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

[Ninjerk]

oasis789 https://twitter.com/oasis789/status/542033770472550400

That guys posts a fucking LOT.

 

[Zombra]

어쨌든 확실한 이야기가 나오지 않는 이상 그냥 예상이고 상상일 뿐입니다. 한 가지 분명한 건 민타임도 그렇고, 반 뷰렌도 그렇고 인엑자일이 뭔가 일을 벌이고 있다는 점이군요. 그건 참 기대됩니다.
(via RPG Codex)

https://crpgnews.wordpress.com/author/sungooshow/

 

[Forest Dweller]

Never mind that time travel is a shitty plot device.

Edgy!

Turns out time travel stories can also be really fun and interesting. It's the kind of idea that science fiction is for. If you prefer amazing stories like "What if cars could go 10MPH faster?", good for you I guess, but honestly science fiction just isn't for you.

Lol. You do realize that there's no really no scientific basis for time travel actually existing do you? It's really just a wish-fulfillment fantasy masquerading as science fiction. It's simply become considered science fiction because so many stories incorporate it as a plot element, but there hasn't ever been any real science behind it, and never will be.

 

[Athelas]

Uhm, you are on a forum largely dedicated to the pursuit of LARPing role-playing as pointy-eared wizards and the like.

 

[supervoid]

Never mind that time travel is a shitty plot device.

Edgy!

Turns out time travel stories can also be really fun and interesting. It's the kind of idea that science fiction is for. If you prefer amazing stories like "What if cars could go 10MPH faster?", good for you I guess, but honestly science fiction just isn't for you.

Lol. You do realize that there's no really no scientific basis for time travel actually existing do you? It's really just a wish-fulfillment fantasy masquerading as science fiction. It's simply become considered science fiction because so many stories incorporate it as a plot element, but there hasn't ever been any real science behind it, and never will be.

Actually, time travels exist in science in theory. There are equations of space-time geometries that allows to travel in time, Lorentzian Wormholes, Close timeline curves etc. In theory it works, in reality will work if there is specific geometry and topology of universe (and also other stuff). You'd be suprise what you can find in the scientific journals. Also: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-travel-simulation-resolves-grandfather-paradox/

 

[FeelTheRads]

Time-traveling like the tolling of some great bell.

 

[himmy]

De ce ar înregistra un nume de cod pentru un joc anulat și apoi lansat într-o variantă diferită? Poate pentru că Fargo vrea să îi facă un cadou lui Avellone.?

Translation:

Why would [they] register the codename for a cancelled game that was subsequently launched in a different version? Maybe because Fargo wants to give Avellone a present?

Not sure if this is gaming news or fan-fiction.

 

[FeelTheRads]

lol another rumanian fag

 

[m_s0]

And I thought Meantime was unexpected.

 

[Zdzisiu]

https://twitter.com/RPGEndBoss/status/542052479924723713

I love how he has zero respect for his sources.

It is ok to use other people work without any ackowledgement, as long as you have zero respect for them!

 

[Infinitron]

Coverage from a major site, at last: http://www.pcgamer.com/van-buren-and-meantime-trademarks-filed-by-inxile/

 

[Diablo169]

Yeah pcgamer like to link to the Codex :D

 

[Duraframe300]

I'm excited for Meantime, but Van Buren sounds like more of a name based cashgrab than anything else.

Theres close to zero overlap between the teams and lots of design/narrative ideas were already used before, Doing something more original would be way better.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Coverage from a major site, at last: http://www.pcgamer.com/van-buren-and-meantime-trademarks-filed-by-inxile/

Pcgamer ends an article with:

In 2012, Fargo wrote, "I commend the sleuthing abilities of the Codex" in regard to its discovery of the Torment trademark filing; earlier this week, in response to the Meantime discovery, he tweeted, "The codex investigative unit strikes again."

Today after both finally crushing AngryJoe (this time for good) and being sourced all over the world RPGCodex went mainstream

 

[Forest Dweller]

Coverage from a major site, at last: http://www.pcgamer.com/van-buren-and-meantime-trademarks-filed-by-inxile/

The applications were both filed by Roxy Friday LLC, a company previously linked to InXile Entertainment founder Brian Fargo, who also happened to be the head of Interplay during the development of Meantime and, presumably, at least some of Van Buren. Roxy Friday is also the company that filed for a Torment trademark in 2012, prior to the announcement of Torment: Tides of Numenera.

So in other words it couldn't even be Fargo.

 

[Infinitron]

Yes, some other person must have decided out of the blue to trademark a bunch of obscure Interplay titles with the same company Fargo did two years ago

 

[Crooked Bee]

https://twitter.com/RPGEndBoss/status/542052479924723713

I love how he has zero respect for his sources.

So, he refuses to cite the original source because someone apparently said something negative about/to him on the Codex at some point? LOL gaming journalism.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Thing is, the codex attacked me years ago. I have zero respect for them.

Butthurt. Never forget.

 

[mindx2]

Thing is, the codex attacked me years ago. I have zero respect for them.

Butthurt. Never forget.

Who is he?

 

[Crooked Bee]

VG24/7 has picked it up too, via PC Gamer: http://www.vg247.com/2014/12/08/is-inxile-going-to-make-a-new-isometric-fallout/

Who the fuck is RPGEndBoss_?

Fixed.

 

[Ninjerk]

https://twitter.com/RPGEndBoss/status/542052479924723713

I love how he has zero respect for his sources.

It is ok to use other people work without any ackowledgement, as long as you have zero respect for them!

Nin @NinjerkDotA
@RPGEndBoss @oasis789 This is like that thing #Gamergate was talking about.

 

[Roguey]

And not just a "no interviews" blacklist but an "Obsidian, don't allow any of your employees to post at RPG Codex during the duration of your contract work on New Vegas" blacklist.

Really? I would love to see the source!

http://new.spring.me/#!/GZiets/q/324247055109221453

During development of Fallout New Vegas and its expansions (appx. 2009-2011), we were told that we could not post on the Codex. I remember that someone from the Codex asked me to contribute to a developer survey around the time they announced the policy, and I unfortunately had to turn them down.

After FNV and its expansions shipped, we were never specifically told that we could post again, but I think the restriction was removed.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Thing is, the codex attacked me years ago. I have zero respect for them.

Butthurt. Never forget.

Who is he?

A man wronged and left for dead years ago, his precious feelings yanked away, which left a wound that would never ever heal. Codex victim #432157.

 

[Zombra]

Lol. You do realize that there's no really no scientific basis for time travel actually existing do you?

OK, we get it, you don't understand what science fiction is. It's OK, I already said it may not be for you.

 

[kazgar]

Is RPGEndBoss butthurt because we've said RPGEndBoss once had inappropriate relations with a goat? Because that is what I heard.

That being said, after once hearing that RPGEndBoss has had inappropriate relations with a goat, I don't have proof of the event when RPGEndBoss had inappropriate relations with a goat. The fact of RPGEndBoss having inappropriate relations with a goat may just be hearsay.