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mondo84: Larry seems to be doing just fine with almost 10000 backers despite the project being a second remake.

Meanwhile, Jane Jensen's project has fewer than 3000 backers while she is offering new, original products. She should have at least 10000 people pledging to support her project.
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tomimt: Jane's project is gonna make it as well, she has a lot of time and she's over half way all ready. The problem her picth had in the beginning though is, that she really didn't present any clear image of what she was going to do. The promise of three games was very vague and I still think the concept would need some clearing up, like if the games take longer than year to produce, do the higher backers still get all three and so on.
Plus everyone was left drooling at her daughter and went "Wha wha? What was this vid about again?"
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EC-: Seems to be pretty close to its goal with 12 days to go still, I imagine it will make the cut.

My theory is that the recent crappy games in the franchise have turned off some people to the name.
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Red_Avatar: If anything, the opposite should be true - people who saw LSL get dragged through the mud would love for the game to get a proper sequel. The problem here, is that it aims at fans of the original game and how does a remake appeal to them? A real sequel would have gotten my money in a heartbeat but just a re-visitation of a game I've already completed several times (and any LSL fan will have too) doesn't seem as interesting to me.
More or less. It's unfortunate that they couldn't get the rights to create new LSL games rather than just revamping previous games. I think the most compelling reasons for old fans of the series to contribute is so that they can get the funding together to finish the remakes and move on to hopefully new games.

There will be new content and adjustments to the references, but I don't think they've been as clear as they could be about what they want to do to bring LSL up to speed for the present.
Because LSL is't that great or fondly remembered by players?
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KingofGnG: Because LSL is't that great or fondly remembered by players?
and yet the kickstarter is almost succeeding, because its being supported by people who played the series and lusty little boys.
Post edited April 20, 2012 by Elmofongo
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KingofGnG: Because LSL is't that great or fondly remembered by players?
Or it's so steeped in the 80's that it might not be relevant to tday's audience?
It might also be that Al Lowe is not a "household name" at the moment, as he has been away for so long. Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert have been doing things in game business in the last decade, but Lowe has been enjoying his retirement.

And Jane Jenese's success hasn't been that earth shattering either since GK series.
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tomimt: It might also be that Al Lowe is not a "household name" at the moment, as he has been away for so long. Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert have been doing things in game business in the last decade, but Lowe has been enjoying his retirement.

And Jane Jenese's success hasn't been that earth shattering either since GK series.
Agreed. Plus you couldn't really compare theirs to Tim's pitch. Tim's pitch was effing brilliant.

Btw, $430,657 pledged at the moment. Should reach $500,000 by Wednesday.
I am low on funds and haven't pledged with any of the projects so far - but this is the one that I would not fund even if I could. I thought Larry with it's sex focused gags was fairly bad when it first came out, already. I just find it a really uninteresting character.

Good comedy is hard - and overly innuendo focused jokes usually just don't have anything else to them than the innuendos, which means they are even less likely to be good comedy.
To be honest, I thought LSL worked mainly because of the era it was made in - it really oozes contemporary culture - 80s & early 90s - and it worked in a Married With Children kind of way, where you can't help but pity and laugh at the anti-hero.

Just like you wanted Al Bundy to find fortune and sexy women, you wanted Larry to get laid even though both are ethically quite questionable and also quite pathetic losers. But both don't work in today's society where there's too many people on high horses bemoaning anything that is even slightly questionable.

I fear the comedy in this remake may be "tweaked" to be more modern in approach and in doing so, it may be more compatible with today's gamers but it could also well lose the charm and 'soul' of the original games.

To be honest, LSL1 was the weakest of all the games anyway. LSL 2 was probably my favorite because it managed to have a surprisingly good atmosphere that was dripping 80s all over. LSL 5 was the first one I played and loved it and LSL 6 is probably the best puzzle-wise. Really, except for 7 and 1, I loved them all. Why not 7? I personally didn't think that Larry's voice worked and it kinda ruined the atmosphere for me because I don't recall you being able to turn it off. I also thought the animation was a bit meh - I much preferred the VGA style of 5 & 6
From what it looks like they'll actually make their mark soon, though they probably aren't going to have anything left over.
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Red_Avatar: To be honest, I thought LSL worked mainly because of the era it was made in - it really oozes contemporary culture - 80s & early 90s - and it worked in a Married With Children kind of way, where you can't help but pity and laugh at the anti-hero.

Just like you wanted Al Bundy to find fortune and sexy women, you wanted Larry to get laid even though both are ethically quite questionable and also quite pathetic losers. But both don't work in today's society where there's too many people on high horses bemoaning anything that is even slightly questionable.
But maybe just for this reason Larry's comeback will work better than ever. There's a lot of people out there who don't like to be force fed "political correct values" and look for entertainment, that is a bit more coarse.

And 80's seems to be in fashion these days, so that might even be a plus, that Larry actuallu is an icon from the 80's
And ironically, Larry is actually a 70's person who hits on women in the 80's after he started balding and still wearing out-of-fashion leisure suits.
I honestly have a hard time seeing how Larry as a character is outdated. The sleazy, pathetic 40 year old momma's boy who never really grew up, who think's he's god's gift to women - it's a timeless character really. Don't see how this has anything to do with the 80's or the 90's.
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Red_Avatar: To be honest, I thought LSL worked mainly because of the era it was made in - it really oozes contemporary culture - 80s & early 90s - and it worked in a Married With Children kind of way, where you can't help but pity and laugh at the anti-hero.

Just like you wanted Al Bundy to find fortune and sexy women, you wanted Larry to get laid even though both are ethically quite questionable and also quite pathetic losers. But both don't work in today's society where there's too many people on high horses bemoaning anything that is even slightly questionable.

I fear the comedy in this remake may be "tweaked" to be more modern in approach and in doing so, it may be more compatible with today's gamers but it could also well lose the charm and 'soul' of the original games.

To be honest, LSL1 was the weakest of all the games anyway. LSL 2 was probably my favorite because it managed to have a surprisingly good atmosphere that was dripping 80s all over. LSL 5 was the first one I played and loved it and LSL 6 is probably the best puzzle-wise. Really, except for 7 and 1, I loved them all. Why not 7? I personally didn't think that Larry's voice worked and it kinda ruined the atmosphere for me because I don't recall you being able to turn it off. I also thought the animation was a bit meh - I much preferred the VGA style of 5 & 6
I love your avatar... Oh, anyway. I agree partially with you, I love LSL 6.
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tejozaszaszas: snip
Yeah LSL2 had amazing atmosphere. I loved exploring that town right at the beginning. You really felt like it was a huge city and anything could happen. It did have some of the worst dead ends ever. *spoiler ahead* I remember getting on the cruiseship, wandering around for ages until I finally decided to look up the walkthrough. I forgot to buy some sunscreen from the drugstore and there was no way back. And I didn't keep any saves from before the ship!! Aargh!

In terms of LSL1 still having appeal today? I think it all depends on the writing. They have to come up with some very funny, original descriptions, dialogues, puzzles etc. This is always possible, and the Larry character can always be humilated in funny ways.

Edit: oops, replied to the wrong person. Not sure how to fix that.
Post edited April 20, 2012 by PMIK