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by Mischief Shmup Enthusiast 10/30/2011, 6:01pm PDT |
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I've been following the development blog for Overgrowth, the sequel to Lugaru, for a while now. The developers opened preorders very early and every week release a new incremental alpha to preorder customers. Instead of going deep into debt and racing toward a release-day cash influx, Wolfire is subsisting on a steady trickle of preorder cash. This situation has allowed them a George Lucas-like freedom to truly release their masterpiece "when it's done."
Lugaru, you may recall, is a game about kung-fu rabbits.
I've read the blog off and on and while I would count myself as eagerly awaiting the game, sometimes the alpha videos drive me insane because the developers are faffing around with pointless details that will have a barely-noticeable effect on the final product's gameplay; like corpse-dragging ragdoll physics that accurately render the effect of soft tissue mass. There is no way this game is going to be finished by Christmas, they only have one enemy type in a partially-complete state at this point.
It reminds me of that boring cutscene in Bayonetta where some some guy is making some boring speech and at one point absentmindedly spins this complex gyroscope whirlygig thing in his room. I find myself thinking about the man-hours required to design and texture and physically render this meaningless piece of set dressing that has nothing to do with the gameplay itself and will only be remembered by people it annoyed.
The fiasco of Sword of the Stars 2 running out of money is indeed a tragedy, but sometimes it's good to have a release date lighting a fire under developers' asses so they don't spend all day working on a way to accurately render the degrading sheen of drying paint blood |
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Between Stronghold 3 and Sword of the Stars II, I have set fire to 100$ this wk by WITTGENSTEIN 10/29/2011, 8:55am PDT 
Sword of the Stars 2 might be a fuck-up of Masters of Orion 3 proportions by WITTGENSTEIN 10/29/2011, 7:19pm PDT 
Don't rule out plain technical incompetence by Mischief Maker 10/30/2011, 9:29am PDT 
Arinn posted a blog thingie Saturday about it by WITTGENSTEIN 10/30/2011, 9:36am PDT 
yeah it turns out 4x is hard by jeep 10/30/2011, 3:59pm PDT 
Mecron sez: WE FUCKED UP, SORRY. IT'LL BE FIXED BY NOVEMBER 31ST by WITTGENSTEIN 10/30/2011, 4:47pm PDT 
Haegemonia Gold by Mischief Maker 11/01/2011, 12:17pm PDT 
Haegamonia Legions of Iron was pretty awful by WITTGENSTEIN 11/01/2011, 12:28pm PDT 
Re: Haegemonia Gold by fabio 12/13/2011, 5:05am PST 
Nope. Better looking? NT by Mischief Maker 12/15/2011, 12:16am PST 
When zoomed in by fabio 12/15/2011, 12:01pm PST 
Isn't that basically what GalCiv 2 was? by Mischief Maker 12/15/2011, 2:06pm PST 
Re: Isn't that basically what GalCiv 2 was? by laudablepuss 12/15/2011, 3:30pm PST 
Build a ship shaped like a gun made of smaller guns NT by fabio 12/15/2011, 6:58pm PST 
I missed this post. :( Basically: the HW:C team split in two by WITTGENSTEIN 07/13/2013, 4:49pm PDT 
SOTS2 is appearing more GalCiv II than SOTS1 by WITTGENSTEIN 10/30/2011, 4:59pm PDT 
Re: SOTS2 is appearing more GalCiv II than SOTS1 by Mischief Shmup Enthusiast 10/30/2011, 5:32pm PDT 
There is the opposite extreme. by Mischief Shmup Enthusiast 10/30/2011, 6:01pm PDT 
freeware by fabio 10/31/2011, 10:22am PDT 
Re: There is the opposite extreme. by Fullofkittens 07/13/2013, 2:07pm PDT 
Pay 99$ to get in the alpha! NT by WITTGENSTEIN 07/13/2013, 4:39pm PDT 
I think you're mixing it up with that TA game. Overgrowth is still $30 preorder. NT by MM 07/13/2013, 9:47pm PDT 
Well, yes, that was the sarcastic point. I've been railing against these types by WITTGENSTEIN 07/14/2013, 8:04am PDT 
Sword of the Stars 2: 2 weeks after launch by WITTGENSTEIN 11/09/2011, 3:42pm PST 
How 'bout now? NT by Mischief Maker 01/28/2012, 6:34pm PST 
The problems are endemic to the design by WITTGENSTEIN 03/25/2012, 10:01am PDT 
Patch notes Highlights Reel (thanks SA) by WITTGENSTEIN 03/25/2012, 10:23am PDT 
Wait, is that real or from a SA joke article? by fabio 03/25/2012, 10:40am PDT 
It's real. NT by WITTGENSTEIN 03/25/2012, 2:00pm PDT 
:( by Mischief Maker 03/25/2012, 3:51pm PDT 
6 months later: by WITTGENSTEIN 05/29/2012, 1:04pm PDT 
The enhanced edition's out. Playable yet? by United Nations Maker 12/01/2012, 6:13am PST 
ssssssssssssssssssystem update! NT by SOTS patch department 12/01/2012, 3:36pm PST 
Stronghold 3 on sale for $7.50 ^_^ NT by fabio 07/04/2013, 1:10pm PDT 
Fuck these games. Anyone remember that old SSI dos game Stronghold? by Eurotrash 07/04/2013, 11:53pm PDT 
I still wish they'd remake Siege by fabio 07/13/2013, 1:04pm PDT 
That sounds goddamn awesome. Your best chance might be an M&B mod :( NT by fucking newbie 07/13/2013, 5:12pm PDT 
Archers still OP. And there are missions where you don't have access to them by WITTGENSTEIN 07/13/2013, 4:36pm PDT 
I couldn't get too far into Stronghold or Crusaders by fabio 07/13/2013, 8:49pm PDT 
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