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

[Zeriel]

I'll probably get a box unless they say something that offends me.

So basically, you're not getting a box.

 

[Cowboy Moment]

I'll probably get a box unless they say something that offends me.

A quiet darkness fell across the planet, lasting many years...

 

[Jaesun]

Brian Fargo ‏@BrianFargo
We are happy to support localized versions of Torment for our Polish and Russian fans due to their passionate feelings about RPGs.

 

[Zeriel]

Not sure how I feel about all the translations + Linux. Seems like a lot of resources for something that's supposedly going to be on a shoestring budget, but what do I know.

 

[Diablo169]

I'm rather interested to see what the stretchgoals for this will be.

 

[Jaesun]

Well we will find out tomorrow.

 

[Diablo169]

Unlocked at $3,000,000 -George Ziets hired as a permanent staff writer at Inexile, designs a good portion of the game, and is given free reign to develop his own original CRPG's for Inxile.


Do it Fargo, do it!

 

[hoverdog]

Brian Fargo ‏@BrianFargo
We are happy to support localized versions of Torment for our Polish and Russian fans due to their passionate feelings about RPGs.

: x

Not sure how I feel about all the translations + Linux. Seems like a lot of resources for something that's supposedly going to be on a shoestring budget, but what do I know.

We Slavs will work for few potato, so that's hardly a blow to the budget.

 

[Zeriel]

Brian Fargo ‏@BrianFargo
We are happy to support localized versions of Torment for our Polish and Russian fans due to their passionate feelings about RPGs.

: x

Not sure how I feel about all the translations + Linux. Seems like a lot of resources for something that's supposedly going to be on a shoestring budget, but what do I know.

We Slavs will work for few potato, so that's hardly a blow to the budget.

Yeah, I was being inclusive, I'm mostly raised-eyebrows at Linux and Mac, Mac I can sort of understand because so many hipsters buy ipencildick laptops these days, but Linux seems like a very low-payoff thing to include, how many people use Linux and don't just get by with a good emulator or dualboot?

 

[Jaesun]

Unity can port to Mac and Linux, at least the version that Fargo is using can IIRC.

 

[Brother None]

Porting to Mac with Unity consists of pressing a button and waiting one hour. Tadaa, there's your Mac port.

Linux is not quite as easy but I think the Unity guys are working on improving things on that end. It was a slightly trickier decision but we decided including it standard just makes more sense, and trying to leverage it solo into a stretch goal would be a bit dickish.

 

[evdk]

: x

Fucking potato privilege.

 

[Shadenuat]

Fucking potato privilege.

Fargo shows us proper respect, as he knows we will yet to save the RPG industry with our mature, bloody, potato non political correct games, while most of kwa vanilla games will turn into LGBT romance simulators.

Decline is coming. Embrace potato while you can.
And there are onions too.

 

[Jaesun]

Hell no. Keep LGBT shit out of videogames. Thank you.

 

[Jaesun]

Brian Fargo ‏@BrianFargo
Our Kickstarter video and page for #Torment is all wrapped up and ready to launch tomorrow at 6am PST. I shall be sleepless tonight.

Brian Fargo ‏@BrianFargo
I think you will like the amount of detail in our #torment @kickstarter . I think people expect more of it these days.

Brian Fargo ‏@BrianFargo
We got to choose the ending which will be on a Friday at 5pm.

Brian Fargo ‏@BrianFargo
And tomorrow is when @ColinMcComb debuts his acting chops

 

[Roguey]

Yes but it will have Planescape Torment walls of text. I thought you didn't like that and prefered mor action in gameplay.

I doubt it'll have the word count of Torment. Brian Fargo even gave Avellone a stern lecture about how he made them go overbudget on the localization costs. Plus I'm going to blindly trust that the combat will actually be fun this time.

I'll probably get a box unless they say something that offends me.

So basically, you're not getting a box.

Why would you think that? Fargo donated to Tropes vs Women. McComb wrote a book that handled women decently enough. Since it takes place in a weird, wacky place I doubt there will be any cultural appropriation to worry about.

 

[Rake]

Yes but it will have Planescape Torment walls of text. I thought you didn't like that and prefered mor action in gameplay.

I doubt it'll have the word count of Torment. Brian Fargo even gave Avellone a stern lecture about how he made them go overbudget on the localization costs. Plus I'm going to blindly trust that the combat will actually be fun this time.

Was your problem with Torment the word count or the way the game was more about dialogues than combat?

 

[Infinitron]

Yes but it will have Planescape Torment walls of text. I thought you didn't like that and prefered mor action in gameplay.

I doubt it'll have the word count of Torment. Brian Fargo even gave Avellone a stern lecture about how he made them go overbudget on the localization costs. Plus I'm going to blindly trust that the combat will actually be fun this time.

Nine whole months of preproduction! You can do a lot of writing in nine months.

 

[Jaesun]

Brian Fargo ‏@BrianFargo
And there will be some #torment tiers that are only available on a first come first basis tomorrow. #truebelievers

 

[Rake]

Yes but it will have Planescape Torment walls of text. I thought you didn't like that and prefered mor action in gameplay.

I doubt it'll have the word count of Torment. Brian Fargo even gave Avellone a stern lecture about how he made them go overbudget on the localization costs. Plus I'm going to blindly trust that the combat will actually be fun this time.

Nine whole months of preproduction! You can do a lot of writing in nine months.

I hope for bigger word count than Torment. After all the game will have better and fewer combat than Torment. Something has to fill the gap.

 

[Roguey]

Was your problem with Torment the word count or the way the game was more about dialogues than combat?

Combination of too much text, too much sexism, too much combat (because the vast majority of it wasn't interesting), and too much fetching and fedexing (complete with snarky journal entries talking about how tedious it all was which just annoyed me further because they knew it was boring and put it in anyway).

 

[Roguey]

I hope for bigger word count than Torment. After all the game will have better and fewer combat than Torment. Something has to fill the gap.

More words doesn't = better writing and as I mentioned that seems unlikely with Fargo.
http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/article?articleid=55

As far as interference-from-above goes, we probably could have used more than we had - like Fallout, Torment was sort of under the radar for a while, and the producer role changed several times over the course of the project. Brian Fargo was mostly hands off, except to complement us on the writing, and give me a pretty stern lecture (deservedly) about the localization costs for the game.

Also: "Complement." Some writer.

 

[Kukulkan]

I look at this game with a cautious interest.

 

[Zeriel]

Yes but it will have Planescape Torment walls of text. I thought you didn't like that and prefered mor action in gameplay.

I doubt it'll have the word count of Torment. Brian Fargo even gave Avellone a stern lecture about how he made them go overbudget on the localization costs. Plus I'm going to blindly trust that the combat will actually be fun this time.

I'll probably get a box unless they say something that offends me.

So basically, you're not getting a box.

Why would you think that? Fargo donated to Tropes vs Women. McComb wrote a book that handled women decently enough. Since it takes place in a weird, wacky place I doubt there will be any cultural appropriation to worry about.

I'm only extrapolating future events based on the (safe) assumption that if someone gave you a cupcake, you would throw it on the ground because a) it is a cryptopatriarchal cupcake and b) accepting it would perpetuate the ciscentered stereotype that women enjoy baked goods, which would in-of-itself only encourage the enslavement of women everywhere.

 

[Rake]

I hope for bigger word count than Torment. After all the game will have better and fewer combat than Torment. Something has to fill the gap.

More words doesn't = better writing and as I mentioned that seems unlikely with Fargo.
http://www.rpgwatch.com/show/article?articleid=55

As far as interference-from-above goes, we probably could have used more than we had - like Fallout, Torment was sort of under the radar for a while, and the producer role changed several times over the course of the project. Brian Fargo was mostly hands off, except to complement us on the writing, and give me a pretty stern lecture (deservedly) about the localization costs for the game.

Also: "Complement." Some writer.

More words!= better writting but i go with the belief that the writting will be good or else what's the point in this project anyway.
As for word count i wouldn't be so sure. Torment was just a random game among many. I would have lectured MCA myself if i was his bosh. An unproven game costing way above average for localization.
But for this project the whole point is to be similar with Torment and is directed to its fanbase. And i don't think those who consider Torment a masterpiece will have problem with writting. If anything they will excpect a large word count.