New Freedom Force... with Monsters?

[GogglesPizanno]

OK, not really.

From some of the former irrational people who worked on FF comes.... Dreadline
Which looks a lot like Freedom Force, only with time traveling monsters and more tongue in cheek.
It has me quite intrigued.

http://vimeo.com/42122869

[spydermann93]

Interesting...

Looks fun

[Uncle Yuan]

Sounds like a macabre twist on John Varley's Millennium!

[detourne_me]

I was JUST going to post about this!!!
http://www.destructoid.com/former-harmonix-and-irrational-devs-announce-dreadline-227409.phtml

[UnkoMan]

Ha ha ha! That looks so great.

[Epimethee]

The rendered 3D actually look pretty sweet (in a brain-eating mummy kind of sweet).

[BentonGrey]

Haha.........well, the subject matter doesn't grab me too much, but that does look delightfully FF-ish.  I'd love it if it were monsters fighting monsters...or Nazis...or anything that wasn't murdering innocent (albeit doomed) people.........I do have a secret childhood love for Monsters-in-My-Pocket.....

[Epimethee]

The game joins the Kickstarter parade. As it seems to follow the FF game mechanics more closely than most games, it might be worth your support.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eeriecanal/dreadline

[BlueBard]

Haha.........well, the subject matter doesn't grab me too much, but that does look delightfully FF-ish.  I'd love it if it were monsters fighting monsters...or Nazis...or anything that wasn't murdering innocent (albeit doomed) people.........I do have a secret childhood love for Monsters-in-My-Pocket.....

Me either, but if the game is similar enough to lend itself just as well to modding maybe the game could be modded to do other things.

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

Yeah, I have a feeling it may be the subject matter that may doom this kickstarter.  I would love to fund a FF like game from the people who made the original, but funding a game about murdering innocent people is just not something I can bring myself to do.

[BlueBard]

Yeah, I have a feeling it may be the subject matter that may doom this kickstarter.  I would love to fund a FF like game from the people who made the original, but funding a game about murdering innocent people is just not something I can bring myself to do.

Won't see a dime from me, that's for sure.

Maybe if they had made it about time travellers who try to stop time travelling monsters from murdering innocent, doomed people... still nope.

[Cyber Burn]

A litle on the morbid side, unlike the FF games, this is not something I would want my kids standing over my shoulder watching while I'm playing. Sorry, but this wouldn't get my money.

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

As I figured, this failed rather spectacularly.  only 23k out of the 160k they asked for.  Which in Kickstarter means they get nothing.  While I wish them well, the subject matter pretty much guantees this is fail, IMO.

[Epimethee]

Yeah, a shame really, but no big surprise. In addition to the subject matter, as you pointed out, Cat, these guys didn't seem to be too great at marketing. (Reminds me of a certain game company which tried to self-publish the sequel to a somewhat successful game a few years ago and had to put itself for sale afterwards...)