Cold-Steel
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dillinger said:
They are both already forgotten.
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They are both already forgotten.
Cold-Steel said:
People who have followed the PC adventure genre will always remember Tim Schafer's games. And to those people at least, this game will be considered another game from that same brilliant mind.
If hardly anyone buys it, well that's just to be expected. I bought it, and I'm glad I did.
Cold-Steel
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Speevy said:
It is really sad that the adventure scene died so suddenly following the release of arguably his best work in Grim Fandango.
Guess it just goes to show that not all PC developers can move to consoles and expect to hit gold.
Late Stage Marxist
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I agree with this binary transmissionDrinky Crow said:
border said:
It won't surpass the high praise Psychonauts has gotten for its artistry, either. I just don't see the game being very good. I also think its art style is overdone, to the point at which it just paints the screen with inconsistency. The characters are also a sort of Viewtiful Joe 2 level of annoying, although at least that game looks good to me.
DCharlie
And even i am moderately surprised
they do it as a personal slight to you.
No one here cared, and it was all about the PSP. Then Japanese heard your bleating about the DS and decided they'd personally fuck you over.
Every DS bought is another tear you shed - the plan is to make you cry all the water out of your body, until you pass over into the "other world"
Applefiend
Member
Flame wars aside...
If you really want to help out Double Fine, buy it direct from their web site. Companies get virtually zero out of retail, but mail order is well... Double Fine! They keep all the cash, they make you a Psychonauts 2 on Xbox 360/PS3.
http://shop.doublefine.com/index.asp
If you really want to help out Double Fine, buy it direct from their web site. Companies get virtually zero out of retail, but mail order is well... Double Fine! They keep all the cash, they make you a Psychonauts 2 on Xbox 360/PS3.
http://shop.doublefine.com/index.asp
It's sad that I don't think a single copy sold at our store. We got T-shirts to give out with the games (Same for Advent Rising, which also hasn't sold a single one, but that's totally different) and well, we haven't unloaded a single one to a customer.
Sad because it looks like a fun game.
Sad because it looks like a fun game.
Alien Hominid sells because of the bargain price and because a lot of Newgrounds fans own the GameCube and want to support the site because Tom Fulp kicks ass and his games kick ass. I heard otherwise, about Tom not paying his brother for working on the site while he pulled in cash, but I expect that's changed now.
Now we just need a DS version of Disorderly. My god, that would rock.
Now we just need a DS version of Disorderly. My god, that would rock.
WrathOfOtaibah
Banned
Psychonauts tried too hard to be wacky. I like my craziness to flow together nicely, like the Parodius series (Konami, bring it back).
Wario Ware sucks. I never understood the appeal of the series.
Wario Ware sucks. I never understood the appeal of the series.
) the game did suck. Truth hurts. Sales kinda show it.
:lol 
I played it and it seemed to be good at what it did (a platformer with smooth control), but considering I don't care for 3D platformers and the whole "style" didn't do much for me... Still, it's rather sad whenever a more indie company can't chart, even with a rather well-reviewed game (most Psychonauts games I've seen scored in the 8 or 9 range). I hear the guy is responsible for some excellent adventure games, so hopefully his company will still continue making games, something maybe a bit more appealing to me than Psychonauts was.
CrimsonSkies
Member
Psychonauts is just like 95% of all new IP's this gen. Flops. The trends are against new IP's. Now for the most part the new IP's that have been succesful are the ones funded by the console manufacturers themselves. I can't think of any new IP that was wildly succesful outside of Splinter Cell that wasn't a 1st or 2nd party game this gen in North America. I know I'm forgetting some games, but it couldn't be more than a handful.
Willie Dynamite
Member
It's sad that Psychonauts isn't selling as well as it should, but I'm not so sure about your prediction. DF must have already been paid by milestone by Microsoft and probably Majesco, or they'd been gone a long time ago.FoneBone said:
BTW, Double Fine are hiring for many different positions and are already at 50+ employees. (Not always a solid indicator, as some companies post vacancies just to give a positive impression, but whatever.)
Hitler Stole My Potato
Banned
The Experiment said:
Parodius' humor is better than Psychonauts? You've got to be shitting me.
The thing that kills be about Psychonauts' poor sales around here though is that the same people that are doing a little happy dance about it bombing are usually the same whiny bastards that complain that there are no more originality in games today or that western developers are some how creatively bankrupt. So here's a game that goes against that line of thought while bursting at the seems with original ideas, personality, and incredibly fun gameplay and these dorks are happy that many are ignoring it. I think some of these same folks are pissed that it didn't get ported to the Gamecube and maybe that's why they want to see it fail. Honestly I wish Majesco did make a Gamecube verison just to shut you fucking people up and we could discuss this game honestly without all this system bias bullshit.
But I expected all this to happen. Psychonauts was never going to sell very well. In the end, Psychonauts will end up being one of those brilliant but criminally overlooked games.
Hitler Stole My Potato said:
Yeah, really... I never really understood why people on here love to see the smaller companies fail and go bankrupt for silly reasons (like they won't publish on the Gamecube). I'm mostly a fan of Japanese games but there's the occasional indie Western developer that makes damn good games, free from focus group ideas, mainstream trends, or licenses - Orbital Media, DoubleFine, Bioware, etc. If the style doesn't appeal to you, it's simple... don't play it. Why do some people on here force themselves to play every high ranked game even if the genre/art style/etc doesn't appeal to them?
And Parodius's humor is fairly clever if you play a lot of Konami games...
Hitler Stole My Potato
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djtiesto said:
I'm not saying that Parodius wasn't clever but Psychonauts is actually laugh out loud funny. I honestly can't remember the last time I played a game that made me do that.
Drinky Crow
Banned
I ain't happy Psychonauts flopped -- I woulda loved to see it sell a couple hundred K. That said, it just ain't my bag.
typhonsentra
Banned
Exactly what humor in Psychonauts made you laugh out loud?
typhonsentra said:
Jokes aren't very funny if they have to be repeated to a critic.
With that said, some of my favorites:
ANYTHING in the Milkman Conspiracy Level.
"See you in Hell!", remarks Raz after he barbecues a squirrel.
The voice of the Lungfish.
The residents of Lungfishopolis and their comments.
The clairvoyance ability and the results it produces.
Just general character banter.
The game is funny.
typhonsentra
Banned
Why is it that Drinky Crow always seems to be right about everything?
Go Go Ackman!
Banned
fuck psychonauts
typhonsentra
Banned
Speevy said:
Not everything's about you. As for your response, I didn't find any of those thing partiulcarly funny. A few things in the game made me smile, but nothing more.