Game News Torment: Tides of Numenera Released

[Tao]

Finished the game and i'm still waiting to see a game at all. It's like a tech demo with A LOT of useless text mixed with some sparks of great quality here and there (in texts, quest, companions, etc) with some nice ideas but a great lack of cohesion and consistency overall in everything. You can see that something went very wrong in the development because the game feels very rushed, incompleted and mediocre. It also has alpha/beta kind of bugs :S

All the years of bad news and speculations here in Codex about the development of the game were proven right to my despear and dreams.

A pity.

 

[kolton]

Finished the game and i'm still waiting to see a game at all. It's like a tech demo with A LOT of useless text mixed with some sparks of great quality here and there (in texts, quest, companions, etc) with some nice ideas but a great lack of cohesion and consistency overall in everything. You can see that something went very wrong in the development because the game feels very rushed, incompleted and mediocre. It also has alpha/beta kind of bugs :S

All the years of bad news and speculations here in Codex about the development of the game were proven right to my despear and dreams.

A pity.

One again we're getting blue-balled by only getting a glimpse of what could have been.
I'm not too happy with the writing either. Lots of useless filler. And sometimes it just makes you want to claw your eyes out. It doesn't make the good parts stand out and shine, it smothers them.

 

[l3loodAngel]

Could it be that SWJs are just useless/entitled kiddies that suck at everything and if you want quality except for writing you need to relocate to eu/asia?

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

Fuck Chris Avellone, fucking decline bro

 

[Irenaeus]

Fuck Chris Avellone, fucking decline bro

That's the other Tournament, the one where you escape from a planet.

 

[Irenaeus]

Could it be that SWJs are just useless/entitled kiddies that suck at everything and if you want quality except for writing you need to relocate to eu/asia?

Yeah, the great writing in games from eu/asia such as...

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Yeah, the great writing in games from eu/asia such as...

 

[l3loodAngel]

Could it be that SWJs are just useless/entitled kiddies that suck at everything and if you want quality except for writing you need to relocate to eu/asia?

Yeah, the great writing in games from eu/asia such as...

Except for writing you yuo... ...oh, Iraneus.

Yeah, the great writing in games from eu/asia such as...

But yeah, clinical morons should stick together or else they might get lost.

 

[Repulsive]

Game is so shit I accidentally uninstalled Pirates! Gold Plus

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

But yeah, clinical morons should stick together or else they might get lost.

Oh my gawd! Someone who is both Fire and Death considers me to be a moron!

 

[l3loodAngel]

But yeah, clinical morons should stick together or else they might get lost.

Oh my gawd! Someone who is both Fire and Death considers me to be a moron!

Newsflash: You're a moron independently of what I think.
BTW, best riposte so far.

 

[Repulsive]

Sounded funny in my head

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

But yeah, clinical morons should stick together or else they might get lost.

Oh my gawd! Someone who is both Fire and Death considers me to be a moron!

Newsflash: You're a moron independently of what I think.
BTW, best riposte so far.

Sengoku Rance is seriously better game than it has any right to be in rational universe (isn't it lucky that we don't live in one of those).
Serious strategy, serious C&C, lots of well written characters and all that in some obscure japanese eroge game.
Its only fault is that it you have to savescum in it imore than I'm comfortable with to succeed.

 

[Tao]

Oh boy...

Edit: Fuck, i'm late.

 

[Haba]

Since most of the 'faults' are writing wise, I thought it would be the easiest thing to address and hopefully they keep at it

Easy?

The first 20 hours of the game are absolute rubbish. Basically it'd require a rewrite.

I guess it is a good thing there is barely any voice acting, modders can fix it r000fles!

 

[Tigranes]

Just reached the Bloom.

I really like Erritis. Probably the only important character that is written well - the rest tend to be scattered minor NPCs. The big ones often have potential but turn out really awkwardly, like Inifere, who reads like an actor trying to do the tormented soul thing but only read his lines while eating his mcnuggets that morning.

I've only had like 5 crises as a persuadefag, but here's a thing - weren't they supposed to be not straight up combat but often combining a bunch of challenges? They sort of did it here and there, but the only really nice one that shows effort was Miel Avest (which gets points for effort, but not necessarily for how fun or tense it is, because it isn't, really).

 

[Black Angel]

Yeah, the great writing in games from eu/asia such as...

Dark Souls.

 

[Repulsive]

Dark Souls had brilliant writing man, brought a tear to my eye

 

[Fenix]

Oh boy...

Edit: Fuck, i'm late.

Horrendously hilarious link.