Company News Codex Scoop: Brian Fargo has trademarked cancelled time travel RPG Meantime...and also Van Buren?!

[Infinitron]

A French site has picked this story up: http://www.factornews.com/actualites/des-pistes-sur-les-futurs-jdrs-de-inxile-39994.html

 

[Forest Dweller]

Joking aside this copyright doesnt really make much sense. Van Buren was only a codename.

Yeah, my thought too. They can call it whatever the fuck they want without needing to file a trademark if it's not the name of the final product.

Still, if by some chance it actually is Van Buren, Chris Avellone or GTFO.

 

[Zdzisiu]

A French site has picked this story up: http://www.factornews.com/actualites/des-pistes-sur-les-futurs-jdrs-de-inxile-39994.html

And not a single mention of Codex, nor a link here. Those fucking frogs!

 

[himmy]

This reminds me of the time that everyone assumed the (not yet officially announced) Project: Eternity was an RPG based on The Wheel of Time.

 

[Tramboi]

Meant... while, il you want an actual very good time travel game : "Timequest" by Legend Entertainment.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Couldn't resist/was bored:

 

[Curious_Tongue]

Talked to Brian, he told that you guys need to calm the fuck down.

Then tell Brian that i need also a Dune RPG, because i want to ride a sandworm and kill the Harkonnens with my voice.

A Kinect game?

 

[Ninjerk]

tAlked to bRian, he told that you guys need to CAlm the fuck dowN.

UM

WE GOT THE REST OF YOUR MESSAGE BRIAN

 

[Darkzone]

Talked to Brian, he told that you guys need to calm the fuck down.

Then tell Brian that i need also a Dune RPG, because i want to ride a sandworm and kill the Harkonnens with my voice.

A Kinect game?

Spoiler

With VOICE:


And not DANCE MOVES:

 

[Azalin]

Add some Hyperion & Book of the New Sun RPGs to the line as well, plox.

Meantime 2:Hyperion



Also Meantime 3:Endymion

And not DANCE MOVES:

 

[felipepepe]

Endymion

Never heard about that, not sure why you're bringing it up, the Hyperion saga only has two books and nothing was made after it. NOTHING.

 

[hoverdog]

Wasteland 3: Van Buren

 

[Azalin]

Endymion

Never heard about that, not sure why you're bringing it up, the Hyperion saga Cantos only has two books and nothing was made after it. NOTHING.

Fixd

 

[Curious_Tongue]

He'll need to get Bethesda's blessing for Van Buren.

 

[Roguey]

He'll need to get Bethesda's blessing for Van Buren.

Fargo burned that bridge, scorched the Earth around it, and salted the ground so nothing would grow there again.

 

[DosBuster]

He'll need to get Bethesda's blessing for Van Buren.

If only Fargo didn't hate Bethesda.

 

[Diablo169]

At this point Inxile dont NEED Fallout or Bethesda.

 

[Martius]

He'll need to get Bethesda's blessing for Van Buren.

Why? I doubt they will make obvious not Fallout 3. Maybe new ip or Wasteland sequel?

 

[Crooked Bee]

Not to mention Brian Fargo got the rights to Wasteland back ~12 years before the sequel appeared. Yes, there were plenty of other reasons for the delay, obviously, but this could just mean their next-next project is a Mean Time reboot... Err, boot, I guess. Odds are they would not have already started working on a new game that they just trademarked weeks ago... ....maybe.

At this point I think Brian probably just trademarks everything he sees.

 

[Gozma]

Meantime: A Martin van Buren adventure

 

[Major_Blackhart]

He'll need to get Bethesda's blessing for Van Buren.

If only Fargo didn't hate Bethesda.

I didn't know he hated them.
I knew that they put that bullshit clause in the contract regarding the metacritic score, but I didn't know he hated them.

 

[Morality Games]

He'll need to get Bethesda's blessing for Van Buren.

If only Fargo didn't hate Bethesda.

I didn't know he hated them.
I knew that they put that bullshit clause in the contract regarding the metacritic score, but I didn't know he hated them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunted:_The_Demon's_Forge

 

[Curious_Tongue]

He'll need to get Bethesda's blessing for Van Buren.

Why? I doubt they will make obvious not Fallout 3. Maybe new ip or Wasteland sequel?

The Franchise is worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Bethesda. Possibly more.

I can't see them turning a blind eye to remaking or a re imagining of a cancelled Fallout game.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Never heard of it.
What was the development idea behind that?

 

[Morality Games]

Never heard of it.
What was the development idea behind that?

Not entirely clear on the specifics, but Fargo didn't like the experience or the results and blamed Bethesda for being an unequal partner. Knowing Bethesda, it probably entailed giving no funding, taking all profit, and being a dick about it.