KickStarter Pathologic 2 (AKA Pathologic remake)

[aleph]

Two emails i got after signing up to that site.

First:

Spoiler

Hi. Name’s Voronika.

Bet you didn’t expect a personal letter from me. Of course you didn’t. You thought you’ll submit an e-mail and receive ads from a company producing weight loss socks or dog wool coats. Or a startup, or something. Whatever were you thinking?

Don’t worry, I won’t be bothering you. Can’t write too often from where I’m at now. No, I’m not talking about a metaphorical afterlife — I’m simply stuck in the middle of nowhere, and the closest town that has a telegraph office is three days away from me. I’ve coded the site on my laptop, and then I took a flash drive with me to the only village nearby that has a cyber cafe and internet access. I’m not even sure the site is really on. I think local PCs work on coal.

So if you’re reading this that means I do still have some skills.

One of my skills is dying. That’s what I’m doing right now. Actually, same goes for you, but I’m way ahead; if you want to catch up with me, you’d better hurry since I know I’ll die this September.

Please don’t ooh me. Just listen.

I’m privy to a secret — no, it’s not a secret I have to tell the world before I die or else it dies with me. The opposite, really: there are quite a few who share it with me. But you don’t. They are special, you see, and you aren’t. You know that, right? And the secret — the secret shared by way too many — will keep living after I die. It’ll grow. Develop. Root itself in the world deeper and deeper.

Well, what if I don’t like that? What if I want to play rebel? My rebellion looks like a website with scantily clad girls and a bunch of pretentious slogans, yeah.

But I can’t offer you anything better, so here we are. At least they say I’m a decent artist. Enjoy my portfolio.

And don’t worry. I’ll tell you the secret. Just you wait.

Voronika,
http://feverishfeeling.com

P. S. Why not a blog, you ask? Because everyone knows that only fools and lunatics start blogs that aim to uncover deep dark secrets. Also because it’s easier to keep away a database of e-mail addresses than a domain.

Second

Spoiler

Hi.

It was so obvious: leaving the city means throwing my life out of the window. A curious thought when your life is already thrown in a trash bin because of a diagnosis, huh?

Deadly diseases are all fuss and trouble. Doctors are lost, friends are found—every night another one comes by to drink and talk. They feel obliged to try and save me. They feel like they can.

Don’t waste your breath.

And still it felt like there’s no life beyond doctors and friends when I left. Getting somewhere without a car? Being unable to take a hot bath? Watching mosquitos dance in the air instead of a video podcast or a TV show?

Sounds horrific. It really does.

But somehow there’s only one thing I really miss: marchpane. There’s nothing else lacking on the bogs.

I’m sitting on my cabin’s steps right now. Somehow I managed lock myself out—was too eager to slam the door, I guess. I also guess it means now I have a reason to go to town and send you this letter.

When I was a girl, father used to say that once you’ve got a key, a matching door will strike your eye soon. I wonder if my current state is a key too. What’s the reason for all this? What do my fever and shivering unlock? How does a sesame that lies behind my coughing and nightmares look?

It doesn’t look and it doesn’t unlock. Poor Peter is bravely guarding the doors to nowhere.

Well, sine me, liber, ibis in urbem. You will go, my little book, without me to the city. Father loved these words—a shame I don’t remember where the quote comes from and can’t google it from here. Every quote is also a key though, and it unlocks something. Or maybe not the quote itself, but rather something that has to do with it. There’s a door out there waiting for every word. And something important’s most certainly waiting behind that door.

So don’t throw this little book away. The mystery will be unveiled a couple pages later.

Voronika,
http://feverishfeeling.com

P. S. When you see a half-naked girlish silhouette on a bog, don’t fool yourself into believing there’s a face behind her mask.

Also if you go by second mail you can find something on site.

edit: meh, should have read the rest of the thread first

 

[Owl]

Also, in addition to the pre-written messages, you can ask her questions via email and she'll answer.

 

[JudasIscariot]

 

[Ivan]

Is it worth playing the original or wait for the remake?

 

[Angthoron]

Why not have both?

 

[DefJam101]

Is it worth playing the original or wait for the remake?

I would wait for the remake and play the original if they fuck it up.

 

[ghostdog]

 

[Owl]

Is it worth playing the original or wait for the remake?

I think you should at least wait until september to see if they succeed with the Kickstarter.

 

[opium fiend]

Is it worth playing the original or wait for the remake?

I think it is. I'm sceptical about remake being able to replicate the atmosphere of the original. And if your mother tongue is a Slavic one, then the badly translated dialogues won't be such a problem

 

[MaskedMan]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1535515364/pathologic

 

[Angthoron]

Gonna shower them with blood cash once off work.

 

[Bitcher1]

Backed of course but

Exclusive In-Game Item
Kickstarter-Exclusive In-Game Event

I guess I'd prefer :incloosive: in this case.

 

[kain30]

remake at last!!! heres my

 

[Western]

Backed... been a long time since I backed anything.

 

[Brother None]

Shame there's no physical boxed tier but hell yeah, backed!

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

New playable characters as stretch goal are confirmed.

 

[Angthoron]

250K is a rather bold goal though. They should've kept it lower, and left out PS4 and XB1, I mean yeah, IPL is really popular on the console market.

 

[Brother None]

250K is a rather bold goal though. They should've kept it lower, and left out PS4 and XB1, I mean yeah, IPL is really popular on the console market.

Console listings never really help Kickstarters no, so perhaps cutting that out and lowering the goal wouldn't have been bad. That said, I think they can make this, don't forget they're an RPS darling.

 

[Angthoron]

250K is a rather bold goal though. They should've kept it lower, and left out PS4 and XB1, I mean yeah, IPL is really popular on the console market.

Console listings never really help Kickstarters no, so perhaps cutting that out and lowering the goal wouldn't have been bad. That said, I think they can make this, don't forget they're an RPS darling.

Yeah, true, but wouldn't expect them hitting a lot of stretch goals with that, sadly.

 

[Jaedar]

Backed this. Will probably increase pledge so I can get a slick poster in the future

 

[Perkel]

PS4 and Xbox One ?
What about QA which cost tens of thousands $$$ ? They should focus first on PC release and then port it.


Either way awesome. Proper Pathologic remake is what world needs today.

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

250K is a rather bold goal though. They should've kept it lower, and left out PS4 and XB1, I mean yeah, IPL is really popular on the console market.

AFAIK originally they wanted go for 400k, but thank goodness were strongly advised against it.

 

[sexbad?]

I am going to back this, but I will decide how much I really want to pledge later on.

 

[Zed]

I didn't like The Void. Is this game better?

 

[groke]

I didn't like The Void. Is this game better?

yes