How much is Wasteland 2 worth to you?

Oh Prostitute, the wasteland is no place for a nice girl like you.  Why did you ever leave British Columbia?

Think about it now, because you’ll want an answer ready when a doe-eyed Brian Fargo jingles his change cup at you next month.  He hopes to raise something like $1m to fund Wasteland 2.  As I recall, his studio inXile has owned the license for several years, meaning this Kickstarter idea probably comes after frustration with the limitations of traditional financing.  If nothing else, the ongoing Kickstarter Fever tells us developers have been chafing under the restrictions of the current publishing model for some time.  I hope we're watching the beginnings of their liberation.  The most interesting work of recent years has been done by independent studios publishing digitally but I'm certain there's great talent languishing in studios hidebound by conservative publishers and it will be good for all of us if they can take more risks.

I was playing this instead of that.

For my part, I missed Wasteland back in the day (I was playing lots of Might and Magic 2 at the time) and when I finally got around to it I couldn’t handle anything so retro.  Like the floppies they shipped on, games from the late '80s have not aged well.