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Broken Age - Double Fine's Kickstarter Adventure Game

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The video where he showed his book listing all the names until he reached Grim Fandango title was pretty awesome :D

It becomes more difficult to choose a name when you don't know the game's story and characters.
Tim is the right man to come up with a title.
 

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Yeah. Some of these titles might actually be brilliant in context of the story, but we are not allowed to know.
 

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:hmmm:

Oh well, at least now there's a better image for the game :
keyart.jpg
 

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How the fuck did they go with "Broken Age"? It was the worst of the bunch and reminds of a dozen other games with "Age" in the name like Dragon Age.
 

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The character style is so off-putting, hopefully looks better in game.
 

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How the fuck did they go with "Broken Age"? It was the worst of the bunch and reminds of a dozen other games with "Age" in the name like Dragon Age.


Broken Sword+ Dragon Age= Broken Age and it exp pack Sword Dragon!

Kiiding aside i don't like this look/style. I just hope animations are good at least so it won't be more "weird"er then this for characters. Background looks nice though if they are all like this.
 

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I'm not a big fan of the style either, but the good thing I've seen from the documentary videos is that they've given the game a painting-like texture and that looks pretty nice.
 

kaizoku

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It actually looks pleasing to the eye :)

I wonder why they didn't post it as a minor KS update.


The name kind of sucks. The "Age" really is reminiscent of Dragon Age :-|
Still in the same scope, Broken Time would have been better.
 

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Fuck, it looks pretty shitty.
I hate the characters. They looks like ass.
Also they could at least have put one or two jokes in the teaser? I played Grim Fandango for just ~15 minutes a couple of days ago and almost fell off my chair chuckling and snorting. This looks about as funny as a 90's sunday morning eastern-european import cartoon about HIV prevention.

The game lacks a theme. Artstyle looks community college hipster bullshitty. And no humor present, so far.
Eughghgrgh.
 

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That looks even worse than I anticipated...it looks like some horrible flash-game for fucks sake...the animations are just utterly horrible and they paid for them? wtf man, wtf!
 

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Fuck, it looks pretty shitty.
I hate the characters. They looks like ass.
Also they could at least have put one or two jokes in the teaser? I played Grim Fandango for just ~15 minutes a couple of days ago and almost fell off my chair chuckling and snorting. This looks about as funny as a 90's sunday morning eastern-european import cartoon about HIV prevention.

The game lacks a theme. Artstyle looks community college hipster bullshitty. And no humor present, so far.
Eughghgrgh.

Have to agree on all points, unfortunately.
 

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I suppose I did sound like a graphics whore when I said that. I just look at Tim Schafer's previous stuff and it had so much more charm visually then this garbage. I would rather they had done something like the HD re-releases of Monkey Island 1 & 2.
 

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I suppose I did sound like a graphics whore when I said that. I just look at Tim Schafer's previous stuff and it had so much more charm visually then this garbage. I would rather they had done something like the HD re-releases of Monkey Island 1 & 2.

I think lots of people complained about the graphical style in those too, though.
 

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I've watched the trailer and i think it is gorgeous. And it looks better in motion than in a still shot. I have my reservations about the character modell, but it is not shitty at all.

Also, it was a teaser, i don't think they needed jokes in that.
 

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