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by Constantin35 » Fri Aug 09, 2013 12:54 pm
My 2 Cents...:
I proposed that 130 US$ tier because I thought it would be fun to have Jim Walls as a voice message on my answering machine. And because I had a small amount of hope, that the final product would be some sort of fun. BUT... regarding the information on the game (I didn't really followed the whole reward tiers being introduced, changed, cancelled and so on) it was weak from my point of view, to say the least.
PQ1 and PQ2 are probably the two most favoured games of all time to me. So, getting something like that, with such a storyline, protagonists you could identify with, follow their career, lifelines of their colleagues (Keith with his smoking, that guy who got into alcohol as his daughter was abusing drugs and so on) I had no problem paying that amount of money. To be brutally honest, I probably could even live with graphics in that old EGA AGI/SCI style.
BUT what I heard about the game sounded more like Kings Quest 8. Using a well-known franchise, but with a totally different gameplay. What I heard (and saw) about the gameplay sounded more like a 3D-Action thing like "Driver", and less like an Adventure. Which would have been fine (I might have not pledged, but that's okay) if on the other hand they wouldn't have always used the franchise. Daily Videos about Sierra Online and Police Quest seemed like fishing for these fans, while the gameplay looked like being targeted for a totally different audience.
Apart of that I think the goal was too ambitious from the beginning. Leisure Suit Larry did not get funded much more than 500K if I recall correctly. But LSL is a much stronger, more popular brand. And they got the kickstarter campaign right. Well covered by the responsible persons. And from reward tiers to stretch goals everything seemed to be pretty professional.
So, when they reset the campaign now I hope to get at least a little bit more information about the game. Will I get an Adventure in a sense of the Police Quest Series? Or will I get a 3D Action Game?
Kind regards,
Constantin