Fargo's A Busy Man

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 5:31 am

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<html><body>Following <A HREF=http://www.inxile-entertainment.com/ target=_blank>InXile Entertainment</A>’s announcement of their take on The Bard’s Tale, the cunning Brian Fargo <A HREF=http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wasteland/ target=_blank>confirmed</A> he is working on a new Wasteland game. <blockquote>Yes we have acquired the rights to Wasteland but it has not been officially announced. Due to the trademark offices it became public knowledge which is why I'm willing to discuss it at all. Although I would like to have some candid (not public) conversations with you guys on this forum so I can make it a better game.

[...] Someone asked why I didn't consider Wasteland sooner:

I wanted to do Wasteland sooner but unfortunately EA would not let the trademark go even though they had no intention of using it themselves. But fortunately for trademark law you cannot sit on trademarks indefinitely without using them. So the mark expired

and then Konami grabbed it for their Yu-Gi-Oh series. And fortunately again, the people at Konami were friendly and decided they were not going to use the mark so they let me get it back.

[...]you will be happy to know that it will be very much an old school RPG that uses the skill systems, open ended nature of design, and puts the player into a world that is not black and white but shades of grey. This Wasteland will be darker in nature in the first one...

[...]I've read some really useful things out here from people who have articulated as to why they loved WL so much. I'm in alignment with 95% of what I've read. Post apocalyptic material is my favorite, I love the dark and bleak world to work with.

Thanks for all the input.....

Brian Fargo</blockquote>In case you’re wondering if this is the real deal Brian Fargo himself admitted at <A HREF=http://rpgcodex.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php ... sc&start=0 target=_blank>RPGCodex</A> for spilling the beans. Spotted at <A HREF=http://www.nma-fallout.com target=_blank>NMA</A>.</body></html>

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 5:34 am

Wow...That means that Wasteland Advance hoax may come to fruition.

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 5:35 am

So we get Troika's mystery game (probably Gamma World), Fallout 3, and a new Wasteland. The sound of all the heads exploding is deafening.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 5:40 am

I think the gaming industry is trying to tell us something...Maybe they're all members of the Psychic network and can see the future.

I'm scared...Hold me.

But once these games come out, back the hell off because I've got a keyboard and mouse to break in.

Saint_Proverbius · Post by **Saint_Proverbius** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 7:00 am

Mad Max RW wrote:So we get Troika's mystery game (probably Gamma World), Fallout 3, and a new Wasteland. The sound of all the heads exploding is deafening.

Nope.

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 11:31 am

Well there is alot comming. Don't forget the creators of Silver Style, the SoA makers. Don't forget Stalker.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 12:00 pm

If this new Wasteland is anything like the new Bard's Tale: Dark Alliance, I think those heads will be exploding in kamikaze attacks on Fargo's offices.

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 3:28 pm

Saint_Proverbius wrote:
Mad Max RW wrote:So we get Troika's mystery game (probably Gamma World), Fallout 3, and a new Wasteland. The sound of all the heads exploding is deafening.
Nope.

So is it an original game or based on another license? I'm getting bored of all these franchise games and was hoping for something totally new.

Ernesto · Post by **Ernesto** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 4:55 pm

Old School RPG, you say Fargo? What are you going to do about the freaking random encounters in Wasteland? Is that going to be solved?

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 6:35 pm

This is really cool. If early Interplay's games are any indication of how good Fargo controls the quality of his company's products (here I'm giving him a benefit of the doubt when he says he quit because he had less and less control over Interplay), InXile's games look very promising.

4too · Post by **4too** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 8:54 pm

Post Apocalyptic Games AKIMBO!!!!!!

I just got bit by this back ass wards concept, planet turned on it's head.

Maybe the MadMax4 Movie has been delayed so all the Post Apocalyptic games can catch up, then the pic will be rushed to a flaming self destructive fin'e'.

The Movie will probablly use the BGDA Engine for the computer generated stunts and fight scenes. Now that would be a strange twist of continuity.

4too

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 9:04 pm

Sounds good to me. Of course, the ultimate would be a full remake of wasteland (in the Fallout engine? Anyone good enough to try that in the editor?)

In other Fargo-related news, the Fargo special edition DVD was released yesterday. Rock on.

Zetura Dracos · Post by **Zetura Dracos** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 4:14 am

Konami once bought the Wasteland liscence for use with the yu-gi-oh series? Youve got to be shitting me.

OnTheBounce · Post by **OnTheBounce** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 1:53 pm

atoga wrote:Sounds good to me. Of course, the ultimate would be a full remake of wasteland (in the Fallout engine? Anyone good enough to try that in the editor?)

That would be interesting, but I don't see how you could do it w/the FO editors. In Wasteland you had complete control over your people, including their generation and advancement. That's impossible to do w/the FO2 mapper.

You could probably get closer w/FoT,at least in respect to actually controlling your party, although the hiring of NPCs would be problematic since was one type of movement AI that wasn't implemented ("Follow").

I think if anything a project like that should be set in the same milieu as Wasteland, but not try to shoehorn the actual game into another format. Or perhaps the action could be moved into the same region as Wasteland, but present the FO univere's take on it. Basically what JJ86 did w/his "Quartz" map.

OTB

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 3:18 pm

Care to try your hand at that OTB?

OnTheBounce · Post by **OnTheBounce** » Sat Oct 04, 2003 7:22 pm

atoga wrote:Care to try your hand at that OTB?

I've considered it, but as of right now I'm settling for mixing in a few select elements of Wasteland into my FoT work.

However, nothing I plan to do is ever cast in stone, nor delivered on time.

OTB

goblinpiledriver · Post by **goblinpiledriver** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 11:35 pm

Why would they want the wasteland license for yu gi oh?

Briosafreak · Post by **Briosafreak** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 1:37 am

Hey i got a few goblinpiledrivers near me, weird coincidence.

They released an expansion called Wasteland, er, something a while back for the card game.

Ernesto · Post by **Ernesto** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 3:40 am

Yu-gi-oh. Bah! Can anyone remember that chick from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Or the rat even?

I hope Fargo knows what he's doing. Wasteland and Bard's Tale are the classic games, even more so than Fallout.

He better not screw this up or it's off to the wood chipper.

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 3:59 am

April O'Neil and Splinter
Pwng