The game looked great, and footage of its unique style made it clear that these fellows had more than tenuous promises to offer. Vancouver-based Red Hook Studios launched a slick Kickstarter campaign for the game early last year, and claims that the project had already been in development for nine months were easy to believe.
It was with all this in mind that I grew tentatively excited about Darkest Dungeon over the past several months. My disappointment with that game was a reminder that even buying a game billed as “complete” can leave you feeling swindled, let alone dropping a chunk of change on an Early Access game that may not evolve to include promised features or a Kickstarter project that may never bear any playable fruits at all. I’d already decided years before that I was through with buying any games before I’d consumed a glut of post-release reviews and impressions, but, even so, I couldn’t restrain myself from pre-purchasing Civilization: Beyond Earth. You can find Dave on Twitter, which he promises he’ll start updating again.Ģ014 taught us a few harsh lessons about the risks of investing in video game Kickstarters and buying unfinished games through Steam Early Access. Dave isn’t a dad, but he loves games and, even better, he actually has the free time to play them. This is a guest post by Dave Kirby, co-host of the GeekDad Podcast Network’s Dice Section show.
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