It came after eight long years spent pitching Wasteland 2 to publishers. Brian Fargo, founder of Interplay and inXile.įargo, founder of California developer inXile, remembers that presentation in Singapore.

There's huge excitement for Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity, the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate, and of course inXile's Wasteland 2, the sequel to the grandfather of post-apocalyptic role-playing games and the precursor to the Fallout series. Larian's Divinity: Original Sin is still one of the top selling games on Steam a month after release, and players are loving it.

But remembering what made them great was fun, in a warm, fuzzy, nostalgic kind of way.įast forward three years, and old school role-playing games are back with a bang. As a commercial exercise old school role-playing games were dead, he'd decided. As founder of Interplay, he'd worked on many: Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment, Fallout 1 and 2. In late 2011, while on a business trip to Singapore, Brian Fargo gave a presentation to a room full of people about old-school role-playing games.

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