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TimovieMan - 15 March 2013 12:19 PM

I agree that the backers feel a little *off* compared to the rest, but given all the criticism I’d expected a lot worse. This is not so bad, imo.

Agreed. It’s actually quite a stunning game. I played the Alpha, and the full effect of the hi res backgrounds and all the animation is rather beautiful. The slight “off-ness” of the look of the backer characters was a small quibble of mine and nothing more.

The dynamic lighting is also rather cool. When Larry walks under certain lights or goes through shadows, he changes colors slightly. There is a lot to like and to marvel at visually in this game.

Jatsie - 15 March 2013 10:09 AM

Does anyone have a screenshot of Lefty’s Bar which shows the backer characters?

teme - 15 March 2013 10:55 AM

LINK

The second guy from the right reminds me of this character
http://www.gocomics.com/basicinstructions/2013/03/08

Josho - 14 March 2013 07:01 PM

Of course, LSL2 is going to have its own difficulties. It’s a much bigger game than LSL1, and has never been done as a point-and-click before. So we’ll have our hands full.

I’m playing LSL2 right now, and I gotta say, the point and click interface probably seems like the least of your concerns on that one. It’s very funny, but the design needs some serious rethinking on a pretty fundamental level. It’s all dead-ends with no real feedback.

In that sense, I’m actually really looking forward to that one, in the hopes you guys can make a real game out of it.

diego - 15 March 2013 01:35 PM

I agree, but now looking at LSL7 screens, it’s nothing new - I haven’t played Larry 1-6, but looking at the original Larry does seem slightly taller, or more in proportion with other characters.

Nah, even there he looked crazy big-headed and weird compared to the other characters.

I saw his skeleton in the Mutter Museum once.

tomimt - 20 March 2013 02:51 AM

LSL2 is the one I waiting for the most as well. It’s propably going to be the remake that will differ the most from the original game. I think Al Lowe said it himself as well, that LSL2 is the one that needs to be redone the most, as it has so big design flaws in it.

Yep, I look forward to this one as well. The puzzle designs, etc need some adjusting, of course, but this one is going to be awesome in hi res and with all the spoken dialogue and new music. It has one hell of a wild plot. :-)

Frogacuda - 19 March 2013 11:33 PM

In that sense, I’m actually really looking forward to that one, in the hopes you guys can make a real game out of it.

I think the hardest part will be making the early sections ‘fun’ - almost all of the other environments in the series are quite goofy, but the town at the start always seemed like it was trying to be realistic and ended up quite drab.  The rest of the game should hold up better, as long as all the unwinnable situations are resolved.

Worst thing about LSL2 was the lack of the patented Larry girls  

For me the issue with the backer characters is their expressions. Comic Book Guy in Lefty’s Bar is fine, unlike the other characters that are smirking and grinning “Hey! Look at me! Do you see me? Yeah, here I am! Haha, I’m so awesome!” right at you, Comic Book Guy actually looks like a character with… well, character. He’s not facing the player, knowingly smiling, he’s sitting at the bar, slouching even. He’s not staring at the camera, he’s looking over his shoulder at Larry with a mildly bemused expression. He fits in. You know what, screw the other backer characters, Comic Book Guy is my hero. I hope he gets his own spin-off game, Casual Hoodie Carey.

i continue to be fascinated with crowd funding and all the potential it has to influence industries. However… im not really eager to jump in and fund anymore… The double fine experience aside, communication for many campaigns deteriorates and the goals these projects set are frequently unrealistically low for what they want to accomplish and then they only realize this halfway through making the game. So while i’ll often see projects id be inclined to back, i instead say “yeah.. i’ll buy that if/when it comes out.. i dont need to add to my list of projects to watch on the brink of disaster.”

I would just like to chime in on the kickstarter issue. So I started playing Cognition this week and am already on chapter 3 and I like it a lot. The story is amazing and Erica is a great character. The things I don’t really like are the animation and clunky interface but they are issues I can definitely look past. Also, last year I played through Resonance and thought it was great as well. These are two adventure games funded through kickstarter that I would never have backed had I heard of them back then but definitely bought and really enjoyed when they were released.

I have since backed multiple adventure game kickstarters (Double Fine, Moebius, Project Fedora and Dreamfall Chapters) but all of these were from developers I had heard of before. I am looking forward to these titles but the waiting game is very difficult.

After the original rush of games last year I kind of got burnt out on supporting games, until Dreamfall, that is and here is my dilemma. I would like to see a lot of the current kickstarter games have a chance at getting made. For example, the Armikrog and Harvest game look very interesting and I’m sure I would consider playing these games if they were released but I don’t want to be bothered backing them and worrying whether they will come out or not or taking the chance that I won’t like them after keeping track of their progress for a long time. I also like to wait to read reviews first before buying games I’m unsure of to see if it is something I will like.

I’m glad that kickstarter exists and I think that it is great that smaller unknown individuals used it to successfully create amazing games (Resonance and Cognition) but I’m still having doubts about whether I should jump in and support unknowns before their games are made. Good luck on the campaigns though!