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Jonny Retro posted:Well, this just made my day. I was just thinking this. Perhaps Wasteland 2 will be Origin only 
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Convex posted:I was just thinking this. Perhaps Wasteland 2 will be Origin only It won't. This has been multiply confirmed. Read the material provided.
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Jul 10, 2012 00:06
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Quarex and RB, those photos are joyous. Made my day.Quarex posted:I think PSI-5 is going to win the award for Wasteland 2 Goons shirt style photos.
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Jul 10, 2012 00:29
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Man, I hope they build in some sort of utility that makes Wasteland 1 run smoother. I mean, you pretty much have to reinstall the game to start over.
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YourAverageJoe posted:It won't. This has been multiply confirmed. Read the material provided. This only means the other shoe hasn't dropped yet 
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Jul 10, 2012 03:58
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Awesome. I can't help but wonder how Quarex will react to this news 
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Jul 10, 2012 05:44
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Hopefully it will include the game manual, or the story text from the manual gets programmed into the game. I never got the chance to play Wasteland, how much of the plot was contained in the game manual compared to in the game itself?
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Jul 10, 2012 10:48
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draper13 posted:Hopefully it will include the game manual, or the story text from the manual gets programmed into the game. If they're just emulating the executable it probably won't contain the manual text. The most important thing about the game manual (the paragraphs) is the clues and passwords that you'll need to advance, plus you'll get so much more out of the flavor of the game by reading it. The game itself doesn't have a whole lot of text. Plus the paragraph book has fake entries and a whole other storyline. Here's a nice interface that I put together with the help of some other goons if you plan on playing the game (or if you just want to read through it) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/74505464/wl_paragraphs_v2.html
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Jul 10, 2012 15:47
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It would be interesting if they came out with a "HD" version of Wasteland 1. Upgrade the resolution to at least 640, incorporate the paragraph text into the game, maybe do some vector redos of the portraits, etc.
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Jul 10, 2012 15:51
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Incorporating the text actually doesn't look too hard, provided the game doesn't choke when game1/game2 go above a certain size or something. I may have a crack at it later today and see what happens. Can someone with more Wasteland experience recommend the fastest way, from the start of the game, to get to a point where it tells you to read paragraph N? e: for those interested, it's the Wasteland Suite tools I'm using, and the files containing the text are game1 and game2.
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Jul 10, 2012 16:13
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ToxicFrog posted:Incorporating the text actually doesn't look too hard, provided the game doesn't choke when game1/game2 go above a certain size or something. I may have a crack at it later today and see what happens. Either step into Highpool or Gaurdian Citadel and I believe you should see a paragraph entry right away.
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Jul 10, 2012 16:31
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YourAverageJoe posted:It won't. This has been multiply confirmed. Read the material provided. I wasn't really being serious with this, sorry.
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Brian has come out and said - Don't be worried about Origin. https://twitter.com/BrianFargo/status/222779467674828801
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Young Freud posted:Man, I hope they build in some sort of utility that makes Wasteland 1 run smoother. I mean, you pretty much have to reinstall the game to start over. Copy the save files to different folders? I mean old DOS games were a bitch when you had to swap disks but you can play them now in DOSBox with the A: folder open and your backups' folder to swap stuff around in an instant. Should work for Wasteland (haven't tried it though).
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It seems unlikely that they will DO anything to the game--Brian Fargo obviously had a hard enough time just getting them to agree to let him bundle the game with Wasteland 2. BUT it would be pretty dumb if they did not either include the original ability to reset the game or include the fan reset program, because nobody would know what the hell was going on in this day and age with a game that you could only start from the beginning once. (except for that one Flash game I suppose) Urdnot Fire posted:Awesome. I can't help but wonder how Quarex will react to this news WOOOOOOOOOOO! It will be grand to finally own more than two legal copies of Wasteland. Without being worried about drying up the legal supply for everyone else. Oh, so beautiful to imagine ... tens or hundreds of thousands of legal copies of Wasteland will be in circulation again soon!!! This is all super-awesome news. Electronic Arts is apparently trying to rebuild their corporate image through continuing their decades-long good relationship with Wasteland fans.
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Quarex posted:This is all super-awesome news. Electronic Arts is apparently trying to rebuild their corporate image through continuing their decades-long good relationship with Wasteland fans. So, now that the last of the shirts have been processed and sent out, how many of you would be interested in a Desert Rangers belt buckle?  I was going to get just one made and send it to Quarex, but the cost is prohibitive on just one being made. If I can get 13 of you to pay me the $20 plus $5 S&H up front, we can do this thing.
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RagingBoner posted:I was going to get just one made and send it to Quarex, but the cost is prohibitive on just one being made. If I can get 13 of you to pay me the $20 plus $5 S&H up front, we can do this thing. Oh goddamit, not another Wasteland product to  Is it for US citizens only, or can us dirty foreigners join in the fun?
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CommissarMega posted:Oh goddamit, not another Wasteland product to Sending large gobs of metal in an envelope overseas might be a pain... I might have to use a box, which is a little more expensive. If I don't get enough willing participants in the US, then yes, I'll do international goons. Be warned, this is really really geeky. Much more so than the shirt.
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I'll fill a spot if there aren't enough others. Hell, this might be less embarrassing than a shirt with poo poo like "RagingBoner" on it anyways 
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Jul 11, 2012 07:07
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I'm dumb and have horrible impulse control, sign me up for a belt buckle.
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Jul 11, 2012 08:53
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I purchased 10 acres of land in which to make an actual wasteland, so if 10 goons send me each a million dollars, we can just go play Wasteland outside until we die of dysentery.
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AxeManiac posted:I purchased 10 acres of land in which to make an actual wasteland, so if 10 goons send me each a million dollars, we can just go play Wasteland outside until we die of dysentery. Is your PayPal still the same?
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Why do I get the impression that the Wasteland 2 KickStarter was just a thing that RagingBoner and Brian Fargo set up so they could get rich selling merchandise to Goons?
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Raging boner you bastard, of course I will pay a reasonable amount of money on a belt buckle, why do you love my money so much?!
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I have one unclaimed large to sell still. Anyone still interested in a shirt?
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RagingBoner posted:I have one unclaimed large to sell still. Anyone still interested in a shirt? Mine hasn't arrived 
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Mine hasn't arrived Well that's because I'm a retard and marked your shirt as sent when it wasn't, and only just mailed it today. I was going to send you an email about it, but my public shaming is well deserved.
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RagingBoner posted:Well that's because I'm a retard and marked your shirt as sent when it wasn't, and only just mailed it today. It's no big deal, just happy for it to be sent  Thank you!
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I am so excited that you found another new ridiculous-yet-awesome plan, R'Bon. I admit I have never even had a belt that requires a separate buckle ... well, wait, never mind, I did, but that was for a kilt, so it does not count. When do we Kickstart AxeManiac's Real-Life-Wasteland?
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RagingBoner posted:I have one unclaimed large to sell still. Anyone still interested in a shirt? I think I can fit in to a large if it's not claimed yet/wasn't MrL's shirt. Can PM me regarding payment (and I need to make sure my Paypal account I haven't touched in a year still works).
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Are there any good LP's of the original Wasteland? I've done some research and looked at some video but I still have no idea what the hell is going on in the game. I've already dropped 30$ on the kickstarter but I wanna know what the game's going to be based on. I don't rally get why the original has such rave reviews because it looks completely mediocre from what I've seen but I'd be more than happy to be proven wrong.
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Well, THE BEST Wasteland LP is currently in progress, right Quarex?
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VaultAggie posted:Are there any good LP's of the original Wasteland? Yep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvYcu5qaO-s
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I'll go ahead and give the consensus of this LP: He does a good job setting things up, and knows what he is doing. But he spends gobs of time talking about his characters, and it borders on being kinda creepy. No one else interested in a belt buckle? I'm not surprised, really.
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RagingBoner posted:No one else interested in a belt buckle? I'm not surprised, really. I'm interested, but being in the UK, I think the postage cost kills any chance of me getting it. Sorry.
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Zaii posted:I'm interested, but being in the UK, I think the postage cost kills any chance of me getting it. Sorry. It'll probably be around $10-12 to ship to the UK. I don't know why it's so much more expensive to ship there than anywhere else in the world.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I thought Quarex was going to be doing an LP. What happened to that? He did do it. It is us. We were the LP all along. Edit: RB and Zaii, your two avatars are hilarious together.
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That is right, Jonny Retro. The magic was in your own heart all along. Wasteland never existed: it was just a manifestation of the goodness of the human spirit. VaultAggie, it is no surprise that the game would look mediocre since PC gaming technology looked primitive even at the time, let alone with 25 years' hindsight ... but fortunately it made up for it by being basically the first game to do a lot of things (modern/near-future RPG, persistent world with changes via story, gritty/violent/"mature" theme), basically all of which were improved on over the years admittedly. But it still stands up, particularly if you have someone to play it for you! Urdnot Fire posted:Well, THE BEST Wasteland LP is currently in progress, right Quarex? Bloody Hedgehog posted:I thought Quarex was going to be doing an LP. What happened to that?  I have put several hours into the first post and also played the game for several hours as well. I was going to create my triumphant beginning post when my life (typically) exploded. I admit that I tend to use my hour or two of free time every day for the forums and The Secret World because I am a bad person. But I was just playing around with Wasteland again today. You can even see the shattered remnants of my effort in the Let's Play Sandcastle thread if you like, when the people critiquing me were like "well, that is a nice opening post, except you did not actually, you know, get to the game in it." Just today one of my real-life Goon friends (who reads this thread, I know you are reading this) was like "hey, I have been reading a lot of Let's Plays lately! Funny, I cannot seem to find a Wasteland Let's Play anywhere, do you know anything about that?" Also something hilarious is going on behind the scenes that I cannot talk about yet. How is that for a teaser? It is not as exciting as being invited to the Wasteland 2 release party, though, to be fair. Dr. Quarex fucked around with this message at 07:26 on Jul 12, 2012 |
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Quarex posted:When do we Kickstart AxeManiac's Real-Life-Wasteland? Anyone got a truck so we can go steal a few barrels from a nuclear waste dump? Obviously we need to slather that poo poo all over Axemaniacs land to get the authentic Wasteland experience. Or we could just put up a goon project to build a nuclear bomb for even more authenticity.
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