KickStarter Psychonauts 2

[ArchAngel]

I don't understand why a simple game like this would cost 10-13 mil $ ?!?!

10-13mln$ is super low ball to almost any game that isn't indie.
Also Psychonauts isn't "simple" game. It featured open world + closed levels + ton of super voice acting that costs a lot.

I never played it or care to play it but it is a 3d platformer, still don't understand why it would need almost 3x PoE budget. For VA?

3D graphics is biggest part here.

FNV cost something like 15-20mln$ and was made on RPG making engine with heavy use of same assets everywhere.

Psychonauts alone if you count up all levels and hub world has more objects than FNV ever did. All that stuff needs work by artists, moddelers etc. And they can't hide reuse of assets like FNV or F3 did with almost every building, cave, vault or whatever. They also can't use some random character generator since all characters in game are wacky.

So due to size. I expected it to be a standard relatively short platformer.

 

[Astral Rag]

Kickstart another Double Fine project?
Yeah, no.

 

[tormund]

Kickstart another Double Fine project?
Yeah, no.

Gamer isn't a learning animal.

 

[MicoSelva]

Psychonauts is easily in my Top 5 games of all time... but I will not be backing this.

However, I am hoping that it gets funded. Will the game be as good as the original, if it even gets made? Unlikely. But if people who are stupid still willing to crowd-fund Double Fine want to give me this 1% chance for a proper Psychonauts sequel, who am I to stop them? On the contrary, I will encourage them to drop piles of money on TimSchafer (so I do not have to), while myself engaging the virtue of patience and buying the game a few years down the line for $5.

 

[Astral Rag]

Psychonauts 2! Double Fine Crowdfunding A Sequel

Remember back in 2012 when Notch was like, “I could fund a Psychonauts 2!” and Double Fine were all, “Cool! $18m please!” and Notch was all, “Shiiiit, I was thinking more 25p, and – wow, look, an octopus on a tricycle!”? Well, that’s all history now.

Double Fine are looking to make Psychonauts 2. They’re after $3.3m from backers, alongside their own investment, plus external funding from a mysterious, possibly legal party. More Psychonauts! There’s a trailer too, of sorts.

Of course, Notch could now fund 111 sequels to Psychonauts, but that’s by the by. Double Fine are hoping the collective wallets of the world will see them through, asking for the same amount their Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter eventually raised. A bold request, what with that being one of the most successful gaming Kickstarters ever, and indeed the one that drove the whole KS gaming revolution. But then, this is Psychonauts 2, and people really want that. I really want that.


Things are complicated by this being fundraised on Fig, meaning as well as simply crowdfunding, people can invest in the project in a way that sees profits come back their way and… oh gawd, I don’t understand Fig, and I’m not going to get my head around it at 6.30am. But if you wanted to put in serious money to Psychonauts 2, as a proper business grown up person, you can do that too.

It’s an all-or-nothing fundraiser, so if there isn’t the interest to raise this really substantial goal, the sequel won’t happen. Half a million dollars has come in overnight, so that’s a good start, certainly – I suspect this one will make it, although without Broken Age’s astonishing ten-fold extremes.

So that seems like good news.

Apparently the Professional Gaming Journalists don't even bother to mention the Spacebase debacle anymore.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

Apparently the Professional Gaming Journalists don't even bother to mention the Spacebase debacle anymore.

Maybe they're not aware of the game.

I only became aware of it after it was abandoned.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I'm with MicoSelva - won't fund this up front, will wait and see and probably buy it.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Apparently the Professional Gaming Journalists don't even bother to mention the Spacebase debacle anymore.

Probably because it wasn't actually that big of a deal.

 

[Havoc]

"Not a big deal." Of course. It's just another Tim Shitface fuckup, one of many. Not one of the first, not one of the last. Anybody investing cash into this FIG scam is a fucking idiot, not counting giving the fat fuck money.

 

[tormund]

Apparently the Professional Gaming Journalists don't even bother to mention the Spacebase debacle anymore.

Probably because it wasn't actually that big of a deal.

Probably because the game not everyone liked and not everyone felt like it came even close to meeting the expectation is far easier for RPS & rest of the gang to spin and justify, than the game that was outright abandoned and left completely unfinished... Broken Age was "finished", after all, and you have bunch of people defending it and claiming that it was unjustly hated, so it is far better for them to pretend that BA was the sole reason for community's bitterness towards DF.

 

[Roguey]

Man is not a learning animal if he keeps giving money to Tim Schafer.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Probably because the game not everyone liked and not everyone felt like it came even close to meeting the expectation is far easier for RPS & rest of the gang to spin and justify, than the game that was outright abandoned and left completely unfinished... Broken Age was "finished", after all, and you have bunch of people defending it and claiming that it was unjustly hated, so it is far better for them to pretend that BA was the sole reason for community's bitterness towards DF.

Probably because no one would even heard about the whole debacle if it wasn't for the Kickstarter concern trolls.

 

[DeepOcean]

Tim Schafer: "We need 18 millions to make psychonauts 2."

Tim Schafer 2015: "Hey guys, I was wrong, we only need 3 million, true story, trust me. When I failed you?"

Double Fine fans:

 

[Crooked Bee]

I agree with people saying Psychonauts is mediocre, but I liked it anyway so I'm semi-excited here.

 

[Perkel]

"Not a big deal." Of course. It's just another Tim Shitface fuckup, one of many. Not one of the first, not one of the last. Anybody investing cash into this FIG scam is a fucking idiot, not counting giving the fat fuck money.

spacebase9 wasn't crowdfunded.

They just released it on Early Access then they pulled out resources at the same time when Broken Age released ep1 probably because no one bought that (probably missed their internal EE target milestone by a mile)

 

[Roguey]

Tim Schafer: "We need 18 millions to make psychonauts 2."

Tim Schafer 2015: "Hey guys, I was wrong, we only need 3 million, true story, trust me. When I failed you?"

Double Fine fans:

Double Fine will be putting up a significant portion of the development funds ourselves, and getting another piece of the budget from an external partner. This Fig campaign will make up the third piece of the budget. None of these three parts on their own is enough, but together they add up to a sequel worthy of Psychonauts!

Though Broken Age's budget ended up ballooning up to something close to six million and he honestly thinks he can make Psychonauts for just about four more.

 

[Metro]

Man is not a learning animal if he keeps giving money to Tim Schafer.

You realize most people thought Broken Age was great, right?

N-e-wayz, they lost the guy who did Massive Chalice to Valve. Considering that was the only halfway decent game they've put out in years... how could this NOT be a disaster?

 

[Roguey]

Man is not a learning animal if he keeps giving money to Tim Schafer.

You realize most people thought Broken Age was great, right?

The novelty of act 1. Act 2 though... http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/broken-age-act-2

 

[Crooked Bee]

Man is not a learning animal if he keeps giving money to Tim Schafer.

You realize most people thought Broken Age was great, right?

The novelty of act 1. Act 2 though... http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/broken-age-act-2

Mostly because Act 2 actually dared include some (very) relatively non-trivial puzzles, which made nu-"adventure game" fans including game journalists go ballistic and cite the Old Man Murray article again.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

spacebase9 wasn't crowdfunded.

They just released it on Early Access then they pulled out resources at the same time when Broken Age released ep1 probably because no one bought that (probably missed their internal EE target milestone by a mile)

Stop ruining their emotions with your facts. What is wrong with you?

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Mostly because Act 2 actually dared include some (very) relatively non-trivial puzzles, which made nu-"adventure game" fans including game journalists go ballistic and cite the Old Man Murray article again.

Yup. Journos and fanbase whined that Act 1 was too easy, Schafer made Act 2 (slightly) harder, butthurt ensues.

The whole thing was hilarious.

 

[Tommy Wiseau]

SHUT UP SHUT SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUUUUT UPPPPP

I don't care what any of you are saying or that FIG is a shady as hell or that despite Double Fine's pioneering work in crowdfunding they only had two games which where meh and huh, respectively, none of that matters, because PSYCHONAUTS 2 IS HAPPENING!

SHUUUUT UUUUUUP!!! I don't even care if it will be a completely unworthy successor made by a bunch of people that are only the empty shells of the creative force they once were, in this moment the hope is alive! IT CAN HAPPEN. It probably won't, BUT IT CAN HAPPEN. There is a time and a place for being rational and this is NOT IT!

SHUUUUT UUUUUUUP!

Fuck God

 

[DosBuster]

The two things that convinced me were that there was an external partner behind the project and that Erik Wolpaw was returning as co-writer. Fuck, I just want it to get funded so I can get more episodes of the Documentary, it was so good.

 

[Athelas]

Meanwhile, at Double Fine's office...

 

[Lucky]

Though Broken Age's budget ended up ballooning up to something close to six million and he honestly thinks he can make Psychonauts for just about four more.

Psychonauts' budget was around 11.8 million, so they are basing that number on prior experience. More realistic than their previous Broken Age estimates.