inXile General Discussion Thread

[Feyd Rautha]

Every one should buy a couple of copies each. Feel sad for Fargo

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Markland Massacre 2.0 incoming.

 

[fantadomat]

Every one should buy a couple of copies each. Feel sad for Fargo

More they should buy a copy or two of that incompetent buffoon fargo and burn it while putting a curse on the creten!

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Would a dragon wars .... redo have Amiga music at the very least?

 

[Roqua]

I'm typing words too guys!!!

 

[Mexi]

Cuckdex got cucked by Fargo again. Absolutely love it. This is why this place needs to fucking die.

 

[Themadcow]

Would a dragon wars .... redo have Amiga music at the very least?

Based on BT4s development, Dragon Wars 2 would be an open world Dragon hunting game with inspirations from Fortnite, Pokemon Go and fidget spinners - because that's how the series would have evolved naturally over time.

 

[Infinitron]

Oh hey:

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Would a dragon wars .... redo have Amiga music at the very least?

Based on BT4s development, Dragon Wars 2 would be an open world Dragon hunting game with inspirations from Fortnite, Pokemon Go and fidget spinners - because that's how the series would have evolved naturally over time.

FUCK THAT! I’ll stick with Dungeons of Magdarr for c64 then.

 

[Bohr]

Wonder what sort of questions they'll be asking him, and what he'll say about BT4

 

[BEvers]

Fargo is now live on the Co-Optional Podcast to talk about recent video game releases. Currently discussing Cube Escape: Paradox.

 

[BEvers]

- they had an external compatibility company (Testronic) that gave them a "thumbs up, no problems" on release and told them that the minimum requirements could be lowered even further
- they're working 7 days a week on the patches
- he was especially annoyed by people complaining about 21:9 support: "They were making so many threads... you'd think we had put loot boxes in the game!"
- he's proud to have "underpromised and overdelivered" with BT4, especially in terms of scope - people were expecting 20 hours, now they have 50 hours+

- Genna Bain asks: why did he put multiplayer into Wasteland 3? it doesn't fit the rest of the game!
- the writers are crafting a single player game, completely independent of co-op mechanics - nothing will be crafted for multiplayer. It will be a single player game that happens to have a co-op option.
- there's a big fun factor in asynchronous co-op: two people play together, one person quits, the other person does another quest, you come back and you're surprised: "why are all the animals following us around?" Great for screwing with your friends.
- he's proud of the fantastic team behind WL3, especially George Ziets and MCA - "Chris is our eccentric rock star"
- still on track for Q4 2019

 

[Bohr]

The 21:9 crowd did the same with Battletech, flooding the forums with threads bitching about it. An extremely noisy and motivated minority, keen to convert others to their cause - much like jrpg fans on the Dex.

 

[Gord]

If you are noisy and obnoxious, today you have three options:
Go alt-right, go SJW, buy a 21:9 screen.

 

[V_K]

You forgot becoming a reality show contestant.

 

[Infinitron]

Twitch archive is for subscribers only, bah. I guess it'll be on YouTube in a few days: https://www.youtube.com/user/TotalHalibut/videos

 

[Infinitron]

Doesn't look like this was streamed anywhere.

https://register.growtix.com/schedule/gdex_2018/George_Ziets?guest=138619

Designing Narrative Choice in Games
Friday September 28, 2018 2:00 pm to 2:45 pm

Game stories have a superpower – they let players decide how the story turns out. But how do we ensure that player choices really matter… without breaking the budget? I’ll lay out a couple strategies that have worked at companies like Obsidian and InXile. Then I’ll give you some useful tips to keep in mind when designing choices of your own.

Maybe it'll show up here eventually: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvT2AdXMWqFyRsehmVMXu9g/videos

 

[Bohr]

Dropping hints that another Choplifter (UHD?) could be in the offing

 

[Shaewaroz]

Tö fuck is this???



EDIT: I watched a bit of this, it's a constant cringefest, the most embarrassing podcast / interview I've seen in ages.

 

[Ulrox]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-069h_yRXmE

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Another choplifter? God NO!

Of that list I’d say it’d be Lode Runner (shit I never played that game or it’s incarnations though I did play jumpman jr and Ultimate Wizard).

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

inXile should create a high-definition version of Interplay's best-selling title, Battle Chess.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

They’d probably fuck that up. Funny I used to mistake battle chess with archon (well, I believed it was even more ultra of a version).

Why don’t they remake Mail-order monsters with archon. Hell, maybe some king of the monsters. There are remake hybrids that might be worth it if extra was included. Some games rehashed just get dull.

 

[Zombra]

I guess this is probably a better thread for this.

Background quotes:

Quick note to "cash grab" theorists: y'all know that Brian Fargo is from the Fargo family, right? Wells Fargo? The bank? He already has money beyond your wildest dreams of avarice. You can say a lot of things about him but scamming backers for $ does not hold up.

i thought he is not associated with THE bank though?

I mean, unless someone lied on wikipedia for some reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fargo

EDIT and unless these guys are lying ... https://www.flickr.com/photos/40719545@N02/sets/72157623177335482/

You're missing the point. Wells Fargo is 150 year old business, after that much time passes there's gonna be offshoots of the family that have no association with the bank beyond their surname.

Fargo is loaded but he's loaded with Interplay money. But he started the whole business with barely couple grand to his name.

I had a budget of $5,000 for everything. My one ad in Soft Talk [magazine] cost me about 2,500 bucks, so 50 percent of my money went into a single ad. One of the things I did was I would call retailers on a different phone and say, "Hey, I'm trying to find this game called Demon's Forge. Do you guys have a copy?" They said, "No," and I said, "Oh, I just saw it in Soft Talk. It looks good. They said, "We'll look into it."

A few minutes later my other line would ring and the retailer would place an order. That was my guerrilla marketing. I was selling to individual chains of stores. There were two distributors at the time that would help you get into the mom-and-pop places. It was a store-by-store, shelf-by-shelf fight.

Zombra
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/Davi...nus_Chapter_An_Interview_with_Brian_Fargo.php

Thanks for the citation. I don't think this means he never saw any (other) money from his family. Do most rich families give their kids a billion dollars when they're 12? I mean I didn't have $5000 to start a business with when I was 19. So were his parents rich or not? Who knows how many relatives have died, how many trust funds matured since that time.

Quick note to "cash grab" theorists: y'all know that Brian Fargo is from the Fargo family, right? Wells Fargo? The bank? He already has money beyond your wildest dreams of avarice. You can say a lot of things about him but scamming backers for $ does not hold up.

yeah rich people are well known to be kind and generous and not at all petty about grabbing every penny they can at any opportunity that presents itself
especially those with inherited wealth

Yeahhhhhhh that's a generalization I can get behind, but it is a generalization and there are exceptions. Honestly, I don't see why inXile would have stopped doing mobile garbage etc. if Fargo's real motivation was big profits. Assuming it wasn't a flat out lie, why would he plow $100,000 of his own pocket money into Wasteland 2 (completely unnecessarily I might add since the Kickstarter smashed its goal)? Why would he spend years actually making the game and spending the budget where he said he would? Why spend another year making the Director's Cut? Why continue struggling to make RPGs when he's consistently getting weak results? "It's all part of a master plan to screw millions out of the roaring AA market" just isn't cutting it for me. There are a thousand better ways to grow his money and his family is in banking so he damn well knows it.

 

[Prime Junta]

it is a generalization and there are exceptions

Of course. This face positively glows with generosity and goodness: