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

[tuluse]

Hey guys, I just heard about this Arcanum thing. I've got a great idea for it, Oblivion with, get this, guns and magic.

 

[undecaf]

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.

Didn't Notch give "a big donation" (10K, iirc) for Wasteland 2 too?

 

[Jaesun]

To be honest I KNOW Activision knows someone would LOVE to ask them for the rights, but they are going to ask for WAY to much (or want to keep it and then make demands etyc...), to the point it would be worthless to buy it from them, when you can just make your own new world like it. I remember Jane Jenson approaching them for doing a new Gabriel Knight, but finally said fuck it and make her own new game Moebius.

 

[General Maxson]

Hey guys, I just heard about this Arcanum thing. I've got a great idea for it, Oblivion with, get this, guns and magic.

 

[Lancehead]

Hey guys, I just heard about this Arcanum thing. I've got a great idea for it, Oblivion with, get this, guns and magic.

He's way ahead of you. /Fallout 3

 

[Excidium]

monte cook = RPG , in capital letters, no arguing possible.

In other places this would derail the thread p. fast.

 

[evdk]

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.

I don't think the publishers will license even old and dead IP cheaply anymore. KS shown that nostalgia can be pretty damn profitable.

 

[Captain Shrek]

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).

Numenera is Sci fi as I understand. Can someone with actual experience shed more light?

 

[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).

Numenera is Sci fi as I understand. Can someone with actual experience shed more light?

Apparently that have planes of pure light and consciousness.

 

[Jaesun]

Project Eternity entire first day: 700k. Us, few hours after launch: 685k.

 

[Scruffy]

quickly approaching 80%, ahahahah holy haleakala

 

[tuluse]

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).

Numenera is Sci fi as I understand. Can someone with actual experience shed more light?

It's science fantasy.

 

[Aeschylus]

Project Eternity entire first day: 700k. Us, few hours after launch: 685k.

I don't know that that is strictly true since Kicktraq "Days" are not really 24 hour periods for the 1st or last days of a project, but it does indeed seem true that this is outstripping any video game kickstarter thusfar.

And it doesn't appear to be slowing down.

 

[tuluse]

Project: Eternity launched at a stupid time of day. No real point in comparing until 24 hours have passed.

 

[Infinitron]

Project Eternity entire first day: 700k. Us, few hours after launch: 685k.

I don't know that that is strictly true since Kicktraq "Days" are not really 24 hour periods for the 1st or last days of a project, but it does indeed seem true that this is outstripping any video game kickstarter thusfar.

And it doesn't appear to be slowing down.

This. I know that Eternity reached 1.1 million in 27 hours, so we'll see how Torment measures against that.

 

[Akarnir]

Project: Eternity launched at a stupid time of day. No real point in comparing until 24 hours have passed.

why was it a stupid time?
It also depends which country.

 

[tuluse]

Project: Eternity launched at a stupid time of day. No real point in comparing until 24 hours have passed.

why was it a stupid time?
It also depends which country.

It was late in the day in the US, it was also on a Friday iirc. So instead of catching people as they woke up and checked the news/internet/whatever in the morning, they were trying to catch people who were heading home/to bar/out somewhere.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Project: Eternity launched at a stupid time of day. No real point in comparing until 24 hours have passed.

Any point in comparing at all?

 

[tuluse]

posterity?

 

[evdk]

Project Eternity entire first day: 700k. Us, few hours after launch: 685k.

Kickstarter fatigue? Heh. Torment not being enough of a brand? Hogwash. No MCA will sink the KS? Pish posh.

BRING ON THE $5M!

 

[Aeschylus]

Project: Eternity launched at a stupid time of day. No real point in comparing until 24 hours have passed.

Any point in comparing at all?

Numbers are fun.

 

[skuphundaku]

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).

Numenera is Sci fi as I understand. Can someone with actual experience shed more light?

It's science fantasy.

It's, actually, science fiction. The trick is that the technology involved is so advanced and so ancient that many of the setting's inhabitants can't distinguish it from magic anymore.

 

[General Maxson]

It's, actually, science fiction. The trick is that the technology involved is so advanced and so ancient that many of the setting's inhabitants can't distinguish it from magic anymore.

Wow, that sounds even more interesting, can't wait to explore that world!


I just hope they don't fuck up with the stretch goals, and miss the opportunity to cash in millions and gain publicity by being a spectacularly funded kickstarter project. That'll certainly help them make this a magical experience.

 

[Havoc]

So they're getting Michael T. Weiss, VA of the Nameless One, for this? I think I heard his voice at the end of the video.

 

[Infinitron]

So they're getting Michael T. Weiss, VA of the Nameless One, for this? I think I heard his voice at the end of the video.

It's a sound byte from PS:T, so yeah.