Have you been to this site:
It is the perhaps the greatest site for good ever made, well except for nra.org of course. For a while there it was looking like some type of typical hippie clap trap being used to make bad indie movies about cowboys eating yogurt but then the site started to support video games.
That is when all hell broke loose and people realized they could actually influence what games got made. Games that they would actually want to play. Suddenly rainbows and unicorns starting busting loose as people dreamt of the remakes they would want, the sequels to long forgotten classics would come to fruition. The only real question about kickstarter is: why did this take so long to happen?
Might and Magic 12?
Wizardry 9?
And gulp… Star Control 4?
These dreams now live. Of course no one is funding them now. But for the first time in a very long time there is hope. Unlike the generic FPS clone crap we get subjected to each fall we now can help build the games we really want to play. This is what the internet was designed for, not flash mobs doing the Carlton, although I do admit that is pretty awesome. Ok, maybe the internet was designed for two things: kickstarting video games and Carlton dancing. And Porn. Ok the internet was designed for 3 things, but that is it.
There is one super awesome blast from the past that has been funded that is making the game sites go all aflutter and that is Wasteland 2. Wasteland was a good Fallout. With humor (thus making it good.) I loved that buggy incomplete game so much. It is on my top 10 of all time games and to think that it might get a sequel made by people with talent who care about the original and not repacking it into a cheesy rip-off of the past – I am looking at you Bard’s Tale remake, just causes a hope gusher. It’s enough to make you want the world to survive past 12/21/2012 just to play it.