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

[undecaf]

Probably p. gay.

Or zoophiliac.

 

[Fry]

Best. Post. Ever. https://forums.inxile-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=15258&p=167716

Fuck you Dot Dat.

 

[Roguey]

how will I be able to roleplay an evil badass when he looks like a fag with aids

Who gives a fuck what he or she looks like? What should be questioned is what will an atrocity committed by such a character look and feel like.

Spreading HIV to countless people of course.

 

[SniperHF]

Couple handy Gifs I made.

So much potential lost in the first one.....

Spoiler

 

[DosBuster]

Incidentally, DosBuster seems not have noticed a couple of easter eggs I threw in, but sadly seems to have missed my favorite of the bunch. . . .

Heh, what'd I miss? It wasn't the thing that starts with A, was it?

 

[MRY]

Incidentally, DosBuster seems not have noticed a couple of easter eggs I threw in, but sadly seems to have missed my favorite of the bunch. . . .

Heh, what'd I miss? It wasn't the thing that starts with A, was it?

In the philethis conversation there are a few things.

 

[DosBuster]

Incidentally, DosBuster seems not have noticed a couple of easter eggs I threw in, but sadly seems to have missed my favorite of the bunch. . . .

Heh, what'd I miss? It wasn't the thing that starts with A, was it?

In the philethis conversation there are a few things.

Hmm, I can't remember. I feel ashamed. So, in that case was the callout to decline/age of decadence intentional?

 

[MRY]

Hmm, I can't remember. I feel ashamed. So, in that case was the callout to decline/age of decadence intentional?

Yes. Someone flagged another one in a different thread (the merging of the threads).

 

[Excidium II]

Hmm, I can't remember. I feel ashamed. So, in that case was the callout to decline/age of decadence intentional?

Yes. Someone flagged another one in a different thread (the merging of the threads).

Also, prosper.

 

[Fairfax]

Has this been posted?

Not even mad about the SJW thing (although it's definitely silly). These are so dull and with stupid hair. Really disappointed here.
Also, quality-wise these are the worst portraits so far. MaleCast is in such low-quality it's like a 10min speedpaint. I mean, look at his neck. FemCast less so, but still bad.

I've commissioned a bunch of art from deviantart and I got better quality pieces for $30.

I liked this one, btw:

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

I've commissioned a bunch of art from deviantart and I got better quality pieces for $30.

Yeah, I have too.

 

[Excidium II]

What the fuck is up with those eyebrows on the female PC? Did the hair not make her look enough of a trashy alternative slag? Is her idle animation twerking?

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

how will I be able to roleplay an evil badass when he looks like a fag with aids

I'm finding it hard to be an evil badass in the game so far.

 

[Fairfax]

This woman doesn't care about her looks. She's seen shit, and is not ashamed of her scars. The lighting, the facial expression, the colours and weirdness of the thing in the background. It's more of a Dark City/Alien mood with a touch of Planescape.
She could be anything: a chaotic evil and ambitious criminal willing to commit genocide to get what she wants, a lawful neutral scavenger who's been through so much that she doesn't give a fuck, a neutral good adventurer who's learned to care and does the right thing, despite breaking rules here and there. Whatever you make of it.

These two have seen shit -- namely, Arcade Fire, Grizzly Bear and tUnE-yArDs. They also face a real struggle: they don't know whether jorts are becoming too mainstream.

 

[Excidium II]

Who is the artist anyway?

 

[Ovplain]

Just saw 'em and I agree, the female portrait they showed off during the campaign looked so much better.:S This is... this is terrible.

 

[Once more unto the Codex]

Yeah, the beta portraits of the Last Castoff suck something major. The original art for both the female (the one with the dragon flame thing coming from her hand) and male (the one with him fighting the dog thingies) last castoffs were much better than the current iterations.

 

[Fredward]

and tUnE-yArDs.

Ooooh Tuneyards! Slay.

It would seem the Changing God liked to overpluck his eyebrows if/when he was female. Unpainted neck splotch is bad but on the bright side it probably means it's not final. I preferred edgy bald lady too but I don't remember dog dude.

 

[Commissar Draco]

I don't want to RP as Josh Sawyer some Kwan hispster kido. For Frack sake I do hope you will be able to slap your own provided pic instead... Bald Comradess as fugly as she was was at-least surrealist enough to fit setting; its like ending up in Oblivion after Morrowind again Comrades.

 

[Morality Games]

That's pretty bad. Pretty bad indeed.

EDIT:

*beep* Rationalization protocols kicking in.

Well, the overall physiognomy is relatively similar to the original portraits. Avatar pics traditionally focus on the face only. In a certain lighting you could argue that the new pics represent the same people as the originals.

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

I think stylized 3D portraits of the characters like how they were in Planescape would be neat. Like, with color and shit.

 

[Fairfax]

This is the former male castoff:

Never really liked this one. This guy has stupid hair like the new one and a bland face (it's better than the emo face, but not good either). It wouldn't have worked as a portrait anyway. It's just regular concept art.
Codex's own Jaceface did a much better job with his custom PoE portraits:

And my favourite:

Shitty speedpaint aside, it's not just InXile's artist fault, by the way. He was instructed by his bosses, which completely missed the point of having a PC with predetermined appearance. It's supposed to be expressive, distinctive, they have to stand out and be instantly recognizable by the player.
Here they made something bland to try and appeal to everyone, to make something players of all races can relate to, but it's just dull.

Artists have a few different tests to find out if characters (specially a group of them) are distinctive enough:
- Shave their heads and remove their clothes;
- Draw them as silhouettes;
- Remove colour;

Not necessarily all at once, but the idea is to do all of these tests, or at least imagine them, and try to tell them apart from the rest of the characters or people with a similar look.

Try to imagine Aligern, Tybir, FemCastoff and MaleCastoff naked, bald and in black & white. Is it that easy to tell them apart? Now imagine just the silhouettes...

I'll take a similar game as an example. This is Obsidian's Christmas card:

Can't even see Durance's body or clothes, just a little bit of his hair, which wouldn't make a difference if removed.
That's distinctive visual design. You can tell it's Durance right away, despite the lack of everything but his face, and it would've worked just as well without colour.

Now I'll just leave this here:

 

[Darth Roxor]

lololo phallic imagery

 

[Ellef]

Who the fuck is coal and on what authority does he state that the game nails the ninth world feel?

he's this guy

Ugh.

And this guy is around kids all way, what a world. Also the characters look like people at my Uni handing out pamphlets for some bullshit cause.

 

[Infinitron]

Here they made something bland to try and appeal to everyone, to make something players of all races can relate to

Citation needed https://forums.inxile-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=15208&p=167612#p167500