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I thought it was pretty great; I love walking around in beautiful environments that have such incredible detail everywhere, without having to worry about being attacked by killbots. It made me want to fire up Riven again, and also made me want The Witness even more, since I expect the same kind of immersiveness from that.

What, is San Francisco some kind of expensive luxury town?

Just so I'm clear on your stance, do you think that Telltale's games aren't "pure adventure games", or that they just haven't managed to reignite the genre?

They're seriously going to gast pods?

I seem to remember BS4 being slightly better than BS3, though of course still pretty bad.

From the thing I linked I got the impression it's probably Broken Sword, just not formally announced.

I think, if someone just tries one more time, they'll be able to make an uncrackable DRM.

Sweet, I'll come over and demand free coffees. Finally being on this forum pays off!

Apparently it's a bunch of video games journalism superstars or something. I've read a few articles and found them quite good. I don't know about any relation to Idle Thumbs.

Sponsored.

I funded peculation.

I'm afraid the winner has already been decided, but thank you!

YESYESYES! I was really hoping for a 2D game, but really expecting 3D, since I have the impression a 3D game would be much cheaper. If I was a furnace, I would be positively stoked.

So, that show Alcatraz, huh? I watched the first episode and then deleted the rest since it was the dumbest shit.

Long version: Time to pile on with some useless thing: I never quite manage to explain why I love Valve's single player games so much, but I know it isn't really the story (or maybe plot is the right word). If someone forced me at machine-gun point to tell me what the story is in the Half-Life series, I would probably say that there is or was an alien invasion and Black Mesa did some research on portals, something went wrong, something with the combine and Breen and please don't shoot me. The reason I often replay Half-Life 2, other than that it's a great FPS, is the environments and my journey through them. Most of my favourite games are like that; In all the hundreds/thousands of games I've played, I've been in so many virtual locations, but there's only a few of those places I can still remember so vividly. HL2 is a non-stop series of such places; the first dilapidated apartment building you enter in City 17 and the the playground outside, the road along the coast, with abandoned buildings and cliffside paths, the tunnel blocked off by car wrecks, jumping from rock to rock on the beach, etc. I can also remember the Barnett College coal cellar, Iceland, Tikal, the room filled with crabs, the Venice library, Phatt Island, Zeelich, Twinsen's house in LBA, every nook and cranny on Citadel Island, every last little thing in the Mysts and Riven. I have also played through Unreals, Quakes, Dooms, Metal Gears, Medals and Calls for Honors and Duties, Baldur's Gates and hundreds of other games, but I probably can't remember anything from them. I guess it's different from person to person; I tend to remember places and settings very well, but tend to forget plots and storylines as they're being told. Short version: You should definitely try playing Half-Life 2.

What? How? Also: I get that saved games are worth keeping, but is there anything else you'd want to back up?

Without having thought about it much, and without knowing the first thing about economics or how normal people think and act, I would definitely put down much more money for this game if there was an actual chance of return. That is, I would probably opt out once I saw the endless pages of contracts and forms I would have to sign for something like that to be legal.

Jesus Christ, this, along with other stuff, has made this day among the top one thousand days I've lived. Not only is this game being made, but, just as interestingly, we get to follow the development without any marketing spin. Fun times!

Only about 3 500 dollars left... Finally, Amazon unlocked my account (Amazon Payments is a terrible thing) and I was able to support this awesome thing!

I had this impression that modern games had marketing budgets many times the size of the actual development budget. Is this false, even preposterous?

Rumor has it it's a Shivah reboot.

It's the Dutch accent.

Okay, I hope this isn't a trap... why not?

What? Facebook? They use Amazon Payments. OR DID I MISS A JOKE AGAIN

I'd support this if Amazon didn't stop me. I wonder why Kickstarter hasn't found some payment alternatives – I've had nothing but problems supporting their projectes through Amazon.