Wasteland Wasteland 2 Pre-Release Discussion Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[hiver]

Through the Aftermath's 50th episode podcast talks with Brian Fargo and Wasteland 2 writer Nathan Long. It's a really information-dense interview and well worth the listen, but also has some spoilers. They talk inspirations, writing... popamole...

http://throughtheaftermath.blogspot.de/2013/07/episode-50.html

 

[tuluse]

I'm listening right now.

There is a unique combat bark for every combination of characters and weapons.

 

[hiver]

Road Warrior, Time Bandits, and Warriors - the movies that made Nathan to turn to go to film school and become a screenwriter.



its as if he asked me.



- 300 characters, biggest RPG Fargo ever worked on.

 

[Roguey]

Honestly, I can't talk exact money considerations, but I think it'd knock people off their feet how much of a money swing this distribution license represents, all of which is going right back into the game. It's nice!

So you're saying inXile would be fucked if they didn't have Deep Silver doing the heavy lifting here.

 

[Brother None]

So you're saying inXile would be fucked if they didn't have Deep Silver doing the heavy lifting here.

Except for the fact that I said nothing like that?

 

[Roguey]

So you're saying inXile would be fucked if they didn't have Deep Silver doing the heavy lifting here.

Except for the fact that I said nothing like that?

It was implied, and doubly so if it turns out to be a disaster.

 

[Brother None]

It was implied.

No it wasn't, it's just how you want to read things. inXile was and is fine, financially, with or without Deep Silver. But it's hard to complain about more money going into the game.

 

[Outlander]

So, uh, why wasn't all this butthurt made evident when Fargo announced Steam as one of the digital distribution partners?

Gaben taking his 30% cut off Wasteland 2 is ok but somehow Deep Silver getting theirs for physical distribution is unacceptable? Isn't it going to be available through Origin as well, for fuck's sake?

 

[Brother None]

To be fair, there was a little outcry surrounding Origin. But not a ton, especially once it was clear Origin is not going to be any kind of exclusive or getting anything extra, and neither is Deep Silver, everyone gets exactly the same game, and for their services the different distributors get a cut. Not exactly earth-shattering, no.

 

[hiver]

Awesome first specific info about content of the game in the interview. Loads of it - and its all great.
The opening of the game seems just perfect.
Love the idea of that cult too. Everything else too.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Gaben taking his 30% cut off Wasteland 2 is ok

Gaben can do no wrong, according to steamtards.

 

[EG]

"inXile is no longer a Indie Developer, wahhh"

As if they ever were . . .

Aren't we? How do you define indie? We're not part of any publisher nor is our development budget funded by a publisher. Isn't that independent? Or do you mean indie more in the "tiny indie company" sense?

Tiny indie company. Once you can maintain a decent team and receive contracts from publishers, I'd wager many would no longer consider you an "Indie." I suppose Bard's Tale and Demon Forge probably break my ad-hoc definition.

Why Deep Siliver would cause people to claim you're no longer indie, though? Idiocy. It's just a distributor, like Steam, Origin, Desura .etc.

 

[Kem0sabe]

What's the rage about this deal?

"inXile is no longer a Indie Developer, wahhh"

As if they ever were . . .

If i had to categorized inXile as anything it would probably be as casual iphone/console developer, out of the 9 games they have released, 4 were on the iphone/ipod, the rest were console releases with pc ports. But hey, if they manage to do a proper job with Torment and WL2, then they can move up into the righteous category of indie crpg developer.

 

[Volrath]

Gaben taking his 30% cut off Wasteland 2 is ok

Gaben can do no wrong, according to steamtards.

Gaben can fuck off and die, according to me.

 

[Infinitron]

I know there are some people who define "indie" as "a developer who doesn't have access to traditional retail distribution networks". So if your game can be bought at Best Buy, you're not an indie. It's probably a bit of an old-fashioned definition, but it still makes some sense.

 

[hiver]

interesting... you have the first real info about game content...

and all you talk about is what and who is "indie".

and what is a ...definition... of indie.

 

[Kem0sabe]

interesting... you have the first real info about game content...

and all you talk about is what and who is "indie".

and what is a ...definition... of indie.

I am surprised that you are surprised by this...

 

[hiver]

Surprised? No.. i cant say i am.

but ok, infinitron made a proper news post so it wont all get sucked into a codex black hole.

 

[Infinitron]

UPDATE: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2/posts/544063

 

[AstroZombie]

 

[FeelTheRads]

Beta October 2013, release Thursday when it's done.

 

[Gakkone]

I wanted to give you all an update on the progress of Wasteland 2 and to answer some of the questions I have received on production. I can happily announce that we remain well financed for development, thus allowing us to ship a product without compromise. This is primarily due to our disciplined spending, project planning and the benefit of our back catalog sales to cover any extra product features and content we loved.

Gee I wonder what inspired this update. Good to hear though.

 

[Zed]

I love the art for the centron deluxe model.
I'm hoping for another gameplay/combat teaser video when they've finalized all the systems.
But most of all, I'm hoping for a Torment update. With Numenera launching it would be really cool to get some lore tidbits and stuff like that.

 

[Infinitron]

Gee I wonder what inspired this update.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

Goddammit. What happened with Doublefine? What did I miss?