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

Back in Crispy 's day they got butthurt about the chainmail bikinis covering too much. WTF has nerddom come to?

 

You realize that games are commonly translated into other languages, right? In the case of T:ToN, the original language version is simply not commercially available.

 

Of course your standards mean shit, since you think PoE's system is good.

 

Oh hey, look, it's J_C who was sending me death threats not longer than 2 weeks ago for daring to say PoE looks like shit

 

2 weeks ago we didn't know (not even you) how the game system works, there was no beta yet, so I don't know why would I have sent you death threats. I think you are exaggerating this.

 

If you didn't know how the system worked, you weren't paying attention.

 

A system in theory is =/= how it works in practice. This system could be decent (not great, but servicable), if they fix it and balance it in the right way. But appearently Josh thinks that it is great as it is, it just needs balancing. No, it is not just balancing, some things need to change.

 

You should have known that certain elements would be added-in at the last moment and trusted in the perfection of Josh's vision:

 

Plus the term "nano" isn't used in a scientific way.

 

Everything about the system conforms to my expectations of how it would look like during the beta period. I have amazing powers of analysis that often lead to amazingly accurate predictions.

He's right. Also note: none of the feedback he's received has surprised him. The most honest person in the industry would be forthcoming if he was blindsided by system critiques.

 

You are disgusting. Maybe you should check the PoE beta thread and read how banal Josh's system turned out.

 

https://twitter.com/ShannaGermain/status/505842027662426113

 

DragonCon is a huge gross nerd orgy btw and I mean that in the literal sense. What happens in Atlanta will stay in Atlanta.

 

If you could go ahead and clamp down on Roguey's constant edgewise shoehorning of PoE and Josh Sawyer into formerly high-quality General RPG Discussion threads, that'd be swell.

Simulation of the results of closing the original PoE thread to further posts:

 

Sounds like it was made for you.

 

Pretty weird how you'd interrupt the current semi-on-topic discussion of the sexual misadventures of Chris, Monte, and Shanna to make an off-topic post complaining about me.

Also I didn't shoehorn anything in here, J_C brought it up.

 

Sure. That's just as implausible as human beings actually controlling Ninth World-ers through computers in an RPG. Why not go full retard?

Has no bearing whatsoever on the setting though. (Hint: There's a difference between game presentation and game lore)

So we have Jacks as in jacks-of-all-trades, Glaives as in people who fight and Nanos as in...a Latin prefix meaning dwarf?

 

Which would be...the presentation of the game lore? As opposed to the content of the game lore? Which is actually what I was talking about? I mean, not everyone is a Tolkein, I get that. But some self consistency within the game lore would be nice.

 

Well if nano in TToN doesn't refer to anything 21st century or scientific at all, the most common other meaning would be from Latin for "very, very small" or "dwarf"... I take it those don't seem as strange to you as they do to me? <shrug>

 

Nano is a term is expect to be around till the end of time actually. The metric system will prove pretty resilient. You can quote me on that.