Top 10 Awesome Kickstarter Games That Failed | Dan Ibbertson

[@Gnoekeos]

I can't believe that one that failed by 28 dollars. At that point when your deadline is close and its that small how do you not either put the money in yourself or get literally anyone you know but have no legal ties to to put in the 28 and then immediately return it to them?

[@CompletelyNewguy]

or take a small 50 dollar loan or something.

[@Lrapsody27]

CompletelyNewguy or a small loan of a million dollars.

[@htcmlcrip]

I dont get those people either. Unless... most or half of the money is his or his friends which wont go to him. And real donations is not enough so he want it to fail?

[@kevinpedersen5290]

Lol if it was me being 28 dollars from hitting the goal, I would've funded myself :D

[@thedavyjones7177]

3:45 if you want to skip the long intro

[@ThePhantomSafetyPin]

I'm sad about your last pick. I would so have played a game where I'm a Cthulhoid Lovecraftian monstrosity destroying cities and harvesting humans, and I'm not usually into RTS games.

[@saturnargentavis1901]

28 dollars off? They could have just made a random account and put the 30 bucks in.. stupidity overwhelming

[@denkritiskekritiker4427]

my exact thought

[@Kattywampus]

True facts.

[@jbarnhart2653]

"They" already do that...they may have put in a lot to "get things rolling". No interest and they too want their money back...

[@35november]

assuming that 28 dollars would have resulted in them making the game anyways

[@ludothorn]

"night trap is destiny to fail"... aaaand now is on steam.

[@thecosmicundead6894]

And remastered on a triple a console the PS4

[@kingcole55]

$28 dollars away? And the guy who started it didn't just put in $28 of his own money to push him over the edge?

[@johnfogarty2563]

Ya, was thinking the same. Even if its against regulations or anything just go to you mate and say "Hey Bill, throw in 30 into my game and i'll pay you back",haha

[@joserobertosolismerlin5527]

As far i know if they realize someone close to you give money , they can cancel your project

[@MegaMawileTheNommer]

nope, not at all. There is nothing illegal about it, nor is it against KS terms of service. Hell, most devs and companies do the first pledge at 1% of the goal themselves.

[@joserobertosolismerlin5527]

Flat Kingdom first campain was cancelled because the dev team began to put money themselves

[@TemmiePlays]

Mighty No 9 got fully funded on Kickstarter, but I would say it absolutely failed to hit the target, if you get the jist.

[@dracorax5872]

Human Resources looked like it could have been fun

[@codyjames7019]

Disclaimer: I have never, and will never claim to be a game designer/programmer/anything other than an avid gamer. (End disclaimer:) BUT if I was $28 from my goal, I'm gonna go to wallmart and get a prepaid card and pledge it to get the $50,000 to see my game come to life. I want to feel sorry for this guy, but common. It wasn't like he was 10k from his goal

[@JeromeDoyle]

the issue with most Kickstarter campaigns is they do not know how to advertise their products on various social media outlets. I would have backed most of these.

[@uncharted3958]

Boogerman and Earthworm Jim always looked great as a team together. A game with them both would've been awesome.

[@EmperorNero]

"Please fund my daddies game" Goddamn that broke my heart.

[@Alex303]

all these games fail but bubsy gets a remake is the world going backwards?

[@thecosmicundead6894]

Is the human race progressing into the ground

[@dacypher22]

The kind of sad thing about crowd-funding video games is the budgets they require. While it sounds like asking for too much when American McGee asks for $950k to make a game, that would be considered a shoestring budget for a game that will be competing with major publisher releases. I would estimate that a budget of about $8 million would be the bare minimum to make a new, nearly-AAA quality American McGee game. I assume most of these studios would have to seek additional funding, which is probably where some of these game Kickstarters that got funded but never released go off the rails. We get upset (and rightfully so) when a campaign gets over a million dollars but never delivers, when in reality a game like most of these could never be made for these types of budgets to begin with.

[@ValensBellator]

$27 shy? How on earth did they not just find a friend to cover the last little gap? That's crazy lol

[@IzraelGraves]

Or just donate themselves... How stupid that was.

[@ValensBellator]

Knight Bear Fuel Haha yeah I was just assuming that there was some regulation that precluded the people from donating to their own kickstarter. Either way, that's just absurd... I'd call up everyone I knew and give them money to invest if it was that close lol

[@Matthew-jn1tg]

A lot of these were really good teams doing good things. The problem is Kickstarter fatigue had settled in, despite all the amazing games we got from the platform, from Wasteland 2, to Divinity Original Sin. Everyone started realizing for every one they got, they got two or three that either never happened or was so bad they might as well not have. So while 1Mil is an honest budget and could have gotten it once upon a time people don't. I don't remember who wrote it but I remember an article that came out a while ago that talked about what it took to kickstart a game these days and it basically said it has to already be in alpha with a downloadable demo, and you are using the money for things like acting and music.

[@Ladondorf]

Is this video called "Top 10 Awesome Kickstarter Games That Failed", "Top 10 Kickstarter Games That Didn't Hit Target" or "Top 10 Kickstarter Games That Never Got Funded"?

[@merlink.7287]

probably a combination of all those things

[@whisper9464]

Ozombie looked amazing, I wish I had known about it...

[@iron1349]

what would a Thomas the Tank Engine RPG be? Deliver slate from the quarry to Brendham quickly and level up your water tank capacity?

[@bioforce5]

Well there's your problem. Being endorsed by Peter Molyneux is like being endorsed by Hitler. How could Kung Fu Superstar not fail when Peter "I never deliver on anything I promise" Molyneux says it looks good?

[@mspeter97]

Yeah, I suppose that at one point Molyneux's reputation would have made the game possible, but after all the shit he did....not that much

[@ArchmageOfAnarchy]

"They even got Peter Molyneux from Microsoft!" Oh god no wonder it failed, he's cursed.

[@bronks_gd]

Number 7 could have donated 28 dollars to themselves and reach their goal... How can they be game devs if thay cannot even think about this simple solution?

[@somegamedevs1896]

Bronks [GD] they may had cash problems

[@alefesilva6952]

The video starts at 3:46

[@firehedgehog1446]

Dude, as a huge fan of American Mcgee's Alice, I would have love to see Ozombies released

[@hattrick8684]

If you're only $28 away from goal start a new kickstarter account yourself and donate it yourself, that's what I would have done.

[@snordan]

Seeing all these game devs' unfilled dreams is actually really depressing.

[@thomasjenkins7506]

especially for the one that missed it's goal by 28 bucks.

[@conspiraciesarejustgreatst2059]

How does Kickstarter not have an option or clause that if your within a certain % of your goal you get an extension like another week or two weeks? Being $28 short when your talking about $50,000 you would think that could qualify for a short extension

[@pharmaciemorcire3120]

conspiracies are just great stories why not funding their own game by purchasing one Unit. They dumb AF

[@shoop3963]

JulienVEVO that goes against kickstarter terms of service. People behind the kickstarter can't put their own money into it

[@TheHordeQ]

They couldn't hand some random stranger $30 on the street to donate? Doesn't make any sense. There's no good reason except wanting it to fail.

[@WalkerRileyMC]

Dude....if my kickstarter was within 28 dollars of the goal and it had ten minutes left....I'd just make a fake account and done the last 30 myself.

[@glitchyglitchy3925]

"Some games just don't stand the test of time" is one of the most powerful truths of the gaming industry. Hell, with any industry. Times change, people change. Concepts that worked back then wouldn't work today. And that's ok. It's just the natural way of things.

[@wingviper]

Stil kind of sad to see Human Resources didn't get funded. However as a backer of Planetary Annihilation I can't really blame people. I remember seeing the Kickstarter and like many wanted to back the game, but I didn't because of the many promises Uber made for PA that they never gave their backers even though they got most of them funded. Also they asking price was just WAY too high to the point of it being ridiculous altogether.

[@rileypalmer8614]

Michel venner they went over their head, they were expecting all the animations to be easy, the tentacles alone with take months to animate and if they were planing it to take a year they were greedy as their pay would of been $87,500 if the Kickstarter money went to them only ( not including tax and other fees), that means 16cents a minute per person so your paying the group $2.66 a per minute for every minute for a whole year, no wonder they failed they wished for the highest wage available for not even the best artist and programmers available, or close, thou the trailer was nice, they would probable say it's costed 1.4million to make. They only made a trailer and a concept and expected 1.4million for it.

[@paulspydar]

Ozombie & black Glove are the two that I regret not being made,

[@joseaca]

to be honest, a couple of those kickstarters were led by some shady people in the case for the spiritual successor to eternal darkness, the director was accused of mismanaging previous projects and being a drama queen (he actually tried to sue unreal games for Too Human being a piece of shit) and in the case of human resournces, Uber is simply a piece of shit, before handling PA they were in charge of a F2P game known as Super Monday Night Combat, and despite the fact during the PA kickstarter they claimed PA wouldnt divert resources from SMNC, shortly after the PA kickstarter was finish and the development of the game begun, the updates for SMNC stopped, now SMNC wasnt really popular and it was obvious Uber was bleeding money with it, however that doesnt detract from the fact they didnt keep their word in september 5 2014, after a long period in early access, Planetary Annihilation was released among claims of the game being an unfinished mess, and shortly after the kickstarter for human resources began, so Uber pushed an uncooked game out of the gate, only to pitch another kickstarter for another game that might end up unfinished upon release, not to mention that the development of human resources, if allowed to take place, wouldve cast a shadow of uncertainty upon the future of PA's updates that would hopefully help fix the game, and why wouldnt it? Uber already broke their "dont worry guys, we will keep updating the game" promise once!, all this led to people losing faith in Uber being able to properly lead the development of the game and thats why the kickstarter failed as a final note, PA got re-released one year later as Planetary Annihilation: TITANS, this version apparently fixed many issues with the original game... too bad none of the backers received a copy, thats right, in order to more or less enjoy the complete, working game, backer had to buy a new version of the game they helped fund so, fuck Uber, im happy their kickstarter failed, i have little doubt it wouldve ended in a similar disaster

[@lotus-prince]

I just can't feel too bad about Shadow of the Eternals failing. The Kickstarter did indeed ask for a lot, and then the head of the project started another crowdfunding campaign on a different site, also with a high goal, which didn't seem to coincide with Kickstarter's funding, and that second campaign wouldn't reimburse backers if the project failed. On top of all that, it's likely that Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes and Eternal Darkness did as well as they did because Nintendo kept Silicon Knights on a short leash. According to a former SK developer, apparently the head of the project wasn't very good at his job when left to his own devices. It's probably for the best that their Kickstarter campaign didn't meet its goal. As for OZombie, I would have freaking LOVED it if it came out, zombie theme aside. I've wanted an American McGee's Oz since the beginning. :-D

[@dandoesthings3757]

I like how in 2019 we actually ended up getting a hd version of Night Trap (even Double Switch).

[@Larry]

and corpse killer!

[@dandoesthings3757]

I forgot about that one actually.

[@GameFanaTICK386]

Did not know there was a Boogerman HD Kickstarter!!!

[@Night-Jester]

#7 Curious why they didn't just have someone they know back the rest of the money?

[@TheLunasticks]

28 dollars short? Damn, that's a GIANT slap to the face. I feel very bad for them. :(

[@DarkFiber23]

I don't feel too bad for them. The creator could have literally paid that extra $28 himself to bump it over the edge.

[@timcrouch2415]

That is what I was thinking! Hell, if it was down to the last 2 hours or so and they were a couple hundred dollars off, just get your whole family and all your friends to chip in and just tell them you will give their money back out of the funding. Completely stupid to let it fall that short.

[@jfridy]

Yeah, but he was probably watching the numbers. If you don't make the goal, it fails. You can't offer to step up and cover the last bit yourself afterwards.

[@Optimus6128]

Yes, yes, many people here are like "What are they idiots?" without thinking the alternatives. The total bids change constantly so you can't know until the last time, maybe they weren't sure it's gonna make it, the -28$ is what we see after, sometimes people cancel their bid so maybe it was slightly over (and they might have backed already themselves a 100$ to reach this) and then under, or maybe they thought it's not worth it exactly at 50k, we have wished to be 10-20% over for safety, so if it dies let it die.

[@Noobie2k7]

I feel like the American McGee game failed because trying to market any game in the llast few years with the name 'zombie' attatched is basicallly a death sentence. It would have probably generated more interest if it was just called American McGee's Oz. Or something similar and snappy.

[@smg4reblooperd182]

Noobie2k7 the Necos of Oz.

[@WorldwideWyatt]

The guys making Alpha Colony couldn't find one more friend to donate the $30 at the end??? I find that really hard to believe.

[@codekhalil6437]

Agreed. There must be some fine print or something because that is just tragic. I think they mustve needed much more than the $28 in reality. Because if it was that close, couldnt they just start the project?

[@icedfade614]

if the project does not get funded they dont get anything

[@jonothanthrace1530]

Yes, 99% of Kickstarters either drastically underestimate how much it costs to produce something (because they're started by amateurs who don't know) or intentionally deflate the projected cost (because they're started by professionals who don't want to scare backers away by setting the goals too high). As a result, even the ones that do get funded run a severe risk of running out of funds before they can produce a finished game.

[@TaoScribble]

Caffeinated. TOOTHPASTE?! D: Kinda wish I wasn't made aware of that Ozombie game, though. I loved the world of both of those Alice games and now I'm sad Ozombie isn't going to happen.

[@Noobie2k7]

Shoulda just called it American McGee's Oz. I feel the zombie part probably hurt interest as this was wheneveryones interest in anything zombie related was pretty much burned out.

[@Xiaolin-Loonatic]

How is it that bad Kickstarter games like Shaq Fu succeed in making a sequel, yet a better Kickstarter game like Boogerman's sequel fail in it's production deadline, thus, shutting down the game company that made him, Interplay, in the process?

[@randominternetuser5872]

the people that funded shaq fu most likely do it for the memes or just want to see it fail, or at least see how bad it is

[@LanceClark]

Re-queem? It's "Wreck-we-emm"! :)

[@Twiglet015]

Lance Clark Heard that too 😂

[@procow2274]

Yup

[@munjee2]

I always have heard wreck - quee-em

[@AvariceOverlord]

Don't forget Anim-E

[@lukamijajlovic1990]

@@AvariceOverlord MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA

[@madeleine61509]

tbh the kung fu superstar seems like one of those games that would be a fun way to put exercise into your video game time. plus if you have to learn all the moves, it works your memory as well... it actually seems like a great concept. i obviously have no clue how it would actually play but otherwise it seems really good.

[@jackkelly1429]

If you was $28 off you'd donate something yourself wouldn't you?!

[@ChrisWoollett]

Boogerman's game worked with the 6 button MegaDrive/Genesis controller with the 'Z' button being the taunt button where Boogerman says "Booger" each time the taunt button is hit. Boogerman besides being in his own game, he was also in a Clayfighter game, Clayfighter 64 if I recall correctly.

[@aperson5215]

Clayfighter 63 1/3

[@dashcamandy2242]

8:32 - As a resident of Connecticut, I would like to offer a worldwide public apology for Senator Dick Blumenthal, the guy known for lying about his service in Vietnam (5 draft deferments, claimed to have been deployed but never was). The only time we see him around here is when he has the opportunity to strut his turkey neck in front of TV cameras. He's Connecticut's very own Peter Molyneux (Ol' Dicky B even sued Microsoft), and he's part of the reason why we cannot use cartoon characters in cigarette ads.

[@Dreadjaws]

_"A new Fact Hunt will be up next weekend as promised :)"_ Please prioritize your health, Larry. We can wait.

[@Dreadjaws]

ComedyPop Read the video description.

[@rars0n]

Thankfully Night Trap finally happened. It's a bit ironic, too, since it's now rated Teen instead of Mature, despite the fact that the video quality is infinitely better than the original releases. It just goes to show how worked up over nothing everyone was back then. Night Trap is more campy than scary or creepy. It's also ironic because it was released for Switch. Take that, Howard Lincoln!

[@Vultain]

I did not even know that "The Black Glove" existed or I would have been a backer! Kind of sad, I wish a game news site or two that were popular would have featured it!

[@Lobothemainman23]

The guy that was 28 dollars short. Why the fuck didn't he just donate the money himself?

[@TheUKNutter]

I also thought that

[@playboysadness6494]

Lobo's Top 5 not legal

[@Trainwheel_Time]

Darth Nihilus "Here sis!!! Would you please take this 28 dollars and use your name to back my project?" Seems simple man.

[@Lobothemainman23]

Timothy Jahn Go load the money on a prepaid card. There are so many ways to do this.

[@Trainwheel_Time]

Lobo's Top 5 Yeah... Just makes me think they didn't know till the last minute.

[@redpillow2]

That alarm at the beginning made me very anxious.

[@smugshrug]

you accuse the Eternal Darkness kickstarter for asking for "way too much" money ($750K) but your #1 complaint of Kickstarters that meet their goal and don't deliver is that they don't ask for enough money - lol. I'd bet you that Eternal Darkness team knew how much they needed for a full development budget. Games are expensive to make.

[@Draganox25]

Uts such a shame human resources failed. I love planetary annihilation

[@Just_a_average_BOI]

Same before I found out it was canceled I thought it was in development $#$# and now I wish it was.

[@Jazz_Boye_Jambo]

wait, Human Resources didn't get funded??? fuck dude, I saw the trailer for that and thought it looked rad. sucks it didn't get funded

[@Jazz_Boye_Jambo]

Austin Hooda didn't know it was available to buy! I'll look into it!!!

[@brzzzy]

@midgetman what are you talking about? Unless it's under a different name, human resources did not get released...

[@jjenk911]

Couldn't one of the devs throw in the final $28? 😑

[@donwald3436]

Jeremy Jenkins That's against terms.

[@TheHordeQ]

Only if you get caught

[@pyrotempestwing]

Hordequester “When the cops aren’t around, everything’s legal” -Stan Pines

[@TheEvisgod]

"Please help fund my daddy's game." I've never felt so much despair in an instant.

[@JoshTheAmazingAnimator]

I guarantee that a lot of these games failures has more to do with their lack of ability to reach their actual fanbase and let people know that the campaigns even exist. Several of these are projects I 100% would have backed. Particularly American McGees and Boogerman, had I known that they even existed.

[@doom5895]

hard fo small teams to advertise anything.

[@JoshTheAmazingAnimator]

@@doom5895 So you're saying, if something's hard, give up. Great advice.

[@100organicfreshmemes5]

It's such a shame #1 wasn't funded, because that's probably the most creative idea I've seen in a long while. Getting to choose what kind of apocalyptic force you control looks so damn cool.

[@Edit-nk6nb]

Cool idea, shame they fucked around with Planetary Annihilation so much that no one would trust them again.

[@100organicfreshmemes5]

Edit I didn't know about their past, if they were those kinds of jerks then never mind.

[@Cogglesz]

My god. I was waiting for the Peter Molyneux moment. By five minutes in i was pretty sure i was going to be disappointed with a no show. 7:30 made my day. Thank you DJ Slopes & Guru Larry!

[@slopesgameroom]

HAHAHAHA more than welcome

[@DJWarwing]

There was a PC game that had either a GoFundMe or Kickstarter. It was an artistic platformer/rpg game, I think, about the nephew of a deceased folk musician going out into this trippy artistic world to find lyrics to write and live the legacy of his uncle. Forgot what it was called, but it didn't reach the goal...

[@blobbem]

"They got Peter Molyneux from Microsoft." Haaaa, now I see why it failed.

[@SleepyKittenz]

OOOOh man the way you say "anime" tho..

[@ameto6588]

I usually don't really care about kickstarters that don't reach their goal, because as I see it the developers failed to garner interest or shot their funding goals too high. But man, not being funded because of $30 is really harsh.

[@Quinnknights]

can't help but think, why didn't they lend 30 quid from a friend ?

[@BillPairaktaridis]

Yeah, exactly. Not having a friend or family member that could foot that $30 is the real sad part...

[@ameto6588]

I believe that a lot of people decide to fund these campaigns in the last minute. Maybe it had a spike in the thousands of dollars in the last hour or so and they couldn't have any idea they would fall that short.

[@madotsuki5119]

I'm a big fan of American McGee and dark, gothic, demented versions of classic children's literature in general; so of course, just finding out about Ozombie makes me sad. I am glad I didn't have to get my hopes up though. Here's hoping something comes from that at some point. I adore the concept a lot.

[@NemoNamikaze]

I knew of OZombie, but I had NO idea there was a kickstarter. I always wondered what happened to it....Too bad Alice is lying stuck under EA's boot otherwise we'd at least get Alice 3, as I know McGee want's to make it. I guess his genius was just not meant to be. :/

[@AshAsmodeus]

I think you can tell by my profile pic how sad I am that there prolly won't be an Alice 3 :P

[@martyslackjaw]

Eternal Darkness, Sanity's (Sound it out with me, Dan) Re-Quee-Em (3 syllables).

[@mindyauron]

marty slackjaw British accent

[@IzzyMarrie]

For me, I watched the sci-fi political thriller visual novel Cannibal Lottery fail due to in part little to no advertising, and I suspect veering away from their usual fan base who was used to b-love. It was sad because it seriously looked interesting and like it had a lot of potential

[@Larry]

it's a shame when that happens.

[@IzzyMarrie]

@@Larry yeah definitely

[@rodrigopadilla2144]

@@Larry hey do Best guest character in fighting games

[@mink03]

Alpha Colony kinda screwed themselves. All it took was one developer to spend an extra 30 dollars on themselves and they would have made it.

[@0rderSol]

And all the money wasted on Mighty No.9 could have made half of these into reality. But we didn't know how bad it would be until half-way through despite the clear warnings put out.

[@LikaLaruku]

Love how the intro example; Power Toothpaste, was actually from Indie Gogo. Of course, if there had never been a Kickstarter, than Indie Gogo would not exist. How about a part 2 for games that got funded & still never came out, like Yogventures?

[@charlesajones77]

I strongly suspect that Human Resources failed because there was such a backlash from how PA was botched so badly. The fact that they initially priced the game at $90 US just screamed "lets grab the money and run before word gets out that we dropped the ball." They did partially redeem themselves by making Planetary Annihilation: Titans, a vastly improved revamp, and offering it free to KS backers, and highly discounted to owners of PA. However, the original release was such a fiasco that I think people simply weren't willing risk that happening again.

[@theantithesis1]

"reck kwee um" Dammit.

[@thebarbaryghostsf]

Came here to say the same thing lol.

[@Savra]

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's "Re-queem." Lmao

[@jacobdesio]

They missed their goal by $28.... If they would have donated their own $28 they would have received tens of thousands. That was one of the most short-sighted business deals I have ever seen

[@SallinKari]

I believe it's against the rules to donate to your own project. If they did, they would have been kicked anyways, and banned so they couldn't try anything else through there.

[@KairosObj]

@@SallinKari Then get a friend or fam to do it?

[@sauvagess]

I like how I haven't heard of a single one of these kickstarters.

[@christianhjelmstrom224]

The reason these games failed is because the developers asked too much money from backers, and most people didn't donate because they knew the game would cost less than that to make. asking 10 times the amount of money necessary is more than enough to keep potential donators away from your project.

[@Joe90h]

"Too much money"? None of these projects seemed too outrageous to me. It costs hundred of thousands to make a game, pay your staff, market your game, and so on. In fact, the reason 66% of Kickstarters for games don't deliver on their promises is because they quickly realize just how much money their original ambitions cost to make a reality.

[@hotlavatube]

Back around 2013, Jim Walls, of Sierra Online's Police Quest line of games, tried to kickstart "Precinct". They ended up cancelling the kickstarter, and the subsequent funding attempt. The police quest games were great, though apparently Jim Walls was a bit notorious at Sierra (according to interviews), making the game too difficult due to his absolute adherence to police procedure. Who knows how Walls' Precinct game would have turned out had it been funded.

[@qty1315]

This Is The Police, maybe?

[@hotlavatube]

@@qty1315 Nah, looks like Walls was going for realistic first person. There's a test render on youtube under "Precinct Test for Jim Walls"

[@miaouew]

I wanna see a more Heavy Metal (more the 80s cartoon movie, but also the music genre) reboot of Battletoads with gritty grimdark themes, can you imagine all the blood and gore, ultra sexy Dark Queen, all the bits and nobs and 40k inspiration. That would be Toadally awesome. Imagine how cool the Btoads theme would fit into that.

[@benbuurman254]

Battletoads would be a perfect Ork game

[@genxtasy9914]

I woke up to the beginning thinking it was my alarm.

[@Spudcore]

Holy fuck, Planetary Annihilation looked amazing! I'd love to see something along these lines, a bit like King Of The Monsters and Rampage too, giant monsters and robots tearing a whole city to pieces. Would be so satisfying! Sorry to hear of your poor health, I hope you recover soon. Stay strong!

[@dennisalvarado5134]

The alarm clock at the beginning was too real for me D: all I could think when I heard it was "Oh no time to go to work" and I'm watching this on my day off >_>

[@Acidicstudios]

Oh, Night Trap Remaster is actually a thing thats being released for modern systems now in 2017... Jumped the gun on that one huh, lmao.

[@ADHadh]

Human Resources was probably not funded because of the sorry state Planetary Annihilation launched in. It is still unfinished, after they moved to Titans, which owners of PA would still need to pay full price for. Gamers saw that they were gathering funds for a new game before finishing the previous one, so naturally they were very sceptical. Uber has lost consumer trust.

[@TG_Sponge]

With 500,000 new people knowing these exists, I wonder what would happen if any of them made a second attempt.

[@ItsAWonderfulKnife]

Great stuff, Dan (and Larry)! This is quickly growing into one of my favorite channels. All the best, you two!

[@JoshuaRWorkman]

I was one of the backers of Shadow of the Eternals, and I almost cried the night the campaign ended because the world needed this game to revive the horror genre, but there was so much negativity surrounding the developers that more time was spent combating bad press and negative feelings and opinions surrounding Denis Dyack and other former Silicon Knights employees who wanted to work on that game and not enough on the game itself that not even David Hayter, The Ranting Robots, and Greg what's his name from Up At Noon could convince the non-believers to give the project the money they were asking for.

[@EvilDoresh]

No wonder Kung Fu Superstar failed. Having your game associated with Molyneux (aka the King of False Promises) is like a death sentence.

[@conradojavier]

I'd rather have an Unknown Guy handle it, instead of Cancer Incarnate.

[@gangchen9538]

Boogerman looked cool, it had Huge potential. OZOMBIE looked really Great. Really heart shattering it didn't get enough for it to be a reality.

[@Novaphyer]

The big reason of why Human Resources failed it's Kickstarter was the absolute lackluster of a game they released from their last funding campaign, Planetary Annihilation. It wasn't until (I believe if memory serves correct) a year and a half after the release of the full game did they finally get the game up to the standard they were promising originally. If I recall correctly, Human Resources was announced a year prior these changes, so people were still sour about Planetary Annihilation's end product.

[@krux02]

I saw the trailer for Human Resources when it was new, and I am a backer of Planetary Annihilation. My thoughts were: "Yes really looks like a nice idea, but didn't I already give you money to make me a game? Can you please finish that first before starting a new project? So I did not give them money for it. And I am quite happy that the Kickstarter did not get through. By now I think I would be ok by backing Human Resources. But not when they wanted the money for it.

[@Nikagor]

Even titan is still kinda average to be honest.

[@EdgyShooter]

Ticket to ride, an excellent but sometimes overlooked classic!

[@jakob187]

Just found your channel. Super cool stuff. However, I wanted to point something out about the #1 pick (even though I am aware that you didn't make this particular video, Larry). The reason that Human Resources didn't get funded was not because the concept didn't seem awesome. The problem was that Uber Entertainment has a massive reputation of releasing unfinished, unbalanced games that they did little to nothing to continue supporting. Monday Night Combat came out on consoles, and it received no love from Uber afterwards. Unbalanced annoyance, despite being fun. Their answer to that was to bring Super Monday Night Combat to PC. It was awesome at first, and it seemed like they had learned from their mistakes of not supporting...but that died shortly after as well because Planetary Annihilation was being worked on. When that game came out, it was responded to by the gaming community as "kind of unfinished and unbalanced," but there was expectation that Uber would try to support it, as they had promised. They weren't just going to leave us high and dry. They left us high and dry, but not without almost immediately afterwards announcing...you guessed it...Human Resources, their new game! When that didn't get funded, their answer was to release the expansion/standalone Planetary Annihilation: Titans...which was also mostly unfinished. Now they are working on Wayward Sky, a PlayStation VR game. Hopefully, after the layoffs due to the failure of Human Resources and the hubris they've shown for cranking out something without properly supporting it, they've figured it out NOW.

[@benmccarty8720]

Titans was a step forward imo, fixing some major issues in the game.

[@Assimandeli]

The intro was a tad bit too long, but otherwise a great video. Kung-Fu Superstar sounds like an awesome concept, but I highly doubt it would play well. Motion controls are honestly not that precise for the idea to work properly. Also, having Peter Molyneux talking about its potential is a warning in itself, lol. I've backed Shenmue 3, but not planning to back any future games on kickstarter or indiegogo. I just don't really trust for the games to come out as planned or at all. Even Shenmue 3 seems pretty risky to be honest, but what can I say, nostalgia

[@Pastafari4]

WAIT THEY ARE NOT THE TWO IDENTITIES OF LARRY?

[@firstnamelastname8058]

that human harvesting game looked interesting.

[@SonicBoy14]

I’ve loved both of you guys’ channels for so long, it’s crazy to watch this from so long ago lol

[@nikolas_schreck]

I first started playing Dizzy as a young lady in the 80's on my NINTENDO.

[@Craider79]

LOL ........ Sooooooooo if you are 28$ away 5 min before the deadline - then why the hell don't you just chip that in yourself - or get a friend or family member to do it for you... That seems a bit.......... weird to me...

[@Altherix]

I have a gut feeling a lot of these failed due to lack of advertising the Kickstarter campaign. I say that as all of these I never heard about until watching this video, than again, I'm aware of Kickstarter but have never funded anything on it.

[@andrefinger5124]

If my game was 28 dollars from being funded, I would have put those 28 in myself.

[@squigin3380]

Man that Boogerman HD game looked amazing :( and it would have been a kind of Earthworm Jim sequel, that alone would have made it worth it for me.

[@Thereaperofcrows]

I would've been totally behind OZombies, if someone told me the guy who made the American McGee Alice games was making it! I didn't even know it existed before watching this video! (Also, I really wanted a third Alice game....)