Interesting. It seems Brian Fargo is inspired by Double Fine, and wants to use Kickstarter to make a sequel to wasteland. Its not going to be a console game, and will not attempt to target a mainstream audience either.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/121/1218794p1.html

I'd love to see that, and if he Kickstarts the thing, I'll be there. I've read a good many articles remembering Wasteland very fondly, but it feels just too old and clunky for me, not having played it back in the day. I haven't been able to get into it at all.

Jeeze! These developers are going to ruin me. But okay. Okay. I asked for it. I'm game! Bring it on! :D

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Funny thing. First time I heard about and played Wasteland was back in the HOTU days. I probably wouldn't be interested if it hadn't that been for that "pirate" website (it really wasn't though; it was a website for gamers by gamers that emphasized gaming gems that had gotten lost in time and was unavailable elsewhere. I have no regrets!). Which is what I've been trying to say for years: yesterday's pirates are tomorrow's investors and costumers.

Excellent news. Remember playing this game on my old C64 years and years ago :).
Pls no 3D or require Steam DRM . This and Obsidian's interest in making a new RPG using Kickstart looks promising :)

Never played it but as an avid Fallout fan I keep hearing about it. I'd love to play something like this.

I'm definitely all for it, but do you really think he'll be able to raise the "at least 1 million dollars" he's talking about.

Shafer's been doing some good work for years but (please correct me if I am wrong) Fargo has not done anything special for a long time.

Not that it would stop me from supporting someone who developed so many amazing RPGs but I think it might be a harder sell than the double fine adventure.

Wastland already HAS sequals - Fountain of Dreams and Fallout!

Very true. But fortunately, it is free to add a project to Kickstarter; so he would loose little if it doesn't get funded. Worth a try. ;)

Better the book or the wheel or serial code than alternatives LOL FOD wasnt a true sequel i read somewhere. Neither was Fallout??

The worst "DRMs" in my book are still those that need my effort. Especially disc based, I think there wasn't a single game I didn't crack before the digital age.

And the "book drm" was awesome. I still have mine with "numbers" somewhere, so I can read up on the story.

I never really played wasteland either. How is it different from Fallout? other than the obvious interface/graphics difference.

'book drm' was awesome in its day. Paragraph upon paragraph :). Shame lot of games dont bother with proper manuals or the like anymore either...:/

My tounge was very firmly pushed into my cheek when I said that but how many unofficial sequals does a game need before an official on seems a bit pointless?
Still, any new old-skool RPG is good stuff!