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I agree with the posters in the Broken Age thread who insist that we wouldn’t have seen so many adventures in the making if the Double Fine Kickstarter hadn’t paved the way. I won’t back another Kickstarter anytime soon, but I won’t ever regret donating to the Tesla Effect, Lilly Looking Through, the Serpent’s Curse, Moebius, Armikrog, Obduction, and others. And to a game called Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today (2015). My expectations weren’t very high at the time, it was more like, okay doesn’t look half-bad, let’s give this one 20 dollars. And then I forgot all about it.

Awsome game. Very immersive. Dark, bleak, sci-fi story. Excellent writing. I couldn’t stop playing it. I’m delighted there will be a sequel. 

Karlok - 03 May 2015 11:32 AM

My expectations weren’t very high at the time, it was more like, okay doesn’t look half-bad, let’s give this one 20 dollars. And then I forgot all about it.

That was also my own thoughts, I however still haven’t had a chance to play it yet, but based on what I have read it looks like 20$ well spend.

i would have loved to see, the most controversial scene at the game, when Michael tore of the dead priest face!    

The Bingo, uh!, i mean BINGO!

a cherry for you, if you told me what movie reference was that, lol

wilco - 03 May 2015 04:08 PM

Advie - 03 May 2015 03:31 PM

The Bingo, uh!, i mean BINGO!

a cherry for you, if you told me what movie reference was that, lol

Inglourious Basterds?!?

 

Zats right!
you will have do with , no cherries

Don’t post Michael Fassbender here, it causes me to melt. It’s worse than Hypnotoad.

I was a bit on the fence backing this up but I tried the demo back then and the concept was made for my tastes, and I thought the art to be interesting as well. So I ended up backing but mostly forgot about the game until it popped up all ready.

I ended up liking it more than I anticipated, the setting was great and it was wonderfully depicted. It’s indeed good news that the story will be continuing.

wilco - 03 May 2015 04:08 PM

Karlok - 03 May 2015 11:32 AM

I won’t back another Kickstarter anytime soon,

Why is that? (if you want to answer). Like you said, lots of good came from it.

Disappointed. So many reasons. Some games didn’t see the light of day, money down the drain. Reading the updates of a couple of other games became painful, so I stopped doing that. Two developers gave me the impression they used the Kickstarter money to finance other, more interesting projects. One developer started a new Kickstarter campaign while the first game was nowhere near completion. Oculus Rift was sold to Facebook. I’m still angry about that one. And last but not least: I donated too much money to projects I believed in.

I’m not against crowdfunding, Kickstarter and Indiegogo are very useful. But I’ve done my share. If I ever decide to back another project, it will get twenty bucks from me and my best wishes.

It’s hard not to be disappointed by the Kickstarters, I’ve become a lot more reluctant when it comes to donating myself. In the beginning I was throwing all my money at them left and right, but none of them have come close to my initial expectations. The few that have delivered on time have been the exception to the rule, and the majority of the kickstarters I’ve backed have turned out a whole lot less entertaining than I imagined they would (that is, the ones that have been released… the majority of them are still in the works, and, sadly, several games I backed failed to reach their funding goal). But I agree with Karlok, DoubleFine did indeed pave the way for lots of adventures that we surely wouldn’t have seen otherwise, and for that I’m really happy.

I don’t really mind the delays too much, I can be very patient waiting for something good, but when the Kickstarter craze began, I imagined there would be a bunch of upcoming games that would evoke that feeling I’d get when playing the old classics, games that would put todays AG standards to shame, but that hasn’t happened yet (though I enjoyed BS5 and Broken Age more than I have most modern adventures). This is probably in part due to me not being the same person I was 15-20 years ago, I experience things differently now than I would back then, but I feel it’s safe to claim that none of the returning veteran developers have managed to top the quality we associated with them in the nineties.

The biggest disappointments for me have been Moebius and Larry Reloaded. I never even finished Moebius and it’s extremely rare that I don’t complete a game I’ve paid for, but I’ll probably get back to it some day.