Email: Notch no longer funding Psychonauts 2

I thought he’d lose all his money easily, but turns out he’s smarter
than 90% of people in the game industry (hello THQ)

http://www.vg247.com/2013/02/05/psychonauts-2-needs-18m-to-happen-notch-backs-away-from-funding/

Why on earth does it take 18 million to make a Psychonauts 2? Talk about greedy!

The actual game that needs to be made is Star Control Returns by Paul Reiche III and Fred Ford. They are at Activision though. They have a price of only a couple million and that isn’t because of greed. It is because Star Control 2 was made with them not getting paid, and they don’t want to go through that again.

Other games I’d like to see made would be Master of Orion 4 or Master of Magic 2.

And perhaps a Super Metroid 2 which would have to be crowd funded due to Mr. Sakamoto’s interference. Can you imagine the hysteria that would result if Nintendo showed off a Next Gen HD 2d Metroid and called it Super Metroid 2?

Game journalists used to sneer at the other people at E3 and say, “I need to do my JOB. There is NO REASON for you guys to be here!” No reason for gamers to be at a gaming convention? Ever since E3 2007, without the more ordinary gamers, E3 lost its soul.

People were going wild because Link didn’t look like a chibi from the atrocious Wind Waker. Can you imagine a Metroid with NO DIALOGUE WHATSOEVER? Or cutscenes? None of that Sakamoto garbage of Metroid Fusion, Zero Mission, or Other M. A Metroid where YOU ARE THE STAR instead of some developer you never heard of before?