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

[evdk]

Fine. Inspired by the competition we've decided to go with a persistent online world, financed by micro-transactions.

What is your brand of Error 37 message?

 

[Captain Shrek]

Either Turn Based or Phase Based announcement, I guess then.

 

[norolim]

Fine. Inspired by the competition we've decided to go with a persistent online world, financed by micro-transactions. It's the best of both worlds, both deep and immersive AND social!!
PS: it's not 2D, sorry if I got hopes up on that topic.

What about a Season Pass?! I want a Season Pass!

 

[Jaesun]

And DLC!!!

 

[catfood]

Oh please. It's not that much of a spoiler.

It is IMO. For me, part of the charm of my first playthrough of PST was that I knew nothing at all. The Nameless One awoke in the Mortuary and I was like "WTF where am I what is it how's that fucking skull alive and how can I shut it up?" and it went even further upon exiting it. With Tides, they are pretty much telling us how the beginning will look like. It might be good for marketing reasons, but reveals some of the magic too.

Yeah, you have a point. Discovering all that weird shit was half the fun of PST.

But.

I don't know about anyone else, but I will most likely forget all about it before I even get to play the game.

 

[hiver]

Oh nice another 10K tier hit today... already at 45.000. Nice.

 

[Brother None]

And here is update six. Meres, Castoff's Labyrinth, mini-stretch goals...Brian Mitsoda?

 

[evdk]

MITSODA!!! And Castoff's Labyrinth sounds like an interesting game mechanic. Hopefully it will actually be worth not reloading.
Brother None What happens when you die while dead in the Labyrinth? Some kind of the old Mortuary deal?

 

[Infinitron]

Haha, I can't believe they're actually bringing Brian Mitsoda

 

[Stabwound]

Sorry, no raging boner for Mitsoda from me. Isn't he busy enough with other things, anyway?

Castoff’s Labyrinth sounds p. cool though.

 

[Jaesun]

FUCK YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

MITSODA!

 

[Gozma]

Kinda fucked up that they are creating incentives so that all the writers on RPGs should immediately start marketing themselves as internet celebrities.

"Yeah, I wrote clean as an elven arse... I'm a stretch goal name"

 

[skuphundaku]

Castoff's Labyrinth

Haha, I can't believe they're actually bringing Brian Mitsoda

I wouldn't have bet my money on that either. Nice surprise though. However, I hope he won't ignore Dead State now.

 

[Excidium]

The labyrinth does sounds p. cool.

 

[Broseph]

Ziets should put "stretch goal writer" on his LinkedIn profile.

 

[Captain Shrek]

Brian Ohne-Soda bitte.

 

[Harg Harfardarssen]

Disgruntled boner, maybe, for Mitsoda. But the castoff's labyrinth is starting to make it really angry...

 

[Jaesun]

That labyrinth sounds pretty fucking sweet. There is some pretty cool stuff they could do with that.

 

[Hobo Elf]

The Labyrinth sounds like an interesting place to get lost in. I'm liking how these KS projects are building upon each other, essentially one upping each other constantly. It creates a healthy kind of competition.

 

[tuluse]

Kinda fucked up that they are creating incentives so that all the writers on RPGs should immediately start marketing themselves as internet celebrities.

"Yeah, I wrote clean as an elven arse... I'm a stretch goal name"

At least it means actual people will get credit for what they did instead of the old way where you supposed to trust in companies.

 

[Gozma]

Yeah, I'm not exactly against it, just kinda uneasy. Like what about trying to make a unified aesthetic when one guy is like "I write Gromnir dialog, it's my thing, I have 1000 twitter followers that send me blowjob formspring questions"

 

[Excidium]

Now Dead State is certainly never coming out.

 

[Kosmonaut]

And here is update six. Meres, Castoff's Labyrinth, mini-stretch goals...Brian Mitsoda

I... I... wat?

x 10000000

 

[General Maxson]

I like this update very much. Mechanics they presented sound great, and I Mitsoda! He did a great job at Bloodlines.

 

[hiver]

Now this is a very good update.

Liking all im reading in it. Labyrinth seems almost too ambitious, with all of the fathoms and reflections of your companions...

But, when you take into account that we may "die" hundreds and hundreds of times... im not sure there can be that much content inside it.
Of course, since combat isnt the focus maybe there wont be that many chances to die... but on the other hand im pretty sure the players will kill themselves in order to get all of the content and cyphers from it.
(this makes me conclude that cyphers are something like glyphs or runes instead of something materialistic, of course)
And then you can also get secret Meres, which is a great concept on its own.

- You guys might want to consider limiting this in some way.

It seems in this game dying has only benefits.


Also...
I suppose there will be some kind of explanation why our body is practically... err... immortal, (as in you dont die of old age or sickness but can by killed, right?) - but.. doesnt that go against the "what one life matters?"


Pretty good ideas about new stretch goals, all around.