Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Thread

[IHaveHugeNick]

Lmao, lack of resources. God damn donkeys had what was probably the biggest budget this type of game ever had, they had setting from Monte, they battle proven engine from Obsidian, they had fucking 5 years to use it all, and they came up with a turd.

Sawyer had none of that with first Pillars and he cranked up better and bigger game in half the time.

Anybody involved with TTON apart from Ziets, MRY and Rhotfuss needs to collectively suck giant elephant dicks. And when elephant balls get drained out, a new elephant should take its place, and then another and another, until they swallow all of the elephant semen in Africa.

 

[2house2fly]

Lack of resources really does seem like a way to avoid saying "mismanagement" in this case

 

[HoboForEternity]

Lack of resources really does seem like a way to avoid saying "mismanagement" in this case

before it was "publisher's interference"

i wonder what excuses they will do next after the mircosoft takeover

 

[BEvers]

Engine limitations?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

i wonder what excuses they will do next after the mircosoft takeover

Micro-issues, of course.

 

[sser]

sser Did you design the UI?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEbl-umsFOM

 

[BEvers]

One more from the dev who appears to have more in common with sea than with sser, Seari, or Saeru, but who is most likely his own distinct individual going by none of these monikers:

Another reference to early production as the time when "Kevin was still there."

 

[Zombra]

fwiw, tonurics and sear have separate forum accounts. Not pictured, tonurics used to be a red name (admin). So they are not the same person unless he convinced the webmaster to give him two separate admin accounts.

 

[Infinitron]

tonurics is Jason Dora, inXile's lesser known Chris Avellone equivalent: https://twitter.com/tonurics/with_replies

 

[Jenkem]

Lack of resources really does seem like a way to avoid saying "mismanagement" in this case

before it was "publisher's interference"

i wonder what excuses they will do next after the mircosoft takeover

"Phil Spencer cancelled our game after we kept failing deadlines."

 

[SlumLord]

Lmao, lack of resources. God damn donkeys had what was probably the biggest budget this type of game ever had, they had setting from Monte, they battle proven engine from Obsidian, they had fucking 5 years to use it all, and they came up with a turd.

Sawyer had none of that with first Pillars and he cranked up better and bigger game in half the time.

Anybody involved with TTON apart from Ziets, MRY and Rhotfuss needs to collectively suck giant elephant dicks. And when elephant balls get drained out, a new elephant should take its place, and then another and another, until they swallow all of the elephant semen in Africa.

Didn't TToN use Unity, not some inhouse engine from Obsidian?

As far as PoE being superior to TToN, well both are unpolished snorefests but at least TToN *tries* to do something vaguely original, even if it's from a prefab setting. Pillars is just the dullest most unremarkable IP known to man. Obsidian bitched and whined for literally years about not being able to pursue their own creative vision, and then when they finally got the chance, the best they could come up with was D&D-lite with the most generic soul-centric plot imaginable. FFS, Icewind Dale 2 had more of a coherent narrative. Even if they were justified in aping D&D to ensure nostalgiafags would buy the game, they could've at least put an original spin on the setting instead of turning it into that bland pastiche of totally-not-TVtropes.

Oh, and Rothfuss is a dickless blowhard that can wax and wane about teenage angst for hundreds of pages, but can't put together a coherent and gripping narrative to save his life (let alone something unique like a PS:T-inspired game). TToN would've been better off without him.

 

[HoboForEternity]

what did rothfuss write?

 

[Efe]

little girl. Rin or Rem something like that.
i didnt like the character but it was nice how the dead weight you carried came back to save you.

 

[HoboForEternity]

i liked her storyline tbh

 

[rusty_shackleford]

 

[Luckmann]

Reviews tend to skew upwards over time, especially for really shit titles. This is pretty common. I'm not sure what causes it, but I believe it is because over time, only the ones it strangely appeals to for some reason or another end up playing it, and they feel more compelled to give good reviews if the overall reviews are bad.

 

[Moth]

has
the
novella
come
out
yet
?

 

[Falksi]

God almighty this game is dull as fucking dishwater.

Now I don't mind a bit of reading, but absolute wave after wave of bullshit text which has fuck all of value to find within it? No thanks.

The world looks interesting and somewhat unique, yet instead of interacting with it & being absorbed by it I'm left for hours on end reading the book about it.

Literally put me to sleep whilst playing.

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

Well you can't say you weren't warned...

 

[The_Mask]

Check the meres. That's MRY's work. They're good, at worst competent.

The Bloom is interesting as an idea.

The OST is cool.

Don't bother beating the game - you'll gouge your eyes out.

 

[UnknownBro]

Fixed for you.

...

Don't bother beating playing the game - you'll gouge your eyes out.

 

[MRY]

“At Worst Competent” should be my family motto. How do you say that in Latin?

 

[MRY]

Also, I only did a subset of the Meres. Half, maybe?

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

“At Worst Competent” should be my family motto. How do you say that in Latin?

Apud pessimum competensis (NB my recollection of Latin is pretty hazy, but fortunately this is exactly the kind of awkward direct translation commonly found in family mottos).

 

[roshan]

Check the meres. That's MRY's work. They're good, at worst competent.

The Bloom is interesting as an idea.

The OST is cool.

Don't bother beating the game - you'll gouge your eyes out.

The OST sucks.