Game News Torment Kickstarter Update #19: Pre-pre-production, Shanna Germain on Numenera, and other stuff

[MicoSelva]

I have mixed feelings about this update, although I liked the eye-candy aspect of it.

 

[Surf Solar]

Yeah I can see this going well. If this would be a bioware thread instead I am sure the reactions would be as cautiously optimistic too

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

Except this isn't a Bioware thread. Which is why people are being cautiously optimistic. Are you that fucking dumb?

 

[Cosmo]

This isn't a Bioware thread AND there won't be any romance in the game. So yeah...

 

[Infinitron]

Yeah I can see this going well. If this would be a bioware thread instead I am sure the reactions would be as cautiously optimistic too

Like others have said, if she was talking about how she was going to write one of the female NPCs, we might be worried. But all she did in this update was talk about the setting.

 

[Commissar Draco]

So Bondage sex is good on Codex; only Romances are gay amarite? like in F02.

 

[DeepOcean]

Common, she is only a sexy female writer, it doesn't mean that she is going to write: "Hawke, I need your cock in my vagina but I'm a elf virgin that don't know anything about that stuff, so I need lots of conversations about the nature of love and romance first.". That erotic novel is just masturbation material for women, she wouldn't be an idiot like Bioware writers and take masturbation material seriously.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

So Bondage sex is good on Codex only Romances are gay amarite? like in F02.

Punctuation, motherfucker. Learn it.

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[Commissar Draco]

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

Well, a desire to make sense out of your illiterate dogshit is a little different than arbitrarily correcting you but I suppose it's asking for too much anyway, eh?

 

[Irenaeus]

Well, a desire to make sense out of your illiterate dogshit is a little different than arbitrarily correcting you but I suppose it's asking for too much anyway, eh?

Eh, part of the fun of the Bromissar persona is his broken english. Why do you want to take that way from him?

 

[kaizoku]

Gentlemen,

the important question that needs to be answered here is:

Is Monte placing his numenera obelisk into Shanna's Bloom or not?

 

[Cosmic Misogynerd]

This isn't a Bioware thread AND there won't be any romance in the game. So yeah...

Romances are in, but in a subtle way. What we won't have in Torment is relationships of the flesh, a.k.a. genital juxtaposition, a.k.a. hawt sex.

 

[Infinitron]

This isn't a Bioware thread AND there won't be any romance in the game. So yeah...

Romances are in, but in a subtle way. What we won't have in Torment is relationships of the flesh, a.k.a. genital juxtaposition, a.k.a. hawt sex.

Nobody's said that "romances are in". They haven't ruled out kissing, but I doubt even the developers know what sorts of relationships the game will have.

 

[ceics]

You mean I don't get to kiss Annah? Fuck that, bring back the romances!

 

[Gurkog]

Nobody's said that "romances are in". They haven't ruled out kissing, but I doubt even the developers know what sorts of relationships the game will have.

This is what modern cRPG gaming discussion has come to... Somewhere the founders of Bioware are rubbing their hands together and cackling maniacally while sitting on their mountains of cash.

 

[BobtheTree]

But will there be slaking of intellectual lusts?

 

[Roguey]

This isn't a Bioware thread AND there won't be any romance in the game. So yeah...

Romances are in, but in a subtle way. What we won't have in Torment is relationships of the flesh, a.k.a. genital juxtaposition, a.k.a. hawt sex.

Nobody's said that "romances are in". They haven't ruled out kissing, but I doubt even the developers know what sorts of relationships the game will have.

Love, which comes in many forms, is certainly relevant when exploring themes of legacy, abandonment, and mystery – and we expect to explore this emotion in ways that fits the story and characters. Meaningful friendships, even feelings of affection, will be possible,

 

[Irenaeus]

Love, which comes in many forms, is certainly relevant when exploring themes of legacy, abandonment, and mystery – and we expect to explore this emotion in ways that fits the story and characters. Meaningful friendships, even feelings of affection, will be possible,

Who is this quote from, Sawyer Roguey?

 

[Roguey]

Kevin Saunders http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera/posts/424325

 

[Infinitron]

"Will be possible, maybe even" = not ruled out

 

[Roguey]

There is no "maybe even." "Meaningful friendships, even feelings of affection, will be possible," period followed by a promise of "no touching." I expect them to get as much attention as Torment's only without the gross Betty and Veronica nonsense.

 

[Irenaeus]

There is no "maybe even." "Meaningful friendships, even feelings of affection, will be possible," period followed by a promise of "no touching." I expect them to get as much attention as Torment's only without the gross Betty and Veronica nonsense.

'd except the bs part about the Betty and Veronica stuff.

 

[Infinitron]

There is no "maybe even." "Meaningful friendships, even feelings of affection, will be possible," period followed by a promise of "no touching." I expect them to get as much attention as Torment's only without the gross Betty and Veronica nonsense.

"Will be possible" is likely referring to what it's possible that they may write, not to what's possible in the game. The game isn't written yet so they don't know that yet.

 

[Roguey]

I'm not making that up.
http://www.gamespot.com/features/the-greatest-games-of-all-time-planescape-torment-6135401/

According to Avellone, the game's concepts were inspired by numerous sources:
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"Annah and Fall-From-Grace were inspired by Betty and Veronica from Archie comics, embarrassingly enough.