| naznatips said: Wow, I hate so many people in this thread. Even if you aren't going to donate please don't be a dick about the situation. Double Fine and Tim Schafer are amazing developers who love games dearly. Shitting on them and this great project to avoid publisher bullshit and beaurocracy just makes you an asshole. And really? $400K is a lot of money for a game? Do you people have any concept of currency or development budgets at all? That's insanely low for any game. Most DS games cost more than that for heaven's sake. I'm so happy most of the gaming community has more of a soul than you people and the funding is going well. These people are the heart and soul of gaming and deserve your respect if nothing else. Can't wait for the final product, and I'd donate more if I had it. |
Calm down. Gilbert & Schafer will eventually get way more than $400K even without the help of some "soulless" VGC members. Come on, as if this wouldn't have been clear from the start... These two guys know their reputation among their devoted fans and - dare I say it - sometimes they love to play around with this reputation (that's the only thing I dislike a bit about them despite my avid love for many of their games).
By the way: Both haven't really shown interest in developing a point&click adventure game in the past years and the platformer Psychonauts is in fact the only masterpiece created by one of them post LucasArts. i.e. it's also the only really outstanding game developed by Double Fine so far. That was seven years ago. Also, the best point&click games are developed elsewhere these days and G&S have yet to prove (at least to me) that they're still really interested in the genre. I've only seen them talking about point&click games in interviews for years on end. Not an uncommon phrase: "I'd love to develop another one, but...". There are plenty of European publishers which would have been more than willing to fund a point&click game developed by Schafer and/or Gilbert (after all - and afaik - German publishers funded Mata Hari, A Vampyre Story and Ghost Pirates of Voojoo Island, three adventure games developed by far less known LucasArts game veterans Hal Barwood, Noah Falstein and Bill Tiller).
