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Wasteland 2 and Obsidian

[Mar 30, 2012, 4:20 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Wasteland 2 Kickstarter Page has news that InXile plans to collaborate with Obsidian on their upcoming Wasteland sequel, which ensures the participation of designer Chris Avellone, who has worked on the Fallout series that succeeded the post-apocalyptic RPG. They stress that this will only happen if they hit the $2.1 million funding plateau, but this seems like a foregone conclusion, as they are over 80% of the way there at over $1.7 million pledged with more than two weeks remaining in their fundraising campaign. Here's a bit:

For those of you who don't know who Obsidian or Chris Avellone are, they are the bulk of the brains who worked on Fallout 1&2, Icewind Dale and Planescape Torment when I was back at Interplay. More of the band is back together to make sure we bring you a fantastic RPG. Chris is going to help push the density and literary content of the game.

The original Wasteland was an important game to Chris as he recently stated, "Wasteland is one of my favorite RPGs of all time, and when Brian asked if I wanted to work on the sequel, I jumped at the chance. While I've worked on Fallout 2 and Fallout: New Vegas, getting the chance to work on the spiritual predecessor to the Fallout franchise is a honor."

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.

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Re: Wasteland 2 and Obsidian

Mar 30, 2012, 19:57

Dev

Alamar wrote on Mar 30, 2012, 19:52: I totally disagree : ) But I do appreciate some of the quotes, even if you're obsessing : ) Personally, I don't remember Wasteland, and watching a video of it removed any remote interest I may have generated looking at the passion in these threads... So I'll look at it when it's near completion, and I hope it's what you all want : ) -Alamar Hey, no problem. Not everyone has the same tastes in games. Variety is the spice of life. Fortunately, there's enough people who are interested in wasteland/fallout type games to make up for it Plus at $15, its not too much risk.

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Comment [quote="Dev"Mar 30, 2012, 19:57][quote="Alamar"Mar 30, 2012, 19:52]I totally disagree : ) But I do appreciate some of the quotes, even if you're obsessing : ) Personally, I don't remember Wasteland, and watching a video of it removed any remote interest I may have generated looking at the passion in these threads... So I'll look at it when it's near completion, and I hope it's what you all want : ) -Alamar [/quote] Hey, no problem. Not everyone has the same tastes in games. Variety is the spice of life. Fortunately, there's enough people who are interested in wasteland/fallout type games to make up for it :) Plus at $15, its not too much risk. [/quote]

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