They got, what - $400k+ funding, and they made that back to pay investors off in 2 weeks, and now they don't wanna complete the game? Double Fine and Tim Schafer are going to see $0 from me.

I actually held off on spacebase because it felt too incomplete to purchase even for early access, guess I saved myself from being burnt on that one.

Tim Schafer to me seems like a mix of John Romero and Peter Molyneux. And I don't mean that as a compliment. Did some fantastic things a bunch of years ago while managed by someone else, but now he ( or all three of them? ) just blabbers on about cool ideas while flushing all the money he doesn't pocket down the toilet, while delivering incomplete stuff months too late.

I propose the best game of all times: SpacebaseDaikatana: Godus Edition! An indie game that you buy now and get in 20 years if they reach a GTA5 level budget.

Game looks really sick. Will buy and report back.

Amplitude makes some of the best UIs out there imho. Always slick, non intrusive and awesome to look at. Also 31€ seems like a real good price point.

Since no one seems to be biting on Monaco, and it does look like a game I would enjoy, I will take it!

Monaco was part of a humble bundle a while back, which had 3-4 really good games in it. Ton may have it

It is actually in the Humble Bundle right now.

Monaco key: https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=6SZscXcDtKuwCXVK

That Pope did you get Daer's key? if not I'll send it to you.

No I didn't message Daer or get anything yet (didn't see the edit until just now and the key is gone (likely long gone)). I saw a few people trying to get rid of Monaco with no takers, so I thought I would help out .

Tropico 3 is free for a day at the humble store - https://www.humblebundle.com/store

cool, haven't played a tropico game

I still haven't gotten around to Tropico 4 after Steam accidentally listed it at $.40 a while back

Haha yeah. I downloaded it, started it and then it asked me to set up an account. Ain't noboy got time for that. So it sits there unplayed.

Glad Steam is offering the Pac-Man Championship Edition DX+ for a free week.

It was a game on my radar, I downloaded it instantly, played a 5 minute score attack, hated the visuals and the gameplay, and promptly uninstalled.

I was going to post this a couple of weeks ago but I just want to say that I am jealous as hell of those who have enough time to go back and replay RPG's from the early 2000's and 90s. I have barely been able to crack into Divinity: Original Sin and its been out a couple of months now.

guess you don't have

You can change the visuals fwiw, there are a bunch of different options (at least on the PS3 version). As far as gameplay, it's Pac-Man, not sure what you expected there...

Well no, it was like Pac-Man at 10x speed. And then right when you are about to hit a ghost, it slows down so you can avoid it. And there were bombs as well?

I love everything you hate about Pac Man CE DX. Visuals are awesome and the gameplay is really addictive.

pac man CE DX best pac man ever
hysterical game great graphics and gameplay
perfect

The new storefront is a step in the right direction but it's still really really cluttered.

I love how they added a lot of features from enhanced steam like filtering out games you own etc.

I'm planning on doing this with the old D&D games (actually I've never played them outside of part of Baldur's Gate II) , but part of that is because I haven't bought Divinity yet

I've never really understood Kickstarter and I'm surprised with how successful it's been. Perhaps I underestimated the amount of fanboyism that happens these days but I can't believe how eager people are to donate to projects that may or may not get made with the ultimate prize being 'Hey, someone might develop just the type of game/movie etc. that you like!' I guess I could see it with something like Veronica Mars, which people were crazy interested in and was relatively recent (still all they got out of it was some movie that I guess wrapped up the story?), but no way I would back something like Wasteland 2 despite the fact that the Fallout games are my favorite of all time - I mean the first Wasteland is pretty much unplayable today and there was no way to anticipate a great sequel 26 years later. Will I buy Kickstarter products when they are finished? Sure! But no way am I putting myself out there on something that's barely in production just because I might like the concept.

You can now see VAC bans on peoples profile page, even if their profile is set to private.

Torment, Divinity, Wasteland 2 and Pillars of Eternity all came out of stable studios with project leads with a ton of experience, and they're games that would not have been made without Kickstarter. I think Double Fine is about as bad as it's going to get when it comes to middle tier publishers with that kind of pedigree messing up a kickstarter or early access game, and like I said, it wasn't hard to predict that there might be funding issues given the company and Tim's past.

couldn't you always see that?