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    Steve Watts posted a new article, Wasteland 2 lead talks hurdles and fan feedback.

    Brian Fargo from inXile Entertainment shares some thoughts on his crowdsourced project, Wasteland 2, from the failed publisher pitches to how he's responding to feedback from backers.
    Mar 28, 2012 5:15pm PDT
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    Steve Watts posted a new article, Wasteland 2 lead talks hurdles and fan feedback.

    Brian Fargo from inXile Entertainment shares some thoughts on his crowdsourced project, Wasteland 2, from the failed publisher pitches to how he's responding to feedback from backers. : ShacknewsThis person is cool!

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      wasteland is a "fairly obscure game" ? really? it was super popular. pretty much the game of the year whe... : wtf242This person is cool!
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        In 1988. Unfortunately, that makes it obscure. A great many people playing games now weren't even alive... : ArcanumThis person is cool!
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          And if they were, they were probably playing games on the NES. : bouxdag
          • Yeah, I was 8 at the time. Not playing the NES, but not playing Wasteland either. : ArcanumThis person is cool!
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            Exactly. Back then it wasn't cool to play games on PC (or even Apple II and Commodore). All the cool ki... : GwyndionThis person is cool!
            • There was a sort of rarified coolness in that you could get this ugly, work-centric, metal and plastic th : eldersveld
      • Yeah, but that year of release was like 1986 or something. : JarEme
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        Ask 1000 people that are not posters on this website if they've heard of Wasteland and post your results... : bill crystals
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          I've never heard of it before the kickstarter and I've been play games since as long as I can remember. (... : SlingBlaze
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            Same, mostly. It was, and always has been a pretty niche title. : bill crystals
            • Hence why it needs a Kickstarter for a sequel. : bill crystals
    • this is either gonna own so much or be the new DNF : ETPC1
    • I joined the kickstarter for Wasteland 2. I think my expectations are fairly low/realistic, but I don't ... : xsikal
    • I sincerely hope this game is a success if only to rub it in the faces of the publishers who treated Farg... : axiomaticThis person is cool!
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      This is a dangerous thing about Kickstart... it kind of turns customers into mini-producers. To a certai... : GwyndionThis person is cool!
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        Yeah, hopefully they can handle false entitlement from the users. : judgeThis person is cool!
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          I donated to the Wasteland 2 kickstarter. I didn't give them money so I could tell them how to make their... : pantsburgh
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            I did the exact same thing. I gave them money to support their idea of the game they want to make without... : NinjaGamerGirl
            • I don't know, maybe I'm wrong. Hopefully that is how everybody sees it, but I'm sure there are those out... : GwyndionThis person is cool!
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      couldn't find 1 screenshot of Wasteland, really ? : Disarray
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        I was going to say, that looks a lot more like Fallout 1 : one random winner
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          Yeah, Wasteland was WAY more basic looking than that. It looked more like Ultima than Fallout. : GwyndionThis person is cool!
          • http://www.abandonia.com/files/games/436/Wasteland_5.png http://www.abandonia.com/files/games/436/Wastel... : AxeMan808This person is cool!
      • because it looks like fucking ass and nobody wants that in their headline. its from 1988 and looks terrib... : HoaxThis person is cool!