Quoting: SuperuserBeen thinking of playing this, do I need to have played the first Wasteland to get into this?

If you played the first game then you will have more context on some of the events mentioned in Wasteland 2 and you will probably get some references that someone who didn't play the first wouldn't get. That said, you can play Wasteland 2 without having played the original just fine.

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I put 100 hours into the game and I'm ready for more. I was going to start a second playthrough on supreme jerk difficulty, but then the news of the Game of the Year Director's Cut Edition broke and I decided to hold off until that comes out.

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That's cool and all, but how about that Linux port of the first game? That would be nice. Hopefully once that materializes (Soon? Please. Pretty please) it will mean that the Linux groundwork is in place for faster (Simultaneous?) Linux delivery of the second game.

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I'm at the point where I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll never actually get to play this game I helped fund. I have waited in anticipation for it for so long that it really wore on me and I made the decision to write it off as a loss for my own sanity. If it does happen then it will be a nice, but until it's physically natively booting on my Xubuntu machine I'll continue to be convinced that it's never going to happen.

Needless to say, if Larian ever runs another Kickstarter, they will be getting nothing from me.

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Dat carnage

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I don't have much of a problem with it. People forget that the two Shenmue games, while beloved by fans and generally liked by critics, did not do well financially. In particular, Shenmue 2 lost SEGA quite a bit of money. It's understandable that Sony would be cautious about tossing Yu Suzuki 30 or 40 million to do Shenmue 3 when Shenmue 2 was, more or less, a financial disaster. So they set a goal on Kickstarter that, if reached, tells Sony that there seems to be enough interest out there to make it worth the risk of tossing Yu Suzuki 30 or 40 million (a game like Shenmue doesn't get made for 2 million dollars). It's kind of the same thing Kingdom Come: Deliverance did with their Kickstarter. They have financial backer(s) too, we just don't know who they are. The Kickstarter was to show said backers that there is sufficient interest out there to make the financial risk worthwhile.

In the end, Kickstarter still serves the same ultimate purpose, it allows a game to be made that wouldn't have been otherwise. If Shenmue 3 or KC: D don't make their Kickstarter funding goal then their financial backers don't fund the project and the game doesn't get made.

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The woman in the trailer has got the crazy eyes. My advice to the undead ninja is to run. Run as fast as you can.

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Quern looks great and I'd love to play a new Myst-like game, but I'm not sure I'm confident enough given I don't really know anything about the developers. It's certainly something I'd buy if it released and got positive reviews, though.

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So you write an article about the coinciding dates, which will obviously get peoples' hopes up, yet you tell people not to get their hopes up. You see how these things conflict?

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I can only imagine that this will be the first game to fully take advantage of Vulkan, once Vulkan has finished baking in the oven.

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