I was excited to hear Gigantic was coming back. You can try to fit it into some recognized genre box, but as we suggested in our 2017 strip and newspost, it doesn't readily map. That's part of why it didn't connect when it was launched, I think - in concert with its freemium dynamics perhaps, they actually did something kinda new. I think about that tragedy all the time. They were from here; we even went to their office to see it. One of the artists on the project had been on Strip Search. And it was good. It was really good. One always hopes that being good will be a factor in the success of a thing somehow, but… yeah.
I couldn't reference The Pixies' "Gigantic" correctly, because I already used the lyrics six years ago. I had to mangle it! That isn't "our" song, but that's Brenna's song for me, so it kinda fills in. My song for her is Obstacle 1, which, I mean, I don't know. I mean it as the best compliment.
Anyway, Gearbox Publishing tapped Abstraction Games to resurrect the game, which you might call a Hero Shooter if you wanted, even though the underlying mechanics bridle under such a reductive term. I was already in from the moment it was announced; they teased us a few months ago with a brief resurgence of the game. But they're doing something interesting with it, at least in my opinion: they're selling it straight for twenty dollars, which includes twenty five shooting heroes in total. For a game of this type, that feels like trend-bucking - the resurgence of the wily business model known as "Buy To Play."
(CW)TB out.