We are possibly just falling into a ploy by Double Fine to get some attention, but we figure Double Fine deserves it. A few days ago, the studio launched a Psychonauts themed Web site, The Psychopedia, and today we've spotted a new post that talks about Psychonauts 2.
Of course, there is no Psychonauts 2 ... at least, not officially. After the first game suffered disappointing sales in the face of critical acclaim, it was pretty certain that we'd never see another. In fact, even The Psychopedia calls it "The Unicorn of Gaming." So why is there a page on it, and why is there even a Psychopedia in the first place after all this time?
Is this all gearing up to the fabled sequel, or is Double Fine simply yanking our chain? At least the developer has an outline of what we could expect in a follow up: "After doing Psychic stuff, he fights things, finds things, goes into things, goes out of things, eats things, drinks things, learns things, knows things, rescues things, and saves things."
The page then laments the inability to be more descriptive. We join it in lamentation, before being arseholes and telling everyone that the page spelled "protagonist" wrong.
[Thanks, Dexter]
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5:00 PM on 12.24.2008
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Alright, don't kill me, I have never played Psychonaughts yet, but I plan on getting an MS Points card tomorrow, so I pomise everyone, I will play this game eventually!
Fan service does explain it, but opening a page like this with no goal rather than having info on a previous game... I don't know... I really hope they get support and proper marketing for a Psychonauts 2.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is just Double Fine jerking us around, because they know that the vocal minority wants the game. However, I would be very pleased if this meant Psychonauts 2 is actually in development. Prove me wrong, Mr. Schafer! Prove me wrong.
Sucks that the sales weren't that great otherwise we'd probably had one by now.
Dammit capitalism, u suck sometimes.
It was a horrid event.
Heck I would buy the original again. The graphics would age pretty well. Better than some of this crap they have out.
Psychonauts has got to be one of the best games of all time.
Psychonauts was also released on the PS2 if i recall...
Frankly, i think a lot gamers are just scared of trying anything really new and better and would rather just have their sequels...
such a great game, never got the attention it deserved...
I think from the ending, it's pretty clear they wanted to do a sequel, so I don't think it would hurt the artistic nature of the original, but in fact it would realise the original artisitic vision.
Anyhow, stop this Double Fine. D= I would give a kidney for Psychonauts 2, but I think you've made it pretty clear where you stand on a sequel.
not really... the way i see sequels is that you should never make any unplanned/unnecessary sequals as those are just trying to ride the wave of success of the previous game and may not live up to it... however if a sequel was always the original intention then it should be made; to not do so would be to like leave the artist's vision only half finished
If i recall, i think the only reason double fine didn't make a sequel was because the first game did poorly in a business sense and as such there wasn't a publisher willing to support the developers in making a second game.
I would CUM BUCKETS if a sequel happened to Psychonauts