Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Beta Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

no. the shit hit the fan far way back than Trump.
does Colin McComb even has an account here anymore? wasn't it ccomb or something like that?

someone should quote his last 3 posts on this forum

 

CMcC

 

It's not as if he's going to emerge from his tomb and start posting.

 

I just looked at his profile and found this...

Which pairs with that time when Bester (iirc) called Heine a degenerate cuck or something like that. Yeah, can't guess why they don't post here anymore.

 

On the one hand - Bester sure doesn't know how to behave in a polite society. On the other - 'dex isn't a polite society. But still I felt kinda bad for Heine, McComb was (and still is) a more appropriate target.

Late to the party, but I looked at their current lead writer's LinkedIn, and it's a total disaster. Blizzard miscellaneous writing and editing Wildstar MMO are among his main achievements, oh, and also this.

So now at least I have an explanation for this gem:

[src]

 

Fucking inxile is full of degenerates... no wonder Brother None and Sea fit right in.

 

Well, I don’t. The only reason why they didn’t reply in the same venom is because they are developers. The reality is that they are more fanatics than the ultra-right dudes we have on the Codex because they are hypocrites. They preach diversity, but are intolerant, they preach an open mind, but are dogmatic. Their twitter of these guys is filled with political fanaticism and agendas. On the Codex you may find racist dudes telling not many nice things in your face, but at the end of day, it’s a diverse and harmonious ecosystem. The irony is that Codex of all places implements real diversity, it doesn’t preach it. In what other corner of the internet you will find Nazis, trans, jews, blacks, Brazilians, germans, polacs, homos, heteros, bisexuals all talking about the same things? Only on the dex.

 

A lot of problems for the fans with this game:
- first they delay the game 1 year due to localization;
- then they announce console version;
- then publisher;
- then the problem with the CE;
- now the italian version is no more.

 

Yes, in fact, I predict the lack of an Italian version will be this game's undoing.

 

Delayed for 26 months, actually.
Also:
- Project Lead fired;
- cut companions;
- cut factions;
- more cut content Fargo didn't want to mention.

At this rate, there's probably a lot of stretch goal content they won't deliver. I'm curious to see all the areas added as stretch goals, specially the "second major city".

 

I thought this game was coming out two years ago.

 

quality takes time

 

Fixed.

 

It's all for the better, bro. Ask, Inshillitron. "It's just like PST". PST had troubled development so it's only natural that this one is the same.

Going by all this stuff, Fargo's totally honest sounding "this publisher deal is totally different, right? not like the others, right?" looks like more bullshit that ever.
More than likely he had to do a pretty shitty deal with Techland to get them to give him money.

 

The underwater one, right?

We saw the PC swimming around in an underwater area that looks like it, so we know it's going to be in, but it'll be interesting to see if the same lack of content has befallen it as PoE's "second major city".

 

Huh, really? During the kickstarter BNazi was talking, in jest, about adding swimming.

 

They got a publisher to pay for localization and they still cut one of the languages. Fargo acts like he had a lot of leverage, but the KS budget is long gone by now and not having translations would significantly hurt sales. I wouldn't be surprised if he got a bad deal, but then again the publisher is pretty bad, so who knows.

Yes, it's supposed to be this one:

However, the last time they mentioned the second city was in January 2015, and the "World of Numenera" trailer, which shows several of the game's locations, doesn't mention the Oasis at all:

 

Very much doubt they just cut out the entire place (especially after we saw they implemented swimming and art for it), but like you said, the whole production has been weird, so - anything's possible, I suppose.

 

I'm stating the obvious but I think this game is going to be a big hit for them. I hope so, because even if youd don't particularly care for the new batch of Kickstarter RPGs, they have put old-school RPGs back on the map again. So for that alone these guys and gals are important and get respeck from me.

Second, I admit I was sleeping on this Numenera game. I generally don't like 20-30 hour RPGs, which is what I thought this would be, even if there are lots of choices and branches, etc. But it looks like the game will be bigger and shoot, it looks great overall. So I'm into it.

That said, my upcoming most hyped title has to be Bard's Tale IV. That might actually be a day one play for me, which is unheard of for me anymore.

Super Trigger the Codex Mode Activated - Also looking forward to Wasteland 3 a lot since my old man and I can co-op it with 2 controllers on PC.

 

If they won't include city areas content, is it possible they release it as later DLC expansion?

Me too. I really hope that this will bring new players to old school RPGs and that Torment 3 would be even better.
TTON is one of the most ambitious project I've seen.

Most of all, I hope this title will ignite that old spark which I had for Planescape Torment and Shadows of Amn long long ago.

 

Here's something interesting I just noticed:

The first picture is a screencap from the "World of Numenera" trailer, and the second one is the official map from a while ago.

Notice how the trailer map shows The Lost Sea but doesn't mention the Oasis, which is supposed to be right in the middle of it. All the other locations are depicted. The Oasis being absent is the only major change in that area of the map.

 

I think that's because first map has distanced shot than 2nd one. Second one is more closer to camera so it has Oasis titled. I could be wrong.

 

Here's a better picture, it shows most of the desert and the area where the Oasis is supposed to be:

I think it's gone, folks.