Information Torment: Tides of Numenera Website Launched, InXile Asks for Feedback on Pledge Rewards

[Infinitron]

 

[MicoSelva]

I am about to Pledge 5K. Make me an optional character you can pick-up named "Wind" with amazing dagger/bow/poison use. <3 Thanks.

I am about to Pledge 5K. Make me an optional character you can pick-up named "Wind" with amazing dagger/bow/poison use. <3 Thanks.

In before Codex fundraiser to buy out all $5000 slots on Kickstarter launch, to prevent this.

 

[80Maxwell08]

Well I don't think anyone posted this so they commented on the "Don't make anything exclusive to backers" and basically said they weren't going to do that.

 

[Infinitron]

Well I don't think anyone posted this so they commented on the "Don't make anything exclusive to backers" and basically said they weren't going to do that.

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...k-on-pledge-rewards.80728/page-4#post-2509229

 

[80Maxwell08]

Well I don't think anyone posted this so they commented on the "Don't make anything exclusive to backers" and basically said they weren't going to do that.

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...k-on-pledge-rewards.80728/page-4#post-2509229

Crap I missed that. Sorry.

 

[grotsnik]

I am about to Pledge 5K. Make me an optional character you can pick-up named "Wind" with amazing dagger/bow/poison use. <3 Thanks..

I'll add 10K to that pledge if a few small changes are made. Wind will be a super-cool ninja with a unique model and his own voice-acting. He'll be standing there in the marketplace when WNxWind first boots up the game, with awesome big hair and a giant poisoned dagger-bow strapped to his longcoat. All of the NPCs will have barks that say, 'Oh, my God, that's Wind!', 'Wow, Wind is so awesome', 'Wind totally fits with the tone of this kind of game and is a really good idea!' When Wind joins WNxWind's party, he'll have an automatic 6000-damage basic attack that will insta-kill any enemies.

Then, gradually, the ordinary conversations of the game will begin to disappear. At first random words will be replaced by 'Wind', then entire sentences. Soon every NPC will start to twitch and flicker, calmly reciting it as they fade away into oblivion, 'Wind. Wind. Wind.' Wind himself will start to trigger random conversations with the PC: 'Why did you waste so much money on me?' 'You've done it now. They're coming for you. They're coming and you can't hide.' Word Documents on WNxWind's computer will erase themselves and become replaced with 'Wind', written over and over. WNxWind will be hounded by phone calls and emails - a ghastly woman's voice, hissing it, 'Wind'. 'Wind'. Desperate and beginning to fear for his own safety, he'll write to Inxile support, but since his copy of the game is the only one that contains Wind, nobody will know what he's talking about. He'll tell his family members; they'll buy the game themselves and discover, to their horror, that there is no such character as Wind in Tides of Numenara.

They'll come for him at night, with a sedative and a straitjacket. As, screaming, he attempts in vain to cling on to his own bed, his computer screen will flash - and in one last brutal piece of irony, the final thing WNxWind sees before the hypodermic needle enters his arm will be the game's title screen.

TORMENT.

Then, perhaps, he'll understand.

 

[Infinitron]

MCA Stretch Goal: https://torment.uservoice.com/forum...stretch-goal-get-chris-avellone-to-contribute

It's worth a try, isn't it?

grotsnik Please paste that in the comments of that entry.

 

[80Maxwell08]

MCA Stretch Goal: https://torment.uservoice.com/forum...stretch-goal-get-chris-avellone-to-contribute

It's worth a try, isn't it?

grotsnik Please paste that in the comments of that entry.

That sounds kinda horrible to have that up there to me. It's not like Avellone turned it down he was busy doing something else.

 

[Lancehead]

I don't like that MCA involvement idea. If MCA is to be involved in a Torment game, I'd want him to be in-charge of it, not just design an area or some such.

 

[DwarvenFood]

the Complete Book of Elves).

DAMN. YOUR. SOUL.

So how much of the kickstarter money will go towards your therapy bill to get over that?

$0. We cannot risk healing our creative lead's tormented soul. We might end up with Rainbow Brite RPG or something. (Though I think Fargo picked up that IP, too... hmm...)

Welcome, Kevin :brofist:

 

[ksaun]

$0. We cannot risk healing our creative lead's tormented soul. We might end up with Rainbow Brite RPG or something. (Though I think Fargo picked up that IP, too... hmm...)

Hi Kevin. Looks like you've been flying undercover.

Thanks for the welcome. =) I was compelled to make an account last month when I saw someone expressing a wish for a real-time chess game (during some TB vs. RTwP debate). I posted to suggest they look into Kung-fu chess. (But hmm... there seems to be no record of this... perhaps the hallucinations have returned...)

 

[Cosmo]

I don't like that MCA involvement idea. If MCA is to be involved in a Torment game, I'd want him to be in-charge of it, not just design an area or some such.

That's not gonna happen : you know as well as i do that he's burnt out on this kind of game (those that display "vomits of text" as he said last year)...

 

[Jaesun]

I also would rather they don't do a MCA stretch Goal.

 

[Koschey]

I am about to Pledge 5K. Make me an optional character you can pick-up named "Wind" with amazing dagger/bow/poison use. <3 Thanks.

I am about to Pledge 5K. Make me an optional character you can pick-up named "Wind" with amazing dagger/bow/poison use. <3 Thanks.

Glad I'm not the only one whose hair stood on end upon reading that 'suggestion'

 

[ironyuri]

$0. We cannot risk healing our creative lead's tormented soul. We might end up with Rainbow Brite RPG or something. (Though I think Fargo picked up that IP, too... hmm...)

Hi Kevin. Looks like you've been flying undercover.

Thanks for the welcome. =) I was compelled to make an account last month when I saw someone expressing a wish for a real-time chess game (during some TB vs. RTwP debate). I posted to suggest they look into Kung-fu chess. (But hmm... there seems to be no record of this... perhaps the hallucinations have returned...)

Looks like there's enough there for a full party, turn based RPG.

I'm sold.

 

[Gondolin]

I'm sold.

To Den slavers, hopefully.

 

[Harg Harfardarssen]

Then, gradually, the ordinary conversations of the game will begin to disappear. At first random words will be replaced by 'Wind', then entire sentences. Soon every NPC will start to twitch and flicker, calmly reciting it as they fade away into oblivion, 'Wind. Wind. Wind.' Wind himself will start to trigger random conversations with the PC: 'Why did you waste so much money on me?' 'You've done it now. They're coming for you. They're coming and you can't hide.' Word Documents on WNxWind's computer will erase themselves and become replaced with 'Wind', written over and over. WNxWind will be hounded by phone calls and emails - a ghastly woman's voice, hissing it, 'Wind'. 'Wind'. Desperate and beginning to fear for his own safety, he'll write to Inxile support, but since his copy of the game is the only one that contains Wind, nobody will know what he's talking about. He'll tell his family members; they'll buy the game themselves and discover, to their horror, that there is no such character as Wind in Tides of Numenara.

If you just remove the mundane explanation for the phenomena, this is a perfect Borges pastiche, right down to the prose style.

 

[Indranys]

I am about to Pledge 5K. Make me an optional character you can pick-up named "Wind" with amazing dagger/bow/poison use. <3 Thanks.

I am about to Pledge 5K. Make me an optional character you can pick-up named "Wind" with amazing dagger/bow/poison use. <3 Thanks.

Then let's help the poor man!

Make some new voting ideas at the site! I think these will do the justice:
Please make Wind-kun as optional character with amazing/dagger/bow poison use.
Please make Wind-chan as optional character with amazing/dagger/bow poison use. And as a protagonist little tranny bro sis who's so charming and adorable! So kawaii desu ne!
Please make Wind-sama as optional character with amazing/dagger/bow poison use. With a cool blonde hair. And can be romanced.

Only by such kindness the 8 virtues will be restored once again, and fulfill the true role of Codex.

 

[Temaperacl]

$0. We cannot risk healing our creative lead's tormented soul. We might end up with Rainbow Brite RPG or something. (Though I think Fargo picked up that IP, too... hmm...)

Hi Kevin. Looks like you've been flying undercover.

Thanks for the welcome. =) I was compelled to make an account last month when I saw someone expressing a wish for a real-time chess game (during some TB vs. RTwP debate). I posted to suggest they look into Kung-fu chess. (But hmm... there seems to be no record of this... perhaps the hallucinations have returned...)

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...s-numenera-setting.79547/page-13#post-2447549

Looks like there's enough there for a full party, turn based RPG.

Those look ... different ... than I remember.

I'm sold.

With a reasonable pitch that would stay true to the setting with a turn-based RPG? I'd probably donate for that.

 

[CMcC]

We cannot risk healing our creative lead's tormented soul. We might end up with Rainbow Brite RPG or something.

We should torment him more then. Stretch goal: At $3M, Colin has to read from the Complete Book of Elves and explain what he was thinking.

At 3.5M, I will record a video abjectly apologizing. At $4M, I will do it in sackcloth and ashes.

 

[Jaesun]

 

[80Maxwell08]

We cannot risk healing our creative lead's tormented soul. We might end up with Rainbow Brite RPG or something.

We should torment him more then. Stretch goal: At $3M, Colin has to read from the Complete Book of Elves and explain what he was thinking.

At 3.5M, I will record a video abjectly apologizing. At $4M, I will do it in sackcloth and ashes.

Guess I'll need to sell a couple organs after all.

 

[Kz3r0]

We cannot risk healing our creative lead's tormented soul. We might end up with Rainbow Brite RPG or something.

We should torment him more then. Stretch goal: At $3M, Colin has to read from the Complete Book of Elves and explain what he was thinking.

At 3.5M, I will record a video abjectly apologizing. At $4M, I will do it in sackcloth and ashes.

Considering that it will get five millions is better that you prepare yourself.

 

[skuphundaku]

We cannot risk healing our creative lead's tormented soul. We might end up with Rainbow Brite RPG or something.

We should torment him more then. Stretch goal: At $3M, Colin has to read from the Complete Book of Elves and explain what he was thinking.

At 3.5M, I will record a video abjectly apologizing. At $4M, I will do it in sackcloth and ashes.

I see sackcloth in your future:D.

 

[winterraptor]

I mourn for that poor hair. Truly.