<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Malstrom's Articles News]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://seanmalstrom.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[seanmalstrom]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://seanmalstrom.wordpress.com/author/seanmalstrom/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Email: Notch no longer funding Psychonauts&nbsp;2]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><em>I thought he&#8217;d lose all his money easily, but turns out he&#8217;s smarter</em><br />
<em>than 90% of people in the game industry (hello THQ)</em></p>
<p><em><a id="yui_3_7_2_1_1360283466836_2514" href="http://www.vg247.com/2013/02/05/psychonauts-2-needs-18m-to-happen-notch-backs-away-from-funding/" target="_blank">http://www.vg247.com/2013/02/05/psychonauts-2-needs-18m-to-happen-notch-backs-away-from-funding/</a></em></p>
<p>Why on earth does it take 18 million to make a Psychonauts 2? Talk about greedy!</p>
<p>The actual game that needs to be made is Star Control Returns by Paul Reiche III and Fred Ford. They are at Activision though. They have a price of only a couple million and that isn&#8217;t because of greed. It is because Star Control 2 was made with them not getting paid, and they don&#8217;t want to go through that again.</p>
<p>Other games I&#8217;d like to see made would be Master of Orion 4 or Master of Magic 2.</p>
<p>And perhaps a Super Metroid 2 which would have to be crowd funded due to Mr. Sakamoto&#8217;s interference. Can you imagine the hysteria that would result if Nintendo showed off a Next Gen HD 2d Metroid and called it Super Metroid 2?</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe class="youtube-player" width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zwMdcESljqg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation"></iframe></span>
<p>Game journalists used to sneer at the other people at E3 and say, &#8220;I need to do my JOB. There is NO REASON for you guys to be here!&#8221; No reason for gamers to be at a gaming convention? Ever since E3 2007, without the more ordinary gamers, E3 lost its soul.</p>
<p>People were going wild because Link didn&#8217;t look like a chibi from the atrocious Wind Waker. Can you imagine a Metroid with NO DIALOGUE WHATSOEVER? Or cutscenes? None of that Sakamoto garbage of Metroid Fusion, Zero Mission, or Other M. A Metroid where YOU ARE THE STAR instead of some developer you never heard of before?</p>
]]></html></oembed>