Psychonauts 2

Context: Psychonauts 2 was just announced as a legitimate surprise at The Game Awards.<p>Meta-Context: Double Fine has had terrible, terrible luck with crowdfunding and funds in their previous ventures (there is actually a <i>documentary</i> explicitly about that: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gaming&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;broken-ages-making-of-documentary-may-be-double-fines-most-enduring-legacy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;gaming&#x2F;2015&#x2F;10&#x2F;broken-ages-making-of-...</a>), which may explain why they are trying an experimental crowdfunding platform.

Broken Age (the previous Kickstarter from Double Fine) was an horrible game (especially the second act - and it was super late and way over budget in the end) so it hardly proves that direct funding is a good idea in the first place.

I bought Hack n Slash because it was supposed to be some hackable, easily moddable adventure game, but it was terrible. To my knowledge, no one really modded it either. The in-game condition statement crystals were way more confusing than any if or for statement. Kind of left a bad taste in my mouth. Their latest games haven&#x27;t been very good IMHO. Hope they don&#x27;t destroy Psychonauts.

Way back when before the Broken Age Kickstarter and before Microsoft bought Minecraft Notch half-jokingly tweeted an offer to personally fund a sequel to Psychonaughts. In interviews Tim Schafer (head of Double Fine) mentioned that that wasn&#x27;t very realistic as a proper sequel would cost around $13 million.<p>It&#x27;s interesting that in the news reports about this latest announcement state that crowd funding will be used alongside outside private investment.<p>It makes me wonder if this fig campaign is mainly about generating buzz (for both fig and Psychonauts 2) and as a way to prove public interest in order to unlock the aforementioned outside investment.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kotaku.com&#x2F;5885525&#x2F;bankrolling-psychonauts-2-was-just-a-semi-joke-says-notch" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kotaku.com&#x2F;5885525&#x2F;bankrolling-psychonauts-2-was-just...</a>

Loved the first game, but the Double Fine kickaster has been slightly controversial, I wonder if this one will be able to get as much support.

It seems that this time around fig is taking unaccredited investments, which is interesting.<p>Double Fine is hit and miss, but at least they are trying to be original, and they have a good reputation in a pretty shady industry. I&#x27;ll support them.

Let&#x27;s hope it won&#x27;t be released in two episodes, like Broken Age.

This is going up like crazy -- 100 sales in a few minutes. Why?

Looks cool, but 3.3 million dollars is really a lot!