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the black husserl posted:Whoa, I didn't even notice there already was a kickstarter for what is basically Creatures 3 WAIT WHAT CREATURES 4 HOLY gently caress 
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Fintilgin posted:I can't imagine trying to have to sort out the good ideas from the entitlement[...] This is a silly PR myth that somehow stuck in sycophantic `game journalism' and fanboy circles. No serious business reporters have bought into that nonsense (quite the contrary).
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I thought "troll face" was the same thing as "forever alone" guy, and I have now learned the difference thanks to Blooshoo's advice. I will now try to forget all of this entirely. Though I was surprised to learn that FUUUUUUU did not start here, as I could have sworn it was in some MSPaint things you hate the most thread.HotCanadianChick posted:It even has precedent in 80's style post-apoc fiction: And yeah, some of the ideas people are throwing around on the forums are super-crazy, but Brian Fargo has already said "welp, we are making Wasteland 2, about a group of Desert Rangers in the American Southwest," so I do not think people demanding that it take place in Russia and be about a single character's journey to find romance are going to have much traction.
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Mar 17, 2012 03:13
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Rinkles posted:I also don't think fans are actually excited at the prospect of killing children. Those little sons of bitches in Highpool had it coming.
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Mar 17, 2012 04:42
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Quarex posted:Wow. That is kind of amazing. Now I am staring to think it should be EXCLUSIVELY gay relationships in Wasteland 2! It totally fits the leather fetishism. They aren't gay, they are bisexual. All motorcycle rape gangs are bisexual in the apocalypse. Being straight or gay is cutting out fully half of your motorcycle rape options. Bisexual motorcycle rape gangs: You are getting hosed.
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A comment someone made earlier in the thread had me wondering, but I did not want to derail (yet)--someone said Fallout: Tactics has been redeemed in the eyes of the Raging Internet Crowd? What happened? How did that ever go down? Did the love for squad-based tactical combat games slowly eat into the loathing for the game not being Fallout 3?Vault Zero posted:Those little sons of bitches in Highpool had it coming.  Edit: Boogaleeboo posted:They aren't gay, they are bisexual. All motorcycle rape gangs are bisexual in the apocalypse. Being straight or gay is cutting out fully half of your motorcycle rape options.
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Mar 17, 2012 05:00
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Boogaleeboo posted:They aren't gay, they are bisexual. All motorcycle rape gangs are bisexual in the apocalypse. Being straight or gay is cutting out fully half of your motorcycle rape options. Either way, Wez gets really pissed when his boyfriend gets killed.
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Mar 17, 2012 05:16
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Quarex posted:Hahahahah. I think that picture and this post should end the discussion of this issue--"there is only Omnisexual in the Wasteland." Well, even that concept was old in 1982...  Also, I'm pretty sure that the Toecutter's gang raped both the girl and boy in Mad Max.
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Mar 17, 2012 05:17
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Young Freud posted:Well, even that concept was old in 1982...
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Mar 17, 2012 05:25
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Quarex posted:Hahahahah. I think that picture and this post should end the discussion of this issue--"there is only Omnisexual in the Wasteland." On the other hand, I have it on good authority that the gun is good and the penis is evil. That's more of a 70s post-apocalypse, though.
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Mar 17, 2012 06:05
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Quarex posted:My whole point was that I imagine the concepts of gay and straight will matter about as much as the concepts of Irish and German by the time of Wasteland 2. I had darn well better be able to make up my ancestral self-insert or there'll be hell to pay  In all seriousness, though, I'm thrilled to see how much they've raised so far, and will donate as soon as I can free up some money.
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Mar 17, 2012 06:47
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CHILD MURDER FOREVER My Skyrim experience was somewhat diminished when I went to waste the Dark Brotherhood, and the child member had mysteriously vanished.
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Mar 17, 2012 06:48
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I found out about this during the middle of my playthrough of the Bard's Tale trilogy I do every few years, so that seemed kind of fitting. I may have to put 3 on hold to run through Wasteland again though. My sense of nostalgia is triggered way too easily.
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Mar 17, 2012 06:53
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Doc Hawkins posted:On the other hand, I have it on good authority that the gun is good and the penis is evil. Where is my Zardoz RPG Kickstarter. Where is it. Take all my money.
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Mar 17, 2012 07:11
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Young Freud posted:Well, even that concept was old in 1982...
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This makes me wonder if I could start a kickstarter to fund a copy of photoshop and a decent budget tablet and art supplies. A man can dream, can't he?
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Ularg posted:This makes me wonder if I could start a kickstarter to fund a copy of photoshop and a decent budget tablet and art supplies. A man can dream, can't he? Only if you create a kickass game with it.
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Ularg posted:This makes me wonder if I could start a kickstarter to fund a copy of photoshop and a decent budget tablet and art supplies. A man can dream, can't he?
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Casimir Radon posted:If you have anything vaguely proving you've been a student in the last 6 months you can just pick up a student discounted suite, that's what I did. It's still a couple hundred dollars, but yeah.
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Mar 17, 2012 07:27
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Rinkles posted:It's still a couple hundred dollars, but yeah.
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Casimir Radon posted:If you have anything vaguely proving you've been a student in the last 6 months you can just pick up a student discounted suite, that's what I did. I'm around $34 in debt after having to drop out from school. I don't think I'd have the money to pay my rent every month, much less a student version of photoshop.
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Mar 17, 2012 07:29
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Dewgy posted:Where is my Zardoz RPG Kickstarter. I will max out whatever stats are necessary to grant your character the skill shown below. 
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Mar 17, 2012 07:32
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Casimir Radon posted:~$400 for a suite of professional programs, when Photoshop is $500 by itself is a pretty good deal. Of course it is. I was just noting that it's still a non-trivial sum.
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Dewgy posted:Where is my Zardoz RPG Kickstarter. The 70s had a small but potent share of sci-fi-disaster all it's own: Zardoz, Logan's Run, A Boy and His Dog, Westworld, Body Snatchers, THX 1138... e: Man who fell to Earth! I mean, Bowie's essentially a traveler from a post-apocalyptic future, right? If you're interested in pen-and-paper RPGs, I highly recommend Apocalypse World. Doc Hawkins fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Mar 17, 2012 |
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Mar 17, 2012 07:40
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Doc Hawkins posted:The 70s had a small but potent share of sci-fi-disaster all it's own: Zardoz, Logan's Run, A Boy and His Dog, Westworld, Body Snatchers, THX 1138... I thought you wrote down Wasteland. 
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Jason Thomas did not have many complaints about his 65 years on this planet; sure, it was a little harder to get up the stairs than it used to be, but he was still in fine shape for a retiree. A very recent retiree, from a long and fulfilling career as a high-school math teacher. Still, the extra free time felt somewhat uncomfortable to someone who had never "settled down." He had a string of relationships over the years; some serious, some not-so-serious, never long-lasting. No woman particularly struck his fancy the way his high-school sweetheart Charlotte had. Once he convinced her to go out with him, he had spent almost all his free time with her; through the years of high school, and even after he followed her to college, he simply could not get enough of his beloved Charlotte. During Jason's senior year, Charlotte worried about Jason--he was spending more and more time playing games than being with her. But he had complaints of his own--she had started working dozens of lonely overtime hours a month at her job instead of spending that time with him, and he could not even see why she needed the extra money anyway. Their relationship was strained; yet though he found himself arguing with Charlotte much more frequently than ever before, he was basically happy, and still looked forward to them moving in together. But late one night, when Charlotte was working overtime, she began having trouble breathing. She was unconscious after only a few seconds, before she could even get to her phone, and died well before the other employees found her upon their arrival the next morning. Jason's personality changed that day. He felt that any amount of time spent in front of a computer was time not spent truly living; every moment he spent playing games was a moment he had spent away from the only person with whom he had ever truly felt a connection. He sold his game collection and his computers, and was glad to be rid of them, trading in his life of exploring virtual worlds for a life of exploring the real world. He never regretted his decision. Well, not regretted it, no, but still, he suddenly found himself with 24 hours of free time every day--and less drive to go conquer the real world than he had when he was younger. So it was not long before Jason tracked down a working Windows 8 emulator and a copy of Wasteland 2, so he could relive his misspent youth for just a little while. He distinctly remembered how much he had been looking forward to the game, all those years ago, back when things like new games still seemed important. As he explored the Nevadan desert, he smiled to think of how he had once considered donating thousands of dollars to the game's development, all for something as meaningless as having a forgettable vanity reference to yourself thrown in. He could still remember Charlotte's wide-eyed horror when he told her that he was thinking about donating. It was while he was half-lost in one of those memories, laughing at his old self, that his wrinkled hands on the mouse maneuvered his party into the abandoned fallout shelter, and his arthritic finger clicked on a curious faintly glowing icon in a dark and difficult-to-access corridor. "Loosening the small ring from the concrete where it has lay for a century or more, you brush off its thick coating of mortar dust, and can just barely make out an inscription: 'Maybe this will get you to stop playing this dumb game for a while--Will You Marry Me, Jason T.? =) Love, Charlotte.'" I know, Animal Crossing Mom. I know, I am not a good writer. But Torrent and I talked about how depressing this would be and I felt compelled to write something up so everyone could think about how depressing it would be.
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Just upped my original donation of 50 to 100 dollars, I decided I really wanted the premium edition box. I think I'm a bit of a sucker and my wife isn't going to be happy I'm dropping 100 dollars on a video game. oh well.
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Quarex posted:Heart breaking Ugh, this is why I exclusively read fiction which I know ends in happiness and where the "good guys" always win. e: VVVVVV Quarex posted:No worries, I actually based the death on the real-life death of someone I loved! That makes it less depressing, right? You are a terrible, terrible person.  Xik fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Mar 17, 2012 |
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Lazaruise posted:Just upped my original donation of 50 to 100 dollars, I decided I really wanted the premium edition box. I think I'm a bit of a sucker and my wife isn't going to be happy I'm dropping 100 dollars on a video game. (Just tell your wife that this is, like, way more important than a video game--or even than TWO video games) Xik posted:Ugh, this is why I exclusively read fiction which I know ends in happiness and where the "good guys" always win.  Sorry, actually. Particularly since I am basically with you that I do not really find it enjoyable to read non-happy fiction. Though it is more that I prefer to get my fiction from games, and those generally do not end unhappily.No worries, I actually based the death on the real-life death of someone I loved! That makes it less depressing, right? Xik posted:You are a terrible, terrible person. 
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Casimir Radon posted:So is this some highbrow homoerotic post-apocalyptic stuff? Yes, if the name "William S. Burroughs" didn't bring that up. Supposedly, David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders were inspired heavily from the novel, with Ziggy's androgynous and transgressive look pretty much taken straight from the description of the boys. Russell Mulcahy of Highlander fame attempted to create a film adaptation, with Duran Duran doing the soundtrack, but the only thing that came out of it was the video for the song "Wild Boys", which is also inspired by the novel... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCWyYOOS8FQ
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Quarex posted:I am glad that at least one person who actually played The Bard's Tale posted a rebuttal about it. I actually thought the twist at the end was beautiful, as it had (to me) been foreshadowed pretty well throughout the game (you had to know something was up with your benefactor from the over-the-top earnestness), yet you were still not 100% sure what was going on until the end. Plus you say why did the "good guy" try to kill you? Well, what would you do if some heavily-armed jerk broke into your keep and killed all your dudes? Getting into his keep was the final act of the game, the campaign of attempted murder against the protagonist is the entire game.
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Lazaruise posted:Just upped my original donation of 50 to 100 dollars, I decided I really wanted the premium edition box. I think I'm a bit of a sucker and my wife isn't going to be happy I'm dropping 100 dollars on a video game. Just tell her you're paying that much for a video game you won't be playing for like a year and a half, that'll ease her mind.
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the Professor posted:Just tell her you're paying that much for a video game you won't be playing for like a year and a half, that'll ease her mind. Don't forget to add that the game doesn't even exist yet. It'll all make perfect sense to her then, that you are paying $100 for a non-existent video game.
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STANDARD NEWS UPDATE!!!  $1,250,000 Let all rejoice! A vaguely-worded "more things in the game" shall be ours!  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . :regd12:Seriously, no-one has made a :regd12: yet? Astounding. Do people not hate newbies anymore? Yay! Note there was never a smiley making fun of 2003s 
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What's the story behind the 2010 reg smilie? Obviously you can see why I am curious.
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Ularg posted:What's the story behind the 2010 reg smilie? Obviously you can see why I am curious. Or, you know, maybe Dio was somehow seen as the pinnacle of ridicule at that point. Edit: I would also just like to make it clear that is still one of my favorite animated pictures ever.
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'D10' looks like 'Dio' would be my guess. Much like Regdog.
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Chairchucker posted:'D10' looks like 'Dio' would be my guess. Much like Regdog. I even figured out that was why it was Reg-D11/DLL, yet somehow I could not extend this line of thinking any further. Possibly because I am a replicant
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I got all the way to the end of this thread and I'm disappointed that Quarex hasn't started his LP yet. He needs to make an LP that infects us all with his enthusiasm and shows us all how to play the original game so we can try it for ourselves and then take to the Wasteland 2 forums en masse to shout down the "Van Buren" faction, because Quarex has shown us how much better the original was and we can no longer deny the truth. Also, inXile's Bard's Tale was awesome. I really want to play through it a third time, but I've been waiting for Steam to put it on sale. Why won't you put it on sale, Steam? I thought we had something special.
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Kharmakazy posted:That would make japanese rape simulators nearly unplayable! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXfxCZOeF6k
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