Company News Brian Fargo talks about inXile's plans for Van Buren at Eurogamer

[GloomFrost]

Actually I would love to see a post ap rpg in a completely different setting (I mean different from fallout). There is an awesome video made by TROIKA (can easily find it on youtube) and omg it has such an amazing and depressing atmosphere (thanx to soundtrack from DUNE). And now that Chris Avellone is available.....


A man can dream though, a man can dream...

 

[valcik]

Totally. You should check out Underrail ASAP if you haven't yet!

 

[Roguey]

A lot of the things a lot of people don't like in Fallout 2 were Tim Cain's ideas.

Quoting self for posterity posting.

So I am not keeper of the canon, but Anna was designed and intended as a real ghost in F2 (according to Tim Cain).

Ghosts, aliens, gangsters, that's what your precious Tim Cain thinks about the integrity of Fallout's post-apocalyptic 50s retrofuture setting.

 

[Roguey]

Ghosts can easily be psionic, and psionics pop up in nearly every game in the series.

 

[tuluse]

C'mon, that's the stupid tactic to take TBS. The real one is that Tim Cain says that's how it was designed not that he agreed with that particular design (which again a big reason he left Interplay was disagreements over Fallout 2 design).

Of course you could just not argue with roguey's barbs, but I suppose that's too much to ask for.

 

[HanoverF]

Tim Cain kept furries out of Fallout, that's good enough for me.

 

[Roguey]

C'mon, that's the stupid tactic to take TBS. The real one is that Tim Cain says that's how it was designed not that he agreed with that particular design (which again a big reason he left Interplay was disagreements over Fallout 2 design).

Of course you could just not argue with roguey's barbs, but I suppose that's too much to ask for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_C...ment_.28August_1991_.E2.80.93_January_1998.29

Before leaving Interplay to form his own company in January 1998, he wrote the main story arc as well helping designing The Den area of Fallout 2

http://www.nma-fallout.com/article.php?id=7219

In Fallout 2, I liked the Den the most, for nostalgic reasons. I worked the most in that area before I left Interplay.

Anna just happens to be in The Den.

 

[tuluse]

Fair enough

 

[Save Versus Stupid]

Perhaps you will play a man named Van Buren and wander the wasteland?

An rpg about running for president in the 1800s.

I know you're joking, but that would be a day 1 buy for me

 

[naossano]

The point being ?
It is not because we like MCA better that Tim and his buddies weren't the creator of the IP in the first place. They have more right on it than MCA. (I mean morally speaking. Legally speaking, Todd's group have all the rights)

 

[valcik]

I'd prefer one-purpose ghost joke from Tim over Sawyer's religious mumbo-jumbo any day of the week!

 

[Roguey]

Mormons are real and not "mumbo-jumbo."

Aliens were always easter eggs, except in Fallout 3 (which was derp).

Wanamingos weren't easter eggs.

 

[Excidium II]

Wanamingos are mutants, not aliens

 

[ROARRR]

Wanamingos are mutants, not aliens

true!
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Wanamingo
But never thought that aliens, Ghosts and mutants are a bad thing in FO2 as long they are good explained and have some mystery in it (that every good SciFi should have!!)!

 

[throwaway]

[In which we witness the Codex hopelessly rationalising their age-old impulses]

 

[Excidium II]

I played Fallout 2 first so nothing freaked me out

It's still funny though to see people arguing over canon as if Fallout 2 followed 30 years of stabilished fiction

I mean, what does it matter at this point when the series is at such great hands

 

[valcik]

Mormons are real and not "mumbo-jumbo."

Yes, I'm well aware that mormons are real. As well as those people who do believe in ghosts are totally real. We and I think that people believing in ghosts are much more likely to appear in a post-apo world, fren! Ask Grampy-bone, he's mighty and strong spirit!

 

[Havoc]

Ghost are more likely to appear in Fallout 4 than Mormons. Think about that!

 

[valcik]

Yup, along with vampires. Todd's mind cannot be chained!

 

[GloomFrost]

Yup, along with vampires. Todd's mind cannot be chained!

OMG!! Ghosts and vampires are not going to be the worst part of F4. That I can GUARANTEE!!

 

[Roguey]

Wanamingos are mutants, not aliens

That was a Chris Avellone retcon in the Fallout Bible, which is no longer canon. In-game, they were aliens.

 

[Excidium II]

I don't know about any retcon, I just assumed they were mutant experiments of some sort like other weird shit such as floaters

 

[Jim the Dinosaur]

I don't know about any retcon, I just assumed they were mutant experiments of some sort like other weird shit such as floaters

I think all the mutations followed the the Thing rule that they had to be based on some type of real-world original (Floaters = flatworms, Centaurs = humans + dogs + cronenbergh, deathclaw = horned cameleon, etc.). Even in the retcon wanamingos break that rule by having just plain been created from FEV-air.

edit: apparently (bethesda-)FO3 was supposed to have "mutated wanamingos", making the circle complete:

 

[valcik]

I'm still wondering about that religious part of modern Fallout.
In first Fallout there's just Children of the Cathedral cult, excellent stuff similar to the Servants of the Mushroom Cloud from first Wasteland, clearly inspired by religious plot in A Canticle for Leibowitz novel. Twisted, wicked, creepy cult raised from the ashes of devastated world. Now there are some real mormons too, wearing pre-war clothes (20th century stock!) in FNV, so I do expect some buddhists with tiny golden Buddha statues to appear at some point, as well as muslims wearing good old hijab in year 2280. That would be only fair, because muslims and buddhists are significant part of the United States population too, aren't they? Weren't they allowed to enter the Vaults or what? Were their communities destroyed by A-bombs completely in the Great War? That's something MCA and Josh should explain to us.

 

[Turok]

Van Buren is coming and his name is Fallout 4

You really are dumbfuck.