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Ok! Backed at $100.
Looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
Looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
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Wasteland 2 Kickstarter project by inXile entertainment [Ended, $3 Million Funded]
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Wait a min, maybe GAF should try to get a statue too.
Yeah it's a great feeling for each fan to know they are not alone.
Echoed in this thread, it's also a message being sent that this style of CRPG can still be viable today. Lots of people donating never even heard of Wasteland before yesterday.
It's not that I ever gave a damn about Wasteland 2 ever existing, it's more like:
-I want to support the budding kickstarter initiative and take a dump on homogeneous focus-tested AAA game development.
-I love hardcore nonlinear isometric party-based crpgs.
-Brian Fargo seems passionate about it and he's assembling an intriguing team. What games get a sequel with most of the original developers 20+ years later, with the intention of staying true to the original and not having to cater to the lowest common denominator or what's currently trendy? Crazy, unique circumstances. It's exciting.
InsaneLuchador
Member
Damn, I've been hoping for something along the lines of Fallout 1 and 2 for years now. This will be my first kickstarter contribution. Just have to figure out how much I want to give.
fizzelopeguss
Banned
Never played wasteland, i just want more iso TB games.
To be fair, I think all of those points do fall under people wanting a "Wasteland 2" pretty badly. It might not have to be Wasteland 2 specifically, but that's the biggest IP which Fargo has available to him out of everything he worked on in his Interplay days, so that's what is being used.
Also, honestly, Wasteland is pretty damn rad, let's not kid ourselves.
People need to, meanwhile, check out Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software. While classic CRPGs disappeared from the market a decade ago, this guy has never stopped cranking them out going on two decades now.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
RPG codex: we hate it until it benefits us.
I would bet people would be paying more to be able to get in the game.
Pachterballs
Banned
67,355 Followers
YES
Versipellis
Member
They should at least show a sketch/artwork of it, 'cause with that name it doesn't sound exactly like something you may be willing to buy for $2500. (Yes, I know it's from WL, but... yeuch).
superdeluxe
Member
Apparently you can withdraw your kickstart pledge, to add to a collection
There's also a fantastic post-apoc RPG/trader game that's free online: Caravaneer.
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
If 15,000 of those followers donated at least $15 it'd equal over 200K
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
$75,000 more to go! AWWW YEAH!! Eat it Duckroll with your negative OP!
<3
<3
Joseph Merrick
Member
if all the 15 dollar tier backers upped to the 50 dollar tier that would be another 279k
if if if
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
I'm positive a lot of people will bump theirs up. I know I will once the time is closer to end.
Sentenza
Member
He also barely made any effort to improve his offering over the years (and yes, I'm mostly talking about the production value), which is what turned me from a fan of his first works to a bored, disappointed ex-customer.
It has picked up rapid speed in the last 2 hours for some reason. SOMEONE DID SOMETHING
Oh, 2 people donated 10k each in last 2 hours
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
Blood sausage need to be optional I guess :lol
Under 50K to go!
Under 50K to go!
On the flipside, if just one person ends up grabbing the $2500 option right at the death, that unique blood sausage is gonna be a helluva collectible, albeit slightly inappropriate-looking, item
P.S: Don't think I've ever refreshed a single webpage so often in my entire life, not even for minute-by-minute sport score updates. And almost each and every time, without fail, the total goes up by a 1000 or so.
bonesmccoy
Banned
$45k to go! I can't believe it's reaching the goal. At first I thought $900k would be too much for a title as old as Wasteland and for a developer with the track record of inXile.
Now, of course, the pressure is on for Fargo and inXile to produce something special over the next year and a half. My real worry isn't design by committee (I think Fargo's been talking up the fan-input a little too much) rather that since it's a labour of love they'll obsess over the small details and lose sight of their original target. Worst case scenario being that the October 2013 deadline isn't met, and we end up with another vaporware/Van Buren.
Now, of course, the pressure is on for Fargo and inXile to produce something special over the next year and a half. My real worry isn't design by committee (I think Fargo's been talking up the fan-input a little too much) rather that since it's a labour of love they'll obsess over the small details and lose sight of their original target. Worst case scenario being that the October 2013 deadline isn't met, and we end up with another vaporware/Van Buren.
Joseph Merrick
Member
haha. poor blood sausage
The kickstart trend wont fully be cemented until over a year from now when we actually get to experience the results. Games might get delayed, they might be canceled, they might suck. All of which would really get people having 2nd thoughts on the idea of paying up front instead doing the wait and see.
Takeda Kenshi
blew Staal
I am so tempted to go for the Sausage Statue just to be the one guy to actually contribute at that tier. Yeah, I was THAT guy.
The $10,000 backers and $5,000 backers get the Blood Sausage too though. So at best if only one person puts in $2,500 at the last moment, he'll probably have paid the lowest price for that collectible, but I bet he would rather have had a statue in his honor along with that. Lol.
fizzelopeguss
Banned
their forums are becoming a disgrace, already the biodrones are infesting it asking for their shitty romances and marriages. This single candle in the wind is already threatened to be snuffed out by the inky darkness.
A call to arms for hardcore dicerollers.
A call to arms for hardcore dicerollers.
I had no doubt about the 900k. The individuals who played Wasteland (like myself) grew up on that game and bards tale. Most probably have stable incomes and all want to forget turning the game into a FPS. Yes, we are putting our money to change that!
Scorpitron will live again! Ace will bring him down! *shakes fist*
Scorpitron will live again! Ace will bring him down! *shakes fist*
I don't quite understand their forums. Why are they even public? Shouldn't it be private like the Double Fine Adventure forum (which aren't up yet), and restricted to Backers only? How do they know that the people posting there now are even backing the project?
Honestly the whole thing should be restricted to backers only, and POLLS only. They decide the hot topics and then make decisions based on poll winners if they were to make decisions. That allows them to keep things in their control.
Well, what I hope is, that is the actual intention later on, and right now their general forums are public just to drum up interest and hype. Hopefully...
superdeluxe
Member
Looks like Steven dengler was the last 10k donation
@Dracogen: Just backed the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter. Apparently I get a whole frickin' city named after me, or something. http://t.co/c1XKPpWU
@Dracogen: Just backed the Wasteland 2 Kickstarter. Apparently I get a whole frickin' city named after me, or something. http://t.co/c1XKPpWU
Takeda Kenshi
blew Staal
This would certainly be the most logical deduction. Perhaps the real 'brainstorming' will occur after the funds are collected.
Joseph Merrick
Member
I don't see how it matters that the forums are public. seems like the idea is to get anyone to be able to be in on the development process, or whatever decisions to be made and ideas aired will be public, and you're not buying any kind of exclusivity seat or ideas veto for backing, you're just buying the game.
definitely never seemed like wasteland2 is like the doublefine project in that regard, where you are also buying the insider look at the development and that documentary stuff by backing the kickstarter.
definitely never seemed like wasteland2 is like the doublefine project in that regard, where you are also buying the insider look at the development and that documentary stuff by backing the kickstarter.
hahah thankfully i think fargo's smarter than that.
Ah silly me, that's right! Well if anyone does go for that tier, s/he deserves a passing mention in the game at the very least =)
..."No statue for you!"
Somebody should buy the $5,000 tier and have them put an exploded blood sausage statue in the game. It deserves it. The poor thing's heart must be breaking.
Or at least what's left of it must be.
They were also getting a lot of people begging for an isometric perspective after they already said they were going with top-down to keep it like the original.
Pachterballs
Banned
HOLY SHIT. almost there. $38k to go.
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That's the most logical next step, to me. I'd much prefer it to be isometric. Top-down is fine for shooters and boardgames, and that's about it.