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Brian Fargo, producer of Wasteland, founder of Interplay and InXile, told Duck and Cover:<blockquote>I am indeed looking into bringing back the game that spawned the Fallout series. Stay tuned....</blockquote>Spotted on Duck and Cover.
 
Hot damn.

We've waited 10 years. Let's wait a few more for a game that's true to the original Fallout AND Wasteland.
 
Fuck yeah.
Let's just hope it's not the action RPG. I've seen enough of those this past couple of years.

Edit: Removed quote, it was pretty pointless.
 
Well, I'm more of a Wasteland fan than I am a Fallout fan even...

But...Bard's Tale? And wasn't Fargo quoted as saying that Bethesda was going the right way with RPGs not long ago? Maybe it was just part of his scheme to have Fallout abandoned by the fanbase, so that he could come in with Wasteland...

Still not going to get my hopes up and that type of statement "looking into bringing back..." makes it sound like an awful long ways off, if ever.
 
Fargo's InXile is, indeed, not exactly a company to look forward to as remaking Wasteland.

But perhaps he learned from Bard's Tale, we'll have to wait and see (doesn't that sound familiar)
 
Shit, now this would be pure platinum.

But on the other hand, I have *heard* bad things about Bard's tale...
 
Autoduel76 said:
Well, I'm more of a Wasteland fan than I am a Fallout fan even...

But...Bard's Tale? And wasn't Fargo quoted as saying that Bethesda was going the right way with RPGs not long ago? Maybe it was just part of his scheme to have Fallout abandoned by the fanbase, so that he could come in with Wasteland...

Still not going to get my hopes up and that type of statement "looking into bringing back..." makes it sound like an awful long ways off, if ever.
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Someone posted a quote from Fargo about how his view is that Wasteland would be a lot deeper than Bard's Tale. I'm too lazy to go find it, though.

Edit: I'm not too lazy, I guess...

It was Ausir who originally posted the quote:
Here's what Fargo had to say about Wasteland in 2003:

Quote:
As for Wasteland, I can't give much commentary on it yet but it would be a totally different treatment than what we are doing with BT. Wasteland is a heavier subject matter with a more intense system behind it.
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*multiple orgasms*

...no, really, that's the kind of news you'd least expect after the GI article.
 
Here's another old quote:

June 13, 2003: Brian Fargo and his new game company, inXile, acquire the rights to Wasteland with the United States Patent Office. Soon after, Mr. Fargo shows up at Snake Squeezins to ask for comments about the game from its loyal fans. He notes the reason he didn't get the rights sooner was that Electronic Arts was sitting on them. When they expired, Konami grabbed it for use with their Yu-Gi-Oh series, but they were kind enough to let him have the trademark back. And the new Wasteland will be "darker in nature than the first one," and touts that it will be "very much an old school RPG that uses the skill systems, open ended nature of design, and puts the player into a world that is not black and white but shades of grey." Soon after joining Squeezins, he bails out as others were cross-posting his posts to other forums, and I guess he didn't like that.
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It does heem he treats it more seriously than Bard's Tale.
 
I'll still be skeptical until 5 years from now when the "holy grail" of video games has finally been created:

Deathrace 2
 
Great news,

Now we'll have to wait and see what happens.

Just realized. If they have had the rights to Wasteland from 2003, have they been working on it from that point on or are they just beginning ?
 
Lets hope its more than hot air.

The post-apoc society in Wasteland was even more whacked up than the one in Fallout. Ah the memories...Temple of Blood, Mushroom Church, Harry the Bunny Master....and so on.

Even the robots seemed to have a type of evil intelligence compared to the soulless machines in Tactics.
 
yeah! I can see him already..making an RPG....and he doesnt give a fuck if it will be lucrative or not!
 
http://archive.gamespy.com/interviews/october03/fargo/index.shtml

I'm trying to google some of his old interviews, just to see if he spouts much BS. He didn't hype up Bard's Tale to be some great RPG, but basically talked about its humor and mood. He claims it's an action-RPG up and down, but unlike BG:DA, you can go from area to area freely.

I've never played the game, so I don't know. At least his PR isn't so blatantly screwed as Bethesda's.

Here's a quote from a different interview:
Brian Fargo: Personality, depth, re-playability, humor and its innovative approach to things should really get peoples attention. No matter what you think of RPG's (console or otherwise) this game [is] guaranteed [to] make you laugh. Our soul that we put into it is evident. How can you not like game that makes you laugh the whole time? Ultimately all the games these days have great graphics but it's the entertainment value of it all that will make one shine. The movie Shrek had great graphics but that was not what made it the blockbuster that it was.
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So, he wanted Bard's Tale to be a comedy. An interactive comedy. Awesome, at least he likes humor, and doesn't consider blowing the heads off of things all the humor he can handle in one day.
 
Hammerstein said:
Fargo is still a bit of a childhood hero to me. Just check out with how many games he was involved. Apart from the Fallout series he was part of titles like MDK2, Sacrifice and Giants:Citizen Kabuto. These 3 alone are diamonds in any producer´s bio.

http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,339/
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He's credited with most of the games because he was the head of Interplay at that time. He was not directly involved with most of them.
 
I've actually played LOTR: Vol 1, Wasteland, and Stonekeep.
I'm only 20, that's pretty sad. Stonekeep was pretty badass, though. Ah, fond memories of childhood.
 
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