Wasteland - Chris Avellone @MyFavouriteGame

Chris Avellone talks about his favourite video game Wasteland and the influence it had on him with myfavouritegame.net

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Hey there. Your games podcast sound for the summer is here in the form of the fourth season of My Favourite Game.

We begin tonight with a RPG from 1989 that left such an immersible legacy to games and Chris Avellone, who kicks off Season 4 of MFG talking of it as his favourite game.

Were it not for Wasteland, the RPG genre may be an entirely different looking playing field today. Particuarly when you factor in a little-known spiritual successor under the name of Fallout, be it under Interplay or Bethesda.

The Season 4 premiere sees Chris talk of his why Wasteland was such a design influence, the player styles of RPGs then and now, his departure from Obsidian Entertainment a year ago to go solo and work as a freelancer and how it felt it when it all came full circle for him working on Wastleland 2 with inXile.