Anyway, now that the cat is out of the bag – how about it. Do you think it makes sense for us to go to Kickstarter, having read all of the above? Or should we just focus on finishing the game with the budget we have and reserve all the things we think should be added for some future game? I personally think that if ever a Larian game deserved a budget increase, then this is the one. I’d very much like to to see multiplayer and cooperative dialogs and turn based combat as a new standard in party-based RPGs and this game becoming successful will certainly help that cause
Absolutely.
I have been playing CRPG's since... well... damn... I am getting old...
Anyway... we have watched for years how games have become more and more streamlined. With each successive release, we get less and less features. Skills get reduced, simplified. Dialogue gets streamlined for "hurry up" play. Thinking aspects get thrown out for instant gratification audiences.
This sells to the immediate crowd, but to be honest, I couldn't recall any of them if I wanted and I certainly wouldn't waste my time going back to play any of them if I happened to remember them.
When you released DD, I was shocked even then, back when there were still great detailed CRPG system, you took a Diablo like game, kept its "action" aspect, but then provided a full featured development system, questing system, and story that made Diablo look like it was a grade school project and even rivaled some of the better turn based systems around.
I remember that game to this day, have played it multiple times and heck, just talking about it makes me want to play it again.
The reason? Because of the depth, the detail you put into the game. The small details count, those "extra" features are what set you apart. Those are the things that make a title stick in someones mind years later.
I enjoyed BD as well, but... you dropped the ball with the random generated dungeon grind fest (finger in throat).
Anyway, the point is, if you can get extra funding through Kickstarter to add more, detail more, polish more to release a product that is large, fully featured and shows extreme attention to detail in all aspects... well... not only should you, but you MUST do this.
