Destructoid:Not holding you to anything here, but from a personal standpoint, which of your games would you like to POE currency trade make a sequel for? I’m sure a lot of people would like to hear you say Brutal Legend, but I think it’d be really neat to get another Stacking or Trenched.

Schafer:We tried to make a Stacking 2. Publishers wouldn't go for it. For years, I was really anti-sequel because I always have a new idea that I want to do. They wanted me to make a sequel to Full Throttle but if I did that, I wouldn't have made Grim Fandango. If I did that to Grim Fandango, I wouldn't have made Psychonauts. And on and on. So, I didn't for years. Then the first one we did was either Costume Quest 2 or Kinect Party, which is technically a sequel but kind of more like an expansion to Happy Action Theater. Psychonauts 2 is the first time I'm really getting into it. I like it because jumping back into it, it's weird how natural it is to write those characters again. We might do it again someday.

Broken Age was a look back to adventure games, a whole genre I hadn't done in a long time. Then the remasters of Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, and Day of the Tentacle were looking back. Psychonauts 2 is brand new but it's also a sequel, so it's also kind of looking back. Since 2012, I've just been looking back in some ways. I'm really looking forward to doing something completely original and not connected to anything.


Path of Exile's next expansion is coming soon, and of course it'll be free – Destructoid

‘Blight' 

Path of Exile slowly earned the right to be constantly installed on my PC. Although the game did things right out of the gate in 2013 on PC, it didn't hold my interest long term.

Over the course of the next few years developer Grinding Gear Games flipped that mentality on its head, offering up droves of free expansions (as in, major 100+ hour content drops) while keeping the game free cheap POE currency . From there they expanded to Xbox One in 2017 and PS4 in 2019. It's been a hell of a ride for them and it's not over yet.