Yooka Laylee seems like it could have been good (IMO), it just seems kinda undercooked and trying to be a bit too faithful to the oldies.
@dzuk Yeah, I mean the rolls and animations are PRETTY.
I'm not sure I'd have put the Trouser Snake joke into a kids game though.
@dzuk But yeah, too bad. I'd like to see more bright, fun games around. Just....read reviews, all said it was 90s game hard, which is too hard for me.
@Canageek I saw a friend play it, and my main issue was that it didn't seem to have the budget it needed. Later levels start looking and feeling really ropey.
@dzuk That is the thing about all these KS games trying to remove the penny pinchers and such. The reason games got pushed out without being done back then was YOU WERE OUT OF MONEY.
@dzuk I recall a video released for the Broken Age kickstarter where Tim Schafer was talking about his time on Full Throttle and how over budget he went, and was forced to put it out and I'm like "And the fact you don't have anyone to tell you to stop spending money now is a GOOD thing?!?!"
@Canageek yeah, I assume that's just a problem with people not having producers who can rein in budgets or forecast budgets for projects... Also sometimes I assume things unexpected just happen and unlike a traditional publisher situation, there's nobody to go back to to ask for more money, so you just have to live with it. :S
@Canageek The only kickstarted game I own is Obduction, and it's a great game and came out fine, but the studio who made it has a ton of experience and had other small passive sources of income. Even then, they were in a position where they were running out of the principal funds for the game and they had to choose between a few weeks of polishing or being able to pay for marketing and so they went for the former.
@dzuk I own: FTL, The Banner Saga, Pillars of Eternity, and Wasteland 2.
I've not even played the last two of those :S
@Canageek To be perfectly honest, N64-era Rare? I definitely WOULD expect them to make that joke in a kids' game, so I'd say that fits in perfectly with this sort of throwback. There's reasons they were capable of designing Bad Fur Day, after all.
@Canageek I think Trwozer was fine... From a British perspective, that kind of semi-visible innuendo humour is kind of a thing and doesn't seem to be doing any harm (like, teenagers upwards would get the joke, but kids would just see a funny snake).