Warren Spector the acclaimed designer behind Epic Mickey has already stated his interest in doing a sequel for the promising platformer on the Nintendo Wii.
“Yes, I have no interest on working on one offs,” said Spector, “I want to do things that have a life beyond me, beyond the team, beyond a single game.”
“I hope there are wasteland games featuring Mickey Mouse and also the Lucky Rabbit for years to come. We’re doing comic books and graphic novels, I want Wasteland to live on beyond this game.”
– Warren Spector, Epic Mickey
From what I can tell… Epic Mickey will be really awesome. So… I can see a series of Games in the future to deal with the Wasteland also. It’s seems to me, that this Game will sprout a Series, that will be as successful as the Kingdom Hearts Series.
Already wow man your working fast… I hope its a good game . I am a big fan of the nintendo wii
I’m glad he’s confident about the game. Who knows, maybe he will be the one that drives mickey away from children’s programing.
I hope they make a sequel for nintendos next console. I love the concept and everything, but I can’t help but wish it could take advantage of the sharper visuals wii is so incapable of.
This is exactly the kind of thinking that may very well prevent Epic Mickey from getting a sequel.
I’m pretty sure that if it were for the game alone, it would sell gazillions and the sequel would happen even if Spector didn’t want one.
But the current gaming industry is so hamstrung by this kind of thinking, all this “more! more polygons! more pixels!” race that’s just harmful – both to game design and to the industry itself. It’s particularly sad when gamers buy this shit.
In the state of current industry, they won’t wait three years or more to develop a sequel to a game that doesn’t sell in the tens of millions. Either Epic Mickey sells well NOW and gets a sequel NOW or you can forget it.
Which will it be – will you support it getting a sequel with less pixels to count (assuming the game ends up being good, of course) or wait to count polygons in other, less fun games in the future? Your choice.
I’d love to agree with you, but with every passing month the Wii is getting more and more outdated when it comes to performance. Sure, performance and graphics aren’t everything, but there’s limits.
These limits aren’t about what the developers can make, but with what the console can handle. I’m sure that better hardware, even slightly, would allow for a better experience for both the producer and the consumer.
If you ask me the idea of a sequel for now is completely ridiculous, the first game isn’t even out yet. He’s thinking too far ahead, and a sequel won’t happen for a while. Things have time to change.