Company News Brian Fargo talks about inXile's plans for Van Buren at Eurogamer

[Turok]

Just Fargo yanking our chain.

Wasteland 2 was kickstarted as a Fallout successor, and since it wasn't received as well as he would've wanted, now he needs a reason to tap into those hopes again when Wasteland 3's turn comes (most likely next kickstarter). A "Van Buren" successor is just what he needs to string us along, so we're good and ready to give him our wallets.

He's monetizing our dreams.

False, Wasteland 2 never intended to be a Fallout Successor, it try to be a Wasteland 1 successor and it do it well.

 

[ROARRR]

Wanamingos are mutants, not aliens

That was a Chris Avellone retcon in the Fallout Bible, which is no longer canon. In-game, they were aliens.

Yeah, as I remember they were called aliens in game...
I do like this explanation:

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Wanamingos are strange mutant animals that live mostly underground. They are also often called aliens, due to being mistaken for extra-terrestrial beings. They were designed as FEV-tailored weapons for waging war on other countries and they escaped into the wastes[1].

Source: http://misc.thefullwiki.org/Wanamingo

and this one

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While there always was some evidence of the existence of alien life forms, it is very scarce

and this one screwed the whole mystery feeling

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Until the events of the Fallout 3add-onMothership Zeta

source:http://misc.thefullwiki.org/Aliens

 

[Excidium II]

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Until the events of the Fallout 3add-onMothership Zeta

lolz

And people find it in themselves to be butthurt about wanamingos

 

[valcik]

In-game, they were aliens.

Sauce, pls. AFAIK there's not any explanation about them in BIS Fallout, except that crazed dude Athabaska Dick in Redding. He's pretty unclear about it though:
{165}{}{Well, some say they were here before the A-bombs, H-bombs, and all-what-else hit. Others say they were jean-eti-cally injuneered as weapons. An' then there's some what says that they're from a whole differ'nt planet. }

.. deathclaw = horned cameleon

I think that deathclaw in first Fallout was just some randomly plagiarised monster from DnD. They came up with that chameleon DNA experiments much later, haven't they?

Even in the retcon wanamingos break that rule by having just plain been created from FEV-air.

Fun fact: There's pre-war research base in total conversion mod Fallout 1.5 Resurrection, where all the DNA experiments took place and wanamingos have been created here by government as a highly efficient bio-weapon. ^^

 

[Infinitron]

IIRC, there were some wanamingos that the game itself labelled "aliens" (you'd see "alien" in the combat log), but I always interpreted that as a kind of reverse fourth wall breaking where the game UI itself assumed an uninformed in-world point of view.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Sauce, pls.

Roguey's retarded trolling.

They were never aliens.

 

[valcik]

Agreed, I consider that "alien" label to be euphemism slipping into the scripts, without any clear explanation in-game.

 

[Maldoror]

Van Buren won't have Legion Chariots in it.

 

[Roguey]

Roguey's retarded trolling.

They were never aliens.

The textbox said otherwise.

Plus they clearly look like Giger-esque aliens.

 

[FeelTheRads]