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

[Athelas]

Now how the hell are they gonna pull this off..

I'm personally hoping for a CRPG version of Radiant Historia and Chrono Trigger.

Why would you want the combat to be shit and the game to be linear?

 

[Diablo169]

Now how the hell are they gonna pull this off..

I'm personally hoping for a CRPG version of Radiant Historia and Chrono Trigger.

Why would you want the combat to be shit?

I was kinda refering to the time manipulation and mechanics. Combat hasnt really entered my mind yet.

 

[mindx2]

Was there some kind of story for Meantime back when besides time-travel? Characters? Plot? Anything?

Although set in the same universe as Wasteland, and with similar engine and gameplay, Meantime was to feature an entirely unique storyline. The basic premise was that the player would travel through time, and recruit famous historical figures to the player's party.

 

[Visperas]

Yeah, I know where Wikipedia is. I expected some other tidbits from the connoisseurs in here.

 

[Diablo169]

Yeah, I know where Wikipedia is. I expected some other tidbits from the connoisseurs in here.

I think most of the available information from interviews over the years is archived here

http://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/meantime/

 

[toro]

I hate time travel.

/going outside to stay in the rain

 

[Diablo169]

I hate time travel.

/going outside to stay in the rain

 

[almondblight]

Recruitable characters would be generally limited to people who had met mysterious ends, so as to be in sync with historic events. For example...Wernher von Braun...

Ah yes, mysteriously dying of pancreatic cancer at the age of 65.

 

[Invictus]

Not very familiar with the concepto of this game, but after Wasteland 2 they have my moneyz at least for the vanilla digital release.
Fargo is a beautiful flower who has to be nurturedand cared for...unlike that moneygrabbing hasbeen of Molleux with his "pay to play" Godus scam

 

[eric__s]

Red herring, false flag, Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space 2 confirmed.

 

[Neckbeard Shitlord]

What, no Fountain of Dreams?!

I never really heard much on meantime, but time travel RPG fighting people all through history does not sound bad to me. It opens up limitless possibilities of people to kill.

 

[Jaesun]

 

[Karwelas]

Was there some kind of story for Meantime back when besides time-travel? Characters? Plot? Anything?

Although set in the same universe as Wasteland, and with similar engine and gameplay, Meantime was to feature an entirely unique storyline. The basic premise was that the player would travel through time, and recruit famous historical figures to the player's party.

So now we can recruit Lincoln, Bonaparte, Genghis Khan and Spartacus - then go find (or kidnap) Einstein, Tesla and other great minds of Earth just to make us weapons and go to any age and rule the world. Imagine - Lincoln with AK-47, Bonaparte with some heavy machine gun and explosives, Khan and Spartacus can get some custom melee weapons from Einstein or Tesla (Oh yes - sword with ability to shoot lightning.) Or you can just make an army.

 

[Wizfall]

The concept is nice but doesn't suit a cRPG at all IMHO.
Would make a fascinating adventure game.

 

[StaticSpine]

The concept is nice but doesn't suit a cRPG at all IMHO.
Would make a fascinating adventure game.

How come? Just imagine that you can have a party of these people:

etc

 

[Crooked Bee]

You could recruit historical individuals to your party in Escape from Hell. It worked just fine.

 

[Athelas]

The concept is nice but doesn't suit a cRPG at all IMHO.
Would make a fascinating adventure game.

Adventure games would be better if they were RPG's.

 

[Infinitron]

Too bad we discovered this over the weekend. So far the only other site that has picked up on it is: http://core-rpg.ru/news/inxile_ente...iroval_tovarnyj_znak_meantime/2014-12-07-3374

(Because in Soviet Russia, week ends YOU!)

 

[DwarvenFood]

Roguey come around for some fisting

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Or those:

 

[Paul_cz]

Time travel RPG sounds awesome. Hope it is real.

 

[Roguey]

Building up my e-rep as an investigative spoiler, Brians and "Benjanuns" beware.

For extra spoiling, I won't even donate to this if it insists on being as grog as Wasteland 2. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Marquess Cornwallis]

 

[Zed]

For extra spoiling, I won't even donate to this if it insists on being as grog as Wasteland 2. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

pfft. that's nothing. I won't donate to any more kickstarters, period.

poe is boring; wl2 takes way too long for box to arrive (still nothing); dos couldn't deliver on all goals (followers, schedules) so I could just as well have bought it digitally after release; I don't think I'll ever even play ds.

get on my level ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[FeelTheRads]

Pfft, that's nothing, I will start stealing from Kickstarters.