By today’s standards, the 1988 original (which comes bundled with the Digital Deluxe version) is a throwback to another age. Wasteland 2 is the sequel to a role-playing game that you probably haven’t played. However, it’s also possible that you’ve been living inside a news-free radiation shelter for the last couple of years, so allow me to offer some background. It’s entirely possible that you’re one of the 70,000 Kickstarter backers that made Wasteland 2 possible, in which case I’ll keep this short: thank you. I’m sorry, Aberforth.īut I’m getting ahead of myself. He was a cute goat, and his name was Aberforth. There’s a villager I didn’t help, and a town I didn’t save, but it’s the goatricide that I regret the most. Sometimes those consequences manifest immediately and sometimes they won’t be felt for a while. Wasteland 2 is a proper, grown-up role-playing game, where choices are important and actions have consequences. I’m not the sort of gamer who goes around shooting pixelated ruminants just for the hell of it. It’s hardly the worst of videogame crimes, but it continues to gnaw at my conscience. Then I stole its water bowl, and it attacked me. One minute it was happily munching on some irradiated, post-nuclear scrubland.

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