Wasteland Wasteland 1 Remastered by Krome Studios

[AdolfSatan]

They nailed the radioactive part of the wasteland judging by those screenshots.

I can already feel the eye cancer setting in.

 

[Tweed]

Good God, it looks so vile.

 

[Roguey]

I hated the ridiculous random encounter rate of the PC version when I attempted to play it about 10 years ago . Take one step forward - POP! Random encounter. Two steps backward... COMIN' RIGHT At YA! Random encounter. Do a little dance and step sideways -- guess what? Yep. Random encounter. This was a huge problem I had with the original Bard's Tale 3 release that forced me to rage-quit. The remastered version by Krome corrected the problem and made the game enjoyable, at least until I got bored by the game's original design. I fully expect the same with the remastered Wasteland. I originally attempted to play Wasteland on my C64 around 1990 but was stymied by the difficult (to a kid at least) puzzles and couldn't seem to progress. But I'm a lot wiser now (or dumber, depending on how ya see things) and feel confident it will be fun this time around.

I played Wasteland a few years ago and I don't recall excessive random encounters, and I had quite a bit to complain about https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.p...eland-1-re-release.88170/page-13#post-3433510

The only thing I'd take back is that I don't care so much about the "series of unrelated vignettes until the plot actually starts" (especially considering I became guilty of this very thing in Wannika 2).

Why did they split message box in half? It looks weird.

So your character stuff is always on screen. Screens are wider now, so it can all fit fine.

 

[octavius]

I played Wasteland a few years ago and I don't recall excessive random encounters,

New Vegas, baby.

 

[DeepOcean]

I didn't know InXile was making a demake of the original.

 

[Gregz]

Wasteland Remastered Drops February 25

That's a month for those of you who can't into calendars.

A month is 4 weeks, a week is 7 days.

So about 28 days.

And yes, I'm using freedom units.

 

[TigerKnee]

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I can't recall the random encounter frequency either but you do have different platforms so I can guess they're not all the same.


Platforms
Apple II, Commodore 64, DOS, Linux, Macintosh, Windows

Damn mobygames had limited screenshots and most were dos. The windows reboot i got on gog had that smoothed out gfx shit and maybe a few shortcuts. I didn't play it that much as it felt wonky to me.

was the gothic remark a joke or something? I find this DE-MAKE god awful ugly as sin. Jesus. A serious WTF!?!

 

[Sigourn]

Top: soul
Bottom: soulless

 

[Tweed]

As long as people are talking about Wasteland, how the hell do you get the c64 version running in VICE? I've tired it over the span of several years and all I get is an I/O Error.

 

[Daemongar]

As long as people are talking about Wasteland, how the hell do you get the c64 version running in VICE? I've tired it over the span of several years and all I get is an I/O Error.

Sounds like it may be the disk image you are using. I'm using C64 Forever which uses the Vice plugin and the game fired up. Do you get the initial game screen or do you get I/O errors when trying to start the game? I just launched it now to see if it was working and ... fired right up. No special tricks.



Either way, looking forward to the game, but I'm concerned they'll screw it up somehow. I really like this game.

 

[Tweed]

I get into the intro, but it always gave an I/O error when I tried to play.

 

[Tweed]

Guess that was it, I grabbed a new set of disks from c64.com and it worked after a few tries.

 

[Glop_dweller]

What are those black circles underneath the models? Are they supposed to resemble a figurines?

Figurine pedestals.

eg:

 

[Old Hans]

I have a hazy memory of playing this back when I was kid and getting a party stuck somewhere they couldnt get out of. So I created a new party disk which somehow rescued the other party. Is that even possible? was I on drugs?

I sort of remember it may have had something to do with a locked door. The new group unlocked the door which effected the other groups game

 

[Zombra]

I have a hazy memory of playing this back when I was kid and getting a party stuck somewhere they couldnt get out of. So I created a new party disk which somehow rescued the other party. Is that even possible? was I on drugs?

I can't exactly remember either, but something was fucked up about how you had a data disk and a load disk. I think the game was actually permadeath iron man by default, except if your party got killed you could yank the disk out of the drive before it saved and it would be fine. It seems quite possible that you could have a disk copy with your party on it, then make a new party and go on the data disk and unlock the door, then reload the game as your first party but the changes to the data disk would be saved. Truly we grew up in a time of legends.

 

[agris]

What are the chances that this is Win10 only? I’d guess 95%. Anyone want to poke the hornets nest on twatter?

 

[Harthwain]

It will be interesting to see what in the gameplay they do change.

They said it will be "Still very true to the original as far as design/gameplay", so I don't expect anything to change in this aspects of the game. This looks like they're doing a remaster, not a remake.

 

[Cat Dude]

There are too many remasters and remakes over the years.Why not a remaster of text adventure games for a change?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

What are the chances that this is Win10 only? I’d guess 95%. Anyone want to poke the hornets nest on twatter?

 

[Strange Fellow]

There are too many remasters and remakes over the years.Why not a remaster of text adventure games for a change?

You mean like a spelling pass and a new snazzy font?

 

[Roguey]

They said it will be "Still very true to the original as far as design/gameplay", so I don't expect anything to change in this aspects of the game. This looks like they're doing a remaster, not a remake.

Creating the same game from the ground up makes it a remake, a very faithful one.

 

[Infinitron]

As Roguey says it'll be very faithful, but Krome's very faithful and well-received Bard's Tale Trilogy remake changed some stuff too. That's why they added the Legacy Mode. So I assume there will be some similar changes here as well.

 

[Harthwain]

I stand corrected then.

 

[agris]

What are the chances that this is Win10 only? I’d guess 95%. Anyone want to poke the hornets nest on twatter?

That's what I get for posting on my phone. I mean out of the possible window platforms, i.e. Win10 not 7/10.