Jagged Alliance: Flashback - turn-based prequel

EvaUnit02 on 18/4/2013 at 07:46

(http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/04/17/squad-chat-jagged-alliance-flashback-interview/)
The idea of this game I like, but the circumstances required for it to see the light of hell day? I'm not going anywhere near this Kickstarter. The publisher probably gets most of the profits and definitely retains ownership of the IP in the end? Aw hell nah.

This precisely what happened with Obsidian, except they told the publisher to bugger off. (http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/09/19/publishers-wanted-obsidian-to-use-kickstarter/)

ATeciak on 18/4/2013 at 08:29

Well Kickstarter is a good idea on paper, but as all things used by a man, you can't predict for what will it actually be used for. And companies want to get their hands on everything. Because of publishers, Obsidian always had to cut their own games from good ideas, leaving them half implemented.

I loved the 2nd Jagged Alliance, played the Reloaded (and hated it) and now I'm counting on Flashback. Let's hope it will be a good reboot for the series, just like xcom was.

Thx for showing it, never heard about it till today.

EvaUnit02 on 18/4/2013 at 09:40

The Veronica Mars movie KS campaign has already set a precedent for fools giving money hand over fist to fund a big studio project (Warner Bros). True, bitComposer are hardly competition for the Activision's of the world, but it's in the same frigging wheel house.

faetal on 18/4/2013 at 09:56

I'm all in favour of established devs using KS to bypass a publisher, but doing it in league with one goes too far IMO. Still, I'm torn on what to do about kicking it or not, since either way, the publisher will get my money if the game is good, meaning whether I do or don't support it on KS becomes an issue of whether I want any of the rewards and whether or not there's a chance it won't go ahead if it fails on KS.