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Not enough bang for the buck when you can get a similar enough result with scummvm and super sampling. I'm sorry, but I'm not giving any money to Mr. Schafer ag
by omegote 11y ago
Not enough bang for the buck when you can get a similar enough result with scummvm and super sampling. I'm sorry, but I'm not giving any money to Mr. Schafer again, I already made that mistake with Double Fine and oh God how I regret it.
- ngoldbaum 11y agoAre you talking about Broken Age? What was the problem? You got an excellent documentary about the realities of game development, the full game, and whatever additional rewards you pledged for. If the issue is that the game was split into two parts, I have very little sympathy for that, since you still got the documentary, and got the full game. You also received both halves of the game for your original pledge amount. Games take time and effort to develop and sometimes there are delays.
- Reedx 11y agoI was a backer and although I didn't get into the game, it was easily worth it for the documentary alone.
- arielweisberg 11y agoDocumentary was pretty unique. And now it's free!
- omegote 11y agoThe kickstarter campaign was a mess. The product was delayed a lot, it was way over budget, and this was not the first time Schafer pulled one of this stunts only to finally produce a game that many backers disliked (myself included). There are many articles that explain the kickstarter fiasco better than me, if you need more details.
- rantanplan 11y agoSpot on. I was waiting for years for this game. To be honest I didn't back it on kickstarter, but I bought it when the first chapter got out. It was soooo bad, that I didn't even bother to play the second chapter. 2nd experience: I bought Grim Fandango remastered version. Oh my god, what a smart money-grab move from Mr. Schafer. The game still had a notorious bug, present even in the original version, where you could lose an inventory item(your scythe basically) and you couldn't move forward. Only solution was to load from a previous point. I had to replay 1-2 hours work of game, so I gave up. As I'm saying all this... I'm gonna buy this remastered game also. Simply because Tim Schafer knows that he can manipulate me via my childhood memories and get away with it. Oh well.
- CalRobert 11y agoPardon my ignorance, but what was the matter? I loved Broken Age. I wasn't in the kickstarter, but I just bought it in the App Store (well, actually my wife did) and loved it.
- manachar 11y agoIgnoring the Schafer comments... it's 15 dollars. Depending on your locale, this is probably roughly the price of a movie ticket. It's odd to me that people value games so little. A quick look suggests this is at least 6 hours of game play. Seems like a fine price for 6 hours of entertainment, especially if you've never played the original.
- strangecasts 11y agoI really wish they'd taken the style into consideration instead of just redrawing the characters - the colored outlines worked really well at a small resolution, but they look really weird when you scale them up.
- kirrent 11y agoThe only double fine game I ever regretted buying was brutal legend and even then I got a few laughs out of it and appreciated it for what it was. Psychonauts, happy action theater, the cave, and broken age were all wonderful.