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

[Kz3r0]

Brian Fargo ‏@BrianFargo
I love the Kicktraq formula pegging us at 12 million.

heh

$17,169,102
trending toward

 

[Akarnir]

Just a theory, But now people really got used to those ambitious kickstarter RPGs, So that may explain why the pledging speed is breaking any preceding record. People are more confident, more inclined to back as soon as possible.

That's just my thought on the unprecedented backing speed. Backers pledge earlier.
Now $$ will may stabilize quickly, and we might not see a huge $$$ flow at the end, like the previous ones.

 

[Captain Shrek]

Just a theory, But now people really got used to those ambitious kickstarter RPGs, So that may explain why the pledging speed is breaking any preceding record. People are more confident, more inclined to back as soon as possible.

That's just my thought on the unprecedented backing speed. Backers pledge earlier.

Probably also has to do with the fact that Fargo seems to deliver. After a long radio silence they suddenly unleashed a video of the gameplay that actually looked decent and with a lot of promise in terms of pure fun.

 

[Brother None]

Just a theory, But now people really got used to those ambitious kickstarter RPGs, So that may explain why the pledging speed is breaking any preceding record. People are more confident, more inclined to back as soon as possible.

That's just my thought on the unprecedented backing speed. Backers pledge earlier.
Now $$ will may stabilize quickly, and we might not see a huge $$$ flow at the end, like the previous ones.

I'm thinking the same yeah. A more flat Kickstarter curve compared to the spikes and higher drive was saw for WL2 and PE. That's ok though.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Was just rereading the kickstarter page, are they equating Steam to not being DRM? I hope GOG is in their plans, also downloading directly from them would be even better, less money for the unworthy.

 

[Jaesun]

Exactly. I think his handling of Wastelands updates are helping this as well. They have done a very good job of this (as well as the Shadowrun Returns guys too).

 

[Trash]

Best thing so far about this? Kickstarters like this one, Project Eternity and Wasteland 2 show that players really do want more mature rpg's games with lots of mechanics and depth. Do hope at least a few suits pay attention.

 

[tuluse]

Was just rereading the kickstarter page, are they equating Steam to not being DRM? I hope GOG is in their plans, also downloading directly from them would be even better, less money for the unworthy.

You’ll be able to get it from Steam, and other DRM-free download options will be made available

 

[Jaesun]

Best thing so far about this? Kickstarters like this one, Project Eternity and Wasteland 2 show that players really do want more mature rpg's games with lots of mechanics and depth. Do hope at least a few suits pay attention.

To be honest I don't think they will... UNLESS they find that these AAA KS games turn some good profits when released. Just my guess.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Best thing so far about this? Kickstarters like this one, Project Eternity and Wasteland 2 show that players really do want more mature rpg's games with lots of mechanics and depth. Do hope at least a few suits pay attention.

They have... Dragon Age 3 is the result. Joking aside, i think a lot of the people pledging wouldn't touch anything from EA or Ubi even if it was billed as the most hardcore crpg ever made, with thirst and hunger mechanics.

 

[Jarpie]

I really love the premise of Torment: Tides of Numenera with the player character, the themes like that and of PS:T are the themes I want to see in games, I really hope they can deliver what they promise.

 

[Akarnir]

Best thing so far about this? Kickstarters like this one, Project Eternity and Wasteland 2 show that players really do want more mature rpg's games with lots of mechanics and depth. Do hope at least a few suits pay attention.

They will pay more attention. The suits are stupid, They're very methodical. They try to follow formulas that are almost mathematically guaranteed success.

Now I suppose this will take this shape : a guy comes at them, and propose them to publish his old school RPG. And he uses all the kickstarter success as evidence of a large audience that's been mostly underexploited by the other corps. 4 Million isn't much, but it's 4 Millions ''Donation''. That's almost unprecedented in the whole industry, not just games.

 

[Akarnir]

I also have to say that this kickstarter seems superbly well handled. Everything is here from the start, and there's a lot.

 

[General Maxson]

I must say I also hope for more of a sci-fi fantasy, than pure fantasy, much more interesting that way IMO, and pure fantasy is mostly boring anyway (as it has been done dozens of times already).

 

[Jaesun]

Cliff Bleszinski ‏@therealcliffyb
Old school RPG kickstarters are KILLING IT.http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera …

From the creator of pop-a-mole.

 

[Akarnir]

I must say I also hope for more of a sci-fi fantasy, than pure fantasy, much more interesting that way IMO, and pure fantasy is mostly boring anyway (as it has been done dozens of times already).

Fantasy has potential. You just aren't really enough into folklore and history to understand how much unexploited potential there is. For example, all the unexploited Incas, Mayan, Aztecs... Mythos. Even the European ones have not been explored properly.

Overall, science fiction and fantasy are just plagued with bad, unimaginative writers. The geniuses are into other fields of literature.

 

[Gozma]

So, uh, who has the Arcanum IP?

 

[Blaine]

Apparently these are Ian Cheong's/Rex Exitium's "channel rules" (not sure for what), seen on 4chan:

Spoiler

 

[Jaesun]

So, uh, who has the Arcanum IP?

Activision owns it.

 

[Mortmal]

Theres a reason it goes so fast, you have several big names on it and monte cook = RPG , in capital letters, no arguing possible .You can also see a working gameplay demo of wastelands 2 below , wich means its not a vaporware game . WIll it beat project eternity ?

 

[Jaesun]

It's trending at 12 million. Of course it will

 

[Kem0sabe]

Activision owns it.

Can't be worth much to them, it has little value as a property unless translated into an crpg format, of course that doesn't invalidate something like the latest syndicate or that xcom shooter abomination, but i doubt they will do much if anything with it.


Out of that era of crpg´s, i think thats the last one still to receive the kickstarter revival treatment, any hope at all someone will do it? even if with a different name.

 

[Akarnir]

It's trending at 12 million. Of course it will

Wanna bet?

 

[Jaesun]

Brian Fargo ‏@BrianFargo
If the day couldn't get any better we had @notch come in and support us with a big donation! The only person happier will be my kids.

 

[General Maxson]

Can't be worth much to them, it has little value as a property unless translated into an crpg format, of course that doesn't invalidate something like the latest syndicate or that xcom shooter abomination, but i doubt they will do much if anything with it.


Out of that era of crpg´s, i think thats the last one still to receive the kickstarter revival treatment, any hope at all someone will do it? even if with a different name.

Be patient padawan, inXile needs some kickstarter love in the future too, can't take all our money now...