Looks like they passed the Elevation Dock and became the most funded Kickstarter thing ever within 24 hours.
Looks like they passed the Elevation Dock and became the most funded Kickstarter thing ever within 24 hours.
He doesn't understand the modern world or criticism.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
It would take one hell of a Kickstarter project to fund something on par with Shenmue. Speaking of production values, I mean.
If it was the sole source of funding, and he didn't reign in the concept or use existing work, but that's a lot of ifs.
It's just the kind of thing that speaks a lot louder than a petition.
I want to Kickstart a Space Harrier or Roadblasters remake now
Major publishers should be scared. We're taking their jobs. Good, fuck them.
The guys from Exact need to get on this.
I will pay cash bucks for a new Jumping Flash!
New Visual Concepts football game, please.
This is about 24 million shy of major publishers having to worry. It is, however, maybe a reason for them to start second guessing some of what they think they know about the public's interests, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrialSword
The death of adventure games is a really a pretty curious story. It always felt like kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts. It was a genre that had a little bit of trouble finding its footing in 3D (like many other genres at the time), and was summarily dropped by the two biggest publishers supporting the genre based almost entirely on the underperformance of Grim Fandango. Adventure games were declared dead, and no one thought of any other possible explanation.
Now they're a legitimate niche because they've been gone from the mainstream for so long, but if Sierra and Lucas invested more into finding a way to make the genre work in 3D and not play like a clunky nightmare like Grim Fandango, they might have found that interest didn't fade as much as they had thought.
In fact, I think major publishers have as much to gain from this as anyone. Suddenly questions like "Should we bring Mother 3 to the US" don't have to be these risky endeavors to speculate over. A petition doesn't mean shit to a major publisher who has to put money on the line, but this gives people a voice in a way that's going to carry water with a prospective publisher.