How will the new Tex Murphy Radio Theater play into Fedora?

gryphonosiris wrote:Considering that Overseer left us at cliffhanger, and the Radio theater left us hanging knowing that Chelsea was alive but Tex was still wanted for her murder I wonder how the new six Episode will both resolve the story, and effect the new game. However will it lead directly into Project Fedora the way that Overseer was to lead into Chance? I'm genuinely curious.

From my understanding of what Aaron hinted to the radio episodes will serve to fill the gap between the end of Overseer and the start of the next game with more detail than what will be in the next game (I assume they will recap in some way such as through flashbacks/monologues or certain clues triggering memories perhaps), similar to how the novelizations of the games had some extra detail, incidentally it seems there will be a novel for the next game too which may further go into detail about the prologue. I had thought the start of the next game would have us playing some of the events in the Radio Theater (even if just in a playable flashback sequence) just because escaping from the hospital and stuff might of been tense and interesting. But someone else on the forum posed the question and Aaron stated it would not be playable as it is now in Tex's past.

They have also said that the game will start a few years after Overseer and even the Radio Theater too (since if I remember right that took place just after Overseer). In one of the early Kickstarter updates Aaron talked quite a bit about how at the start of the game there will be the option to either get more backstory for those who desire it or for others who just want to proceed with finding out what happened with the speeder and Chelsee they can. So I assume there will be the option there to recap on some things, whilst others who just want to move forward rather than look back will have that option as another branch. Of course he could just mean backstory on Tex himself and events in Radio Theater may just be gradually revealed as he regains his memory. In the retroNick interview he said Tex will not be "sure exactly what happened that night" etc. So as we progress along there might be a bit of recapping and also new information revealed not seen in Radio Theater etc. in a gradual progressive way.

Aaron discusses story for "Project Fedora"
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tex ... sts/232882

Quoted from interviews:

Will the plot from the 2001 "Radio Theater" act as the start of the game?
We will need to introduce new players to this world as well as refresh the memories of people who have played the games before. To a degree the events in the Tex Murphy Radio Theater which took place after the end of Overseer will be involved. Obviously we have to account for time that has passed since production however, so we won't pretend that those events just happened a week ago. We feel it necessary to move the story out a number of years to make it seem more real. But this change will be incorporated without damaging the originally intended plot and in fact we feel it will enhance the mystery creating an even more enjoyable experience for players to unravel.

- RetroNick

Is most of what happened in the Radio Theater episodes, going to make it into the new game? I'm excited already about having to find away to escape from the place Tex was kept captive.

Chris & Aaron: Sorry...the events of TMRT are in Tex's past now, so we'll find out about some of the things that happened, but it won't be part of the gameplay.

- UTM Chat

Will the new Radio Theatre episodes continue from where the first batch finished?

Chris & Aaron: The new TMRT will definitely cover some of the events that take place between the end of Overseer and the beginning of the new game. The novel, incidentally, will go into great detail about that time period (one big difference between the book and game).

- Reddit

gryphonosiris wrote:Obviously, Tex will get the girl

You can never be too sure with Tex

Aaron Conners wrote: One of the things that makes Tex so endearing (and easy to relate to) is the presumption that he will NEVER, EVER get a piece...

Either way, it will be awesome!

Anastasia Romanov

foreigners didn`t know, that women's surname in russia ends in "a"
nothing of course, but it makes works of art involving something russian look a little stupid

I love the works of Tesla, and that whole era of history. So much mystery and cloak and dagger stuff. It's recent enough to have certain events well documented, but still enough in the shadows that it can capture your imagination.

And Tesla was both very much of his time, and ahead of it.

I encourage you to read what you can about him. Very fascinating!

-Fred

my voice just wrote:foreigners didn`t know, that women's surname in russia ends in "a"
nothing of course, but it makes works of art involving something russian look a little stupid

Well, or at least Anglicized. The English convention is to keep the same surname between male and female, so that (unlike in Icelandic) a female can have the surname John-son without needing a feminine determinative at the end, be it an explicitly feminine noun like "daughter" or a mere feminine morpheme like Russian -a. It's very interesting: it explains why Susan Ivanova's father in Babylon 5 was Andrei Ivanov!

I'd be curious to know if you put -a at the end of foreign surnames when they belong to women, as with Suzanne Barnes or Marie Curie. I'd guess so, at least some of the time, since the -a is a part of Russian's morphological system, which differentiates for natural gender.

At any rate, not keeping up with the idiosyncrasies of the cultural naming convention of every person we discuss is not even a little bit stupid but understandably uninformed. The difference between those two English ideas can be subtle and have many gradations: e.g. seeing Russians criticize English speakers for not knowing the minutiae of naming conventions in Russian looks a little uninformed.

agreed

and since we have touched on this topic:

minutiae of naming conventions

i`d like to officially inform, that when, for example, in a movie, close friends call each other "dmitry" and "ivan" - it looks a little uninformed too
cause we`re also have affectionate, diminutive and even affectionate diminutive versions of names
we`re not vikings
for example,

Anastasia

can be just "nastya", or even "nasten`ka", "nast`yusha"
if everybody was a little more informed, their pieces of fiction, or other art would be a little more believable (and we would live in a little better world of course)

so... why i`m telling all this... chris, aaron - if you will need a russian affectionate diminutive name expert (for a sandwich) - i`m your best boy

I certainly appreciate authenticity! Incidentally, that's something I always appreciated about the X-Files: foreigners spoke in their own language to each other, with subtitles. None of that Russians-speaking-English-with-a-Russian-accent-to-one-another junk.

Yeah, that one time Mulder and Scully goes to Norway was really believeable for any Norwegian viewer out there in the audience

-Fred

Fred Buer wrote:Yeah, that one time Mulder and Scully goes to Norway was really believeable for any Norwegian viewer out there in the audience

-Fred

Hmmm, I own all the episodes, but I never got to seeing all of them - do you remember which season and/or episode #? This is something I have to check out

Bests, Rockefeller

rockefeller wrote:

Fred Buer wrote:Yeah, that one time Mulder and Scully goes to Norway was really believeable for any Norwegian viewer out there in the audience

-Fred

Hmmm, I own all the episodes, but I never got to seeing all of them - do you remember which season and/or episode #? This is something I have to check out

Bests, Rockefeller

It was episode 19 (Død Kalm) of season 2.

Ah yes, the rapid aging episode

TheEyesInTheDark wrote:It was episode 19 (Død Kalm) of season 2.

Ah, sweet! Thank you!

Bests, Rockefeller

I remember that episode. That was the one COTW episode that you could actually see them both expiring. They both came REALLY close to death in that one.

I'm sure it could be argued of a lot of episodes that they came really close to death, but this one in particular had me rattled

It also had Norwenglish on par with the opening scene from 1982's The Thing...

No, in fact, it was even worse than that. They mauled the language so badly it was cringeworthy.

-Fred