I knew this was going to be a Kickstarter thread. =( I wish some of these games would actually come out and be awful already so people will stop the blind funding of everything.
This is sometimes true. Some developers might have made one cool title way back in the DOS or Commodore 64 days, but with no titles attributed to that person in over a decade how can someone throw money at him?
Gamer1: "Oh that guy who made this old classic game from 25 years ago? He was awesome!"
Gamer2: "Yeah lets give him tons of money for his next game"
Dev: "Thanks guys I reached my goal of $1,000,000 so I can start my game!"
Gamer3: "So dude, when are we gonna see some results?"
Dev: *crickets*
There are other times when the game being funded is a reboot of another game that was pretty much crap for the time. I remember playing Carmageddon 1and 2. The games were ok, then someone got hold of it and made a 3rd one which was very poorly reviewed. So I don't see why anyone would fund a reboot.