Somehow I have the notion it will be exactly the other way around for the new Tex Murpy game. ;)

I think some people were forgetting just how easy many of Tim Schafer's games were. Full Throttle being the most obvious example. His games are always more story than difficulty, but that pretty much was the lucasarts adventure game mantra. People who were expecting a game with verbs were had unrealistic expectations.

I'm not really looking for a challenge, so I'll probably love this game. When I want challenge, I play games like Myst and 7th Guest. Some famous actors provided voices for some of the characters, so I'm looking forward to that as well.

Well, after two hours of playing, I heartily recommend this game to all fellow storyfags here!

Haha, yeah, it's great! :D

Damn forgot I had decided to buy a copy here (I backed them originally which gave me steam and Humble bundle's versions), just went back here and realised the 48 hours is up. Guess I'll have to wait for another sale.

Smug because it appears you had no idea what kind of game you were getting into and as a result you were disappointed since it wasn't what you were expecting and thus gave it a low score?

I *thought* I was getting an "old-school point & click adventure" as per the Kickstarter, I didn't get it, and gave it a poor review on that basis.

And even as an adventure game standing on it's own, it's a very poor game. I would rate the production values as "moderate-to-high", such as every line being voiced by celebrity actors, the symphony scored soundtrack, the cutscenes with expensive-looking animation which took up more time than the actual gameplay itself, but those are not gameplay and they didn't venture into my judgement of it. The adventure game of Part 1 of Broken Age was rudimentary and streamlined to the extreme, the puzzles are basically non-existent (I refuse to call them puzzles as that's twisting the definition of the word to absurdity) and even when you get an item the main character Shay actually tells you via dialogue what to do with it, also Marek the Wolf another character gives you *hints* which basically tell you exactly how to progress (you know if you're so braindead you can't progress).

It's not a movie, it's not a cartoon, it's not a comic book (even if it seems like it wants to be all of them), it's a GAME, and as a game it's very poor. It's basically a moving picture book you click to advance the story, complete with pretty cutscenes and Frodo as the main character. I have very little hope for the final Part 2 because the entire design philosophy of this game is pure casualization, it's a mass market game made for a mass market audience, if Day of the Tentacle was Caviar, then this game would be McDonald's.

Deponia 1's first puzzle was took more thought than all of Part 1 of this game put together. I have played Japanese hentai visual novels which had more freedom, choice and multiple choices and endings than this rubbish.

EDIT: The only possible conclusion I can come to as to why people are giving this game are free ride is some kind of cargo cult fanboy mentality to DoubleFine and Time Shafer, or just because they don't want games they want stories to click through to feel good about. Sure adventure games are about good stories but if you strip them down to NOTHING but the story then you're got a very shallow experience.

EDIT 2: And even then, I can forgive poor gameplay if the story is good. Hell I even liked Persona 4 and I didn't much like the grindy JRPG combat because the characters were likable and the story was interesting, I loved a PS3 game called Nier even though I hated the hack'n'slash combat because the story and characters were so good. It's the absence of gameplay itself not so much the gameplay being bad that I dislike about BA, and although it's personal I didn't like the story either, the setting felt whimsical and the characters as emotional teenagers didn't appeal to me either. Day of the Tentacle was cartoony but I liked the pure juvenile-ness of it, it didn't have a pretense of being deep which BA does.

Stuff like Primordia or the Blackwell games have better story than BA by a mile.

Thank you for the articulate answer that helped me decide not to get this. I've played enough click-throughs to know this isn't for me.

I take it there has been no word from Double Fine about there being GOG keys.
I know I have a Steam and Humble Bundle unlock already, but a GOG key would be nice as I have not even used / downloaded the others.

No response at all to questions on the Kickstarter comments page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doublefine/double-fine-adventure/comments

Okay, thank-you.

I personally do not mind not getting a key, as I was waiting for the entire game to be completed before I played it anyway. So I can happily wait for a decent discount here to get a second copy. I only did the Kickstarter backing bit on the HB because it stated it had a soundtrack, so I knew that would be very unlikely to be included on GOG should it ever be released here.

A crowdfund indie company doing a season pass? This is going to be entertaining to watch.

There has been now on the Backer Forums:
Unfortunately, we aren’t distributing GOG keys to backers. But, the build at GOG is the same as the original DRM-free release, so you get the same version and updates.