Broken Age (formerly Double Fine Adventure) (Finally complete!)

[Joust Williams]

TWD was good

not a game though

[Yoshi]

This is totally not true. It's NOT episodic. You cannot play or buy Act 2 separately. It's also very obvious from Act 1 that Act 2 is not going to be a seperate thing; it'll include the areas from the first game, and there are inaccessible areas in the first that will open up in the second.

The completed game will be indistinguishable from a full length game. It's essentially just that they cut off the story at a certain point.

Never go into marketing, Frog. "Episodic" sounds better than half finished, which is what you are describing.

[FirstBlood]

Pretty sure he wasn't saying otherwise.

[bbobb]

Everything is better than the show.

Agents of Shield isn't.

[Diff-chan]

Agents of Shield isn't.

I'll never know.

[bbobb]

You are most fortunate in that.

[Frogacuda]

Never go into marketing, Frog. "Episodic" sounds better than half finished, which is what you are describing.

A half-finished game sounds worse than an episodic one, but not as good as a finished game.

Right now this IS a half-finished game. But eventually it will be a single, finished game, not two episodes. That's what I'm saying. The release are "Broken Age Act 1" and then just "Broken Age."

[YellerDog]

Are games actually ever finished anymore?

[Mzo]

I agree that episodic sucks more. You have these small gated areas that are separate in each episode. I really hate it.

[George]

If they had just called this the closed Beta for backers and that the full release was six months later I think the argument wouldn't be occurring. It's a damn near-finished product. It all looks very nice, by the way, but the layering effects go wonky sometimes. You can see it most clearly when a character's neck joint overlaps the head every so often. Or arm joints coming to the foreground as well.