Suspicious Dish posted:

I think it was a poorly executed version of this gag: http://www.p4rgaming.com/daisuke-amaya-interview-if-i-tell-people-to-choke-on-it-then-will-they-play-my-game/

Given The Stanley Parable, the trailers, his blog, and his typical humor, he's not actually serious.

Arnold of Soissons posted:

Actually they were specifically bitching about people who had bought their games in bundles or with steam coupons (which were supposedly created against their wishes) who had paid less than a buck for the game but still expected technical support to make the games run

He made such an rear end of himself that the banner saga guy started posting on a couple different sites "email me instead of keep posting publicly"

He wasn't just complaining in a general sense, either, he was personally attacking people who tried to offer any other opinions at all, really. It was pretty entertaining.

Their games are pretty bland and lovely, tho

e: http://www.puppygames.net/blog/?p=1574 "Because you are worthless," an open letter to their customers from someone who wants to make sure I never buy anything from him again, apparently

Litany Unheard posted:

A video from Tim re Broken Age:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnY0TdkXZwI

Includes a defense of everyone's favorite game developer, Mr. Molyneux.

Zaphod42 posted:

In what universe is Randy Pitchford anything like Peter Molyneux?

Gearbox doesn't make absurd claims for their games ever, and they've delivered several complete and polished games.

They just recently dropped one bomb, which was really a scheme to steal money from Sega so they could make Borderlands 2 better, which actually worked pretty drat well. (Except for people who bought Aliens)

But failing to live up to the graphics of a trailer isn't loving remotely like Molyneux's insanity.

If you're going to say that, then Sony is Molyneux, EA / Madden is Molyneux, Naughty Dog is Molyneux, 343i is Molyneux, Bungie is Molyneux, etc. etc. etc. etc.
Doesn't work pal.

Pre-rendered trailers are loving commonplace in this industry. That doesn't make you Molyneux.

Mr Underhill posted:

Dayuuuum, Slain! looks GOOD!

MikeJF posted:

What successful completed low-budget video game kickstarters have there been?

Cicero posted:

A sandbox MMO in a from-scratch engine that caters to multiple completely different playstyles, including allowing users to make their own stuff, even their own game rules (?), for 200k? This sounds hopelessly overoptimistic.

Telex posted:

It's just a way of making a unique ID for every item and transaction that item is involved in without reinventing the wheel.

Anyone complaining about using that for doing non-monetary transactions basically has absolutely no idea what they're talking about and it's amusing to watch.

evilmiera posted:

Only 51 hours to go though, I really hope they make it (though going by most kickstarters, they should). I guess everyone's saving money for the Bard's Tale kickstarter out in a few days.

Bieeardo posted:

Furries, at least the older ones, have a long history of sitting on a whole lot of money and a whole lot less sense. Prior to sites like Furaffinity and Deviantart popping up, artists could make some serious dough adding a handful of 'tribal' elements (for the Werewolf: the Otherkin fanatics) to a piece and making the subject a lynx woman or whatever.

A Steampunk Gent posted:

Kinda funny how Iga ran the slickest, most PRiest campaign ever to get his $5.5M and then a week later Shenmue is topping it with one which looks like it was done by a first time hobbyist with a $10,000 goal; it's nearly a day on and they haven't even made an update acknowledging their insane success or pushing their stretch goals

Anyways, it's not something I'm interested in but it's good to see another cult fandom getting some closure to their thing

Mr Underhill posted:

codo27 posted:

I was going to ask if there has actually been anything good come out after Road Redemption, Shadowgate and Carmageddon all leaving at least something to be desired. But then I seen Volgarr in the OP which is good. But then I seen Ouya in the OP....

Lurking Haro posted:

Great Rumbler posted:

Don't worry, it'll soon go back to talking about the most important issue in videogames: pixel legs.

Kibayasu posted:

Has there been a multiplayer kickstarter game that has managed to sustain a decent population for more than a couple weeks? I mean there could be some but most of my nostalgia is related to being a shut-in loser when I played these games so I give them money based purely on the single player experience I remember. Even if Descent Underground was presented as a completely vanilla multiplayer experience from 1995 (arena, no unlocks, no ranks, etc) I still wouldn't have backed it because that's not what I played in Descent.

Edit: Elite Dangerous I guess? Even though that's not technically the multiplayer most people mean when they say it.

Butt Ghost posted:

It's just kind of amazing that a game like cave story was entirely coded by one person that began in the late 90's and released real polished for free, while a whole studio made some real irritating mistakes. Though maybe that's more of a statement on Pixel's talents than Nifflas' competence. Has Pixel done anything since Cave Story, btw?

Unlucky7 posted:

I thought it wasn't just a video demo but a playable demo for E3, that would be available for people at the $60 level.

I am not sure if I want to shell out an extra $30, but I think that is pretty cool.

Toxxupation posted:

I'm trying to think of a single creator who so thoroughly and completely pissed away and hosed over their goodwill in such a short length of time and I'm coming up short.

Reason posted:

Has anyone here been satisfied with something they kickstarted? I haven't. To be fair I have only kickstarted six or so things, but none of them turned out near the hype. Biggest disappointments(that at least released something) so far for me are probably Torment and Planetary Annihilation.