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[momolicious]

Psychonauts is awesome! Grim Fandango is Awesome, whats next? so how did Psychonauts sell? I hope it sold well because i want more games like this!

 

[demi]

Unemployment(tm)

It's a SIM game.

 

[Kabuki Quantum Lover]

No, it didn't sell well. Schafer is currently thinking about the good ol' days.

 

[Pakkidis]

Last I heard hes currently looking for a publisher to fund his new game. Not surprisingly, hes having a lot of difficulty. Too bad, becuase I think he is one of the best

 

[PhoenixDark]

Last I heard hes currently looking for a publisher to fund his new game. Not surprisingly, hes having a lot of difficulty. Too bad, becuase I think he is one of the best

Nintendo is the only way.

 

[Elios83]

I'd really like to see him working on a new classic adventure game like Grim Fandango,but probably that's a dream....

 

[momolicious]

unemployment wtfreak?! how can someone that great be unemployed if hes VERY GOOD

 

[demi]

unemployment wtfreak?! how can someone that great be unemployed if hes VERY GOOD

If he's so good, why did the game horribly bomb?

Numbers don't lie. He's finished.

Embezzling is a sin, and sinners go to hell.

 

[Prine]

Id blatently donate some money for a new schafer game

 

[Tony HoTT]

If he's so good, why did the game horribly bomb?

Numbers don't lie. He's finished.

Embezzling is a sin, and sinners go to hell.

:lol

 

[momolicious]

woah woah, the game bombed? i thought he had alot of fans!

 

[Link]

There's an interview with him in the new Play that answers these questions.

 

[momolicious]

^ can you post the interview plz?! or get it from somewhere?

~This is sad

 

[demi]

woah woah, the game bombed? i thought he had alot of fans!

Anybody can sell a dead parrot to the blind.

 

[Oblivion]

woah woah, the game bombed? i thought he had alot of fans!

Only on the internet, I'm afraid.

 

[Drinky Crow]

psychonauts sucked, overhyped total

buy romancing saga

 

[Twitchfactor]

Fans are fans, especially those outspoken on forums, but fans need to speak with their buying power at the store. They didn't, and Psychnauts bombed.

 

[demi]

Superior games get superior sales.

So it is written.

So shall it be.

 

[Flynn]

Pychonauts failed because Majesco is bad at business.

 

[Beer Monkey]

Quality doesn't equal an audience or sales, sadly. There's rarely a correlation.

 

[PhoenixDark]

Anybody can sell a dead parrot to the blind.

:lol :lol

I see what you did there.

He blew 12 million dollars. That's a lot of money.

 

[bumpkin]

Unemployment(tm)

It's a SIM game.

Beat me to it! :lol

 

[Drinky Crow]

psychonauts doesn't equal quality

 

[xaosslug]

Superior games get superior sales.

So it is written.

So shall it be.

psychonauts sucked, overhyped total

buy romancing saga

:lol :lol :lol

 

[acidviper]

If video killed the radio star
then
BitTorrent killed the ex-Lucasarts guy

 

[demi]

Tim Schafer ruined Majesco.

Do your part to help bring them back afloat by purchasing real high quality games.

 

[Ghost]

I love Schafers games but i dont think any amount of marketing would have convinced the average gamer to play psychonauts, too wierd, too fruity.

The guy is a genius but I dont see any publishers making a profit out of his creations in todays market.

 

[Drinky Crow]

Nintendo hates creativity, and they also have basic quality standards for their derivative Mario-whored schlock.

That's two strikes against Tim and Nintendo!

 

[pj]

For the love of god, please nobody respond seriously to drinky crow

 

[Drinky Crow]

buy romancing saga

 

[demi]

Nintendo hates creativity, and they also have basic quality standards for their derivative Mario-whored schlock.

That's two strikes against Tim and Nintendo!

You may be onto something.

Let us bring down the tyranny that is Schafer together.

No more embezzlement, no more schlock games.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

Grim Fandango's interface killed adventure gaming

 

[Dragmire]

I love Schafers games but i dont think any amount of marketing would have convinced the average gamer to play psychonauts, too wierd, too fruity.

The guy is a genius but I dont see any publishers making a profit out of his creations in todays market.

I disagree. I don't think Majesco had it in them to market the game properly. Psychonauts, like much of Schafer's work, is very Tim Burton-esque, and if Tim Burton's movies like Corpse Bride can be number one at the box office, I don't see why there wouldn't be an audience for a game like Psychonauts. I'm not saying that the movie and game markets straddle each other a lot, but that there's obviously marketable appeal.

 

[Drinky Crow]

romancing saga and advent rising will unite to defeat psychonauts and free the world from another bad game

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

......?

Huh?!

And the Monkey Island franchise :x

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

You've got to me kidding me man.

Monkey Island 3? I haven't played that one yet.

MI4: Escape From Monkey Island. Great production values, but the interface is just so much worse than the classic point-and-click adventures.

 

[<nu>faust]

Nintendo hates creativity, and they also have basic quality standards for their derivative Mario-whored schlock.

That's two strikes against Tim and Nintendo!

i agree on the fact that a shaffer nintendo collabration would totally rock but i think the question is how would nintendo's "we should always have total control over everything" vs tim shaffer's " experimental,innovative aproach to gamemaking 101 with super freedom" would go together?

 

[momolicious]

Does Tim know we love him?

 

[Shard]

Superior games get superior sales.

So it is written.

So shall it be.

Oooh, that would be a bad example on all counts.

 

[demi]

Does Tim know we love him?

He probably pretends you don't exist if you have a Gamecube.

In fact, he probably laughs in your face. He did it on his website, he'll do it anywhere.

 

[pj]

Does Tim know we love him?

http://shop.doublefine.com/

SHOW HIM YOU LOVE HIM

He probably pretends you don't exist if you have a Gamecube.

In fact, he probably laughs in your face. He did it on his website, he'll do it anywhere.

He did WHAT??

If he insulted gamecube then I'm glad his shitty game didn't sell for shit

 

[demi]

Thou shalt not steal, Tim.

See you in hell, sinner.

 

[momolicious]

wow for just 10 dollars more you can have tims autograph

 

[Drinky Crow]

i wish i had $200 so i could buy an autographed poster and let my cat barf on it

 

[AgentOtaku]

Tim Schafer ruined Majesco.

Do your part to help bring them back afloat by purchasing real high quality games.

Your love of Advent is equally shared my friend

 

[demi]

This is our war.

We will not stand to watch as sinners suck out what fun was left in gaming for personal profit!

Embezzlers - BEGONE

Innovators - BEGONE

THIS IS OUR TIME, AND WE WILL BE DONE WITH YOUR "PSEUDO-INNOVATIVE" FAUX MINDTRICKS. NO MORE.

 

[momolicious]

so anybody have the highlights of the interview from him from Play magazine?!

why do people have random avatars of photo shoots of random looking people

 

[Speevy]

ROMANCING SAGA ART SCARED GAME INFORMER

 

[GeoramA]

According to the new PSM he's already working on a PS3 (and probably X360) game. PSM named Psychonauts one of the top 10 PS2 titles of 2005 and mentioned it at the end of the paragraph.

 

[Speevy]

Oh yeah. Psychonauts rocks.


*salutes adventure gaming, the primordial ooze from which all thinking games come*