Broken Age - Double Fine's Kickstarter Adventure Game

[Metro]

I came to this forum specifically to complain about this. They are stroking themselves into far too much ecstasy over voice actors. Who the fuck cares, seriously? Why are we supposed to get so excited by the idea of famous people / professional nerds elbowing their way into voice jobs on an adventure game?

Fuck, I hate adventure game voice acting anyway. Ever since I played GK1 without realizing there was a voice setting, then turned it on to hear the awful narrator and Tim Curry's obnoxious drawl, I have been of the deeply held opinion that voice acting is a waste of time. You can usually read 10x faster than these people mew the lines out anyway.

Best post you ever made.

 

[Correct_Carlo]

Tim Curry as Gabriel Knight was so bad in retrospect. The acting wasn't great in GK2, but the guy who played Gabriel was at least slightly more subtle than Curry's take on the character and the chick who played Grace was fine (I think Leah Remini was really good as Grace in the original, but she's probably too big now to do video games).

In fact, they should just rehire the GK2 people for the remake where possible. It'd be a nice call back for fans and I know the guy that played Knight in GK2 has done kickstarter press with Jane Jensen so he's still around.

 

[tuluse]

Figured some around here would like this

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Shihonage knew the truth all along.

Broken Age - Double Fine's Kickstarter Adventure Game

It's going to be quite amusing when this goes full vaporware. It will unleash a torrent of butthurt the likes of which the internet has never seen.

There will be a post-mortem on Wired, a long write-up with several chapters, with bolded names like "Schafer's List" and "Downfall of DoubleFine", large photos of their smiling faces, and excerpts like these:

"Kickstarter seemed like a nice idea at first. It really did."

"There was a Master List, you know, of all the cool stuff we were going to put in there... we jokingly called it "Schafer's List"...."

"And then, you know, the girls came, the money just started sipping away, and we sat around the office, and we had lots of fun, and nothing was done... "

"The pressure, the pressure of all these people waiting for our game... I could tell it was getting to him... He sat in his office with blinds closed, and the bottle... trying to finish that cursed level with the bridges..."

"The rehab didn't last..."

"We all felt something was wrong, and everyone starting distancing themselves... but he was possessed... obsessed with finishing the game on his own..."

"I will always remember when I got that phone call from him, at 4am... he was incoherent... I think he was channeling our game protagonist, slurring something about the bridge level... "

"My heart was pounding as I drove to the bridge at night, I knew it, I just KNEW it, and everything sunk as I saw the lights at the water..."

"We never should've done this Kickstarter thing. We were not young enough. It was stupid. I don't know if I'll ever forgive myself for what happened."

 

[Brzęczyszczykiewicz]

I guess Double Fine through mismanaging funds has entered broken age too.

 

[Metro]

Holy shit, it really has been nearly two fucking years since that thing got funded.

 

[ColCol]

Holy shit, it really has been nearly two fucking years since that thing got funded.

Christ, time goes fast. will all be dead before you know it.

 

[AstroZombie]

Holy shit, it really has been nearly two fucking years since that thing got funded.

Christ, time goes fast. will all be dead before you know it.

And Broken Age still won't be out.

 

[VioletShadow]

http://kotaku.com/elijah-wood-will-star-in-double-fines-adventure-game-1478328403

 

[trustno1code]

Oh dear, nobody told frodo this game is actually vapour with no moneys, not to mention mocked by a few whiny tards on the dex that think 'budget' is what they do when their dicks start itching. Poor frodo, what's he got himself into.

 

[Athelas]

Good to see they're spending that money wisely. Money they claimed was insufficient to fund the game.

 

[Diablo169]

So did Massive Chalice pay for Elijah Woods voiceacting? Holy shit how are they paying for all this.

 

[nil]

Maybe he was inspired by one small studio's struggle against all odds and offered to do it for free?

 

[Blackthorne]

Maybe he was inspired by one small studio's struggle against all odds and offered to do it for free?

No one's inspired by that! Samuel L. Jackson turned US down! And that dude turns down NOTHING!


Bt

 

[dunno lah]

Someone's definitely whoring himself/herself out to those big names. Can't figure out any other reason..

 

[Sceptic]

No one's inspired by that! Samuel L. Jackson turned US down! And that dude turns down NOTHING!

WHAT? He turned YOU down and then went and did Snakes on a Plane?

That does it. I am removing him off my bro list

 

[m_s0]

then went and did Snakes on a Plane?

Can you really blame him, though?

 

[nil]

Maybe he was inspired by one small studio's struggle against all odds and offered to do it for free?

No one's inspired by that! Samuel L. Jackson turned US down! And that dude turns down NOTHING!


Bt

There must have been some kind of misunderstanding! Maybe he thought you're making porn or something?
Anyway, I hope you'll have a mute black character.

 

[Blackthorne]

No one's inspired by that! Samuel L. Jackson turned US down! And that dude turns down NOTHING!

WHAT? He turned YOU down and then went and did Snakes on a Plane?

That does it. I am removing him off my bro list

I know, right? To say I was crushed would be selling it short. Most of me died that day.


Bt

 

[suejak]

Somebody actually guessed Elijah Wood pretty early on the official thread.

He's actually a big gamer, a backer, and has been a fan of the project since the beginning (Twitter evidence of that).

He might be doing it for cheap or free. Who knows.

 

[suejak]

Oh dear, nobody told frodo this game is actually vapour with no moneys, not to mention mocked by a few whiny tards on the dex that think 'budget' is what they do when their dicks start itching. Poor frodo, what's he got himself into.

This trailer is great. Frodo's voice is perfect for the character, and the boy easily has the most interesting half of the story. Good shit.

 

[Cyberarmy]

That video is classified What's going on there?!?

 

[Boleskine]

That video is classified What's going on there?!?

The federal government is now subsidizing production on Broken Age to help Double Fine finish the game. As such they're classifying all information.

 

[Metro]

shit.

 

[RPGMaster]

I came to this forum specifically to complain about this. They are stroking themselves into far too much ecstasy over voice actors. Who the fuck cares, seriously? Why are we supposed to get so excited by the idea of famous people / professional nerds elbowing their way into voice jobs on an adventure game?

Fuck, I hate adventure game voice acting anyway. Ever since I played GK1 without realizing there was a voice setting, then turned it on to hear the awful narrator and Tim Curry's obnoxious drawl, I have been of the deeply held opinion that voice acting is a waste of time. You can usually read 10x faster than these people mew the lines out anyway.

Curry saying "Mosley" is the best thing about GK1.