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

[FeelTheRads]

 

[Viata]

Fargo is making his new rpg: Playing with people's feeling. He is doing well so far.

 

[Diablo169]

Maybe we get to time travel back to 2003 in Meantime and kidnap Herve Caen? Thus Interplay never cancel Van Buren.

 

[Darkzone]

'Van Buren' or 'Meantime' it does not matter as long as is not 'Dominos with Friends' or 'Pinochole + Friends' the RPG.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

I know it is absurdly crazy, but what if Fargo bought from Bethesda all Van Buren documentations (and maybe assets and Jefferson engine), so he can continue it's development providing he won't sell it under Fallout title? Sound completely insane, but the news is already insane.

 

[Darkzone]

Then he could also license the Fallout trademark with all other things like the pipboy and spezial, and make Fallout: Van Buren on the unity3d engine.

 

[Infinitron]

We've already had a game inspired by the documentation of Van Buren. It's called Fallout: New Vegas.

I seriously doubt this has anything to do with the actual Van Buren.

 

[Diablo169]

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

 

[Cazzeris]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meantime_(video_game)

The box cover was never made public, but is said to feature Albert Einstein, who was a playable character in the game.

 

[Darkzone]

I seriously doubt this has anything to do with the actual Van Buren.

And yet he has filled in the application for Van Buren trademark one month before the Meantime trademark.

 

[LESS T_T]

Maybe "Van Buren" could be a good hype engine for an expansion pack of Wasteland 2.

 

[himmy]

We've already had a game inspired by the documentation of Van Buren. It's called Fallout: New Vegas.

I seriously doubt this has anything to do with the actual Van Buren.

Yeah. It's more likely that, in the same way they used the Torment name to give more credibility to their spiritual sequel to PS:T, they would use Van Buren for a possible spiritual sequel to Fallout 2, except that idea is preposterous and unlikely as well, unless they will use the Van Buren brand to hype the Kickstarter campaign, before settling for a different name.

 

[felipepepe]

So, Bard's Tale IV: Van Buren and the Meantime from the Centre of the Arnhem?

It's catchy.

 

[Outlander]

I hope you can recruit Hitler in your party.

 

[Drax]

If you nazi assholes get Wee Baby Adolf, I demand Uncle Joe as a romantic option.

 

[Jaesun]

I know it is absurdly crazy, but what if Fargo bought from Bethesda all Van Buren documentations (and maybe assets and Jefferson engine), so he can continue it's development providing he won't sell it under Fallout title? Sound completely insane, but the news is already insane.

Making TWO post apocalyptic games which compete against themselves isn't a wise business decision.

 

[supervoid]

Van Buren was used in NV already, design documents are leaked, modders who are trying to revive this mutilated corpse will commit suicide if they work will be wasted etc. there's no reason to make it. This trademark makes no sense besides generating hype and misleading codex's spies. I wonder what they are planning.

RPG with time travels sounds cool. I hope they will include some less known historical figures (if they really are going to make this game).

 

[himmy]

I like how people are waving away the Van Buren trademark and focusing their hopes on the Meanwhile one and, to be fair, that does make more sense. But since the Van Buren one is almost a month older, if Jedi Master Radek's find would have preceded the one made by Roguey, this whole place would have been in flames with speculations about it.

 

[Darkzone]

inXile and Fargo has currently only few considerable trademarks: Wasteland, Desert Rangers, Meanwhile and Torment. Van Buren is currently not given to Fargo. Fargo is only an applicant for this trademark. And The Bard's Tale trademark status is abandoned.

 

[Seerix]

Van Buren is definitely something people have been "passionate" about. How does that fit anything remains to be seen. Making the "Fallout 3 that fans wanted" sounds ridiculous, but Van Buren could actually be related to the next Wasteland which would be Wasteland 3, afterall.

EDIT: Also, please note that both Wasteland and Van Buren share the idea of some kind of military installations in space. Maybe not all of that stuff got destroyed in the meteor rain that spawned the war. Or maybe there were no meteors...

 

[DosBuster]

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

 

[supervoid]

It would be funny to see Van Buren released like they wanted it to be back in 2003 and codex's subforum devoted to complaining that it suck because of engine, Sawyer's approach to mechanic, weird story, Sawyer changing stats, different colours palette, Sawyer, not being like F2, and Sawyer.

 

[Diablo169]

Next up he's registering "The Black Hound"

 

[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.

 

[felipepepe]

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