Well, in the now time-honoured tradition of "You haven't heard of our company, but we're industry veterans with X years of experience who have worked on [Popular Game #1] and [Popular Game #2], among others" making a "Spiritual Successor, aka we can't get the rights, but we want to make a game like in the old days. Remember the old days? Weren't they great?" nostalgia attack, there's Satellite Reign.
All cynicism aside, the video impresses, they have a sense of humour about themselves (lookit those titles for themselves - "Grumpy Old Man", "Beard Cultivator"), they seem to know some of the failings of the old games (this interview talks in part about everybody just grouping all four agents together as a single Super-Agent, and what they're doing to stymie that) while appreciating their strengths, and the updates to the campaign have been informative, come regularly, but haven't been one-every-two-seconds, look-at-us kind of things.
I'm cautiously optimistic - or at least, that's what I keep telling myself. With how often I check the money tally, and how much I really, really want it to make its target, I may have fallen headlong into "this'll-be-awesome-no-matter-what-indicates-otherwise" territory.
Take a look, judge for yourself. Just know that if it doesn't make its target I will be hunting down every one of you who didn't pledge.
