Obsidian to Co-Develop Wasteland 2 if $2.1M is hit/Update #7

[Brother None]

To clarify some stuff: Obsidian will not do any programming. InXile is doing all the programming for this title. InXile is getting them in for design work and licensing tools.

But being outside the mess that is the videogame industry is part of the point! And mr. Avellone has always written great dialog... for games where the characters have very developed personalities and their relationship with each other is extremely important. This flies in the face of party based game like Wasteland.

Getting back to hardcore is part of the point, yes, but this isn't a retro title, it's still going to make use of advancements made the past decades where it makes sense.

And Brian has already explained this will be a more narratively driven game than Wasteland was.

[ButchinMelancholy]

God damn it, I hoped to see a Wasteland 2 made by the original developers, who are already on the team. Don't get me wrong, I love what the guys at Obsidian produced (well mostly before they became Obsidian anyway), but it has a very different vibe and kind of fun I enjoyed from early games like Wasteland. I would really prefer if Obsidian went on to make its own kickstarter.

Yeah, I'm afraid there will be too many cooks that will spoil the broth.

As EcoGuy said, it is just a few talent addition that come to contribute, but inXile is still the master of this project. And they said a general "Obsidian" because it likely comes along a contract that will allow them to take advantage of useful tools to craft the game.

I'm completely cool with Avellone coming on board( not that it would matter if I wasn't lol) but I do not see what recent rpg experience matters. This is still going to stay an old school turn based rpg and not some AAA action rpg shooter, right?

This is not all about the shape...

@Brother None

But being outside the mess that is the videogame industry is part of the point! And mr. Avellone has always written great dialog... for games where the characters have very developed personalities and their relationship with each other is extremely important. This flies in the face of party based game like Wasteland.

Are you aware of what you're saying?

[DeN_DarK]

If Brian Fargo thinks he need Obsidian - he probably right. He is a pro.

[Workbench]

"Also important to note that their contribution is purely in design. We are doing all the code here."

Brian mailed this to the codex

[Noceur]

¿¡WTF-WUT?!

Also:

a kickstarter for planescape: torment spiritual successor from obsidian

World end in 2012? More like World awesome in 2012.

[Gungnir]

This is not all about the shape...

The shape of what?


Now I'm starting to get nervous. Oh well. 17 days left to retract money if this starts going in a direction I didn't understand it to be at the beginning.

[CanadianWolvie]

This is fantastic news, I sure hope this surpasses 2.1 million - I have a lot of respect and entertainment value out of Obsidian's work that in many ways have been hampered by Publishers, sound familiar to anyone? At least some of the attention that has gotten Wasteland 2 a few backers has come from Mr Chris Ave, so to say he is interested in contributing to this project in a respectful fashion would be an understatement <3

[ButchinMelancholy]

This is not all about the shape...

The shape of what?

You're starting to talk about some FPS/RPG like if Obsidian only did that and only knew that which is absolutely wrong. They have a know-how which goes far beyond New Vegas for which they had to follow Bethesda's instructions basically by the way.
Don't mix up things.

[kad136]

This is the best news ever. Pledge, pledge, pledge!

[alex]

(...snip)
Getting back to hardcore is part of the point, yes, but this isn't a retro title, it's still going to make use of advancements made the past decades where it makes sense.

And Brian has already explained this will be a more narratively driven game than Wasteland was.

Well, then I admit I am at fault for not paying as much attention as I should. Nevertheless, I can't help but feel disappointed.

(...snip)
Are you aware of what you're saying?

That I would prefer Obsidian to keep to their own games?

[Jack Dandy]

Will the Kickstarter page get another update soon?

[ButchinMelancholy]

That I would prefer Obsidian to keep to their own games?

No, I mean how a party-based game could possibly not care about characters interactions and relations? This is something Brian Fargo has specified in numerous interviews by the way.
I understand what you mean by the different feeling those different games gave you, but that's it, they will not make the same things for different games, trust them.

[Ichkannnichtmehr]

World end in 2012? More like World awesome in 2012.

Agreed

[ButchinMelancholy]

World end in 2012? More like World awesome in 2012.

Agreed

End of the cr*p world perhaps?

[mindx2]

Updated Wasteland 2 DREAM TEAM:

Fargo
Stackpole
Pavlis
Anderson
St. Andre
Morgan
Avellone
Cain (?)
Sawyer (?)
Urquhart (?)

[Ichkannnichtmehr]

World end in 2012? More like World awesome in 2012.

Agreed

End of the cr*p world perhaps?

Yup, in your face Mayans/Aztecs/Campingers/whatever.

[Mort2]

To clarify some stuff: Obsidian will not do any programming. InXile is doing all the programming for this title. InXile is getting them in for design work and licensing tools.

Thanks for the info.

[Darkfall]

I wonder if they can get Avellone to sign the $250 collectors' edition boxes?

[KuroShiro]

Best. News. Ever.

[Infinitron]

People who are worried about this: Remember that Chris A regretted making Planescape Torment too much of a dialogue-centric game at the expense of gameplay.