Novelist Patrick E. McLean joins Wasteland 2 team

[WorstUsernameEver]

I never heard of him, but I suppose that some of you might be familiar with the work of Patrick E. McLean, who's been hired by inXile to work on Wasteland 2's writing, per this Brian Fargo tweet.

Hey, I mean, it's a dedicated writer. It's more than most videogame teams have.

 

[Bengt]

Did I go all Bruce Campbell and fall asleep in a cave for 20 years or was he really hired for Wasteland 20?

 

[Sub-Human]

It's good to know they have actual writers on the team. If anything, Wasteland's dialogue and descriptions were very exciting, something I can't always say for Fallout.

 

[Per]

St. Andre, Stackpole, Danforth and Avellone all have writing credits outside of computer games, so this project is already fairly blessed in that department.

 

[Makagulfazel]

So much talent for - arguably - the most important aspect of a Wasteland sequel.

Hopefully the Mayans just ran out of calendar space. loltheworldisgoingtoendprophecyjokeagain

 

[TorontoReign]

So at the very least we can expect some decent dialog and shit right?

 

[grayx]

If anything, I like that "slightly twisted" description in the tweet. Plus, I hope he is not a shmak , I'm truly sick of "politically correct" writers of any kind (being rude is something else).

Let's hope he will find this game as the place to prove himself worthy and maybe he will add something to remember.

 

[Crni Vuk]

So at the very least we can expect some decent dialog and shit right?

I think that was never a question even before the he joined the team

 

[WorstUsernameEver]

So at the very least we can expect some decent dialog and shit right?

The team is good but it's not like they never made blunders before (the jury is still out on this McLean guy since I never read anything on him, but Avellone can get a bit preachy and long-winded, the old Wasteland had some pretty bad writing in together with the colorful description and dialogue, though the good by far outweighs the bad, and inXile's stuff, iirc, never produced anything particularly brilliant on that front so far).

So, basically, I'm hopeful but I'm waiting for the game to be out to judge.

 

[Makagulfazel]

For a ~2.6 million dollar budget game(after the Kickstarter and Amazon cuts), I'm not worried about writing department. I actually hope they buy Unity store assets to focus their funds on the meat of cRPGs: dialogue, C&C and lore.
No need to <strike>reinvent</strike> remodel the wheel.

 

[Gurkog]

He has, apparently, won a few advertising awards. Guess they brought him in for a publicity campaign or something.

 

[mobucks]

Writing is hard, I'd imagine. Mayhap he was brougt in to ease the workload of other writers. A good move if you ask me.