Broken Age - Double Fine's Kickstarter Adventure Game

[buzz]

Except I just said that they don't. The guys who made Psychonauts and Brutal Legend left, the guy who made Stacking has been left to the sidelines and Iron Brigade was weak, and the guy who did that is doing Massive Chalice.

Add Hack'n'Slash to that list of recent fuck-ups by the way. It's a sloppy and incomplete game.

 

[RPGMaster]

I bet you dollars to doughnuts Double Fine won't last the year.

 

[evdk]

Depends on whether they get any money from the Grim Fandango remake.

 

[J_C]

I bet you dollars to doughnuts Double Fine won't last the year.

They will last.

 

[Metro]

Of course they will -- they'll just take on more shitty licensed games from big publishers and consoles.

 

[Redlands]

Of course they will -- they'll just take on more shitty licensed games from big publishers and consoles.

Are we talking about Double Fine or Telltale?

 

[evdk]

Are we talking about Double Fine or Telltale?

Does it matter at this point?

 

[Jaesun]

So fucking true evdk

 

[J_C]

Does it matter at this point?

So fucking true evdk

They make different type of games, so it does matter.

 

[evdk]

They make games ostensibly called "adventure games" which do no longer fit my personal definition of the term, so as far as I am concerned they both make the same type of games.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Yes, but only one of them is successful .

 

[Metro]

They make games ostensibly called "adventure games" which do no longer fit my personal definition of the term, so as far as I am concerned they both make the same type of games.

 

[Dexter]

Tim Schafer admits he made Broken Age for his daughter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=260KxcDTw0I#t=6m23s

 

[Havoc]

That's nice. Make an unfinished product for a child. It's like giving a 1000 piece puzzle, but half of them missing.

 

[buzz]

He made it for money.

 

[felipepepe]

This was already known... in one of the early updates he shows character designs to his daughter and let her choose which one she likes most, saying that it would be a game for her - exactly what he pitched at kickstarter.

But really, what annoys me the most is how Schafer is underestimating his daughter... The girl is now 7 years old! Think about what you were playing when you were 7. I was playing DOOM and Mortal Kombat, and had already beaten half of LucasArts adventure games by that time. Yet Tim feels the need to make a casual game about fluffy toys, bad wolves and banal moral lessons that offers no challenge at all. Cause you know, kids are dumb.

 

[Dexter]

This was already known... in one of the early updates he shows character designs to his daughter and let her choose which one she likes most, saying that it would be a game for her - exactly what he pitched at kickstarter.

But really, what annoys me the most is how Schafer is underestimating his daughter... The girl is now 7 years old! Think about what you were playing when you were 7. I was playing DOOM and Mortal Kombat, and had already beaten half of LucasArts adventure games by that time. Yet Tim feels the need to make a casual game about fluffy toys, bad wolves and banal moral lessons that offers no challenge at all. Cause you know, kids are dumb.

I pointed this out relatively early on: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...ter-adventure-game.69252/page-19#post-2571930 but at that point it was more of a joke or guess, now he's just outright come out and said it.

 

[Havoc]

He made it for money.

 

[taxalot]

Well, as a backer who still didn't play Part 1 because, as uncommon as it's getting to be in the current era, I only play my games when they are finished, I am still looking at the final game with a fair bit of curiousity. The production value seems very good for the little price I paid, and I have given up on expecting a real hardcore point and click game. Wadjet Eye has fillen those shoes for me. I expect a nice piece of entertainment, a good enough story, and apparently, Act 2 does deliver at least in terms of gameplay length.

Bring on the game.

 

[Boleskine]

Broken Age has been installed on my computer for a year. I thought I'd just wait for the update for the second act of the game instead of having to redownload the whole thing later on.

I liked Act 1 despite its flaws, and I'm eager to play Act 2, but for some reason I can't wait to uninstall this game from my hard drive.

 

[RPGMaster]

He made it for money.

If he did he failed completely.

 

[MTwolves]

Feb 9, 2015, the 3-year anniversary of this thread is approaching.
Maybe all the loyal Kickstarter backers defending Tim should give Tim and his company more money so Doublefine can finish Broken Age faster.

 

[MTwolves]

I bet you dollars to doughnuts Double Fine won't last the year.

Let's hope so. It's time for the company to put be out of its misery.

 

[Blackthorne]

That Grim Fandango re-release seems to be pretty popular. I wonder if that will be profitable.


Bt

 

[4249]

I got an update from Double Fine about Broken Age and my email client said that it might be a scam. If I only had known this when I was thinking whether to pledge or not.