Wasteland 2 Kickstarter

This is tangentially related to tabletop RPGs, and it’s a kickstarter and everyone loves those, right? Well there’s a kickstarter up for a sequel to Wasteland, and you should probably give money to it if only so you can essentially steal a copy of what will likely be an incredible gaming masterpiece for only a paltry $15. Do you want a pizza or do you want Wasteland 2? You know you want Wasteland 2, don’t even answer that. Wasteland was a 1988 DOS/Apple II RPG that is the spiritual ancestor to Fallout, except instead of being full of goofy 50s aesthetics it’s got goofy 80s aesthetics, which in my opinion is exactly a million times better. The game has been entirely fan-funded now, but if you keep giving Mr. Fargo more of your money, the game can only get even better. There is no ceiling to the amount of money Wasteland 2 deserves. Here’s a blog with concept art.

(They also promised if they get the kickstarter up to 1.5 million dollars they’ll support Mac OS X. That would be great, so if you’ve got a Mac that isn’t boot camped, GIVE OUT YOUR MONEY.)

A lot of the trimmings of Fallout exist on some level in Wasteland, including nuclear annihilation, crazy post-apoc economics, moral choices, a sandbox world, crazy robots, and xenophobic technonudnicks. Wasteland never got a sequel because we live in an unjust world that actively hates us and our presence, so the team moved on to Fallout, and that was okay, because Fallout was great! But a sequel to Wasteland is just so much more exciting in every way. It is all the brainchild of this beautiful man. I played games like Ultima on old computers when I was younger and couldn’t afford the million dollars necessary to buy a Voodoo or a Rage 128 equipped PC and play “REAL GAMES.” I played a bit of Wasteland, and was pretty intrigued. So if you’re a fan of those cool old CRPGs with quirky settings and tons of choices and freedom of exploration, that came in huge boxes with gigantic manual tomes, poster maps, dialogue books and hint books, well here you go.