Wasteland sequel likely

[Sulphur]

Yeah, if you're going to do foliage, at least do it right. Gamebryo? *cringe*

[Jason Moyer]

Foliage seems ok in Skyrim. Anyway, I was just imagining how awesome the Fallout 3 setting would have been with realistic overgrowth.

[EvaUnit02]

Skyrim's Creation Engine might be iterative of 2006-2010's Bethesbryo, but it's still a pretty different animal. They gutted and rewrote a shit load of it. It's not fair to lump the two in together.

[catbarf]

Foliage seems ok in Skyrim. Anyway, I was just imagining how awesome the Fallout 3 setting would have been with realistic overgrowth.

It's been done via a mod. Doesn't look too bad actually. There's also Fellout which gets rid of the green filter.

[Sxerks]

30 some hours to go, and they updated the $30 tier with extra stuff including another DRM free game download.

[faetal]

That piece of art also makes me yearn for it to be a Fallout 3-esque world (as in the 3d, roaming nature of it, not actually anything like Fallout 3 in terms of gameplay). The foliage in Far Cry 2 (most recent CryEngine game I've played) was pretty damned great.

[catbarf]

That piece of art also makes me yearn for it to be a Fallout 3-esque world (as in the 3d, roaming nature of it, not actually anything like Fallout 3 in terms of gameplay). The foliage in Far Cry 2 (most recent CryEngine game I've played) was pretty damned great.

An overgrown wasteland would be neat, but Far Cry 2 actually isn't the CryEngine since the game had nothing to do with Crytek. Instead they made a new engine in-house and then never released any tools, hence the lack of modding.

[faetal]

Ah right. Still, I remember numerous times during that game just stopping and soaking up the atmosphere in the more jungle-like parts.

[Shadowcat]

Assuming that the $100,000 from PayPal backers is separate to the Kickstarter total (as it seems unlikely that Kickstarter would be tracking that), then it looks like they've exceeded $3,000,000.

[Thirith]

An overgrown wasteland would be neat, but Far Cry 2 actually isn't the CryEngine since the game had nothing to do with Crytek. Instead they made a new engine in-house and then never released any tools, hence the lack of modding.

That's what I thought, but at least on Wikipedia they mention that the Dunia engine is based on the CryEngine, though heavily modified.

[N'Al]

Assuming that the $100,000 from PayPal backers is separate to the Kickstarter total (as it seems unlikely that Kickstarter would be tracking that), then it looks like they've exceeded $3,000,000.

Yes.

[Sxerks]

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[SDF121]

It's been done via a mod. Doesn't look too bad actually. There's also Fellout which gets rid of the green filter.

Ive always thought that this mod looked better.

http://fallout3.nexusmods.com/mods/13523

[dethtoll]

wtf? that looks terrible

[Jason Moyer]

Huh, that's actually the one mod I might have to try out. Would still like to see one that's more overgrown instead of "transplanted some trees from Oblivion into FO3" but that works for now.

[SDF121]

wtf? that looks terrible

Really? I've always preferred the 'Their World' mod over the 'Greenworld' mod. Mostly because the 'greenworld' is too colorful for my tastes while 'their world' reminds me more of the dark and dreary overgrown areas from STALKER.

[Sxerks]

The Vision Document was released, non-pdf version.

Also, crowdsourcing for assets, forum link.

[Koki]

The Vision Document was released, non-pdf version.

RPG: RPGs haven’t kept pace with time - they've regressed and even worse, taken pride in less role-playing than before. Important elements have been lost over time, sacrificed to technology, art constraints, voice-over expenses, and multi-platform console constraints.

[ZylonBane]

Nerd cred fail.

[dethtoll]

Christ that title art just gives me the ragingest boner.

[Jason Moyer]

I hope the actual in-game artwork looks that good.

[Sxerks]

Wasteland 2 to include the original Wasteland - info link

[demagogue]

Not too surprising. The original is like 3 kb isn't it?

[Melan]

Definitely smaller than your average screenshot.

And Lords of Midnight was 48k, which was a bit like fitting the Lord of the Rings on a coin. That's some programming.

[Eldron]

Not too surprising. The original is like 3 kb isn't it?

I don't think size is the deciding matter.

They own the rights to the wasteland name, but the first wasteland game?, that still belonged to EA as far as I know, they probably worked out a deal or purchased that.