Game News Torment Kickstarter Update #15: Animated Second Screenshot, Colin McComb Q&A

[crawlkill]

Colin's reply to party size sounds almost like the BioWare developer who said complexity is evil and advocated constantly asking oneself what can be removed.

Although, the difference would be (I hope so, anyway) that while TToN puts limitations to try and maintain high complexity in the existing content with the available resources, BioWare makes the entire thing more and more shallow.

In theory, having a smaller party can make each combination of characters more unique. With six, it's hard to have convesations that're fully variable around every character present; with four, it's a little easier. Whether that's what's really gonna happen, who can say. If NPCs relate to one another less and the PC more, I guess I like bigger parties better, just because they let me experience more NPC arcs within a single playthrough. But meh. It's just an arbitrary number. What matters is that what's been decided on is used right, not what the decision was.

 

[Wizfall]

3 NPC is enough.
A party if 4 max would be fine. You will have to consider who you really want and that's great.
6 is too hard to manage unless the focus of the game is strategic combat.

 

[hiver]

5 is the perfect max number. A PC and 4 companions more.
Optimal amount of diversity and interaction.
While still not being a crowd.

 

[l3loodAngel]

The most notable new detail revealed in it is that the maximum party size in Torment will probably be four members, including the player character. That's smaller than the original Planescape: Torment, but then, I'm not sure that having a Baldur's Gate-sized party in PS:T really added much to that game.

Having 4 NPCs in team says that it won't add anything to this game too. This implies that combat is going to suck and that there isn't going to be much interaction between party members despite deeper, much deeper, loco deeper interaction with party members/story/game world and etc.

 

[Infinitron]

there isn't going to be much interaction between party members despite deeper, much deeper, loco deeper interaction with party members

wat

 

[l3loodAngel]

there isn't going to be much interaction between party members despite deeper, much deeper, loco deeper interaction with party members

wat

3.75 million. Increased companion depth. + 10 increased reactivity stretch goals...

 

[tuluse]

Colin's reply to party size sounds almost like the BioWare developer who said complexity is evil and advocated constantly asking oneself what can be removed.

 

[Jaesun]

Meh 2 is a bit generous.

 

[Coboney]

BloodAngel the reason they want the limit is to increase that reactivity - that way there's less different contingencies to plan for and its easier to have them interact as the set of companions and choices that have shaped them is less. Every companion spot you add increases that exponentially.

Regarding combat - lets see what they do. They've said though that they want combat to be less grindy and just coming up when it matters.

 

[l3loodAngel]

BloodAngel the reason they want the limit is to increase that reactivity - that way there's less different contingencies to plan for and its easier to have them interact as the set of companions and choices that have shaped them is less. Every companion spot you add increases that exponentially.

It's true only when all companions react to reactions of others, but I hardly believe that its going to be the case here. And even if it's going to be the case, having 5 companions is the same as having 3 companions as you have to script their actions anyway. So I don't get your point.

 

[tuluse]

BloodAngel the reason they want the limit is to increase that reactivity - that way there's less different contingencies to plan for and its easier to have them interact as the set of companions and choices that have shaped them is less. Every companion spot you add increases that exponentially.

It's true only when all companions react to reactions of others, but I hardly believe that its going to be the case here

Even though Colin specifically said he hopes to do that in the video?