Tim Schafer Confirms No Psychonauts Sequel Likely

Via Game|Life comes an interview with Tim Schafer of Psychonauts, Day of the Tentacle fame in which he states there will likely be no sequels in the near future for those of us who loved his past works. "I would love to go back and spend time with the characters from any game I've worked on, and I would love to make a sequel to any of them. But I also want to make something new. If there were five of me I might make sequels, but there's always some new idea I want to explore." The interview is a part of Playboy's Geniuses at Play feature. It features discussions with folks like David Jaffe, Phil Harrison, and Clive Barker, the whole of which is worth reading. The subsite for the interviews is safe for work as of this posting.

Damn it.

[Zero_DgZ]

I just don't get developers sometimes. Somehow, some way, franchises stricken with Stupid Sequelitis like Madden, Need for Speed, Halo, Jak, Ratchet and Clank, and Splinter Cell receive installment after marginal installment, even though many (I won't say most) gamers that I know or talk to agree that these are just rehashes of more of the same, and the quality invariably declines with each iteration. Yet they keep coming, because some marketroid decided that there's still milk in that franchise cash cow despite the fact that to the nearest decimal point, nobody cares. (Though halo 3 was an exception to this, as plenty of people did care, and still do.)

Yet, for similarly braindead reasons, developers of these amazing, cult-following sorts of titles steadfastly refuse to make sequels to their games even when millions of people all over the globe are clamoring for them.

Hey, Doublefine! What the fuck is wrong with you? Free money over here!

Christ. The same thing happened with Sam and Max before Telltale revived the idea, the same thing was going on for years with System Shock before Irrational finally stepped up to create Bioshock... Ditto with Beyond Good and Evil as well as Psychonauts - which, might I add, both left us with setups for sequels right there in the endings.

Re:Damn it.

[Palshife]

Hey, if Tim Schaffer's rationale for skipping the opportunity to make a sequel is to make something new and original, I'm totally on board. I have to think getting Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle and Grim Fandango was better than getting three Tentacle games, but that's just me.

Re:ahem..

[MBGMorden]

Eh, there's nothing in most issues of Playboy that I personally care if ANYBODY sees. It's mostly a regular old magazine with articles and ads geared toward men (not that those are often read, but the majority of the magazine is such content), with maybe 10-15 pages per issue showing a, heaven forbid, naked women in normally pretty ungraphic poses. Quite a number of the spreads, especially of more known models/actresses/etc, are often topless only. There is NO sex depicted in Playboy, ever. It's all just glamour poses. Unless you truly think the mere sight of a naked body is going to mess up a kid (which it won't, unless you make a big deal out of it), then there's really nothing to worry about in Playboy or on their website.