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American McGee and Spicy Horse needs your help to fund Akaneiro: Demon Hunters
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BrokenEchelon
Banned
Okami Diablo?
Well, there's a list of things they want to add, there. IF they're not in, then you'd be in a reasonable position to make a judgement call as to how much they'd add to the overall experience.
The perfect Dark
Banned
I would give him 60 Dollars for a new Alice game
Prince of Space
Banned
He's got my money for a new Alice.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Because you bought 50 copies of this awesome game?
Sapphire Dreams
Member
Yep, it looks like a McGee game, seems like big publishers would no longer fund his games after Madness Returns.
Old thread about the original closed beta release: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=491057
Doesn't seem like there's a NDA on screenshots, so here are some of mine from the closed beta as of November 2012. Runs in the Unity browser plugin:
The perfect Dark
Banned
Maybe he should talk to Nintendo?
Because it was mediocre at best
Alice: Madness Returns was pure fantastic, classic old school 3D platformer with great story and amazing levels design (dat chapter 4).
Artistically was great, but the graphic, the controls and the camera sucked
It's a browser-based action RPG with an Okami artstyle. Think a more accessible Diablo with minimal controls. If you're into that sort of thing, I think the game is fine. Unfortunately I don't find the waves of enemies and monotonous clicking with the mouse very entertaining.
Sapphire Dreams
Member
And why would that be any different?
That's true, I hadn't looked at the page yet. I also was unaware they were bringing it to PC native through Steam if possible. Don't think I'm being critical of the product; I like it. I just don't know how they went from developing it all the way through closed beta to needing a hefty chunk of change. I think some of the things they talked about might already be in, also, but I'm unsure as I didn't spend more than a couple hours with it.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Glass Rebel
Member
No thanks.
Make something as appealing as Madness Returns and we can talk, not Diablo lite.
Make something as appealing as Madness Returns and we can talk, not Diablo lite.
sadly EA own Alice IP. so it's not up to McGee and not his call
and EA is not like SEGA(who got money issues and can give their IPs to anyone for food and blankets to save their lives)
Visualante2
Member
I watched the video, because he seems like an alright guy.. and it's worthwhile having figures doing something a bit on the fringe.
But... I don't fund free to play games. It's an incredibly lucrative market at the moment and I don't see why they need to turn to the public to fund it other than they won't be accountable to a publisher. Art's nice.. it'll probably get funded on that alone so w/e. At least they're honest about what they're making and what the finished product is.
But... I don't fund free to play games. It's an incredibly lucrative market at the moment and I don't see why they need to turn to the public to fund it other than they won't be accountable to a publisher. Art's nice.. it'll probably get funded on that alone so w/e. At least they're honest about what they're making and what the finished product is.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Give me a new Alice and I'll buy it for both PS3 and PC.
I'll buy whatever merchandise you can come up with too.
I'll buy whatever merchandise you can come up with too.
I was invited into the beta and never actually played it. Watched the trailer on my phone when I got the email, thought it looked super neat, and then forgot about it. I should check it out.
Im starting to realize I have no idea what the hell people want out of a 3D platformer camera. Unless the camera is significantly worse on the console versions than it was on PC
(I disagree with the other complaints as well but that one stuck out to me the most for some reason)
Im starting to realize I have no idea what the hell people want out of a 3D platformer camera. Unless the camera is significantly worse on the console versions than it was on PC
(I disagree with the other complaints as well but that one stuck out to me the most for some reason)
Visualante2
Member
The camera did have some issues. It wasn't intelligently following how you play.. you'd have to pass through an occasionally badly placed gate before the camera would animate into the new area.. however you'd still be controlling Alice and enemies could be about while the camera dawdles behind. It wasn't a huge issue, but when you have zaney level design like that camera should be a bit more robust.
Free-to-play games are not popular on KS. May be I'll back it.
he's got nothing (from you)
he's got nothing (from you)
Angelus Errare
Banned
Your avatar should not be legal. Men have been stoned for lesser crimes.
I'm hesitant to support anything made by American McGee because of this masterpiece:
Yeah, I definatly was not prepared for that.
HamPster PamPster
Member
This looks interesting but I'll just enter the open beta this month instead. I wish there was a $20 "we'll pretend you bought the game and hide all the F2P stuff" option. I don't want to kickstart for an in game item... but then again I'm still living in a past age :/
Also American MeGee looks nothing like he should. I imagined a big bushy beard and white hair. Sort of Santa meets Uncle Sam
Also American MeGee looks nothing like he should. I imagined a big bushy beard and white hair. Sort of Santa meets Uncle Sam
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
I thought all his games so far have been very lackluster with one semi interesting concept (and one that's beginning to become a bit of an one trick pony, adding a dark twist to lighthearted things) that's never realized compellingly within. I didn't get the hype for Alice, his best was probably the first one and that too was dodgy but a little more forgivable given the era.
No $ from me.
No $ from me.
Given that it's F2P just release what you have and convince people to pay for things. There's no need to use a waterfall model here, build as you go.
The fact there is a clear misinterpretation of the business model is unsurprising and will probably lead to abuse, it's the vogue thing to do, but I'm not funding a F2P game in general.
It's really a shame they are sticking to it. The game looks nice and I like American McGee well enough but I don't want to play it.
The fact there is a clear misinterpretation of the business model is unsurprising and will probably lead to abuse, it's the vogue thing to do, but I'm not funding a F2P game in general.
It's really a shame they are sticking to it. The game looks nice and I like American McGee well enough but I don't want to play it.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
That's EA's call though, not McGee's.
Maybe when EA are done sending Fuse to die they can start thinking of ways to send Alice 3 to die.
plagiarize
Banned
huh? someone start posting hair gifs.
huh?
I can't deny it had issues.
seriously though, what TECHNICAL short comings did the graphics have that makes you say they sucked. the only thing I can think of as a technical issue is that Alice instantly could do a 180 without an accompanying animation... but I forgave it that given how tight it made the controls. but that's all I've got. best hair physics in any game ever though. every thing else seemed as good as any other AAA UE3 game.
still unmatched to this day.
and yes Alice 2 is really one of the best UE3 games out there.
the control is fluid and Alice moves like a beast 3D platforming is great, and the camera issues during combat can be solving by clinking trigger to unlock targets for just a sec if it went to far or cover the wrong angle.
I love Madness Returns its one of my favorites this gen but I feel the weapons could have used more variety like the first game and no ledge grabbing was such a BS downgrade IMO. The game worked pretty good as it was but it felt like it was lacking some things of the original that would have added more to it. I liked the story but I felt the Chesire cat was underutilized in comparison to the original game and not as fleshed out. The game was pretty old school design which I can understand some people not being into it since then it has come to some new gimmicks and evolution into the genre. The game art direction still king despite some technical shortcomings. Alice was a unpolished diamond overall. Great game that only a few will appreciate.
As for Akaneiro it looks really promising but I'm not even sure if my laptop can run it since its a mess. If I get a computer later on I'll make sure to play it cause I like the premise of the game and the art direction and see how it fleshes out. Hope they reach their goal pretty soon and make all they want to add to the game.
As for Akaneiro it looks really promising but I'm not even sure if my laptop can run it since its a mess. If I get a computer later on I'll make sure to play it cause I like the premise of the game and the art direction and see how it fleshes out. Hope they reach their goal pretty soon and make all they want to add to the game.
DICKS AHOY
Banned
If Spicy Horse was able to make Alice go from a meh SO EDGY interpretation of the classic story to a flawed but still fun and memorable experience in Madness Returns, I'm willing to give McGee the benefit of the doubt. Sucks it blatantly had a ton of content cut out of it; most of the cut bosses even still have dialog and bio files in the game and the art book is basically a long list of "This would've been awesome to implement, buuuuuuuuuuuuut..."