Game News Torment: Tides of Numenera announced for PS4 and Xbox One, gets new trailer

You know one day somebody who i've gid money to is not gonna be a lying sack o shit an i'll die o fuckin shock.

 

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I remember the enthusiasm with all of these kickstarters.
Yet I didn't back PoE (instinct!) and backed torment with just $5 dollars solely because my Debt Card was dry (not gonna use the Credit Card on the net) and I didn't feel like rushing to recharge it.

In a way, so, I was already somewhat disillusioned.
Well, I guess I was an aging gamer even 3 years ago.

 

A larger point is that *if* Obsidian did that there would be little basis for being mad at them because so far they haven't pitched they're making more Infinity Engine revivals or asked for money to accomplish it.

 

4 person party
Turn-based
Shitty Numenera setting
Social justice
MCA only writing a companion
Unity
Console release

It's practically Planescape: Torment 2!

 

Looking forward to playing this in 6 years. Trailer looks good.

 

They're not only unreliable they have been a joke for years. Well documented at that.
No idea why people of the codex of all things takes them seriously.

 

I don't see your point. In their latest kickstarter update InXile writes as followes:

Torment was developed for the PC and the release on consoles won't affect the game. Especially since Torment has been in development for years and the only thing left to do is some polish and localization. The benefit of a console release is greater sales and thus more resources for the next game.

 

Apan so you are going to trust him now when he lied years ago? Fool me once...
that said, not surprising considering InXile's company track record
I hope console porting truly won't mean fully voice acted dialogue, i have really tired of this gimmick
I'm sure it will still be fun enough to give it a spin on release anyway

 

As others have said, it was obvious as soon as they went with a 4 man party that the day would come when they suddenly discovered the game would also work well on consoles "without affecting the pc game", while fitting in surprisingly perfectly with the much delayed pc release date. Pretty standard pattern, guess they spun it a bit better than the likes of Sword Coast Legends.

Oh well, the last bit of 2012 hype dies off and I can go back to expecting everything to be shit, with the odd pleasant surprise on the upside from less heralded outfits.

 

Animations sure look like shit.

And the graphics feel like they're emulating some anime epic. All those colorful special effects, my eyes.

It's this damn setting. Monte Cook

Plus the bland "epic incoming" music.


Could still turn out good because Colin + Ziets, but goddamn, I paid good money for... this?

 

Why is it that damn hard to find anyone that isn't willing to lie to you? Jesus, there isn't a single straightfoward and honest company on this planet.

 

"Please do not turn off your PC when you see this icon"

 

Aesthetically pretty poor, but what can you expect from a Kickstarter budget. Not so sure a console release will be worth it considering the PC fanbase are going to consume 90% of the copies, and maybe a few adventurous console gamers will buy it.

 

Great to see kickstarter monies going to making yet more console games....

 

I was annoyed by all his talk about "persons of color" but this turns out to be even worse.

 

I... This is a joke, right?

Ha..ha..haha.. Great one, Fargo. You really got me. Man, I feel stupid right now. That was such a great prank...

 

You would be right. I am looking forward to it -- I liked New Vegas and Fallout 4 was terrible. I am looking forward to Torment too.

I'm upset because the priorities that seem to have motivated the production of this game aren't (ergo "don't feel like") the same priorities they pitched to backers.

Well, that part just sort of amused me, since I had already accepted it was the case back when the 4-man party was announced. I was still amused by the "PC/Console dual release", even though this had been pitched as a computer RPG.

I wasn't upset until the blithe line, "this doesn't affect..." when it is clear their entire development has been motivated by the desire to depart from the Infinity Engine and cRPGs whenever these elements serve as an impediment to expanding Torment's audience.

Doesn't that sort of remind you of another company that is controversial on this forum?

 

it's not the kickstarter monies, it's Techlands money. And it's not a console game, it's developed for PC.

 

Consoles happened. Mirrors are actually fairly easy so long as they don't look at each other directly. Even that you could deal with by using a slightly different means.

Even many shitty hobbyist engines have mirrors for god's sake.

 

I know that the concept is amazingly challenging for the average retarded human but you either have a console game or a not console game. There's no such thing as a PC game that just happens to work on consoles. Because PC games don't work on consoles and require a huge amount of dumbing down.

WHICH IS THE ORIGINAL REASON WE STOPPED GETTING GOOD RPGS!!!!

And which is why WL 2 was mediocre shit and a lot of the reason this will be even more shit. Wow obvious reality is such a concept.

I will never get tards like you seriously...they just decided one day no more hardcore RPGs? No, there was a reason.

 

Yeah. The game might actually be decent, but you eventually get tired of being lied to literally by everyone: politicians, journalists, "old school" game developers...
Well, anyway. It's not like I invested a lot in this, not even time. We'll see.

Off to play Talisman, Blood Moon was released today...

 

Well, that's the problem, eh?

WL2 was "decent" but I don't pay so I can play a "decent" game. I play in hopes of getting a really good fucking game, not something to just kill some time.

When they are worrying about console market then decent is the best you will ever get, because they are just giving you the minimum they can to get your PC dollars so they can go after the ten times larger console market.

I really had a lot of hopes when WL 2 was pitched, and in just a few years the incline has swept right on past into the decline just like it already did in the 90s and 2000s except this time even faster.

If I want "decent" then I can go play mass effect. Which at least has Miranda's ass.