derpysquirtle64 said:
SuperNova said:
Meanwhile Shantae Half genie Hero sits at a comfortable 81 on metacritic. Not all Kickstarter games turn out bad and even in Yooka Laylees case it seems like devs pretty much deilvered on what they promised as far as core gameplay, presentation and story are concerned.
Gameexplains rewiew for instance said that it was an overall good game hampered by performance issues more than anything. I'm not sure about the janky camera and the apparently atrocious minecart challenges but the rest seems fixable at least. It definitively doesn't sound like a 2/10 game from what I can see. It's a shame they didn't optimize it better though.
That might actually be the biggest problem kickstarters are facing, they try to pull funds from gamers on all the major platforms and end up optimizing badly as a result of trying to service too many diffrent ones. Most Indie games would naturally develop for PC or a single Platform first and then slowly migrate from there instead of attempting simultanious multiplatform releases. Look no further than Rocket League and Shovel Knight for games where this strategy really payed off.
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I don't think that multiplatfrom release has anything to do with this. The main problem here is that some developers just want to make some easy money on gamers' nostaligic feelings releasing the so-called spiritual successors to 90's games.
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Actually for a lot of these ex-AAA-indie failures the issue is more basic: not all developers, regardless of artistic talent, are cut out to be indies. You set your target platforms, you manage your resources, you manage your money, set deadlines, etc. Being indie requires a considerable degree more business acumen and management skills than being a dev in the publisher model, where the publisher takes over those tasks. Yes, some publishers can be crappy, but that does not mean that a dev leaving that model will magically fix all the issues their games have.
Not saying this is definitely what happened here, but it is with out a shadow of a doubt at all in my mind what happened with Mighty No 9.
