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

[Infinitron]

Interview is mostly Numenera PnP-focused at first, but things get more interesting when Monte and Shanna leave and Pat Rothfuss starts geeking about PS:T. He's writing a female companion who is "very non-standard".

Arvan Eleron You guys got completely confused with the chronology of Black Isle, BioWare, etc there. Black Isle was never in Boston, you must have been thinking just of LGS.

EDIT: Haha, Rothfuss utterly despises Fallout 4.

 

[Merlkir]

He's writing a female companion who is "very non-standard".

Oh boy, that sounds dangerous. Will she be a magical fairy queen who tries to seduce the player for a sex-athlon ending in death from exhaustion? Or a terrible pedestaled love interest always just a wee bit out of the hero's grasp?

(for those who didn't read the Kingkiller chronicle, Rothfuss has a bit of a reputation for writing rather questionable female characters)

To Green Angel Tower by Tad Williams is almost as long as War and Peace.

How did that come up again? (I quite liked those books)

 

[Neanderthal]

He's writing a female companion who is "very non-standard".

What is standard now, I usually see kung fu fightin anorexic midegts on telly, books an in games. Nice to see someat different. Oh they all talk in that snarky way, passes for wit now.

 

[Irenaeus III]

I trust this MAN to write about women:

His companion and MCA's boy will probably save the game.

 

[Russia is over. The end.]

Oh boy, that sounds dangerous. Will she be a magical fairy queen who tries to seduce the player for a sex-athlon ending in death from exhaustion? Or a terrible pedestaled love interest always just a wee bit out of the hero's grasp?

(for those who didn't read the Kingkiller chronicle, Rothfuss has a bit of a reputation for writing rather questionable female characters)

If the chick in the short comic is his NPC, then she's more like Auri.

And there's nothing "questionable" about his girls, they're all cliched love interests from typical harem animes.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Hah, this Rothfuss guy is my new favorite guy.

 

[Arvan Eleron]

Interview is mostly Numenera PnP-focused at first, but things get more interesting when Monte and Shanna leave and Pat Rothfuss starts geeking about PS:T. He's writing a female companion who is "very non-standard".

Arvan Eleron You guys got completely confused with the chronology of Black Isle, BioWare, etc there. Black Isle was never in Boston, you must have been thinking just of LGS.

EDIT: Haha, Rothfuss utterly despises Fallout 4.

Yep, I'm an idiot. I meant LGS, not Black Isle. I'll blame it on my annoyance at god-forsaken Skype issues for multiple people causing the interview to start a half hour late, but that pathetic attempt at responsibility-shifting is no excuse for my brain fart. Sorry. :p

--Arv

 

[sstacks]

Looks like Colin McComb and George Ziets from inXile will be on the radio show April 23rd to talk about Torment: Tides of Numenera.

In addition to being appreciative of Colin and George for offering up their time, Thomas Beeker from inXile deserves much thanks for coordinating things on his end. He was super cool during our many emails to get things scheduled

 

[Arvan Eleron]

Looks like Colin McComb and George Ziets from inXile will be on the radio show April 23rd to talk about Torment: Tides of Numenera.

In addition to being appreciative of Colin and George for offering up their time, Thomas Beeker from inXile deserves much thanks for coordinating things on his end. He was super cool during our many emails to get things scheduled

Nice!

 

[sstacks]

Looks like Colin McComb and George Ziets from inXile will be on the radio show April 23rd to talk about Torment: Tides of Numenera.

In addition to being appreciative of Colin and George for offering up their time, Thomas Beeker from inXile deserves much thanks for coordinating things on his end. He was super cool during our many emails to get things scheduled

Nice!

Says the man who just had Monte Cook and Pat Rothfuss

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

Do we have an idea of when the next beta update is?

 

[Excidium II]

I trust this MAN to write about women:

His companion and MCA's boy will probably save the game.

Interesting shirt. Is he a fag?

 

[Infinitron]

I trust this MAN to write about women:

His companion and MCA's boy will probably save the game.

Interesting shirt. Is he a fag?

Patrick Rothfuss/Spouse

Sarah Rothfuss

 

[Excidium II]

Question remains without answer.

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

Question remains without answer.

Probably a storyfag.

 

[Mustawd]

Question remains without answer.

Probably a storyfag.

The worst kind.

 

[HatTrick]

I wonder if this game will make the same mistake the tabletop made and give all the fun Foci to Intellect-based characters and all the shit ones to Might. Nanos could get "SHOOTS FIRE" or "IS MAGNETO", and all Might would get was "HAS A BOW" or "CAN HOLD *TWO* SWORDS AT ONCE".

 

[StaticSpine]

Is anyone even playing the beta?

 

[Fry]

Played it, sure. Not much point in playing more until they update.

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

Played it, sure. Not much point in playing more until they update.

Pretty much this.

 

[Prime Junta]

Is anyone even playing the beta?

I played it all through twice, and part of the way through, like, a dozen times, exploring the different quest outcomes (and there are ToNs.)

Will crack it open again if/when there's an update that does things to the content or introduces new systems or something. Likely not going to bother with minor updates that just rebalance, optimise, or fix bugs.

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

Will crack it open again if/when there's an update that does things to the content or introduces new systems or something. Likely not going to bother with minor updates that just rebalance, optimise, or fix bugs.

I don't think Inxile is going that way tbh. I'd figure that there would *at least* be hotfixes and small patches if they were going that way. It's been over a month an a half since the last 'patch'. I have a feeling that the next 'release' that they are going to do is going to include at least some more content. Then again, this is my first rodeo with Inxile, I'm not sure how they handled things with Wasteland 2.

 

[Abu Antar]

Is anyone even playing the beta?

I ran trough the beta once but I don't want to replay it. Don't want to get sick of the early parts of the game.

 

[Infinitron]

Torment will be in the next issue of Beamdog's The Familiar magazine in July: http://thefamiliar.beamdog.com/5.0/#!/article/105661/101336516?loadFresh=true&title=02_20_Next Issue

 

[StaticSpine]

Is anyone even playing the beta?

I ran trough the beta once but I don't want to replay it. Don't want to get sick of the early parts of the game.

Yeah, I didn't even finish it once for the same reason.

I actually have no idea why I bought the beta tier Tha alpha was okay, I played it through couple of times.