Matt Chat 90: Wasteland and Fallout with Brian Fargo

In the second segment of my interview with industry legend, Brian Fargo and I talk about Wasteland, Fallout, Stonekeep, and more. We also chat about modern CRPGs and why the 80s style (parties and turn-based) went away.

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[PaladinV0ci]

Dear Brian,

1.Get the Brotherhood

2.Take over bethesda head quarters

3.and make the Fallout Games THE RIGHT WAY!!!!!!!!!!

[Goblins Hobbits]

After bioware proved to us that they didn't want to make a game worth half a fuck anymore....

Help me Brian Fargo, you're my only hope.

[scotty noobody]

Stonekeep was an awful game...They took a chance but just didnt work

[prodf]

What is Wasteland, a Fallout 3 rip off ?!

[trog69]

Apologies for the wall of comments, but anyway, I did have a problem with Oblivion that I've never solved. See, when I first played it, my "Media-Center" PC's GPU was so weak that I wasn't able to complete the second to last quest due to too many characters on-screen at once.( Don't want to give too many spoilers.) So I never completed the game. Now I have an OCed i7 and a evga gtx680 ftw card-powered gaming rig, but I don't have the urge to play it with so many other games on my plate.

[trog69]

That S/B "...forced the game to play on one "core"..."

Sorry, I don't have a fix for Oblivion, and I can only suggest the Nexus Forums, where loads of gamers with some modding skills can help with crashes in-game. That's how I finally got New Vegas running with mods with a minimum of crashes. Even then, NV seems like it suffers from a split personality. hehe. I still play it and love it; just with it was as rock-steady as Fallout 3 or Skyrim.

Gonna dive into Dishonored tonight. Yay, me!

[trog69]

I hate to ask, but in Fallout 3, did you alter the .ini file to throttle your multi-core processor? It was found that when you included two short lines in the file forcing the game to run on only one thread, it played without the crashes. I found out about it when my game would continually crash in the Megaton Men's bathroom where I'd stashed my gear until I decided which house I wanted to own. Almost no crashes in hundreds of hours playing, last night included. I never had Oblivion problems.

[John Smith]

Fallout 3 and Oblivion had way more bugs for me, fallout 3 was riddled, and oblivion was the kind of game that I'd have to save multiple times to try and do anything.

[trog69]

Morrowind through Skyrim, and Fallouts 3 and NV. Only New Vegas gave me any trouble whatsoever, but I see I wasn't all that "open" in my previous comment, because my problems with NV were mostly due to my cheating too much via console commands. My whining about it is mainly because I have cheated the entire Fallout 3 until it no longer was the same game! hehehe.I'm on this rig a lot, so I try hard to keep it up-to-date and monitoring temps. Might be a part of why I don't have the issues of some.

[CMixBrooklyn]

Hey Matt, glad to see your getting more views these days. Love what you do, these guys are the unsung heroes of modern American culture. They're artists operating in a profit driven business, and it seems absurd to me that the only time they have the opportunity to really exact their artistic vision is when the marketing and sales folks have little respect for the profitability of their projects... until they're actually released and become best sellers. Then all of sudden they take notice.

[sirmolio]

*Kickstarter, I mean..... and btw, being a PhD myself (in molecular bio) you are one of the elite few who managed to retain his coolness.. love the long hair, love the attitude, love your focus (well placed), and love you man.. THANK YOU for nourishing the joy that once was and (thanks to Kickstarter) shall thrive again.

[sirmolio]

First off, I grew up on Bard's Tale and Wasteland and (thus) worshiping Brian Fargo. But seriously, WHY THE HELL IS HE LOOK SO YOUNG? HE looks 30 or 35 man.... good looking guy too, DAMN.. (and no I'm not GAY, not that there's anything wrong with that) ... Matt, you're awesome too.. and I am so grateful for your reviving and sustaining the life of this forgotten age of greatness that sadly wasn't so long ago.. Honestly, people like you are a core reason Kickstart was ever conceived. Thank YOU!