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Anonymous10/18/25, 14:40No.723557561
>double fines new game keeper with a metacritic of 78 debuts to 165 players on steam
>studio is located in one of the most expensive cities on the planet
guess who is getting closed next?
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Anon10/18/25, 15:01No.723558747
Saw this thread on page 8 with no replies and laughed because that's just how little anyone gives a shit about double fine now. Here's a pity bump for you, OP.
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Anon10/18/25, 15:03No.723558917
It's not like we were ever getting a Brutal Legend 2 after Ozzy Osbournes death anyways.
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Anon10/18/25, 15:04No.723558941
I supported some double fine kickstarter over a decade ago and I never even bothered to redeem the cd key they sent me because the game just didnt look interesting
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Anon10/18/25, 15:25No.723560249
Wait, their new game came out? First I'm hearing of it.
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Anon10/18/25, 15:27No.723560424
It's kinda crazy how Tim Schaefer made a lot of cool shit and was relatively unknown for many years, then he gets a tiny taste of fame and immediately morphs into a fart huffing smug narcissist incapable of making anyone but complete garbage.
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Anon10/18/25, 15:30No.723560585
Double Fine released and abandoned Spacebase DF9 in early access because it didn't sell enough. The burn rate of their SF office is crazy. It's clearly an excuse for Tim Schafer to be a hipster.
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Anon10/18/25, 15:32No.723560691
I loved brutal legend when I was a kid. I can't believe what a retard I was.
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Anon10/18/25, 15:33No.723560752
>Based 90s dev that actually had a sense of humor
>Gets old in the 2020's and becomes a woke limp wristed cuck dev.
>Gets shut down because their games are shitNo big surprise
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Anon10/18/25, 15:34No.723560790
Just finished Keeper, it was fine for walking sim. Annoying camera during boat and wheel chapters but otherwise pretty solid.
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Anon10/18/25, 15:35No.723560890
theres no way this 3 hour long sloppa made for NOONE was their main project. mr shitface surely has a plan. he has to! right..?
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Anon10/18/25, 15:37No.723560980
>no gameplay walking simulator
>3 hours long
>multi million dollar development budgetHow?
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Anon10/18/25, 15:37No.723561040
when did you realize bobby was completely right about tim?for me it was when i was listening to the developer commentary on grim fandango
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Anon10/18/25, 15:44No.723561487
heh
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Anon10/18/25, 15:48No.723561801
Watch the Psychonauts 2 documentary and youll understand everything.Schafer is still a hilarious genius but hes pretty much hands ofd outside of writing. Studio got overrun wirh liberal whiners and fags and he cant say no to any of them.
They had a lead who designed Bioshock 2 as the Psych 2 lead but ran him off because he was using logic about scheduling and design to get the game shipped on time. Then the people who whined about him quit anyway, the game was super late, and they finished and had some quality purely because they ended up doing the things he said to do in the first place.They need to stick to Schafer written point and clicks and he needs to take the reigns but he doesnt want to or is too old now. Brutal Legend, Psyxhonauts 2, Broken Age, and just about every game since DoubleFine became a company has been a letdown.
He peaked at LucasArts
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Anon10/18/25, 16:02No.723562831
How long is it?
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Anon10/18/25, 16:06No.723563075
thanks for the reminder to buy this
that said, double fine getting closed would be great if it meant another well managed studio could headhunt Tim Schafer as a writer.
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Anon10/18/25, 16:09No.723563272
is there a mega?
i dont want to give double fine money after they scammed me last time but keeper looks good
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Anon10/18/25, 16:17No.723563848
honestly impressed this guy managed to stay in the industry for so long after they absolutely scammed everyone with that kickstarter ages ago.
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Anon10/18/25, 16:21No.723564108
Bobby was right
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Anon10/18/25, 16:29No.723564738
THREE POINT THREEI still remember /v/ that day. So much fun
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Anon10/18/25, 16:30No.723564812
>pretentious non-story
>three hours long
>no relatable or attractive human characters
What were they thinking?
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Anon10/18/25, 16:32No.723564965
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Anon10/18/25, 16:32No.723564982
Only greenlighted because it is gamepass slop.
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Anon10/18/25, 16:36No.723565218
Who else but Mr. Shitface?
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Anon10/18/25, 16:37No.723565310
It's out? I've heard zero talk about it
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Anon10/18/25, 16:42No.723565701
Name one good Tim Schafer game ever. He's always been a hack Reddit faggot even back in the 90s.
inb4
>Monkey Island games/Day of the Tentacle
The only good games he's been a part of that I'm fully convinced were good in spite of his involvement 30 years ago
>Full Throttle
Okay opening that quickly devolves into a horrendous, saturday morning cartoon tier nightmare of bullshit storytelling
>Grim Fandango
Overrated trash with shit controls and a cliched story with a main character essentially identical to every other Schafer main character
>Psychonauts
Mid platformer smeared with massive gimmicks and outdated nickelodeon humour even at the time. Drags often with repetitive gameplay.
>every single fucking release after Psychonauts
LOL
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Anon10/18/25, 16:44No.723565831
Double Fine made some good games but they are VERY lazy. Psychonauts 2 took a good 6years to come out. This keep game which is just your run of the mill indie style game, took them 5 years.
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Anon10/18/25, 17:05No.723567324
three
point
three
million
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Anon10/18/25, 17:15No.723567951
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Anon10/18/25, 17:16No.723568057
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Anon10/18/25, 17:30No.723569064
I have Xbox GoyPass Ultimate until Nov 11 and I'm dodging it. I'll play Ninja Gaiden IV and call it a day. Yawn.
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Anon10/18/25, 17:45No.723570092
>guess who is getting closed next?
naughty dog
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Anon10/18/25, 17:56No.723570842
>build your career around being a whisical quirky guy
>works when the games industry is filled with brown and bloom overly seriously "mature" games
>fast forward 15 years
>you're still trying to be the quirky guy
>but indie devs do your job better and the market is so full of quirky lolsorandum writing that people miss serious games again
He was ahead of his time, now he's outdated.
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Anon10/18/25, 17:57No.723570909
Psychonauts 2 was really good
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Anon10/18/25, 17:59No.723571068
>make a couple good games (like Psychonaut)
>get bought by Microsoft
>forced to pump out some slop and it fails
I feel like this is happening to every microsoft studio
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Anon10/18/25, 18:00No.723571118
>the studios face when Tim announced Microsoft bought them
>only guy smiling set up the deal and is leaving to work for Playstation
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Anon10/18/25, 18:00No.723571157
They released a new game? When? What?
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Anon10/18/25, 18:00No.723571160
Why tf they didn't just make Psychonauts 3?? I don't fucking want to play yet another walking sim about le depression, fuck off actually
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Anon10/18/25, 18:05No.723571506
girl-dad californian makes reddit games
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Anon10/18/25, 18:09No.723571740
Should've made Brutal Legend 2 in 2012, faggots.
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Anon10/18/25, 18:10No.723571835
It's beautiful to look at but short, however from what I played I struggle to imagine it being longer without feeling too drawn out.
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Anon10/18/25, 18:24No.723572840
It's really neat that you can tell that Doublefine as a company started to go downhill the moment they started doing Kickstarter shit. I cannot think of a single good game they made after that point other than Psychonauts 2.
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Anon10/18/25, 18:25No.723572873
Schafer has always been a hack.
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Anon10/18/25, 18:25No.723572875
I know I finished Psychonauts 2 but I can't remember anything about it :(The first game had lots of very memorable stuff like the Milkman and the sea monster sections
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Anon10/18/25, 18:29No.723573162
Is Stacking any good? I remember playing the demo years ago and it was good enough. Could go for an adventure game and it's $0.99 now.
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Anon10/18/25, 19:01No.723575374
was this the only game they were working on?
it seems... small?
that's one of the thing about the xbox acquisitions (before the huge ones) that never made sense to me.
i think a reasonable assumption would be that msft would buy a bunch of these smaller studios and then throw money and resources at them to scale up and make more ambitious marquee titles
but i don't think that's happened in a single case?
it's just been very similar stuff to what the studio was already doing.
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Anon10/18/25, 19:06No.723575716
I pirated it, got bored after like 30 minutes and when I was tabbing out to complain about it I noticed the game's name on the taskbar is "PaganIdol" which is kinda lol. That is the most enjoyment I got out of the game.
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Anon10/18/25, 19:12No.723576113
>people getting filtered by the RTS parts pf Brutal Legend.BL is honestly one of the best RTS games of all time, specially of the 3rd person action RTS genre>BUT SACRIFICESacrifice is shit and people who defend it are retarded.Also DF best game is Iorn Brigade.
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Anon10/18/25, 19:25No.723577041
I loved Iron Brigade (Trenched)
Psychonauts 1 and 2
Brutal LegendI will always be grateful for them.
I think it may be time to let go though.
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Anon10/18/25, 19:30No.723577385
I should really replay this soon
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Anon10/18/25, 19:35No.723577781
is that the lighthouse crab thing game? I didn't even know this was out, not that I'm going to play it but it's sad.
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Anon10/18/25, 19:36No.723577825
3.3
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Anon10/18/25, 19:42No.723578232
I still think double fine is what truly killed the kickstarter era.
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Anon10/18/25, 19:43No.723578302
To be fair why wold anyone pay 30$ for a what i assume is a sub 10 hour game that will end up on humble bundle.
When its available on game pass for like 12$ and you can also play something else in that month like the new indana Jones game or Doom Dark ages or something for those same 12$.
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Anon10/18/25, 19:47No.723578612
the game is out?
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Anon10/18/25, 19:50No.723578874
Man, it's been so long since he put out a game worth talking about that I don't even remember why I should hate Mr. Shitface.
I just know that I do.
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Anon10/18/25, 19:58No.723579507
Double Fine leans too heavily into Californian wine mom hippie art. Shit doesn't sell anymore.
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Anon10/18/25, 20:16No.723580793
The Cave is Double Fine's most underrated game.
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Anon10/18/25, 20:22No.723581247
woah...
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Anon10/18/25, 20:32No.723581883
Im really surprised psycho2 didn't end up colossal piece of shit. But i guess they redeemed themselves by adding 200gb dlc uncomressed movie.
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Anon10/18/25, 20:46No.723582775
The Cave was shit and killed my faith in the studio. Played Psychonauts 2. Managed to finish it but it was nothing special.
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Anon10/18/25, 20:57No.723583532
>thinks that 2005 wasn't a creative or interesting year for video games besides his own shitty platformer about a lather dressed shota boy who enters cartoon people's mindswhat a fucking fat self loving retard
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Anon10/18/25, 21:39No.723586173
DOUBLE NIGGER ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE SKY
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Anon10/18/25, 21:56No.723587290
He is of the tribe. He will be fine.
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Anon10/18/25, 22:15No.723588657
Guy's like Tim Schafer are too well connected to fail.
They might suffer set backs but the industry is so incestuous, they will land on their feet no matter how bad they fuck up.
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Anon10/18/25, 22:25No.723589313
Seriously, who the hell is the audience for this trash and why is Microsoft even funding literal "AAA indie games" that appeals to apparently less than a 100 human beings? Are they chasing their own Journey or Flower playstation games? What is the reasoning here?
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Anon10/18/25, 22:27No.723589481
I think I'll pick up the latest in the Magic Pussy series instead.
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Anon10/18/25, 23:10No.723592340
Tim Schafer's biggest achievement was fooling Microsoft in buying his studio. Also, he was in favor of hiring DEI after the first Trump election.
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Anon10/18/25, 23:12No.723592456
dude this guy looks like torbe the spanish guy on xvideos who fucks wannabe pornstars and makes audition vids for them
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Anon10/18/25, 23:14No.723592606
Never heard of it, did they advertise?
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Anon10/18/25, 23:28No.723593428
This Jew faggot has never put out a successful game in his entire career. And yet his studio still stands. He is financially protected no matter what and always has been. Double Fine's games are garbage and worshipped by the leftist Twitter cult that he is a part of.
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Anon10/18/25, 23:38No.723593989
They released a new game? The fuck. Was it shadow dropped or something? Microsoft really doesn't care about developers. Steve Balmer lied.
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Anon10/19/25, 00:39No.723597681
I've never heard a single thing about this game until I saw this very thread. Way to fail to market your game.
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Anon10/19/25, 00:42No.723597874
It's a pretty alright game, but not at that price.
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Anon10/19/25, 00:50No.723598402
Psychonauts 3 first though please.
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Anon10/19/25, 00:53No.723598573
>keeper
i completely forgot that game existed.
I shall not be buying it either. it doesn't look interesting at all.
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Anon10/19/25, 01:26No.723600681
anyone played?
how are the puzzles? challenging?
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Anon10/19/25, 01:28No.723600782
They fucking sent this shit out to die.
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Anon10/19/25, 01:54No.723602196
I've only played Iron Brigade and the first part of Broken Age. I dropped the former due to a difficulty spike after a slug of missions and the latter is one of the worst games I've ever played. Therefore, I don't get the appeal I have Psychonauts 1 and 2, but I haven't played them yet
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Anon10/19/25, 02:21No.723603720
Just finished it ... its legit only 3 hours long
And i tried to find the secret rebuildable statuesalso is way too abstarct on the narrative, 0 idea what the fuck it was about even after i finished it
also desu, i rather entire game was like its second part, while the lighthouse part is interesting, its the worst part gameplay wise
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Anon10/19/25, 02:44No.723604964
if Schafer is a fat Jew he's one of the more likable ones, DESPITE his wokeness
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Anon10/19/25, 02:52No.723605420
>Xshart game flops
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Anon10/19/25, 02:54No.723605527
Seriously what was the last xbox game that wasn't a massive failure? Even COD is going down the shitter
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Anon10/19/25, 02:56No.723605658
I don't know why more studios don't relocate out of Cali.
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Anon10/19/25, 02:59No.723605785
schafer is fine, he sold his kickstarter webpage fig for billions of dollars so hes not hurting for money
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Anon10/19/25, 02:59No.723605803
How did Double Fine go from selling multiple $15-20 games a year (Iron Bridage, Costume Quest, Stacking) of 10+ hrs in length, to a $30 game that's 100%'d in 5 with a much larger dev team?
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Anon10/19/25, 03:12No.723606607
If Tim wants to save his company, he should make more shota kino like Psychonauts
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Anon10/19/25, 03:15No.723606767
I didn't know they were still around
I thought psychonauts 2 flopped so hard it killed them.
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Anon10/19/25, 03:28No.723607521
Is this legit or shitzo? Is it really doing that poorly?
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Anon10/19/25, 03:31No.723607652
Psychonauts 1 Tim would have let us ungay the gay guy in Psychonauts 2 and make gags on the fact that he was now cured and normal.
What happened to Tim bros
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Anon10/19/25, 04:21No.723610131
it's really incredible that they got to make this and release it at a $30 price point while under the thumb of M$. Xbox leadership has no idea what they're doing on this planet, either that or they're intentionally sabotaging themselves. It's really hard to believe that no one of consequence ever looked at this thing and said "yeah no one's gonna give a fuck about this, stop wasting our money." So maybe they didn't look at all
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Anon10/19/25, 05:36No.723613414
who?
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Anon10/19/25, 05:59No.723614474
cool looking world but why would I want to walk around as a light house? sounds like someones ayahuasca trip they shouldve kept to themselves
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Anon10/19/25, 06:05No.723614696
Tim Schafer is retarded. He doesn't even know what the players want. He has no understanding of how to appeal to gaymers or how to market.
You can't even look up this game because he chose such a generic name that nothing comes up if you look for it. Didn't even hear they were working on a game.Zero marketing, no buzz. Of course the game dropped to no players. And now if you look up ''double fine keeper'' the first thing that comes up is articles saying it's a flop, so no one is going to buy it.
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Anon10/19/25, 06:08No.723614836
Keeper looks fine but its not the game they need right now. I know asking for more Psychonauts is too much after the documentary, but games LIKE it with a smaller scale are what will sell. And games written by Tim specifically, his sense of humor is what makes the studio. I'm sure the rest are also talented, but we are here mainly for him. Notice how it's the projects he leads that get all the attention, because those are the most interesting to play. You can feel however you want about Broken Age and Brutal Legend, you'll have a lot more to think and say from them than Costume Quest or whatever that space game was called.
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Anon10/19/25, 06:17No.723615269
He must have friends in high places to have not been shut shown. DF just sucks shit at planning, budgeting, and meeting deadlines. Indie games, triple A production times.
They do make great games, but they also make a lot of really mid games and both those categories can be really artsy and unique and only really made for 30 people
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Anon10/19/25, 06:38No.723616204
"The guy comes out and says I'm a prick," Kotick told the latest issue of Edge magazine."I've never met him in my life – I've never had anything to do with him. I never had any involvement in the Vivendi project that they were doing, Brütal Legend, other than I was in one meeting where the guys looked at it and said, 'He's late, he's missed every milestone, he's overspent the budget and it doesn't seem like a good game. We're going to cancel it.'"And do you know what? That seemed like a sensible thing to do. And it turns out, he was late, he missed every milestone, the game was not a particularly good game..."
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Anon10/19/25, 07:37No.723618708
I'd rather Tim left Double Fine and just went off to write for animation, his writing is really fun and creative, great characters and worlds.
That or just be a writter for other projects and studios, let them do the actual game. His studio just doesn't seem to have the right practices to do a proper game, usually taking too long and usually something important missing the mark
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Anon10/19/25, 07:59No.723619586
Do I even need to ask what engine this shit is running on?
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Anon10/19/25, 08:45No.723621284
welp
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Anon10/19/25, 08:53No.723621582
>300+ post about Double Fine
>not a single image, video, gameplay discussion or even meme about their last game
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Anon10/19/25, 08:53No.723621587
If you look at the wiki page for biggest video game flops Tim appears 3 (Three) times
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_failures_in_video_and_arcade_games
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Anon10/19/25, 09:26No.723622740
psychonauts 2 lacked grime, the writing was just too basedlenial. I liked the visuals and the overall design though, gameplay was meh but so was the first
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Anon10/19/25, 09:42No.723623350
Will microsoft be happy spending tens to hundreds of millions of dollars for 200 players?
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Anon10/19/25, 10:17No.723624567
Double Fine is 25 years old and they only have 2 notable "platformers"
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Anon10/19/25, 10:22No.723624786
double fine means you pay TWICE!
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Anon10/19/25, 10:34No.723625262
I bought Keeper yesterday, played it for an hour, couldn't be bothered to boot it up again after, and just got a refund. I can enjoy walking simulators for pretty visuals or story but that one wasn't doing it for me. It just felt like I was walking forward for no reason.
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Anon10/19/25, 10:37No.723625392
Tim Schafer is one of the few developers in history of where he's clearly a hack, not good with money and he remains to have fans because of nostalgia member berries. Their fans can't see that he's an objectively bad game developer.
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Anon10/19/25, 10:45No.723625749
This games narrative legitimately filtered me, it was abstract beyond my level of comprehension
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Anon10/19/25, 11:49No.723628532
>Have two documentaries made about you to celebrate you as an auteur breaking the industry standards
>Both of them despite the documentary crew’s best efforts to show the opposite showcase you as an incompetent project manager that burns millions and hitting the “emergency layoffs” button and eventually “sell our assets” button whenever your position is threatened
Tim Schafer makes Randy Pitchford look like a genius
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Anon10/19/25, 12:02No.723629074
He's Jewish, the tribe will give him money.
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Anon10/19/25, 12:02No.723629083
>me remembering that I paid extra money to get my name in the credits for Space Base
>I used my real name
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Anon10/19/25, 12:18No.723629842
Double Fine made maybe one half decent game the whole time they've existed. How the fuck have they lasted this long?
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Anon10/19/25, 13:07No.723632335
I could understand libtards and woke leftists with worthless social science degrees letting concord down the drain but this is literally their game. it's tailormade for artfags. I will be surprised if it actually bombed.
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Anon10/19/25, 13:16No.723632861
Tim Doesn't know how to run a studio efficiently, his budgeting is messed up. He is bad with money. And the gaming press most certainly glossed over his negligence to report favourably on his shortcomings.
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Anon10/19/25, 14:03No.723635340
I am currently replaying through the original Psychonauts, and man it is just fucking unconditionally even dowsing shit has its purpose, though the game should have FORCED you to grind earlier during the day great. Not sure how many technical improvements PC version got post-release, but what sort of fucking anemic husk of a man do you have to be to just dismiss it entirely. It has tons of flavor and distinct designs and an eclectic mix of different mechanics, all-tied with a non-committal overworld exploration that ensures you'll find SOMETHING to like about the game. All the variant dialogue that changes each step of the quest, like a classic RPG, countless details and assets that create a sense of a greater world and established personalities, pulpy plot that gets going quickly and never gets too cliche.
Double Fine's fumbles are well known, and I will not lament their demise, but I refuse to acknowledge any "always been trash" claims. Psychonauts was certainly a lightning in a bottle, like many great games, and subpar performance is a terrible first impression. But you don't make stuff like bespoke quest item dialogue or levitation physics or even just Razputin's go-getter attitude without some understanding of what makes games fun to engage with. I can gush even longer if we get to comparisons to the sequel, what a shitshow that was.
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Anon10/19/25, 14:38No.723637329
>165 players on steam
That's just because noone wants to pay good money for a 4-5 hour game, right, and that all the thousands of players are all simply over on gamepass... right?