Wasteland 2

[Krakrok]

Brian Fargo put up his Wasteland 2 project on Kickstarter. I prefer to call it a 'preorder' because that is what it really is. Wasteland was probably one of the first games I ever bought and we played the hell out of it. Some people played Mario when they were kids and I played Wasteland.

Fuck yeah!  

I'm in at $100. I don't think I'll be dropping $10k even if it does get me a statue ingame. That takes it from a preorder into lala land.

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[Bandit]

Donated/Pre-ordered this myself - amazing to see how quick the money is piling up.  Tactical, turn-based RPG? Sign me up - I loved this game back in the day.

[Ruvaldt]

Wasteland was my favorite game growing up, and I still play it every two years or so.  Really phenomenal stuff, and it started me down the path of playing rpgs.  We'll never get to play Meantime, the original successor to Wasteland, but this could be even better.  Easy preorder for me.

[Lantyssa]

I played it soooo many times.

Eventually I ended up with a party half-filled with clones of my main character.

[shiznitz]

I must have missed this one growing up. 

Anyway, I hope it is good.  I will support it by purchasing the finished product.

[Trippy]

Statue is only $5K

[Furiously]

They have someone who pledged 10K......

[shiznitz]

What is there about Kickstarter to stop the developer from taking the $900k to Thailand to pay for 9 year old boys?

[Simond]

ETA on someone calling this a rip-off of Fallout? 

[Trippy]

What is there about Kickstarter to stop the developer from taking the $900k to Thailand to pay for 9 year old boys?

Nothing.

[Ingmar]

Their FAQ says social pressures will stop them!

[Ragnoros]

What is there about Kickstarter to stop the developer from taking the $900k to Thailand to pay for 9 year old boys?

Nothing.

Of course if it makes you feel any better, your bankers, congressmen, and good buddy Saul down at the law firm (who got you out of that bind one time) have been doing this for years already. So you should be used to it.

[Murgos]

I loved this game.  I remember thinking it was so awesome that it had machine guns and a helicopter in it instead of all the standard fantasy stuff.

[CmdrSlack]

I have tossed some cash at this. I will risk the cash on the money going to hookers and blow simply because Wasteland and Bard's Tale were fucking awesome to play on my Apple ][e with the greenscale monitor.

[rk47]

Halfway there..I want some GUI sketch to be convinced. I don't know what it'll look like and it's odd pre-ordering for something that'll take 2 years to launch.

[Surlyboi]

Oh, I am all up in that.

[Torinak]

Ooh! I so want this to happen. A "preorder"/pledge is really just payback for the hundreds of hours I played the original...not to mention all of the other awesome games Interplay made.

[Thrawn]

Wasteland 2 - A first person shooter with romantic vampires who use birds as weapons. 

[Quinton]

I think the bigger risk (for large / high profile projects like this) than the project lead taking the money and skipping the country is the question of "can they execute" and actually get it done with the money raised.  $900K is a lot of cash, but if you start paying a bunch of salaries, buying necessary equipment, paying for office space, etc, you can blow through that in an impressively short time.  Without a good team and good management you can end up with not much to show for it, even against the best of intentions.

That said, they get some money from me and here's hoping we get a cool Wasteland2 in the end.

[rk47]

$5000 F13 statue bros. Who's doing it? 

[Ingmar]

I'll start a Kickstarter to collect our donations into one fund to put into the Kickstarter. (Yo dawg.)

[Ruvaldt]

I would donate again to see an f13 statue.

[Njal]

I threw $100 at this. The list of games I love that Brian Fargo was involved in is too great for me not to hope it goes forward. As for a F13 statue that sounds amusing.

[shiznitz]

I'll start a Kickstarter to collect our donations into one fund to put into the Kickstarter. (Yo dawg.)

That is actually a cool idea.  Start a F13 KS fund that then contributes to actual products.  How does one get on the F13 Investment Committee?

[Teleku]

Your suspicious of a Brian Fargo kickstart possibly running off to Thailand with the money, but trust an F13'er not to do the same thing?   

I was always sort of under the impression the effective sequal to this game was fallout (if not necessarily in the same universe, though I got the distinct impression Fallout:NV was trying to tie it in with the Wastland universe).  Was that how it evolved, or did this have no lead in at all to fallout?

[Rasix]

I'll start a Kickstarter to collect our donations into one fund to put into the Kickstarter. (Yo dawg.)

That is actually a cool idea.  Start a F13 KS fund that then contributes to actual products.  How does one get on the F13 Investment Committee?

Your posting history is readily available to us.  People with a fondness for buying drugs as a means to conceal wealth might not pass the rigorous background check.

[schild]

I've backed a LOT of stuff on Kickstarter and I just want to point out why I'm not backing this, with a side dish of why I've not backed the Double Fine thing.

InXile, despite the names attached to it, have not had to put any effort of love into a single product they've released. The one hope I had for them was to do a good job with Bard's Tale. It was shit. I've no reason to believe they can do a good job with Wasteland 2 - as much as I'd like them to. Finally, $900,000 - nay $2,000,000 - isn't enough to do it right.

As for Double Fine - they were able to make Stacking and fucking Costume Quest - they don't need my money. They can obviously find money in seat cushions to make some silly shit.

[koro]

As for Double Fine - they were able to make Stacking and fucking Costume Quest - they don't need my money. They can obviously find money in seat cushions to make some silly shit.

I assume you never noticed the parts where Double Fine was on the verge of firing a bunch of staff and possibly closing up shop before this Kickstarter happened because they couldn't find funding for anything.

[schild]

As for Double Fine - they were able to make Stacking and fucking Costume Quest - they don't need my money. They can obviously find money in seat cushions to make some silly shit.

I assume you never noticed the parts where Double Fine was on the verge of firing a bunch of staff and possibly closing up shop before this Kickstarter happened because they couldn't find funding for anything.

There are so, so many reasons that's totally irrelevant to me.

[Trippy]

InXile, despite the names attached to it, have not had to put any effort of love into a single product they've released. The one hope I had for them was to do a good job with Bard's Tale. It was shit. I've no reason to believe they can do a good job with Wasteland 2 - as much as I'd like them to. Finally, $900,000 - nay $2,000,000 - isn't enough to do it right.

That's true, though you have to wonder how much of that had to do with having "Big Ass Games" (Vivendi in this case) as the publisher.

[rk47]

lol

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/codexian-wasteland-2-location-statue-fund-raising-drive.70256/

Chris Avellone has also thrown in this offer:

If you need further incentive for members, you can let folks know that anyone who donates more than $250 to the Codex cause I'll draw them a personal Codex troll they can use for their avatar or for a quick-and-simple emoticon.

I don't know wtf is going on anymore.
MCA isn't even involved in the project yet he's chipping in with that promo?

[Furiously]

Wow... They got all eight of the $10,000 bids filled....

And they just hit $900,000....

I wish there was a t-shirt in the mix somewhere.

[koro]

Over a million now.

[Stormwaltz]

One of the $10k donations was the CEO of Razer.

http://kotaku.com/5893290/10000-worth-of-wasteland-2-is-brought-to-you-by-razer

[Krakrok]

What are the chances that Lord British is going to try a Kickstarter now?