Brian Fargo kinda sorta but quite probably presents: Wasteland 2

Meiz

So Brian Fargo, the head behind Wasteland and the Fallout series decided to stop trying to get this project funded by suits and threw it out to the public. To his amazement it seems like it's gathering a metric fuck ton of steam.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2
http://kotaku.com/5892901/how-wasteland-2-went-from-hopeless-to-half-a-million-in-24-hours

The rewards for helping start the thing seem rather ideal for anyone who knows of this title or any of Fargo / Interplay's works before he got bought out.

It's made an unprecedented amount of money in just a day and it shouldn't be long before it gets started and finds itself in our grubby little hands.

BahamutZERO

hooray more kickstarted goodness!

Moriveth

I wish I could pledge $250 to this

Not gonna have the money to though

(I will probably pledge $15 at some point though)

Uriel

I'm not old enough to remember the first one.

Since I didn't get a PC til 2002.

2 Marcus 2 Ravens

I've never played the original, but I'm a fan of a lot of this guy's work.

B-b-b-backed.

DarkPrimus

Hey, Wasteland was a little before my time but hell yes I loved Fallout 1 & 2.

chromdom

Fallout was the first game I ever finishrd. Loved that game so much! I'm a cheap bastard and have never supported even the worthiest of causes on kickstart, but damn if I won't kick down a few bucks for this!

chromdom

And it seems the got at least the minimum they were after.
GLEE!

Give 'em a year and half or whatever, and BRAND NEW WASTELAND!
This makes me very happy.

Moriveth

They're nearing 1.2 million, last I checked. Here's hoping they can hit 1.5!

Fandyien

i'm stunned that eight people donated more then $10,000

though if i was fabulously wealthy i totally would

Ruby Rhod

I want to become a rich billionaire just to fund old games I want made. Also to throw naked yacht parties.

Moriveth

If I was super rich and could afford to fund games

Man

Let's just say we'd be up to Jagged Alliance 10 by now

Kuribo's Shoe

I will fund any sequel to an apple II game

number munchers reboot, go

Moriveth

Also, my hip-hop themed RPG would be made

And it would be awesome

Kuribo's Shoe

I mean they're already remaking Karateka so I don't know what else I would need

Odell Lake I guess

the game that taught me what an osprey was, and to fear it

Aneurhythmia

Oh, good, there's a thread for this.

I'd tell you guys to play the original, but it might be one of those games that's too hard to go back to if you didn't grow up playing game with EGA graphics.

Kuribo's Shoe

I remember playing it long ago in a distant land

but I don't remember shit all about it

more rpgs are always welcome, however

Moriveth

Aneurhythmia wrote: »

Oh, good, there's a thread for this.

I'd tell you guys to play the original, but it might be one of those games that's too hard to go back to if you didn't grow up playing game with EGA graphics.

I want to go back and play it. It is difficult to go back, though, even if you did grow up with it.

Ruby Rhod

Oh god and it will be isometric view? I may cry.

chrishallett83

So, how long until "HA HA HA, Kickstarter is not a legally binding thingamajig, now I have all your monies to spend on hookers and blow!!"

DarkPrimus

chrishallett83 wrote: »

So, how long until "HA HA HA, Kickstarter is not a legally binding thingamajig, now I have all your monies to spend on hookers and blow!!"

Not with this one.

Fearghaill

Fandyien wrote: »

i'm stunned that eight people donated more then $10,000

though if i was fabulously wealthy i totally would

The CEO of Razer said his $10,000 donation was in part an apology for pirating the original game.

TrippyJing

That is pretty darn classy.

neville

Supported dis.

Kuribo's Shoe

From an update RE: this

And speaking of goodwill it occurs to me that we can harness the power of Kickstarter in a more meaningful way. Fan funding is bigger than me or Wasteland 2 as I have remarked before. The development community has come together to support us in ways that I didn't think possible and our power as developers will ultimately come from us sticking together. Both gamers and developers have so much more strength than they realize. But in order to help facilitate the power of crowd funding I am going to suggest that all of us that do utilize this form of financing agree to kickback 5% of our profits made from such projects to other Kickstarter developers. I am not suggesting taking a backers money and moving it to another project.. I mean once a game has shipped and created profit that we funnel that back into the community of developers to fund their dreams. I am tentatively calling this "Kick It Forward" and I will be the first to agree to it. In fact, I will have our artists create a badge that goes on all Kickstarter projects that agree to support this initiative. Imagine the potential if another Minecraft comes along via Kickstarter and produces millions of dollars of investment into other developers. This economic payback will continue to grow the movement way beyond the current system. I hope others will join me with this idea and make this a true shakeup.

this is a cool thing this guy is doing

Aneurhythmia

It's definitely cool. I hope this type of model can stay flexible enough that it doesn't ultimately get nailed down by larger companies looking to benefit from it in a way that functionally smothers it. I don't even know how that would go, but I'm sure someone like EA will figure it out.

Kuribo's Shoe

So if this kickstarter hits 2.1 mil, Obsidian, and more specifically Chris Avellone, are going to pitch in

that has me considering doubling down

a lot of people are going lol obsidian alpha protocol or whatever

those people r dumb

Moriveth

Well as long as Obsidian doesn't handle the QA, that'll be pretty cool, I bet!

Cilla Black

Chris Avellone would be great, dang

but

I also kinda hope they don't let him design too much gameplay and leave him strictly to dialogue/character creative work. Dead Money had such bad gameplay ideas in it.

Aneurhythmia

I thought the offer was just financial backing.

Cilla Black

We have announced a major piece of good news today that inXile has reached an agreement with Obsidian for potential design assistance for Wasteland 2. What that means is that Obsidian’s Chief Creative Officer, Chris Avellone, is going to work with our team on the design and writing of the game! It is important to note that we say "potential" as they will come aboard assuming we hit $2.1 million in funding. The good news is that we have already seen a spike in just the few hours since this was announced in a press release this morning.

Aneurhythmia

Ah, interesting.