Game News Wasteland 3 Fig Update #3: Base Funding Goal Reached, First Stretch Goals

[yes plz]

People in an incestuous industry sucked each other off? much wow

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

People you guys adore vouch for him, and his writing speaks for itself in TTON (and in WL3)

So I assume you too are working on W3? Otherwise you wouldn't see too much of his work on the game.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Shit, confidential information leaked.

 

[MRY]

I declined to work on it. No time, and I couldn't see how it would be a better experience than TTON, which was already very taxing for what ultimately wound up a small and fairly marginal contribution to the game. At this point, the pay is pretty irrelevant -- getting paid on TTON was symbolically important but it doesn't matter on my bottom line, and that would be all the more true with WL3.

My point re WL3 is that if you think the writing is bad, that's all fine, but Gavin's work history isn't really relevant to the questions. He got the TTON job off a writing test and Colin's vouching, and he got the WL3 job because the TTON team and many fans love him and his work on TTON.

When I say "his writing speaks for itself," that's not me vouching for it, it's me saying to trust your own senses rather than someone's work history.

 

[Bubbles]

many fans love him and his work on TTON.

What did he write in the TToN alpha?

 

[Darkzone]

My point re WL3 is that if you think the writing is bad, that's all fine, but Gavin's work history isn't really relevant to the questions. He got the TTON job off a writing test and Colin's vouching, and he got the WL3 job because the TTON team and many fans love him and his work on TTON.
When I say "his writing speaks for itself," that's not me vouching for it, it's me saying to trust your own senses rather than someone's work history.

You do know that this throws him politely under the bus?

 

[prodigydancer]

When I say "his writing speaks for itself," that's not me vouching for it, it's me saying to trust your own senses rather than someone's work history.

Indeed. Covetous Shen is the only NPC introduced in D3 that I can remember at all. It was a bad ARPG and no kind of writing can possibly ever save a bad ARPG, but if I were to judge D3 by the writing only, I'd have to say it wasn't all bad. And the good parts, as far as I can remember, were mostly those mentioned in that guy resume so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

 

[MRY]

What did he write in the TToN alpha?

I haven't kept track. His most praised contribution is the alien sexologist, I think. I see a lot of praise for that.

 

[Black]

I...I… I apologize. You don’t know what it was like, lying all these years

 

[getter77]

The car goal has potential to drive some actual pledges---but the other 2 goals thus far are just...absolutely bland. I'd have expected something weather based, or really anything else that will have more impact on the game itself than a bit of dress up and an insignia. They just don't scream Best Foot Forward on trying to not let that initial campaign momentum slip through their hands like so much sand---but perhaps they've largely resigned themselves to it after how BT IV went and will spend the next few weeks/updates actually explaining the game and bring in the proper ambitious goals for the final week/48 hours unless they get a hell of a surprise on this and the social media goals that probably should've already been there at launch while the coals were red hot.

 

[Roguey]

There won't be any ambitious goals.

 

[Darkzone]

There won't be any ambitious goals.

The car goal could be quite tricky, if it has more functions then just a normal companion that lets off from time to time some sentence. The 37 Pieces of Flair is just a week of work for someone with a bit of experience. And the Customizable Ranger Squad Insignia is also not that requiring.
So in a way i agree with your statement.

 

[hello friend]

Haven't followed this at all, but frankly I'm amazed this got funded. Did WL2 sell well?

 

[Black]

Haven't followed this at all, but frankly I'm amazed this got funded.

Me too, quite quick as well.
Was it mostly investors doing the funding or the good goys?

 

[hello friend]

Is there a difference?

 

[Bubbles]

Haven't followed this at all, but frankly I'm amazed this got funded.

Me too, quite quick as well.
Was it mostly investors doing the funding or the good goys?

 

[Kev Inkline]

What comes to investments, I am going to miss the obiligatory Steven Dengler in-game trophy - and I this is not a sarcastic remark. The guy's been doing what Notch should.

Perhaps he should be told about Whalenought and other smallest of teams.

 

[Black]

Haven't followed this at all, but frankly I'm amazed this got funded.

Me too, quite quick as well.
Was it mostly investors doing the funding or the good goys?

Ugh, it's those darn publishers again.

 

[Fairfax]

What comes to investments, I am going to miss the obiligatory Steven Dengler in-game trophy - and I this is not a sarcastic remark. The guy's been doing what Notch should.

Perhaps he should be told about Whalenought and other smallest of teams.

I won't miss it. The prick doesn't even bother to come up with anything, he just puts his name and/or in-game advertising for his brand. Satellite Reign was probably the worst case, followed by PoE.

 

[MRY]

I always thought Denglr, god of money, was pretty inspired. :D

Notch bought an Obelisk for TTON. It's one of the things I wrote. He didn't buy at the Dengler level, but he did a decent sized contribution.

 

[Black]

What comes to investments, I am going to miss the obiligatory Steven Dengler in-game trophy - and I this is not a sarcastic remark. The guy's been doing what Notch should.

Perhaps he should be told about Whalenought and other smallest of teams.

I won't miss it. The prick doesn't even bother to come up with anything, he just puts his name and/or in-game advertising for his brand. Satellite Reign was probably the worst case, followed by PoE.

Is Satellite Reign any good? I remember I had hopes for it, long ago.

 

[Fairfax]

I always thought Denglr, god of money, was pretty inspired. :D

Oh, I always forget that one.

What comes to investments, I am going to miss the obiligatory Steven Dengler in-game trophy - and I this is not a sarcastic remark. The guy's been doing what Notch should.

Perhaps he should be told about Whalenought and other smallest of teams.

I won't miss it. The prick doesn't even bother to come up with anything, he just puts his name and/or in-game advertising for his brand. Satellite Reign was probably the worst case, followed by PoE.

Is Satellite Reign any good? I remember I had hopes for it, long ago.

I've yet to play it. Too many performance issues at launch, and they're working on a co-op mode, so I might wait to give that a shot.

 

[Kev Inkline]

What comes to investments, I am going to miss the obiligatory Steven Dengler in-game trophy - and I this is not a sarcastic remark. The guy's been doing what Notch should.

Perhaps he should be told about Whalenought and other smallest of teams.

I won't miss it. The prick doesn't even bother to come up with anything, he just puts his name and/or in-game advertising for his brand. Satellite Reign was probably the worst case, followed by PoE.

Is Satellite Reign any good? I remember I had hopes for it, long ago.

I am playing it currently. Only made it through tutorial so far. Seems still a bit buggy and the agents react and move sluggishly. Menus and UI are a bit illogical when you do the off-action stuff, like research. But they've got the graphical and musical atmosphere nailed down. Can't say much of the gameplay yet, as I have played so little, but feels so far pretty - perhaps even too - simple.

I think it's much better that backers don't come up with their own stuff - the worst thing would be backer procuded lore. For that matter, Dracogen is actually a cool name for opposing corporation.

Or I dunno, maybe you like reading PoE backer stories aka post-laps that've been tagged on NPCs.

 

[DeepOcean]

Haven't followed this at all, but frankly I'm amazed this got funded.

Me too, quite quick as well.
Was it mostly investors doing the funding or the good goys?

Ugh, it's those darn publishers again.

To be fair the money you "invest" on Fig, you can't pull out later or legally demand anything so no pressuring InXile to turn the game into RTwP or other stupid shit suits genius come up with (of course this doesn't stop Fargo from doing the stupid decisions himself.).

 

[Burning Bridges]

"Senior writer" that shit could have been written by cleverbot.