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Psychonauts 2 Announced via Crowdfunding

Double Fine have launched a crowdfunding campaign to get the sequel to the fan-favourite Psychonauts produced.

The first game was originally released in 2005 and has since captured the imagination of thousands of fans, becoming a cult classic in its own right. The follow up stars Razputin once more, but this time he's accomplished his dream of joining the Pysochonauts, but as he steps into their headquarters not all is at it seems...

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The project has launched on a new games crowdfunding site Fig, with the amount made set to be a chunk of the funding needed to produce the game. Double Fine and an external partner are also chipping in resources.

Tim Schafer will be leading the project, alongside original collaborators including co-writer Erik Wolpaw, artists Peter Chan, Scott Campbell, and Nathan Stapley, composer Peter McConnell, voice actors Richard Horvitz and Nicki Rapp, and voice director Khris Brown.

For more on the project, be sure to visit the Fig campaign.

Will you pledge support towards Psychonauts 2, and are you a fan of the original?

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Insanoflex 04.12.2015#1

Doublefine means you pay TWICE

Marzeee 04.12.2015#2

Haven't played the first one yet, but plan to give it a go sometime (got it in a humble bundle years back). I've always been interested after hearing a lot of good things about it. Has a really nice visual style, too.

Was a bit of a shock to see this announced. Could be good, but it's hard to know after Broken Age. Not really got much faith at the moment.

( Edited 04.12.2015 19:48 by Marzy )

Anema86 05.12.2015#3

This seriously bothers me; I actually just posted at DiMezzo Gaming about it. The very idea that a sequel will be crowdfunded is absolutely abhorrent. Crowdfunding exists to help people get their first project off the ground; after that, market forces take over and the gaming community either judges it as worthy by making it successful, or as unworthy by letting it fail. The first game incurred losses of millions of dollars due to an overblown development budget and fiscal irresponsibility; that's on Double Fine Productions. They can't screw up on an order of that magnitude and then come before the gaming community and say, "We know we screwed up, but if you pay us today we'll sell you a hamburger Tuesday." That's not acceptable. It's not even "We'll give you a hamburger Tuesday if you pay us today." It's "We'll sell you a hamburger Tuesday if you pay us today." Sure, they're offering stake in the profits to investors, but that isn't really crowdfunding; that's corporate investment, and a distinctly different thing. They can't just blur the lines like that, and I don't think that they should be allowed to pull this. They screwed up the first one so badly that they can't afford to make the sequel. That's on them. They made a game, gamers found it wanting, and Double Fine Productions ate millions of dollars in losses. It's not our fault they screwed up, and Mighty Number 9 proves that a spiritual successor can still be made as a follow-up if you don't trust the initial company to basically try again. So if people want a Psychonauts 2, they should turn to people like Edmund McMillen and the guy who made Dust: An Elyssian Tale. Not Tim Schafer.

Crowdfunding isn't a "We screwed up so we need fans to bail us out" thing. That tarnishes the entire crowdfunding community.

( Edited 05.12.2015 19:57 by Anema86 )

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Insanoflex 07.12.2015#4

this does not look good...