Someone is going to have to clue me in on the Broken Age thing, because last I checked it exists and is pretty good all told.
edited 5th Dec '15 5:26:25 PM by Zeromaeus
The main beef with Broken Age was that DF had to go to Steam Early Access to raise even more funds.
There's a documentary about the entire process on You Tube.
Do you think they'll be able to get all the voice actors back? Richard Horvitz has done nothing notable but Skylanders recently, so probably him. But not sure about the others though.
It's not Ogre, It's Never Ogre.
Zeromaeus, basically what happened with Broken Age was that Schafer kickstarted the game and got waaay more than his asking price (over 3 million when they asked for 400,000), and then it got stuck in Development Hell for a while and Schafer ended up splitting the game into two, putting the first half on Early Access to raise even more funds. Disgruntled backers saw it as a scam at worst and at best a massive mismanagement of funds. It also spawned jokes about how they called themselves Double Fine because they fined you twice.
This was also after Double Fine's previous game, Spacebase DF-9, which was also kickstarted, was still in Obvious Beta form when they slapped a 1.0 on it and told modders to finish their game for them.
The infamous Bobby Kotick said of his handling of Schafer's game Brutal Legend:
I never had any involvement in the Vivendi project that they were doing, Brütal Legend, other than I was in one meeting where the guys looked at it and said, 'He's late, he's missed every milestone, he's overspent the budget and it doesn't seem like a good game. We're going to cancel it. And do you know what? That seemed like a sensible thing to do. And it turns out, he was late, he missed every milestone, the game was not a particularly good game...
Kotick has been demonized for a long time, but his criticism of Schafer has began to ring very true for a lot of people.
Sex-negative outrage culture and the Illuminati are realTBH, I think a lot of the Broken Age debacle had to do with the growing pains of adapting to a new system of funding. Unlike John Kricfalusi and his Kicstarter, whom I do considered a hack and funded a project back in 2012 and still has nothing to show for it (Even his mentor Bakshi has produced the content he promised with updates with Last Days Of Coney Islands).
But I loved the style and humour of the first game (Black Velvetopia and Milk Conspiracy in particular - of course. Though Goggalor is a classic) and I'm so pumped for Psychonauts 2. I've even put my coins in the pot so I can help make it happen.
I'm having to learn to pay the price

You know, when Tim told me he would be announcing a bunch of stuff a few days...