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This is a one time deal it's only being made to finish the series. Yakuza series is the spiritual successor you are speaking of. Also Duke Nukem was a good game. It was just over hyped and everyone expected diamonds when we got a slightly better than middle of the road game. In fact the amount of time it took for duke nukem forever to come out, most people who liked the series had a change of taste as far as gaming is concerned so once the nostalgia left they were left disappointed. That was their fault not the publisher who did a good enough job salvaging a game that was always in development limbo.
What other products do you pre-order? Do you pre-order a car? How about a TV? No? Pre-orders are a ridiculous invention that exists almost exclusively in the realm of video games, every other sector of every other industry sells products once they actually exist. I'll happily pay full-price for a game, I'm not a charity case. I'll pick it up Day 1 if I'm interested in it, I don't need to read anyone's opinion to justify a purchase, but I'll be damned if I pay for it before it's ready. The practice is detrimental to the industry and contributes to half-baked games getting released, and that's a fact, jack. If everyone pays in advance then there's nothing to actually motivate devs - they already got paid, so there are no stakes and no risk of failure. The return of the investment came in before the effort was put into the project, so nobody cares. It's like giving a waiter a tip before you get served - that kind of backwards thinking needs to stop. DNF isn't the only game that was delayed for over a decade, so was The Last Guardian which I'm playing right now, the difference being that DNF was released as a buggy piece of crap while TLG is servicable at the very least. That's not to say that DNF was abyssmal or unplayable, but it was not "mediocre", it was below par in every respect.
It took me less than 2 minutes to find books and technology to pre-order. It's not exclusive to gaming (and no it wasn't crowd funding but from places like barnes and noble) But again that is your opinion. You can think what you want I suppose but it doesn't mean you are right for pulling anecdotal evidence to try and back your claims.
Video games existed before crowdfunding and before pre-orders - people would band together, start companies, passionately brainstorm ideas, procure funding and get it done, and, arguably, games were better back then. They'd put something on the line and either succeed or fail - that's business. If you're paying for something that doesn't exist, it's a scam by definition - you're buying a promise of a product, not a product.
If by "anecdotal evidence" you mean "every single video game before the Internet got traction" then sure. And yeah, it's an opinion, and a strong one - subjective, but with plenty of arguments to back it up.
The difference here is that a concert is a one-time performance taking place at a fixed date with a limited supply of tickets - you know it's happening, and there's only so much space in the venue, so ordering ahead makes sense - your ticket has value. With a game that's not the case - release dates fluctuate and games tend to be delayed. Nowadays we deal with pre-orders of products that don't even have a release date that we don't know anything about. A better analog would be ordering a ticket for a concert that hasn't been organised yet - there's no venue, no stage, no band, just a promise that someone will show up. I mentioned that I expect the game to reach Gold status (original copy sent to the pressing factory) or at the very least be close to reaching that point. A concert is very much in a "Gold" state once tickets are up and the only thing that can stop it from taking place is an unexpected, unfortunate event that prevents the band from performing, like an accident on the road or a blackout. I was very clear in my initial post and I'm only really replying further because I keep getting hammered for something I think all of us know to be true. I'm not against crowdfunding per se, that's a gamble the investors are taking and it's their dime to lose. Pre-orders are a little different, they're supposed to "secure a copy" for you when in reality there has never been a shortage of a video game in our modern age. They're selling you "nothing", it's a chance for you to pay early for the same thing, and I find that egregious. Remember the Overwatch release, when people pre-ordered the game to get the "Origins Edition"? The "Origins Edition" is the only physical release of the game I've ever seen, I can go out and buy it right now. There's nothing special about it, and the name implies that there is. It's not the "Origins Edition", it's not any kind of special edition, it's just Overwatch, so calling it deceptively in such a way and hooking players on the premise of exclusive content that isn't exclusive at all is disingenuous and shameful.
Actually after the Kickstarter thing they had their own Website where you could do the same
and I agree that this is a bad sign same as with these strange Backer goals they had.Actually after the Kickstarter thing they had their own Website where you could do the same
I somehow think at the end this won't the game that everybody wants just remember Mighty No. 9 ^^
Definitely absolutely 100% play Shenmue 1 and 2. The graphics are still amazing and it doesn't try to do anything mechanics wise that would be or feel outdated. Solid Virtua Fighter engine for battle segments still is great.
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