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okr on 10 February 2012
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naznatips said:
okr said:

(...) . 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).

(...) . Those German P&C games almost never get localized in English and have a budget of $100,000. 

Also, Double Fine may not have made an outright masterpiece since Psychonauts, but they've made lots of great games. Costume Quest, Iron Brigade, Stacking... heck even Once Upon a Monster and Happy Action Theater are great children's games made with love

Quite wrong. Actually all of the German point&click games are localized in English (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13), btw same goes for p&c adventures developed in other EU countries like Spain (1, 2, 3, 4) or Sweden. These games have budgets between €300.000 and €600.000 (e.g. The Whispered World and the recently - so far only in GER - released Deponia each had a budget of €500.000).

Also, of course Double Fine makes objectively good to very good games. No one denies that, but good games don't make them special, there are plenty of quality game developers around the world who put their hearts in their games. The one thing that makes Double Fine special is the fact that both, Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert work there. Their popularity is currently being impressively proved by the enormous success of this kickstarter project.