Game News Torment News Roundup: Brian Fargo interview, First Castoff statuette, Mark Morgan music

[Lancehead]

Colin, regarding romances, is romance going to be a major theme in the game or will it be "optional" content much like in BioWare games?

 

[winterraptor]

Every time I have an interview I am going to refer to this list.

Come now, don't make my flesh blush.

 

[Jasede]

Colin, regarding romances, is romance going to be a major theme in the game or will it be "optional" content much like in BioWare games?

I bet I can answer that.
It's going to be a subtle, laid back kind of thing that's just part of a character / the atmosphere of the world. Romance won't be included with an NPC as a romance for its own sake; rather: if it is deemed at all appropriate for the mood and a character's concept it will be an organic result of their interaction with the PC.

Bioware no, MCA yo.

I request tormented same-sex tension between the PC and an NPC that is never ever mentioned or brought up in-game, merely foreshadowed in a manner so subtle that those who don't look for this thing will never notice. Wow me.

 

[Lancehead]

That (part of character concept) could work, but I'd like to see romance (not the sullied version of the word) as a theme. The big problem with BioWare romances, for the most part, is that they are strictly optional. They even point to that fact to the critics. Explicitly designing romances to be not relevant to any themes or plot of the game results in romance-for-romance-sake and/or wish fulfillment fantasies. If you tie them with the main themes of the game, then they stop being merely romances.

Considering "Abandonment" is a pillar of TToN, building a romance theme on it could be interesting.

 

[Jasede]

We are in accord; romance is fine as long as it is part of a theme, not something tacked on. It can only ever be an expression of a character, not some writer's idea of fanfiction or a company's strategic choice to enable their fans' wish fulfillment. It has to be organic and part of the artistic whole, and every part of it must be in harmony with the theme, mood and core of the game.

Else there'll be Codex hatred the likes you've never witnessed.

 

[Irxy]

I'll miss my harlots.

 

[abnaxus]

a billion years of gender equality

Torment indeed.

I'll miss my harlots.

"mind to males desperate for companionship and release"

 

[Syl]

Is that Colin on the right?

I know that's MCA in the middle facepalming, is there any other people working on TToN on the photograph?

 

[Infinitron]

Young Feargus is funny:

 

[Tommy Wiseau]

"Billion years of gender equality."

But what else, my good man? A setting so alien and advanced, of course our ideals would become the status quo in anything but the most dystopian of fantasies!

 

[Zed]

young feargus looks exactly like old feargus

 

[Jaesun]

Who is the dude on the left?

 

[Infinitron]

Who is the dude on the left?

http://www.falloutwiki.com/Brian_Hendley