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What's with the blood?
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 03:54 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 16:37 |
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Seashell Salesman posted:What's with the blood? What blood?
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 04:01 |
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RagingBoner posted:What blood? In my pee.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 04:06 |
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Seashell Salesman posted:In my pee.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 04:10 |
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Seashell Salesman posted:What's with the blood? Looks like somebody isn't digging deep enough into their pockets to fund this.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 04:22 |
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Quarex posted:During a lunchtime conversation today I learned of yet another goon who is currently in for $1,000; between this thread and private discussions, there are almost certainly 5 Goons among the future NPC/Location/Weapons in Wasteland 2. That is a pretty respectable percentage, I think. I would push for people in the $500 tier to go crazy and double their donation, but of course I realize there are not actually any $1,000 tiers left, and even I would not try to encourage someone to spend $2,500 to get their favorite childhood toy in the game. I wonder if they'll use the Kickstarter name attached to the donation, or the name attached to your credit card (or email you to ask what your full name is) when putting putting in NPC's/locations/guns/credits. I guess everybody using a screen name will be able to pick themselves out, and it'll be fun shooting 'sirwhiskers' with a 'x0r' in the caverns of 'pomfelo'.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 04:31 |
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Psychotic Weasel posted:I wonder if they'll use the Kickstarter name attached to the donation, or the name attached to your credit card (or email you to ask what your full name is) when putting putting in NPC's/locations/guns/credits. I guess everybody using a screen name will be able to pick themselves out, and it'll be fun shooting 'sirwhiskers' with a 'x0r' in the caverns of 'pomfelo'. I'm sure they'll use the contact/notes form that gets sent out when the Kickstarter finishes.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 04:33 |
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Seriously I'm sure in the instances of the people who donated thousands of dollars someone on the dev team will take a minute out to write an email going "Hey so what do you want to do for your reward?"
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 04:51 |
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I want Chris Avellone to sign my collector's edition box too
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 04:57 |
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This was probably brought up on previous pages but its weird to think there will be all these shrines and statues to donators in Wasteland 2 (nineteen by my count) just littered about or whatever. Or maybe they'll shove them all in one hidden room somewhere.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 07:32 |
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Wolfsheim posted:This was probably brought up on previous pages but its weird to think there will be all these shrines and statues to donators in Wasteland 2 (nineteen by my count) just littered about or whatever. The Legendary Hall of Wasteland Fanatics.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 07:34 |
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Tombstone engravings, the time honoured tradition of getting people's names into an RPG randomly.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 07:39 |
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Wolfsheim posted:This was probably brought up on previous pages but its weird to think there will be all these shrines and statues to donators in Wasteland 2 (nineteen by my count) just littered about or whatever. It was brought up a bunch of times and it shouldn't be weird at all. If all of them sell (and everyone wants their statue) then there are 31 statues. Normal areas to put statues: parks, office buildings, museums, art galleries, military bases, libraries, memorials, town halls, schools, and universities. Just 31 statues across a large world isn't that many, plus no one will complain if they dump some/all of them in a quirky redundant area.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 07:43 |
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Seashell Salesman posted:It was brought up a bunch of times and it shouldn't be weird at all. If all of them sell (and everyone wants their statue) then there are 31 statues. Normal areas to put statues: parks, office buildings, museums, art galleries, military bases, libraries, memorials, town halls, schools, and universities. Just 31 statues across a large world isn't that many, plus no one will complain if they dump some/all of them in a quirky redundant area. Yeah would it be so strange to come across Jason Alexander Memorial Library or a statue of John Twitterballs, first man to sail across the Atlantic ocean in a aquacar. People are assuming by statues they mean gleaming golden figures able to be seen from miles around proclaiming how this person donated to kickstarter.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 08:05 |
This was kind of interesting for a while, but then Obsidian came up and my wallet seemed a bit heavier than usual.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 10:05 |
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AxeManiac posted:I'm not really too excited about Wasteland 2 itself, just the focus of all these creative people making a game like this, at this point in gaming history. It's going to interesting to play and if I just can't hack the gameplay, I'm sure the world and stories and characters will be worth it. I like this way of looking at it. It's not very often that the end of an era is signaled with such decisive closure as would happen if the game completely bombed. Either way, I'm glad I have front row seats! ...or maybe box seats or something. I don't know. I'm bad with metaphors. Rinkles posted:On the other hand, I'd suggest Fallout (or 2) over Arcanum without question. Even with patches Arcanum was never properly balanced, the character system is unintuitive and gimping yourself with a bad build is very easy. Combat is an abomination. It's simultaneously both laughably breakable and very punishing if you're trying guns for the first time. Fallout's combat isn't particularly tactical but it's straightforward, and 90% of the fights don't have you swarmed by the enemy within a turn of combat (you can avoid this in Arcanum but half of the time you'll be exploiting how the TB system/AI works to achieve this). The latest fan patches make it a surprisingly smooth experience. There's an entry on the game in the OP of the old school PC RPG thread with a link to an easy to install collection of all the best fan patches and rebalances, and another link to a quick, spoiler-free FAQ with all the basic info you could ever want about how the game mechanics and stats work. In less than an hour, you can literally go from never having heard about the game to having it fully patched and having a good idea of how to build the character you want in a way that won't be gimped. It's never been easier to play the game at its absolute best, and since it's also one of the newest isometric style games, it really is one of the best for a total newcomer to the genre to try. If you want to discuss it in further detail, feel free to bring it up in that thread, too.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 13:58 |
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I wasn't old enough to play Wasteland 1, but it sounds like a really cool time killer of a game. If they make it similar to Diablo III but with a huge post-apocalyptic universe and not the top-down whatever that dude is suggesting, I will be totally excited. Donated a buck anyways since I loved that Angry Birds joke.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 14:10 |
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Paid my 15 bucks, this game will definitely be awesome so its a bargain imo!
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 14:17 |
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Shogunner posted:similar to Diablo III It's not going to be anything like Diablo III.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 15:00 |
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Shogunner posted:I wasn't old enough to play Wasteland 1, but it sounds like a really cool time killer of a game. If they make it similar to Diablo III but with a huge post-apocalyptic universe and not the top-down whatever that dude is suggesting, I will be totally excited. The game you're looking for is Grim Dawn, not Wasteland 2.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 15:02 |
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Changed mine from $15 to $50. Not that I think the game is going to be a technological powerhouse, but I hope the minimum specs are reasonably low so I can actually run this and Banner Saga.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 15:08 |
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OK, in on this. drat but this looks like it could be awesome.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 15:16 |
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Tufty posted:The game you're looking for is Grim Dawn, not Wasteland 2. Thanks for this, I hadn't heard of Grim Dawn
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 15:32 |
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Tufty posted:The game you're looking for is Grim Dawn, not Wasteland 2. Or alternatively Krater.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 15:40 |
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Last hour was absolutely LOUSY, someone pulled a $500 pledge so there was barely any growth. Things are definitely petering off the Obsidian bump, too: Here is the current chart: Here is the new, updated projection graph: Looks more like midnight of the 10th to get to 2.1 million.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 15:46 |
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Didn't your statistics teacher ever warn you of the dangers of extrapolation?
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 15:55 |
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notZaar posted:Didn't your statistics teacher ever warn you of the dangers of extrapolation? I can bet all I want with the house's money.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 16:15 |
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I've been actually curious about this little bit on the update email:Brian Fargo posted:While the programming work will remain with us here at inXile, we are looking to use a host of tools that Obsidian has created which will help us get assets into the game faster. The faster we can implement and iterate on content, the deeper the game and the more varied choices the gamers can make. Could they be talking about using the Onyx engine created by Obsidian? It seems like it would be a good fit, actually. The engine was created to load a bunch of stuff in the background as you move from area to area. The 3D would allow them to have far more character models and animations than sprite work would. In theory it would be a great idea.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 16:16 |
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Saoshyant posted:I've been actually curious about this little bit on the update email: rope kid posted:Onyx is a complete engine and set of tools. It's not a do-anything engine, but it's good for the sort of games we make (which is why we made it).
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 16:25 |
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MrL_JaKiri posted:What's with all the people who don't like New Vegas? I hate the engine, especially the way the combat feels and couldn't get more than 30 minutes into it.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 16:31 |
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Orange Devil posted:I hate the engine, especially the way the combat feels and couldn't get more than 30 minutes into it. Did you like FO3, and if so, why FO3 and not FO:NV?
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 16:33 |
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Orange Devil posted:I hate the engine, especially the way the combat feels and couldn't get more than 30 minutes into it. That's fair enough, of course.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 16:34 |
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RagingBoner posted:Did you like FO3, and if so, why FO3 and not FO:NV? Haha FO3 lasted until I walked into a town build around an unexploded nuclear bomb and the sheriff asked me, a complete stranger, to just go disarm it. Yech.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 16:42 |
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seorin posted:It's not going to be anything like Diablo III. Nah just perspective wise is what I mean. Isometric I guess. Top-down is pretty eugh.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 16:47 |
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Orange Devil posted:Haha FO3 lasted until I walked into a town build around an unexploded nuclear bomb and the sheriff asked me, a complete stranger, to just go disarm it. Yech. You sure gave them a decent chance!
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 16:51 |
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notZaar posted:Didn't your statistics teacher ever warn you of the dangers of extrapolation? The real danger is not having error bounds.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 17:04 |
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Orange Devil posted:Haha FO3 lasted until I walked into a town build around an unexploded nuclear bomb and the sheriff asked me, a complete stranger, to just go disarm it. Yech. They didn't ask you. They just told you that there was a bomb there and he'd rather not let you touch it unless you knew what you were doing.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 17:05 |
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Teim posted:You sure gave them a decent chance! To be fair, the Fallout series isn't known for goofy settings or unrealistic interactions.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 17:06 |
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I can understand having an aversion to the Fallout 3 engine but why would it turn you off the second game and not the first? Illogical.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 17:11 |
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Orange Devil posted:I hate the engine, especially the way the combat feels and couldn't get more than 30 minutes into it. New Vegas is better than its engine, the writing, the quests, the story are all pretty good. I fought the combat was better in NV too, in any case NV deserves more than 30 minutes, I don't think I even left Goodsprings in 30 minutes.
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# ? Apr 1, 2012 17:17 |