9:50 PM on 11.05.2007
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Tim Schafer, in a conversation with Playboy.com -- the Internet's answer to boring, highbrow pornography -- revealed that Grim Fandango and Psychonauts, while excellent games, will not be getting sequels. Here's a quote:
"I would love to go back and spend time with the characters from any game I've worked on, and I would love to make a sequel to any of them. But I also want to make something new. If there were five of me I might make sequels, but there's always some new idea I want to explore."
I can't say I'm shocked as Psychonauts sold a total of four copies (Linde sleeps with one under his pillow), and Grim Fandango's contributions to the modern consciousness have largely been adopted and co-opted by Tim Burton; should a Grim Fandango sequel ever appear, obese fourteen year old girls would waste years of their increasingly depressing lives searching for the Jack Skellington cameo. I wouldn't blame the man for not wanting to be responsible for furthering the societal decay best left to artists more familiar with manscara and the bizarre quirk of evolution that makes unattractive people attractive to other unattractive people.
Still, it's a shame we won't see more of these strikingly original settings. Fan fiction can only do so much, and it all invariably degrades into disgusting descriptions of how well Manny's posthumous skull lends itself to "ocular coupling".
*shudder*
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what i'm saying is, go play it!
I'm a huge fan of his games (especially Full Throttle) and I have yet to play Grim Fandango so I still have that game full of pleasure that I will eventually get around to.
And as good as the story in Psychonauts was, it still had the same old collect-a-thon at this core that all platformers did.
We will make magic.
Grim fandango is one of the greatest adventure games of all time.
Ah well ill go back to playing Halo *sigh*
Everybody wants something familiar, but would you really be that happy if you got it? We complain so much about rampant sequels in this industry, but then we complain when we don't get them, either. Would anybody trade Psychonauts' existence for another Grim Fandango game? I wouldn't. I love them both, and I've already played Grim, which was brilliant and doesn't *need* a sequel. Schafer's track record strongly supports optimism for Brutal Legend too. Once it's released, are we really going to be thinking, "Man, this game is great, but I wish that instead of toiling to produce this great game, Tim Schafer had made another Full Throttle game which everyone would say wasn't as good as they remember the original being."
We love everything the guy's ever made. Shouldn't we trust him a little bit by now?
Now there really is no excuse to buy it. Havent had much time to play it tho, although i do like the art style and characters. refreshing concidering the homogonised publisher/licencer-cramped games out now.