Kickstarter Shout-outs!: Cam's Eye View's Kickstarter Editorials.

I was trying to hold off on this as long as I could, but I can’t hold off anymore! I decided to do a sub-series of articles on Kickstarter Shout-out. These will cover a list of mediocre Kickstarters, explaining why they won’t get funded, and so this won’t be a totally negative experience, I will recommend some alternative Kickstarters that you should go fund. Fun fact, I actually wrote two articles for this idea, but scrapped them. I originally wanted to be critical, cynical, and throw in a humorous twist, but found the two articles not up to the quality I wanted them to be. Now then, let’s get started! Bello Magorum Why it won’t get funded : At first, the description is enticing, a game that will be similar to the tactical RPG classics of the past, like Ogre Battle and Final Fantasy Tactics . Then you realize that the page itself, while having a solid funding goal of $40K, has everything that bad Kickstarters have. First off, there is no trailer, concept art, no 3D models, or even a...

Are you feeling down? Did you do something incredibly horrible that you wish to forget? Want to be eerily chipper while wearing a painted-on mask? I mean, you don’t want to be a downer, do you? Well, why not help back today’s Kickstarter Shout-out, We Happy Few , a first-person narrative survival game made by  Compulsion Games, the creators of Contrast . Now then, shall we take a trip and be happy? The game is set in a dystopian city in England in an alternate history of 1964 called Wellington Wells. Basically, something happened after the Germans took over a majority of England, and a lot of the city around you is in ruins. Everyone in the town was a part of this really bad event. However, you wouldn’t get that feeling since everyone in Wellington Wells, is, well, well. This is due to a miracle drug called Joy. The residents take it, and act like everything is Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah. Unfortunately, you are not like them. You play as a downer, an individual that isn’t taking the Joy drug. I...

I have said in the past that first-person games are not my favorite. Maybe it’s because I have played a majority of games that take place in the third-person, but I never found the controls, combat, and overall experience of a first-person game to be that spectacular. Even games that try and show off that you can play in third-person like Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls and Fallout franchises, they basically say, “this is what you get for wanting a third-person game. Now get back into that first-person view!” I mean, they probably don’t say that, but still. I don’t hate first-person games since I love Portal 2 , and Wolfenstein: The New Order , but it seems like not a whole lot of developers want to do something new with the games in the first-person. Luckily, Kickstarter has recently been kind to me, have given me three different Kickstarter projects that are games taking place in the first-person. We will start with the Kickstarter getting the most attention, since it has been all ove...