 03:19:

Dev wrote on Feb 13, 2012, 02:38:
Or, if the pie slices are split up into 1 part instead of 4 parts, that one part might be larger than any one slice in the 4 part pie.

It might. But it's not likely that it would be larger than the 4 slice pie (3, really; the Wii doesn't get most of the multiplatform games), so it's less overall money cycling back into development.
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But generally speaking, if aliens wiped out every Xbox and PS3 on Earth, it would be hard to say that the entertainment software industry would be making more money. And the mega-budget titles most likely to be held back by console limitations are the ones that need that money.

And I'm not saying the interactive entertainment industry as a whole would be making more money without consoles... i.e. I'm NOT saying that the 1 slice pie is larger than the 4 slice pie. In fact, if the 1 slice PC only pie in the alternate universe is only half the size of the 4 slice pie, it would still be bigger than the current PC market. Thats my argument, that without consoles PC would be bigger than it is today, but the industry as a whole would not likely be bigger in total dollars.