well consensus is Gantz started with a lot of mystery that many loved and by the end had more action and less of that, but that aside HOLY BALLS! you need to finish it asap. i won't talk now to not spoil, you are close to the end but not 1 chapter close.. story continues even after things "end" LOL

and classical gantz,…

funny you say that about "ongoing" cause I am writing a 3 part manga now and I don't want to make it subscription but I may just have to..I can already hear the emails and posts, "hey man hurry up and get the next one out already raaaah!!", hai hai its Ongoing! @_@

Gantz ended a few months ago. and what a beautiful unforgettable journey that was i must say.

Gantz has been over for a few months, just sayin'

Gantz is over! Go read it!

Tell me about it. Knowing that Blade of the Immortal has finished but choosing to wait for the English volumes to be out is excruciating.

Gantz is still ongoing? I thought it was finished...

Gantz has finished now. :D

This! I fell exactly like you do, specially when the subject is manga, because they can go on for, like, forever! At least for a TV series they only last for a couple of years and usually you have some resolution each end of season.

There is a lot of truth in that last statement, though it looks like 2014 will be an important turning point where that first round of major projects is concerned. So far, the games that I had backed and have come out...shadowrun, ftl, star command, and banner saga...have all turned out to be wonderful investments. I…

Of course this is true, I have no problem with Kickstarter. I more have a problem with these developers horribly mismanaging their own projects. These games were asking for $500k, $800k, etc. and received millions. Then the games come out months, if not years later than projected and sometime with less content than…

"Pre Alpha" means that the pitch was already successful. Pitch - Protype (what you called pre alpha) - Alpha - Beta - Gold. That first step is has no work done on it at a developer because no work has been approved yet.

Marry me.

I honestly couldn't make this post because I didn't want to be the ruiner of dreams. Frankly... There is nothing done on this project. No engine work and a few pictures. The developers might have made great stuff, but they made some stinkers too. It's not enough to go on faith. Then there is the $600,000 price…

They can say spiritual successor all they want, but without anything to go it doesn't really mean anything. Also, for example, how they've described the class system is insanely far from FFT and doesn't sound so great in my opinion.

This exactly. It's all well and good to say you'd rather just wait, but without Kickstarter, we'd still be waiting for another Wasterland, another Torment, a new Baldurs Gate-like game from Obsidian, a classic adventure game from Tim Schaefer, etc. etc.

It has not been smooth sailing but consider that these are many…

Here's the problem.

Oh. Too bad. That would be one heck of a bonfire.

1:1 to real life (well gaming is still part of real life so pardon the previous wording), when purpose is lacking most humans will turn to mostly "bad" deeds..

when there is purpose, in this case in the form of surviving being an actual challenge and not trivial, most of the people who would be up to no good will now…