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Beth bought id software, so it's possible that they're finally working on a stable and well-documented engine. If not, then it's a shame.

Call me an optimist, but with the way Wasteland 2 seems to be going, and the team they've assembled for the new Torment game, it seems unlikely that it'll suck. It's got the goals, team and management that makes that kind of games possible. And as I said in another thread, it's pretty obvious...

Furthermore, does it really matter if they call it a sequel, anthology, or whatever else? We're getting an RPG made with the same literary emphasis as PST. There are few games like that. To me, it's not about nostalgia, it's about the real lack of options if I want to play another game like it...

This is pretty normal. An old-ish example that comes to mind is Mount & Blade, back in 2004 or thereabouts. The game was in development and you could buy it cheap, with the promise of countinuous improvements and that the price would go up as they progressed.

So they butchered the setting and now they want to make a TV series based on that? Maybe they should have skipped Fallout 3 entirely. At least then they'd still have a chance at a half-decent series, depending on who gets to write it. /s

If this PR stunt helps drive more funds into the game's Kickstarter, then I'm all for it. It should go without saying that RPGs like PST are rare and that more funds equals more content/features. Edit: It might also be worth noting that Avellone wasn't entirely comfortable with certain D&D...

+1 to NMA reporting more on this game. Between Van Buren being canned and Fallout 3 getting close to release, NMA also reported on other RPGs. There was even a poll on that issue, IIRC.

Somewhat off-topic, but why does even Chris Taylor et al remain at Interplay? I'm sure Obsidian, Inxile or even Bioware would be happy to hire them, especially with these new projects they're starting. And if not, then, well, there's a whole industry looking for experience and proven talent...

I guess that was implied in Mikael's second line.

Heh, I like that picture. Mooing floaters, and Buster telling them to "buy something or GET THE FUCK OUT". Anyway, about the floaters themselves... I always thought they resembled sperm cells. :crazy:

I remember hearing morse code in the Brotherhood of Steel Bunker music (Metallic Monks), and in the Military Base music (can't recall the name, it wasn't as memorable as others). I doubt there is any particular significance to the messages, they just sound right in the music.

One thing that worries me in this interview is the fact that none of them explicitly acknowledge that the P&P-like gameplay was essential to the series. Feargus even goes as far as saying it doesn't really matter. This could be seen as further justification to where Bethesda is going with...

Are you sure that's possible? AFAIK, only the Master could actually be convinced that he was wrong. Anyway, I usually killed him with the gauss pistol, just like I killed everybody else... gotta love firing that 3 times in a turn.

Coral cache gives no results either... so, what is it?

Heh, how about a free zeta scan? (This is on topic, kinda, since the hubologists are a parody of scientology.)

It'll be very unfortunate for anyone to get caught for something as trivial as updating his website, but these controversial laws usually go away with the regular left/right swings in elections. (Although I haven't really checked how Poland "works" in that respect, so I could be wrong...)

No, what matters is what they do. And what they do is compel their initiates/lower supporters to give ever growing "donations" to the church, until they are completely dependent upon it. This is what Hubbard meant it to be from the very beginning. It's no religion, it's a scheme to make money...

Did you even read Hubbard's quotes? Even him didn't consider it to be a religion, and rightly so, since the main objective was always to make money (and, judging from his other publications, through dubious means) and because they don't even care to thoroughly maintain their façade of...

He can't do anything because he's dead. Fortunately. Although his church denies this officially, claiming instead that he "discarded his body to do higher level spiritual research". Comedy gold.

Yet another attempt by politicians to regulate "the wild internets". Whatever. I'd say that law has no chance of being thoroughly enforced.