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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Double Fine hit a million in 20 hours, IIRC, so this isn't really on track for that, but who knows if different audiences mean different donation trends. It's already starting very differently with a ton of huge 10k+ donations That's the trend I imagine that'll go one; fewer but larger donations as the guys and gals who remembered playing this back in the day can now afford more than someone who played Grim Fandango 15 years ago.
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Wait, remind me. What's keeping the original off GOG?
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Wait, remind me. What's keeping the original off GOG? EA has the rights to it still and won't budge. I dunno why, I'm pretty sure some of the other older EA titles are on GOG.
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Mar 14, 2012 22:51
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Fargo's Twitter posted:We are leaning towards isometric but we want to show some screens in our forum for fan feedback. You guys are my new boss after all. I hope we get isometric with a really good tactical combat system. Crouching and cover and maybe some light terrain destruction. Silent Storm style, maybe.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Wait, remind me. What's keeping the original off GOG? EA. They retained the rights to the original.
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GhostDog posted:I think people should temper their expectations somewhat, otherwise this will only end in a huge backlash. For every 5 games you support this way, only 1 will be really great, 3 will be okay and 1 will be crap. I'd rather play an "okay" game that challenges the status quo than a game that is considered good but I've played a hundred times already.
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TheAgent posted:If only I could pledge $10k since I probably live a few blocks from where the party could happen. Maybe I can crash it Paparazzi style. Fintilgin posted:I hope we get isometric with a really good tactical combat system. Crouching and cover and maybe some light terrain destruction. Silent Storm style, maybe.
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Mar 14, 2012 22:53
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Yahoo! is taking notice of Kickstarter as a funding platform, if in a rather crappy way: http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/millionaire-hits-gamers-fund-game-idea-184034258.html Edit: dude looks a little Downs'ey, or is it me?
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Mar 14, 2012 22:55
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Icept posted:I'd rather play an "okay" game that challenges the status quo than a game that is considered good but I've played a hundred times already. Yes, that's why I continued quote:The reason to support them anyway is that all of them will be of a genre/type/whatever no big publisher would ever touch, so even the okay ones are a net win. I just hope people don't expect every single one of their donations to be turned into a life-affirming experience. Because that could kill this thing faster than anything else.
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/\/\/\ What, you mean more then they do with their 12$ Minecraft purchase or Mass Effect 3 preorder?Quarex posted:Well you had better hurry, only two of the eight $10,000 rewards are left! The way I've always thought it should be done in a turn-based RPG like this is have LESS COMBAT that was MORE MEANINGFUL. So you probably spend around the same amount of time fighting as you would if combat played faster but there was more of it. Ideally you wouldn't have any/many random combat encounters at all. Every combat scenario would be pre-designed. Of course in a game this style (Fallout), the vast majority if not all should be avoidable in some manner.
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Mar 14, 2012 22:59
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Quarex posted:Several people on the official forums are all JAGGED ALLIANCE 2 COMBAT ENGINE DUPLICATED and then some others like me are like "hey, we loved Jagged Alliance 2 too, but do you really want every combat to take hours to resolve in an RPG?" Hexes!
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Mar 14, 2012 22:59
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RagingBoner posted:Yahoo! is taking notice of Kickstarter as a funding platform, if in a rather crappy way: You're a multi-millionaire. What the hell do you need other people's money for? 
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Mar 14, 2012 23:00
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Fintilgin posted:I hope we get isometric with a really good tactical combat system. Crouching and cover and maybe some light terrain destruction. Silent Storm style, maybe. I hope they rip off the new XCOM for combat. One movement, one action, shooting from cover, when it's several enemies in the row in the initiative order they all move at the same time to speed things up.
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Mar 14, 2012 23:00
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Fintilgin posted:What, you mean more then they do with their 12$ Minecraft purchase or Mass Effect 3 preorder? Now I'm scared.
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Mar 14, 2012 23:02
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Dissapointed Owl posted:You're a multi-millionaire. What the hell do you need other people's money for? All I can guess is it is some sort of interest check, which will (obviously) fail.
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Mar 14, 2012 23:05
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Fintilgin posted:I hope we get isometric with a really good tactical combat system. Crouching and cover and maybe some light terrain destruction. Silent Storm style, maybe. OH GOD. Turn based Silent Storm in an 80s style post-apocalyptic wasteland. I would never stop playing 
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Mar 14, 2012 23:08
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Der Shovel posted:OH GOD. I figure post-apoc architecture is already beat to poo poo, so it ought to fall apart nicely under heavy weapon fire. It may be a technical challenge too far for a project of this scope, though.
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Mar 14, 2012 23:11
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Fintilgin posted:I figure post-apoc architecture is already beat to poo poo, so it ought to fall apart nicely under heavy weapon fire. Scenery that falls apart with a modelled physics model (ie. individual bullets knock off pieces), yeah. But it's easy as piss to have a wall tile which can take X amount of damage before being replaced by a busted version.
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Mar 14, 2012 23:13
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Al! posted:I would claim that image brings back memories, except I am looking at an Apple IIe version of The Bards Tale and Deathlord in that exact same package style. One thing I always liked about the early EA folio releases. They stood nice on a bookshelf and could be easily identified without taking up silly amounts of space like Centauri Alliance did (look it up).
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ShankyMcStabber posted:silly amounts of space like Centauri Alliance did (look it up). signalnoise posted:Hexes! That is kind of awesome, though; I think Centauri Alliance slipped through my "identify and track down every MS-DOS CRPG" efforts from a few years ago. Yep, I just checked my list, and it did--I guess I must have thought it was like Space Civilization or something. I was probably confusing its name with that other game whose name is kind of like it.
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Mar 14, 2012 23:19
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I impulse-donated before watching the video. Now, after hearing that MARK loving MORGAN is on board, I'm going back to double my amount.
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Mar 14, 2012 23:35
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If anyone changed their Kickstart pledge after they noticed they needed to pledge an extra $15 for international shipping, you may want to check your authorized payments on the Amazon Pyaments website. I changed my pledge to add in the the extra amount for shipping, but then Amazon Payments showed I now had pledged twice to the project; the original amount, and the new higher amount. If you have that, you need to go in and cancel the first authorized payment, or I believe you'll get charged twice when the Kickstarter ends.
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Even if it was cheesy I enjoyed how half the pitch video is dedicated to mocking modern gaming. I don't have hands on experience with Wasteland and I didn't know much about Fargo, but just like Schafer I feel like he's pretty passionate about making this work good. Didn't plan on backing this but reading the thread and watching the video made me think otherwise!
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Mar 14, 2012 23:38
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Well that's 65 bucks thrown in for a boxed copy of the game! Have not played the original Wasteland, but I adore Fallout 1 and 2. I think that we are long overdue for a quality old-school isometric RPG. This is truly a wonderful thing that is happening!
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Mar 14, 2012 23:40
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:If anyone changed their Kickstart pledge after they noticed they needed to pledge an extra $15 for international shipping, you may want to check your authorized payments on the Amazon Pyaments website.
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Mar 14, 2012 23:43
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Sputnik posted:I impulse-donated before watching the video. Now, after hearing that MARK loving MORGAN is on board, I'm going back to double my amount. Carver posted:Didn't plan on backing this but reading the thread and watching the video made me think otherwise!
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Mar 14, 2012 23:45
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Razer CEO ponies up $10K to fund Wasteland 2 Razer sells overpriced, stupid gaming peripherals (and that weird handheld PC console thing, that was WTF) but loving 10k pledge! Awesome.
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Mar 14, 2012 23:49
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Oh dear, this was on Brian Fargo's twitter: "I do plan on doing an iama on reddit soon.... I'll need to be ready for anything there I hear." Was that the string of I DO THIS PEOPLE THINK THIS bullshit that was going around? Old memes... looks like we are going back to Fallout 2.
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Not quite Axe, if I understand right, it's basically an "ask me anything" thread, but with...less asking, and more telling? Maybe? I don't know. edit: And I threw in for $30 as soon as I saw Mark Morgan's name - gotta get that soundtrack. Squiggle fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Mar 14, 2012 |
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Quarex posted:Yeah, it is funny, a lot of the things that people who played Fallout but not Wasteland want to see in the game are causing arguments with the Wasteland fans, but pretty much nobody has anything bad to say about having Mark Morgan in charge of everything audio. It is hard to deny how utterly amazing his work is for the genre, apparently. It's me. I'm the Wasteland fan that wants to chase the "I want Van Buren!" crowd back to NMA. Edit: /\/\/\ It's basically Reddit's own version of our Ask forum but with people like Neil deGrasse Tyson popping in to do threads from time to time. With Reddit's awful interface and userbase. Peas and Rice fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Mar 15, 2012 |
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:If anyone changed their Kickstart pledge after they noticed they needed to pledge an extra $15 for international shipping, you may want to check your authorized payments on the Amazon Pyaments website. Hey, thanks for the notice! While I'd love to donate 215 bucks to the cause, it's a tad more than I can afford 
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Peas and Rice posted:Edit: /\/\/\ It's basically Reddit's own version of our Ask forum but with people like Neil deGrasse Tyson popping in to do threads from time to time. With Reddit's awful interface and userbase. This is pretty much this. As a positive though, they have to prove who they are to a mod in order to post threads there. Otherwise it would be all... I'm zach braff, ask me anything!
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Tangentially related, it sounds like Obsidian is having a tough time financially. The owners weren't paid for 6-7 months and it sounds like the only project they have in store is the South Park game. Not good.
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r1ngwthszzors posted:Tangentially related, it sounds like Obsidian is having a tough time financially. The owners weren't paid for 6-7 months and it sounds like the only project they have in store is the South Park game. It seems kind of silly for any company to claim financial hardship when people are lined up to throw money at anyone suggesting anything close to whatever game they want to play.
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AxeManiac posted:It seems kind of silly for any company to claim financial hardship when people are lined up to throw money at anyone suggesting anything close to whatever game they want to play. Having a game in development cancelled and having to lay off a bunch of staff (including guys that have been there for years) suggests otherwise. (and not being paid for months)
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:If anyone changed their Kickstart pledge after they noticed they needed to pledge an extra $15 for international shipping, you may want to check your authorized payments on the Amazon Pyaments website. Edit: Actually, after reading the email from the cancelled payment I'm not sure anymore ... Amazon Payments posted:The total amount for all transactions cannot be greater than the maximum amount you authorized. So, I initially pledged $100 and then changed the pledge to $115. In my Amazon payments I had one transaction with a maximum authorised amout of $100 and then a second transaction with a maximum of $115. I take this to mean that I would only get charged a maximum of $115, even though the transaction total was $215. But don't quote me on that. PSI-5 fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Mar 15, 2012 |
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AxeManiac posted:It seems kind of silly for any company to claim financial hardship when people are lined up to throw money at anyone suggesting anything close to whatever game they want to play. In fairness, both DF Adventure and Wasteland 2 are probably going to have teams of like 10-12 people for a year. Wikipedia says Obsidian has 10 times that many in staff, not sure if that's before or after the layoffs.
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Fintilgin posted:In fairness, both DF Adventure and Wasteland 2 are probably going to have teams of like 10-12 people for a year. Wikipedia says Obsidian has 10 times that many in staff, not sure if that's before or after the layoffs. I think they've had like 140 before the layoffs and it's around 100 now.
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AxeManiac posted:It seems kind of silly for any company to claim financial hardship when people are lined up to throw money at anyone suggesting anything close to whatever game they want to play. The bigger a studio is, the easier it is for them to falter when they don't have a hot IP lined up or a publisher to back them up (or worse, when the publisher backs out) because they already have so much overhead 
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