Psychonauts 2

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ducktales4gameboy said:
Wasn't that Rhombus of Ruin? I thought P2 was announced formally last year.
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Rhombus of Ruin was released in 2017 originally and then on a different platform in 2018.

P2 has been in some kind of development stage for a while but it wasn't announced to be in official devlopment until recently. It has now been disrupted due to COVID; Double Fine has a YT channel where they post updates every now and then.
 
ducktales4gameboy said:
Wasn't that Rhombus of Ruin? I thought P2 was announced formally last year.
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Nah, I'm pretty sure Psychonauts 2's original relate date was "2018" which is of course laughable by now, but a similar thing happened with Brutal Legend, announced in 2007 with a 2008 release date, didn't come out until 2009, of course with Psychonauts 2 has dwarfed that already, but Brutal Legend very obviously could have used even more development time, so it's not a bad thing.

Miller said:
Kotick was right. When you work for a big company, you shouldn't act like a Dude Weed LMAO and come to the meetings whenever you want.
The guy is worse than Inafundme. His crowdfunding platform (Fig) is just free money for him.
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Nah, Kotick was still wrong, you're telling me with all their Call of Doody money they couldn't fund at least one auteur dev to fuck around and experiment for a while? Even the money grubbing Hollywood studios still (or at least used to) have their "Oscar bait" films every year, movies primarily made for the prestige than purely for the cash, but most AAA video game publishers can't even be arsed with one game a year that's the equivalent to that.

Of course the gaming equivalent to the Oscars is the dumb VGAs and critics jerk themselves off over shit like Last of Us 2, but we're talking about a game from over a decade ago.
 
Dom Cruise said:
Nah, I'm pretty sure Psychonauts 2's original relate date was "2018" which is of course laughable by now, but a similar thing happened with Brutal Legend, announced in 2007 with a 2008 release date, didn't come out until 2009, of course with Psychonauts 2 has dwarfed that already, but Brutal Legend very obviously could have used even more development time, so it's not a bad thing.


Nah, Kotick was still wrong, you're telling me with all their Call of Doody money they couldn't fund at least one auteur dev to fuck around and experiment for a while? Even the money grubbing Hollywood studios still (or at least used to) have their "Oscar bait" films every year, movies primarily made for the prestige than purely for the cash, but most AAA video game publishers can't even be arsed with one game a year that's the equivalent to that.

Of course the gaming equivalent to the Oscars is the dumb VGAs and critics jerk themselves off over shit like Last of Us 2, but we're talking about a game from over a decade ago.
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The problem is that Schafer is an auteur that never delivers. Those big companies have no problem in funding or developing small games, like EA have been publishing indie games, Square Enix have been publishing indie games from various third-world countries, Even Namco have published games from their former employees, just like Capcom. Oh, and Ubisoft is a big proponent of indie games.

But I bet Activision would be more willing to fund more Platinum games, and more Fromsoft games than Tim Schafer, because they either deliver it on time, cheaper, or release on more critical acclaim or have a huge following.
 
Exbein said:
The problem is that Schafer is an auteur that never delivers. Those big companies have no problem in funding or developing small games, like EA have been publishing indie games, Square Enix have been publishing indie games from various third-world countries, Even Namco have published games from their former employees, just like Capcom. Oh, and Ubisoft is a big proponent of indie games.

But I bet Activision would be more willing to fund more Platinum games, and more Fromsoft games than Tim Schafer, because they either deliver it on time, cheaper, or release on more critical acclaim or have a huge following.
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Never delivers? Tim's Lucasarts games are great and Psychonauts was great.
 
Billy_Sama said:
I love the original Psychonauts back on the Xbox and play it once in a few years so I am stoke to see it both a great game and a disappointment to see it get ripped for amusement.
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Been a good while since I last played it, 2012 to be exact.

Maybe when it looks like 2 has a solid release date I'll replay it again in preparation.
 
Dom Cruise said:
Never delivers? Tim's Lucasarts games are great and Psychonauts was great.
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And that was like what? 20 years for Lucasarts, and he was mostly on the writing side of things. For Psychoanuts, even the executive producer on the game complained that Tim was late and expensive, the same complaint that Kotick had with Tim.

For what, 11 million budget, the Pschonauts only got an initial 500k sales, and lifetime sales of 1.7 million
With almost the same 15 million budget, Nier Automata, the game got 1.5 million initial sales and lifetime sales of 4.5 million (wont add the stupid drama cds and live stageplays and shit)
And Sekiro was made with a similar budget and got also similar 1.5 million initial sales and lifetime sales of 5 million.

all of them are critical darlings. But the difference is one is helmed by Tim Schafer. Kotick is right, Tim is just a bad investment. If I was Kotick, I would throw money at Fromsoft and Platinum to make games rather than Tim as they are better return of investment,

Long story short, the only thing Tim have on his name is that some megafans liked playing his games long ago, but can't be mustered to buy his new games, and only have slightly higher sales than Oneechanbara games but Tim's games are made with higher budget.
 
Exbein said:
And that was like what? 20 years for Lucasarts, and he was mostly on the writing side of things. For Psychoanuts, even the executive producer on the game complained that Tim was late and expensive, the same complaint that Kotick had with Tim.

For what, 11 million budget, the Pschonauts only got an initial 500k sales, and lifetime sales of 1.7 million
With almost the same 15 million budget, Nier Automata, the game got 1.5 million initial sales and lifetime sales of 4.5 million (wont add the stupid drama cds and live stageplays and shit)
And Sekiro was made with a similar budget and got also similar 1.5 million initial sales and lifetime sales of 5 million.

all of them are critical darlings. But the difference is one is helmed by Tim Schafer. Kotick is right, Tim is just a bad investment. If I was Kotick, I would throw money at Fromsoft and Platinum to make games rather than Tim as they are better return of investment,

Long story short, the only thing Tim have on his name is that some megafans liked playing his games long ago, but can't be mustered to buy his new games, and only have slightly higher sales than Oneechanbara games but Tim's games are made with higher budget.
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How much money it makes does not determine something's artistic value.
 
Clockwork_PurBle said:

Psychonauts 2’s Brief Xbox Store Appearance Hints At Surprise Release​

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Psychonauts 2's Brief Xbox Store Appearance Hints At Surprise Release

Psychonauts 2, a game without a confirmed release date, was briefly available for preload today. This hints that the game could be ready for the masses and awaiting a surprise release.
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Deadass???
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Since it was pre-loadable that's pretty much a sign the game has gone gold. Which means it probably comes out early June.
 
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My favorite thing from Postal 2: Paradise Lost
 
Titos said:
Since it was pre-loadable that's pretty much a sign the game has gone gold. Which means it probably comes out early June.
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Damn they must've really hauled ass during lockdown.
Billy_Sama said:
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My favorite thing from Postal 2: Paradise Lost
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Boyd the Milk Man was on a carton of milk in this trailer, next to a brain, and there's an audio clip of Raz saying, "Where are we?".
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I hope that does actually mean something. Maybe they'll drop a surprise release during E3. If not, I'm certain we'll get a date then.
 
Clockwork_PurBle said:
Damn they must've really hauled ass during lockdown.
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They said during an update at the end of last year that the game was pretty much finished and they were just doing polishing. The reason it didn't come out in 2020 was because after they got bought out Microsoft let them add a bunch of bosses they had to cut for budget reasons back into the game.
 
Thought I might post this here since I can't think of anywhere else this fits. Doublefine published their yearly Amnesia Fortnight videos. Tim Schaefer may be a faggot but these are always fun if you're interested in game development and how shit comes together. If they're publishing stuff like this Psychonauts 2 has almost definitely gone gold and will launch within the next month imo.
 
So they dropped the original on Game Pass. Tried playing it... and I think I hate it?

Was this one of those games you had to be there for the original for?
 
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