Wasteland Wasteland 3 Pre-Release Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Yosharian]

I give not one fig for this 'multiplayer'.

 

[kris]

R* games Employee here. My brother's the lead game designer on Wasteland 3 + Bards tale. Nice to meet you guys.

3.31 average roll, git gud. How do you even play RPGs with rolls like these?

With his brother designing I am sure he can manage.

 

[Infinitron]

Got an email saying the Mark Morgan track is now available to backers.

 

[Ivan]

underwhelming

 

[Roguey]

I listened to the Morgan track and I see that he's taken "heavy inspiration" from Linkin Park's Crawling (rip chester).

 

[makchanka]

I never stop to marvel at of how much devs were able to achieve with those microscopic RAMs and primitive tech back then. And now that they have all this wondrous technology they're making mostly shooters and interactive movies.

And the graphics end up looking worse from an aesthetic perspective. It's like the new-school was all raised on Blizzard trash and Disney. It's like, does every single game need glowing crystals and impossibly giant pauldrons and gross-huge muscle guys? Like, Divinity: OS was a great game aside from that. What the fuck kind of shit schools are churning out these aspie losers?

 

[RNGsus]

I never stop to marvel at of how much devs were able to achieve with those microscopic RAMs and primitive tech back then. And now that they have all this wondrous technology they're making mostly shooters and interactive movies.

And the graphics end up looking worse from an aesthetic perspective. It's like the new-school was all raised on Blizzard trash and Disney. It's like, does every single game need glowing crystals and impossibly giant pauldrons and gross-huge muscle guys? Like, Divinity: OS was a great game aside from that. What the fuck kind of shit schools are churning out these aspie losers?

They all assumed they would be doing comics or 40K, but Marvel and Games Workshop turned them down. As for the programmers, none of them need to be great, because there are scores of them on the teams already.

That doesn't explain why small studios have succumb to decline. Though, no doubt its Heresy to blame.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I never stop to marvel at of how much devs were able to achieve with those microscopic RAMs and primitive tech back then. And now that they have all this wondrous technology they're making mostly shooters and interactive movies.

And the graphics end up looking worse from an aesthetic perspective. It's like the new-school was all raised on Blizzard trash and Disney. It's like, does every single game need glowing crystals and impossibly giant pauldrons and gross-huge muscle guys? Like, Divinity: OS was a great game aside from that. What the fuck kind of shit schools are churning out these aspie losers?

They all assumed they would be doing comics or 40K, but Marvel and Games Workshop turned them down. As for the programmers, none of them need to be great, because there are scores of them on the teams already.

That doesn't explain why small studios have succumb to decline. Though, no doubt its Heresy to blame.

After a handful of core programmers, adding more to a project leads to reduced productivity sort of analogous to a programmer laffer-curve. Fred Brooks covers it in his book "The Mythical Man-Month" which is pretty much required reading for programmers who have done any sort of project management.

 

[RNGsus]

That's the industry-wide mentality: throw a bunch of college grads at it, and none of them are even that good at the craft probably. "We gotta sell millions of copies of our broke-ass gaym day one, to be a publicly traded company like fast food, pharmaceuticals, and defense."

 

[rusty_shackleford]

That's the industry-wide mentality: throw a bunch of college grads at it, and none of them are even that good at the craft probably. "We gotta sell millions of copies of our broke-ass gaym day one, to be a publicly traded company like fast food, pharmaceuticals, and defense."

Not gonna disagree tbh, gamedev studios treat their employees like shit and most of them are too inexperienced to know better.

 

[Morblot]

It's not just game dev studios. My boss tries to solve every problem by throwing more devs at it. It rarely if ever works. I feel our team is now less productive than before because of the new hires...

 

[Bohr]

 

[ScrotumBroth]

Is Fargo directing WL3? If not, why the fuck is he meddling?

 

[DalekFlay]

Just read about this game for the first time and lol'd about how fast nostalgia money pumping turns into "building the next one for the new generation baby!"

Not saying it will be bad, just funny.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Is Fargo directing WL3? If not, why the fuck is he meddling?

Because last time he didn't meddle and gave free reign to the devs, we ended up with TTON.

 

[ScrotumBroth]

You'd trust him over Zeits? To me, his tweet reads, it just started to get interesting, but had to dial it down for console/PG rating.

 

[imweasel]

Is Fargo directing WL3? If not, why the fuck is he meddling?

Fargo is the executive producer, that is normally what they do.

You saw what happend when he let Kevin Saunders and those insufferable soy boy writers run amok, as IHaveHugeDingus pointed out.

 

[Infinitron]

Famous moments in Fargo meddling: https://www.pcgamer.com/brian-fargo...n-walton-on-the-history-and-future-of-rpgs/2/

I remember the writers wanted to put some guy called The Sperminator in, which I thought was funny but overly childish. I don’t know that it would have broken the whole thing, but he felt very strongly about it and I hated it, and so we didn’t put it in.

(I believe Sperminator became Pitbull the pimp from Rail Nomads)

 

[FeelTheRads]

Sperminator would have fit right in with the W2 tone.

Or maybe he thinks mixing frat humor with toilet humor is in bad taste?

 

[ScrotumBroth]

Famous moments in Fargo meddling: https://www.pcgamer.com/brian-fargo...n-walton-on-the-history-and-future-of-rpgs/2/

I remember the writers wanted to put some guy called The Sperminator in, which I thought was funny but overly childish. I don’t know that it would have broken the whole thing, but he felt very strongly about it and I hated it, and so we didn’t put it in.

(I believe Sperminator became Pitbull the pimp from Rail Nomads)

"I remember the writers wanted to put some guy called The Sperminator in"

"BF: Use good Scottish names like Urquhart."

That's a good interview.

 

[Abu Antar]

Now that someone mentioned ksaun
Anyone know what he's up to these days?

 

[Infinitron]

Now that someone mentioned ksaun
Anyone know what he's up to these days?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevindsaunders/

Design Consultant
Nerd Kingdom
May 2018 – Present

Review and critique of design for an unannounced project.

http://nerdkingdom.com/

LESS T_T What do you make of it.

 

[LESS T_T]

It's a company where Tony Evans is Design Director.

 

[RNGsus]

It's a company where Tony Evans is Design Director.

 

[Volourn]

"Is Fargo directing WL3? If not, why the fuck is he meddling?"

Because he's the fukkin' boss. If the game fails he gets the blame. Is it really meddling when youa re actually the one in charge? LMFAO