Comments on: Policenauts

By: keving

keving — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:51:33 +0000

It’s about 10 hours but if you try searching for every possible piece of text it’ll take longer.

By: AndrewV

AndrewV — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:47:42 +0000

Question: how long is a Policenauts playthrough? I’m very curious, but hoping it’s a 10-hour wonder.

By: ferricide

ferricide — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:23:29 +0000

“you’d think a little profit would beat none.”

companies actually do not think that, too. they look at overheads and then go “fuck it this is pointless for us”

i mean, look at EA’s chronic underutilization of its back catalog.

By: jp

jp — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:59:09 +0000

Yeah, I would say that even if Konami saw some sort of percentage in catering to a niche of this scale — which they don’t — the fact that this is a Hideo Kojima game means it could never happen, because he would insist on micromanaging the entire thing. And that’s only if he didn’t just nix the idea outright because (oh no!) Policenauts represents the work of a younger and less seasoned Hideo Kojima and therefore is insufficiently awesome for the older and more famous Hideo Kojima to even stomach the mere thought of. I wouldn’t doubt that he’s already crapping bricks of fury about this.

That being said, older publishers with extensive, untranslated back catalogs would be smart to figure out how to profit off the efforts of devoted fans. There’s not a lot of money in it, no doubt, but you’d think a little profit would beat none.

By: ferricide

ferricide — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:36:49 +0000

there’s too much bureacracy and overhead at konami, is what i’d say to frank, and you. that’s the problem.

the guy who is low enough on the ladder to know that policenauts has an audience also, let’s remember, has to have enough of a CLUE to know that anybody cares, and that is surprisingly difficult if he turns out to be a corporate drone.

people tend to assume those who work in the game industry care about games but a hell of a lot of them just don’t. and even if he cares he may have halo dreams.

beyond that, then it has to get all the way up the fucking food chain to kojima, who is an iconoclastic and idiosyncratic control freak, and back down again to actually happen.

on top of that is the actual budget for the translation and everything.

i mean, if we can’t get fucking dracula X onto virtual console we ain’t never gonna get policenauts.