Ganelon wrote:I'm a bit surprised at why gaming sites won't cover this Kickstarter though. A lot of more niche-oriented sites should be itching at the news. Perhaps this disconnect in interest is why I don't bother going to most of them.
Yeah, this is frustrating. It's almost like gaming journalists are lazy assholes who want their stories spoon-fed to them by PR representatives. God forbid they actually do some legwork to scope out a new (or in this case, newly localized) game. I don't see anything that materially differentiates a kickstarter from an early announcement and trailer for an AAA game by a large company (both of which have the very real possibility of being cancelled, misleading, or overpromising), so I really don't understand why the few sites that still bother to cover kickstarters dump them all off into a consolidated weekly post rather than doing a dedicated story on each. Except for sheer laziness.
TrevHead (TVR) wrote:I don't blame Nyu Media for this, if you want someone to point your finger at then it's Valve's fault for their shitty Greenlight program. Since GL came about shmups and other doujins (aswell as similar western made games like Shantae) aren't been published on Steam. Nowadays it's just gimmicky shit that gets Greenlit or games that have drum up support through Kickstarter.
I didn't see it this way at first, but you're right. I love Steam and I agree that Greenlight is a stupid, stupid system. It would make some sense as sort of a backdoor hatch for indie stuff that is completely overlooked by the traditional approval process, but Valve has evidently set it up as the ONLY way to get onto Steam now. That doesn't help anyone. So now we have indie developers doing whatever they possibly can to get exposure, press, and votes. I can see this kickstarter being exactly that, though they seem to have failed in generating much interest outside the shmup faithful AND have also failed those people via the godawful reward tiers.
