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Damnable Fiend:
looking briefly at their site, I'm going to assume one of these games will be Psychonauts 2.

Felrender:

--- Quote from: Damnable Fiend on 07 Aug 2010, 01:21 ---looking briefly at their site, I'm going to assume one of these games will be Psychonauts 2.

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pleasepleasepleaseplease

KvP:
With 4 consecutive projects, none of them can be all that time-consuming. If there is a new Psychonauts it will probably be a lighter (perhaps episodic?) project ala the new Sam & Max. As Ozy suggests, this would be a comfortable fit for their humor, but I wonder about the ability for Double Fine to convey pathos with the same deftness they've exhibited in past projects in newer ones of a smaller scope.

Storm Rider:
That's true. Although Schafer's writing is definitely more acclaimed for its humor, Grim Fandango, Psychonauts, and even Brutal Legend (to a degree) dealt with some pretty heavy subject matter. It's remarkable how effective it is (more so than the vast majority of games that attempt pathos) despite being relatively understated.

And it's not clear whether all of these projects are consecutive, to be fair. We know that they've all been signed, and that some of them will apparently be announced very soon, but they could be in various stages of production. It is worth mentioning that this not a multi-game deal with a single publisher, a la Platinum's 4 game deal with Sega. They aren't putting all their eggs in one basket, which is probably safer for them anyway. I bet one of them's THQ: they've launched a copycat Partners program to compete with EA and have made a big deal out of getting big name industry talent to work for them, and Double Fine has been burned enough by bad publisher arrangements that owning their IP is undoubtedly very appealing.

As for Psychonauts 2, I kind of doubt it. It would probably have to go through Majesco and possibly even Microsoft to happen, and I can't see them having much interest. Majesco is in full on casual game publisher mode these days (arguably because of Psychonauts, although the lion's share of the blame can probably be placed on Advent Rising), and Microsoft was disinterested enough to drop the original game in the first place. Then again, the details of these contracts are obviously not made public, so maybe it's less complicated than it would seem.

Storm Rider:
First DF downloadable game revealed! It's called Costume Quest, and it's pitched as a SNES-era RPG brought into 3D and set on Halloween. It's being directed by Tasha Harris, the lead animator of Psychonauts and Brutal Legend (who also does a lot of the comics on DF's website, if you read those). It's being published by THQ (called it!) and scheduled for release on XBLA/PSN later this fall.

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