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

[Bubbles]

I wonder why Fargo owns Fallout 4 and Rust out of all these games, specifically.

And why is he playing Hearthstone when he should be hard at work ordering rewrites on the Torment opening sequence?

 

[Fairfax]

It's out of the top 20 already (#21).

 

[Immortal]

So, now that this game is on Steam, there is the matter of Codex curation.

We should probably wait until the combat bugginess is sorted out before adding it.

More importantly, there is the question of which review will be linked from the curator page. :discuss:

Get a room you two.

Spoiler

 

[Bubbles]

The EA version has already been pirated.

 

[Aenra]

(apologies for the out of topic question)

Infinitron
your post right here: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...enera-now-in-beta.102141/page-49#post-4351183

Loads as blank for me, all i can see is "Broshry ". Is it a codec or something i'm missing?

 

[Infinitron]

(apologies for the out of topic question)

Infinitron
your post right here: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...enera-now-in-beta.102141/page-49#post-4351183

Loads as blank for me, all i can see is "Broshry ". Is it a codec or something i'm missing?

Insert DarkUnderlord Javascript joke.

Twitter embedding might be blocked by Noscript or whatever, try playing with that

 

[FeelTheRads]

The EA version has already been pirated.

Thank you.

 

[ArchAngel]

The EA version has already been pirated.

Why angry? Pirate don't pirate every game, only those that are found interesting. Also rare games get pirated while in EA. This is more of a badge of honour

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

So, now that this game is on Steam, there is the matter of Codex curation.

We should probably wait until the combat bugginess is sorted out before adding it.

You're such a media whore.

 

[Fry]

CMcC chat: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-01-27-watch-30-minutes-of-the-torment-tides-of-numenera-beta

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-01-27-watch-30-minutes-of-the-torment-tides-of-numenera-beta

He estimates the beta is 10 hours of game play representing 30% of the game.

 

[Stainless Veteran]

CMcC chat: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-01-27-watch-30-minutes-of-the-torment-tides-of-numenera-beta

He estimates the beta is 10 hours of game play representing 30% of the game.

Well, fuck.

 

[Bubbles]

The Steam forums are just pages and pages of this stuff:

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Wasteland 2 when it was on EA was on the top of steam for more than a week And it had first position for some time

 

[Infinitron]

The Steam forums are just pages and pages of this stuff:

Poor sea is doing a dirty job in there.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Wasteland 2 when it was on EA was on the top of steam for more than a week And it had first position for some time

That's curious since the Torment Kickstarter was more successful. Maybe the Fallout name dropping had more impact in the end? Or steamtards wised up in the meantime and don't buy as much into EA anymore?

 

[Fry]

The Steam forums are just pages and pages of this stuff

It was ok for a few hours after release. Now it's the usual Steam forum shit. I can't read it for more than five minutes without wanting to wipe out the human race.

 

[Fairfax]

Wasteland 2 when it was on EA was on the top of steam for more than a week And it had first position for some time

That's curious since the Torment Kickstarter was more successful. Maybe the Fallout name dropping had more impact in the end? Or steamtards wised up in the meantime and don't buy as much into EA anymore?

Wasteland 2 was the first major KS RPG to hit Early Access and had more publicity. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if more people are negative towards EA nowadays.
It certainly doesn't help that it's a narrative-driven game. A lot of comments in other forums are about how this is similar to buying the first chapters of a book before it's finished, etc.

 

[Grotesque]

The EA version has already been pirated.

Thank you.

time to head to piratebay to see on what I've wasted 110 USD this time

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Wasteland 2 when it was on EA was on the top of steam for more than a week And it had first position for some time

That's curious since the Torment Kickstarter was more successful. Maybe the Fallout name dropping had more impact in the end? Or steamtards wised up in the meantime and don't buy as much into EA anymore?

Wasteland 2 was the first major KS RPG to hit Early Access and had more publicity. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if more people are negative towards EA nowadays.
It certainly doesn't help that it's a narrative-driven game. A lot of comments in other forums are about how this is similar to buying the first chapters of a book before it's finished, etc.

Hope it is true, it certainly sounds probable. I am scared that we may be seeing some sign of a new decline

 

[Fry]

Hope it is true, it certainly sounds probable. I am scared that we may be seeing some sign of a new decline

It was inevitable that a lot of people who never played classic CRPGs bought WL2 and/or PoE because they heard they were good. Then realized they don't like them at all and won't buy any more...

...but are we now using unit sales to define "decline"?

 

[Infinitron]

More previews:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/previews/15336-Tides-of-Numenera-Preview
http://www.pcinvasion.com/torment-tides-of-numenera-beta-preview

 

[Bubbles]

Using the word "occlusion" is completely normal, but "composition" is the word that sets your character's sirens blaring?

The narrator says "solidarity" instead of "solidity" here, and I don't blame him one bit. This stuff sounds incredibly strained and forced, and I'm doing my best not to giggle while reading.

I don't think I can continue with this playthrough right now, but I'm looking forward to contributing a more detailed analysis of the writing to one of the many Codex reviews.

 

[Athelas]

How long does the fall at the start of the game take, exactly? Because it looks like in the time it takes to make that fall, you could read an entire novel (and learn a thing or two about writing in the process).

 

[MRY]

In the time it takes to make that fall, you could read an entire novel (and learn a thing or two about writing in the process).

The Secret Miracle.

 

[Infinitron]

Using the word "occlusion" is completely normal, but "composition" is the word that sets your character's sirens blaring?

Hmmm. The word occlusion is purely descriptive and could be something else ("You see something near that"), but 'composition' is part of an artistic metareference ("It's an interesting composition"). So it's not really the word per se that puzzles the protagonist.

FeelTheRads is right, it reads like a text adventure/interactive fiction.