Legend of Dragoon

[Cloudman]

LuckyTrouble said:

Cloudman said:

Rather than ask fans to pitch in money, why don't they just revive old titles like that again? It's been done before with games like Kid Icarus and Tomb Raider. I can't stop you all, but this seems like a slippery slope to go down...

Revivals are risky. Super risky. Especially if a series has been dormant for a decade or more. Tomb Raider only worked because Uncharted and Far Cry worked. They saw popular styles that could effectively be replicated and hopped on it. That's not a bad thing by any means, but that isn't possible with absolutely everything that could do with a legitimate sequel, remake, or revival.

To me, this isn't a slippery slope. Rather, this is a way to get games we may never see again otherwise. It helps the business side of things figure out the risk versus reward. Everybody groaning about contributing to the funding of the game: you aren't. The way Kickstarter is used, what you're giving, that $2 million or even $5 million is a drop in the bucket compared to what companies like Sony will contribute if the consumer support is there. Kickstarter is effectively a marketing campaign, and a pretty efficient one at that when properly used (see: Bloodstained and Yooka-Laylee).

The thing is though, games like yookah-laylee and Mighty No.9 were not games tied to any sort of marketing, but games that the creators just wanted to make, but didn't have a publisher, or didn't want one with risks of altering their vision. Bloodstained was one of them to do this, which sort of cast some suspision with me, but I heard that was mostly for distributing purposes, or something of the sort. Kickstarter as a means to gauge interest is something I don't think I would want to get behind...