Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Pre-Release Thread [ALPHA RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

2nd person camera. You see the game trough the eyes of the NPCs you meet, so you don't know who you are meeting, only how they respond to you. The game mechanics are centered around this making it a bit of a "who am I?" game, you have to guess who you're talking to but you cannot tell them about your condition since they would take advantage.

 

The sound is horribly distorted.

 

Missed the first 30mn

Any interesting info so far ?

 

Nope. Just repeating the basic bullet points.

 

they will have more to say about graphikz this week.

 

Chat room loves Herve Caen

 

Might. Its not decided on completely as i figure.

also, maybe no animations for epic spells, if i heard correctly.

 

" When will the renowned game designer Herve Caine be added to the Kickstarter Stretch goals?" Trolling or serious?

 

I thought they said they would like to do the epic spell animations but it would have to be evaluated how much it costs. Personally I don't want them at all and neither do plenty of people on Obsidian's forums when a poll came up there asking about them. Hope they decide against it.

 

yeah me too. i would prefer a better, deeper magic system then DnD "spells" again.

 

Hey Brother None someone from the Witcher forums is curious about expenses for a game this scale in California. http://en.thewitcher.com/forum/inde...uccessor-in-the-works-by-inxile/page__st__140

 

He was just asking for some info about how much funding a game on this scale costs with paying everyone's wages. Though now that you brought that up I don't like my wording. Give me a moment I'll edit that.

 

I still don't understand...What game do you mean? Witcher 1, Witcher 2, Torment?

 

Since he is asking Brother None, I guess Torment.

 

Sorry for being late about quest markers... but in BG's and PS:T they were present... every NPC having a quest or being a part of quest was named instead of being "townperson". So imo removing every mean of tracking quests would be a hell to navigate in crowded places.

 

An NPC being named is not a quest marker. Named NPCs are an essential part of a RPG setting, Drog. RPG should be not a hide and seek simulator, so named NPCs and journal entries are adequate information for the player to find the quest giver if necessary. The player is using the in-game information available to his character(s). Quest markers are not an in-game information available to the PC.

What kind of RPG setting would consist of 'NPC1', 'NPC2' and so on anyway? By autists, for autists?

 

In infinity engine games you knew npc names without talking to them (so not an in-game information) so it functioned like a quest marker. Named NPC = quest giver. And it looks like well-hidden one.

And i agree with this part, though i think i wasn't clear earlier.

 

Oh, then in that case the expenses are $2,972,445 and rising (- Kickstarter and Amazon commission)

 

Or someone involved in another quest giver's quest. I agree it's a relatively good system, I like when towns and cities are padded with random citizens to make them look more busy, populated and real.