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Hyper Light Drifter [Kickstarter = Funded] Wii-U Stretch at 550K, Ends Oct 12
- Thread starter kidko
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Thankfully, a lot of other people realize that awesome games don't happen for free. Modern videogames would be far less interesting without crowd funding.
WOW! So much as happened since I left my computer last night! $100K stretch goal knocked out, BOOM. So glad we'll see a co-op feature. That's amazingly good frosting on this tasty cake of a game.
I would love a copy for my Vita but would probably only play it if I could transfer my save over to it somehow. Maaaaan that would be tite.
Updated the stretch goals image. I will refrain from adding all the new art and vids and stuff as people can easily find that on the KS page... plus it goes so fast, I need to get back to work, etc...
I would love a copy for my Vita but would probably only play it if I could transfer my save over to it somehow. Maaaaan that would be tite.
Updated the stretch goals image. I will refrain from adding all the new art and vids and stuff as people can easily find that on the KS page... plus it goes so fast, I need to get back to work, etc...
SolidSnakeUS
Member
Love that the artist for Journey even sent him a drawing of the main character. This is going to be pretty damn awesome. PS4s and Vitas will be so damn happy with the game when it gets to 220K.
Messofanego
Banned
reminds me of Evangelion going berserk
He explicitly mentions Miyazaki being an influence, and, well, here's the God Warrior from Nausicaa.
reminds me of Evangelion going berserk
Messofanego
Banned
He explicitly mentions Miyazaki being an influence, and, well, here's the God Warrior from Nausicaa.
I'm embarassed to say that's the one Miyazaki movie I haven't seen.
SolidSnakeUS
Member
Kinda OT, but this isn't my first kickstarter/crowdfunding donation, but what is your first kickstarter/crowdfunding donation?
For me was Star Citizen.
For me was Star Citizen.
Vire
Member
1. Double Fine Adventure
2. Ghost Song
3. Mighty No. 9
4. Hyper Light Drifter
Very excited about all of them.
Mr.Monitor
Member
Holy shit this looks incredible. Gonna fund it.
SolidSnakeUS
Member
1. Star Citizen
2. Massive Chalice
3. Project Phoenix
4. Mighty No. 9
5. Hyper Light Drifter
Vire
Member
Project Phoenix looks interesting, hadn't heard of it till now. Glad it's coming to PS4.
1. Project Eternity
2. Torment: Tides of Numenera
3. Divinity: Original Sin
4. Stonehearth
5. Double Fine's MASSIVE CHALICE
6. Satellite Reign
7. LIONESS
8. Project Phoenix
9. Mighty No. 9
10. Hyper Light Drifter
Lovely coincidence with Mighty No. 9 being my ninth Kickstarter
All these Kickstarter campaigns are ruining my finances..!
I suppose it is pretty safe to expect all current stretch goals to be met. Even though it has slowed down a bit, it should reach $220k.
SolidSnakeUS
Member
1. Project Eternity
2. Torment: Tides of Numenera
3. Divinity: Original Sin
4. Stonehearth
5. Double Fine's MASSIVE CHALICE
6. Satellite Reign
7. LIONESS
8. Project Phoenix
9. Mighty No. 9
10. Hyper Light Drifter
Lovely coincidence with Mighty No. 9 being my ninth Kickstarter
All these Kickstarter campaigns are ruining my finances..!
I suppose it is pretty safe to expect all current stretch goals to be met. Even though it has slowed down a bit, it should reach $220k.
My friend actually paid for a version of Original Sin so that he will give me his extra copy.
Shocked Wasteland 2 isn't among them.
Well makes sense, extra copies are for gaming buddies for maximum enjoyment!
Regarding this topic, I have to say that the coop mode for Hyper Light Drifter doesn't excite me as much as I would like to:
perhaps I still mainly envision this title as a single-player experience (at least, with comparing this to a A Link to the Past like experience).
Not saying it isn't a welcome feature!
Well, in my defence I have to say that I wasn't into backing Kickstarter projects when Wasteland 2 was around;
it is also one of the projects that I regretted to have missed
Then Torment: Tides of Numenera came and I pledged a tier that includes it.
I see it as a new game+ type of experience personally. I'll wait until I get through it once, then play around with some co-op.
CrunchyFrog
Member
1. Wasteland 2 - my first donation and will be my first KS game to release. Hoping this lives up to the hype.
2. Auditorium 2: Duet - A promising idea but the delays and lack of regular communication is a bit unnerving. They have been picking up development lately, though, so we'll see.
3. A Giant Ball Pit in an Abandoned House, Naturally - got shot down by local officials for stupid political reasons.
4. Project Eternity - this and Torment are my two most anticipated projects (and are both going to take forever to come out )
5. Radio the Universe - my first really underground/indie donation. Communication has been pretty regular and I like the guy's sense of humor.
6. Torment: Tides of Numenara - the most funded game software Kickstarter to date (Star Citizen technically has more but earned most of it outside of KS). Impressions from WL2 are gonna be crucial in predicting how up to task InExile are to create these kinds of CRPGs.
7. Shovel Knight - kind of backed on a lark, but looks fun enough. Actually seems superceded a bit by the recent Might No. 9, but I'm sure it'll be worth it on its own merits anyway.
8. Armikrog. - loved Neverhood, loved Earthworm Jim, this was a no-brainer.
9. Mighty No. 9 - sharing in the frustrations of Mega Man fans everywhere at the franchise's neglect, this KS is the greatest middle finger the fas could possbly give to Capcom, regardless of what Inafune says.
10. Octopus City Blues - a quirky VGA-styled non-linear adventure game. I just made a thread here, highly recommend any old/new school adventure gamers to check it out.
11. Hyper Light Drifter - it's almost a little too retro pandering-y (TBF, though I think it's more bordering on my own personal burnout on pixel-art KS's than with HLD itself), but it looks so gosh darned good I just had to.
2. Auditorium 2: Duet - A promising idea but the delays and lack of regular communication is a bit unnerving. They have been picking up development lately, though, so we'll see.
3. A Giant Ball Pit in an Abandoned House, Naturally - got shot down by local officials for stupid political reasons.
4. Project Eternity - this and Torment are my two most anticipated projects (and are both going to take forever to come out
)5. Radio the Universe - my first really underground/indie donation. Communication has been pretty regular and I like the guy's sense of humor.
6. Torment: Tides of Numenara - the most funded game software Kickstarter to date (Star Citizen technically has more but earned most of it outside of KS). Impressions from WL2 are gonna be crucial in predicting how up to task InExile are to create these kinds of CRPGs.
7. Shovel Knight - kind of backed on a lark, but looks fun enough. Actually seems superceded a bit by the recent Might No. 9, but I'm sure it'll be worth it on its own merits anyway.
8. Armikrog. - loved Neverhood, loved Earthworm Jim, this was a no-brainer.
9. Mighty No. 9 - sharing in the frustrations of Mega Man fans everywhere at the franchise's neglect, this KS is the greatest middle finger the fas could possbly give to Capcom, regardless of what Inafune says.
10. Octopus City Blues - a quirky VGA-styled non-linear adventure game. I just made a thread here, highly recommend any old/new school adventure gamers to check it out.
11. Hyper Light Drifter - it's almost a little too retro pandering-y (TBF, though I think it's more bordering on my own personal burnout on pixel-art KS's than with HLD itself), but it looks so gosh darned good I just had to.
With all these intriguing Kickstarter projects, 2014-2015 will be a very hectic and crowded timeframe to enjoy games.
I could safely guess that Project Eternity and Torment: Tides of Numenera are enough to satisfy the cRPG's hunger,
but then it's not like you can ignore titles like The Witcher 3: WIld Hunt and other AAA productions that will come.
It's like an RPG storm will hit in 1-1.5 year and you will have to prepare yourself.
I could safely guess that Project Eternity and Torment: Tides of Numenera are enough to satisfy the cRPG's hunger,
but then it's not like you can ignore titles like The Witcher 3: WIld Hunt and other AAA productions that will come.
It's like an RPG storm will hit in 1-1.5 year and you will have to prepare yourself.
and Hyper Light Drifter smashes through another stretch goal
You're late to the party
It has stayed around $140k for some hours now.
You're late to the party
It has stayed around $140k for some hours now.
oops! i thought 140K was another stretch goal. lol just another 20K to go.
is it slowing down?
polyh3dron
Banned
Wow this looks great.
Backed for $25.
Backed for $25.
That's not detailed. More refinement is also vague and may look like a not so exiciting goal.
You'll have to trust the developer that with these funds he'll deliver a larger, and hopefully also a better, gameworld.
Aye, but it's standard procedure. Personally I also believe that this new batch of stretch goals ($120k-$160k-$180k-$220k)
isn't as much interesting as the original one – the only prominent goal seems to be the PS4/VITA port.
So he might make the same amount of levels he was planning to do, and make the world the same size. Saying that we'll get more levels or a bigger world is pointless if he hasn't stated the amount or size beforehand - might as well just say that he'll make a bigger game.
Who's to say he'll even get another person to work on it? Might just pocket the extra change.
Come on.
1) Shovel Knight
2) Among the Sleep
3) The Realm
4) A Hat in Time
5) LIONESS
6) Shadow of the Eternals
7) Candle
)9) U55 - END OF THE LINE
10) Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
11) Hyper Light Drifter
charlequin
Banned
Unlike most of the pixel-art games that have hit recently, though, this game has a very unique (and not particularly retro) visual style.
KillerTravis
Banned
This game is funded, people should be helping Taxi Journey instead. Art just looks too good.
Vire
Member
PS4 version isn't funded and I really wasn't that impressed by Taxi Journey's pitch video. Their pedigree is kinda bad.
*shrug*
Triggerhappytel
Member
By the people who made Amy and the recent Flashback remake? Nope. Don't trust them to deliver a good product and I'm not handing over my money without a playable demo.
Hesemonni
Banned
The animation needs to be more fluid, but besides that I have pretty much sure complaints about how the game looks. The animation's bound to be fixed after hiring an extra animator via stretch goal.
OT, but I didn't back that one and the updates are for backers only. How is that game coming along?
Messofanego
Banned
Kickstarter is just brilliant. I daresay it's one of the best things to happen to gaming in a long time.
I don't care what people say about scammers, or projects over-promising and under-delivering, or pitches sometimes just being straight-up laughable shit... Kickstarter over the past year and a half has made videogames really exciting for me again. I'm excited for Broken Age, I'm excited for Wasteland 2, I'm excited for Armikrog, I'm excited for Mighty No. 9, and now I'm eagerly anticipating this potential little gem. And evidently first parties feel the same way, considering the number of Kickstarter game projects being courted early on by Nintendo and Sony especially.
I'm wondering if Mighty No. 9 will open things up even more for Japanese developers to use it. We could be getting spiritual sequels to Sparkster and Gunstar Heroes pitched for our enjoyment this time next year.
Excitiiiiing!
I don't care what people say about scammers, or projects over-promising and under-delivering, or pitches sometimes just being straight-up laughable shit... Kickstarter over the past year and a half has made videogames really exciting for me again. I'm excited for Broken Age, I'm excited for Wasteland 2, I'm excited for Armikrog, I'm excited for Mighty No. 9, and now I'm eagerly anticipating this potential little gem. And evidently first parties feel the same way, considering the number of Kickstarter game projects being courted early on by Nintendo and Sony especially.
I'm wondering if Mighty No. 9 will open things up even more for Japanese developers to use it. We could be getting spiritual sequels to Sparkster and Gunstar Heroes pitched for our enjoyment this time next year.
Excitiiiiing!
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