Codex Interview RPG Codex Interview: The Banner Saga, 2D Turn-Based Strategy RPG

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Why? He got a lot of praise for coming here and for his great artwork. What else should he get praised for? In my opinion there is nothing else.

P.S. Sorry, I edited my post.

Infinitron

(previous values, before the green line, filled in manually from Facebook, Forum and Kickstarter comments)<--- that is from the ruined kingdoms page.


http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2/
http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/stoic/the-banner-saga/
http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure/
There is possibly some data being cut off just from scanning over that. I can't confirm it though since there is nowhere else I know of keeping this data.

I stand corrected.

EDIT: Although the fact that the Double Fine graph starts from Feb 24th inflates the relative magnitude of its final spike.

Ya'll got took in by pretty pictures and ignored that this had the stink of casual all over it from the very start.

You surely have a point but
1. it's not butthurt at all - just the post mortem of a project that looked promising 4 weeks ago
2. it's not disproportionate to the amount of confusion about what Banner Saga is and the lack of time to pull out

Let me guess, you love this genre like you love every other genre and will defend it against the "narrow minded" people, PCtards, etc.

C'mon don't hesitate to demonstrate your superior taste.

Thanks, that's a compliment when it comes from you.

Yes infinitron, there seems to be some data being cut off. I don't know of anywhere else keeping this data though.

Is still possible. But I wouldn't bet much on it. In my imagination Banner Saga has moved from an engaging strategy game to animated wallpaper in very short time.

You may think 10$ is not much, but in Nigeria you could get 10 blowjobs for that.

I mean some african hookers are quite hot. I have this information only 2nd hand of course.

Is it still episodic?

There's guys out there spending 250 bucks on a collectors edition for a game that'll last ten minutes?

That's actually pretty decent, kudos to them for that.

The console port may mean a dumber UI that refuses to let me handle stuff nicely with the mouse, but it's not my main complain. I really got pissed at they focusing on stuff like concole ports and soundtrack/orchestra then on the actual game. As I said before, they didn't even address if the game will have a vital thing as individual weapons/inventory per unit. They said it was somehting up in the air due lack of money, and $300k later they annouce they finally can have....an orchestra and console ports. :facepalm:

IMHO their focus should be making a good & deep game, just like FFT, Shining Force and KoDP they mentioned, that's whats the extra money should be used on. If the game is a huge success, use part of the profit to fund the ports, there is no reason why you should compromise the quality of the game to make all versions available at launch, that's publisher logic. The KS is at $670K, if they don't reach 700k it that means that we will have consoles at launch and an orchestra, but no one will ever play the cities stuff...

Banner Saga developers are clearly satisfied in making an greatly produced but casual tactical RPG that sells as much as possible (ex-BioWare), and that's not what I signed in for.

EDIT: Also, I was going to reply at Something Awful, but you have to pay to register? WTF?

Dude, they had received 6X their originally planned budget before they started talking about orchestras and console ports. There's only so much money 3 guys can spend actually working on a game themselves.

The only thing that worries me is the "player owned city", since that seems like a complete change of the game concept.
Chewbot If you're still around, could you tell us more about the player town, and how it fits into a game about a traveling caravan?