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Vapourware Barkley 2 - the new Codex vaporware champion
- Thread starter eric__s
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Please consider not abusing the word "vaporware." It has nearly lost its meaning here on the Codex, being used to indicate that a game has been delayed a little too long for someone's taste.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware
We've now gone from vaporware being defined as software that never existed at all in any form (or only as fakery) specifically to fool the public, to software that exists (or eventually came to exist) but that took many, many years to be released (Duke Nukem being a prime computer game example), and finally we've arrived at the Codex definition: If it's five months late and/or there's been a lull in developer updates, VAPORWARE!
I propose a new term that doesn't obviate legitimate uses of the word vaporware, such as "impatientware," as in: "I want it now but I can't have it, motherfuck! Fucking shit! Cock! Impatientware alert!".
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Very logical
Huh? What makes you think so? Do you know something we don't? eric__s, any comment?
sullynathan
Arcane
A basketball rpg?
A basketball rpg.
Hobo Elf
Arcane
It's a pretty ambitious project, maybe even one of the most ambitious KS RPGs with the way it advertised its reactivity and evolving world mechanic. I've yet to see a single KS RPG that delivered on any parts of its more ambitious claims in a satisfactory way. Usually what we ended up getting is a game filled with compromises. In the worst of cases the developers would go for full radio silence for a few months and then eventually announce that the project has been put indefinitely on hold.
GuiltyofBeingTrite
Savant
I've had pretty good luck with kickstarter RPGs, in this case I don't think they are working on it full-time, as opposed to other ones I've backed. So that's probably why it is taking so long.
almondblight
Arcane
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They have a Tumblr account about the development that's updated pretty frequently. Not sure why the KS updates have been so anemic.
orcinator
Liturgist
What I'm worried most besides it becoming vaporwave is that they'll make the game too combat focused but the combat will be shit. The fact that all of the enemies shown look like generic mutants and not like basketball monsters is already a bad sign.
Hope it'll at least be less tedious to play than LISA
Hope it'll at least be less tedious to play than LISA
Excidium II
Self-Ejected
Shut up it's gonna be great.
orcinator
Liturgist
to watch a screenshot LP of
Well, at least it's unlikely to be worse than in Barkley 1.
hello friend
Arcane
you shut your whore mouth
Barkley 1 was awesome
Barkley 1 was awesome
orcinator
Liturgist
The combat might be better, but if it's not fun I'd prefer something fast and painless.
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Tales of Game's said:
I DO believe in Barkley 2 in my H.E.A.R.T.
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Haha, that Geocities Kickstarter page background.
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Yup. Vapourware confirmed.
Menckenstein
Lunacy of Caen: Todd Reaver
I'll fuck you til you love me, faggot.
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