Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Pre-Release Thread [ALPHA RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

Stop letting roguey troll you and just ignore him already.

 

indeed...

Anyway, if sea or someone else will bother replying to that shitbag, just point out how stupid he is, dont bother with trying to convince the pathetic asperger into anything since hell just grasp for the usual laughably stupid "angle" that failing to convince him is proof of whatever the stupid shit he is splurging - again - like a broken record.

 

it just reminded me someone i knew a long time ago

 

I'm not sure I can even handle watching this.

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God dammit.

 

Guy makes a video in response to a forum post... what?

 

30 minutes worth.

 

Can someone just link him the quote by Tim Cain saying he wants to make turn based fun again (with regards to Fallout) so he is slightly less ignorant about history?

 

Indeed. Once the execution phase fires, you cannot intervene and have to live with the choices you've made before. What you see in execution phase is still 100% asynchronious and turn-based.

How are they synchronized when guy A acts first in execution phase, guy B second, guy C next? If a mage happens to get his fireball off first, there will be no one alive to hit him back.

The order of acting might depend on stats like speed, or it may be fully random (Wizardry tends to lean to the latter), fact is, in their execution phase participants act one at a time.

 

Dec 15 I think.

I can't be bothered to double check and make sure I'm right.

 

Assburgers is a bitch.

 

*sigh*
...no, *yawn*

no comment

 

Ask him what he thinks about Fallout 3 vs Fallout 1 & 2. I'm sure he thinks the "false advertising" was just fine in that case.

Edit: nvm, he'll probably say VATS is the same as turn-based.

 

There was Fallout 1 and 2?

BUUUT...BUUUUT.. Bethesda didn't made gaems befor Oblivion. Does not compute...

 

Anybody else think this would make for an awesome game?

 

Just watched his first video and my only comment has to be this.

He cites the definition of a spiritual successor as a game that has the same theme, styles or elements (all narrative constructions as I interpret the definition he provided) then ignores all three terms and stresses that the word to note here is 'game'.

On it's own that point is already a confused mess since he somehow he interprets those three terms to mean gameplay... but seeing that bit after hearing his argument about how it's ok for sequels to change core system mechanics while spiritual successors can't. The guy is a fucking moron.

*Also, I've got to ask? Why does he keep saying metaphysics and constantly insisting that the metaphysics of the game world is broken. What does that even mean? The term doesn't make any sense in this context. Is he playing it off to say that since games have metagames their game worlds occupy metaphysics? ...and he constantly refers to games as a game first and foremost (i.e a set of mechanics, he seems very set on expressing this) but then constantly tries to abstract things as an aspect of narrative.

Absolute fucking mess, I'm sure he'll do exceedingly well in modern game development.

 

The only response needed for this idiocy is that InXile made it abundantly clear what they considered to be the "spirit" of Torment and what they were looking to bring over to their game. The fact that they did not even know what combat system they'd be implementing is the clearest possible message that, for them, this was not a key part of that spirit.

Anyone who backed the Kickstarter despite having an unbending preference for combat system is an idiot.

 

So, does he still think RTwP is part of D&D?

 

Infinitron, stop linking to that shitty site.

 

Need to buy an account to read the full topic btw, though I'm sure most codexers already have one.

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So, Jewfinitron, you're paying for SA?

 

"Phase-ish compromise" would piss off everyone instead of working as a concillatory measure as you suggest.