Psychonauts 2

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

After the mess that was broken Age i am not believing a word he says.

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.

Funny thing, I just recently replayed that game. Good times. Though the Meat Circus platforming was obnoxious...

edited 5th Dec '15 8:25:53 PM by Eagal

So i've just checked the Fig and not only has it slowed to a crawl now....they just added 4 extra days onto it.

ok The campaign is very Close to 2 Million.

This might fund a bit before christmas.

Man I hope it turns out well. I still love the first one.

Even if Pyrokinesis winds up being a fairly useless power. I wish burning things with my mind was more effective.

Only burn things if you're in danger or if it's really really entertaining.

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.

I only really care about Raz's voice. And Agent Sasha.

Both Raz's and Lili's V As are "into it", so that's good.

Retrospective on Psychonauts....

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.

Creators are not always good managers and vice versa.

We are 2/3rds the way there. 2.2 million is in the .....not really bank but it's there.

EDIT: Also Part 2 of the Psychonauts Retrospective is out

edited 9th Dec '15 2:02:35 PM by TwilightFalchion

Thanks for the videos, person in thread.

Wouldn't find on my own too fast.

I downloaded the game again today and still love it. Got to black velvetopia too(favorite level) so I got really far.

Milkman Conspiracy never fails to make me laugh.

Spacebase DF-9 was never kickstarted, it was released directly to Early Access.

It was Massive Chalice that was also kickstarted, but Schaffer wasn't involved with either game.

Just about to hit the 2.3 M mark which will mean only 1 Million dollars left to get.

Massive Chalice is cool - sort of a fantasy XCOM. I haven't had much time to play, tho.

TBH, 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.

Final Part of the Psychonauts Retrospective....

So um, anyone else noticing that TV Tropes now has ads for Psychonauts 2?

I mean, I literally started seeing a few ads just now, so I'm wondering if this is a recent happening or what.

Do you know what a "tracker" is? Do you know that Google and other online entities monitor where you go, where you click, and what you say?

The Big Brother brought you those ads, and you better be thankful!

edited 10th Dec '15 6:36:01 PM by KlarkKentThe3rd