Preview Torment Gameplay Footage and More Interviews from Gamescom 2016

[Zed]

That InXile's UI team is a disgrace we already knew.

Agreed, but I don't think Torment's UI looks as bad as WL2.

Ironically, being forced to design a console-friendly UI might actually lead them to creating a better UI overall because it actually gives them some direction.

 

[covr]

The console version of the game should be translated into Japanese. They would love that kind of shit.

 

[hilfazer]

Wow, this game has more circles than Mass Effect.

 

[Fry]

The console version of the game should be translated into Japanese. They would love that kind of shit.

Nah. The Japanese only play phone games these days.

You think consoles are bad? Welcome to the true dark future.

 

[Bester]

1. UI seems fine.
2. UI is the last thing to discuss in a game. And for some reason, I see gaming press discuss "UI" and "bugs" like those two were the most important things in a game, because they don't understand other aspects of games. Don't lower yourselves to their level.

Seems this post got lost on its way to rpgwatch.

Why?

Like, Torment is one of the best games in the history of RPGs and its got a shitty combat. And I'd say combat is more important than how buttons look, as long as they're functional.

UI is the last thing to evaluate. Storytelling, audio and visual atmosphere, game mechanics come way before UI.

 

[Excidium II]

I evaluate everything I see. I'll evaluate gameplay when I can play instead of just seeing random out context walls of text and combat on easiest setting.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Well there is a clipping issue, which is quite difficult to solve, so it is an easy and cheap solution to let them hover.

So difficult amateur modders can solve it. Even Twitcher 1 has scabbard mod.

Give them a chance, it's not like they're a company made of professional developers. You have to understanding. Don't be so harsh, wait until they release 10 more games.

Also remember when that animator guy from inXile was bragging about how he wants to intellectually immerse you with that retarded walk-run-walk animation, like he was the first person in history to do something stupid like that?
But yeah, who cares about stupid pointless things? Looks like inXile does.

 

[agentorange]

this game looks like gay shit for fags

 

[Jaesun]

This looks really fucking sweet. Looking forward to playing it. <3

 

[Bester]

Also remember when that animator guy from inXile was bragging about how he wants to intellectually immerse you with that retarded walk-run-walk animation, like he was the first person in history to do something stupid like that?

Lol yes, their root motion kinda sucks compared to what professional animators do.

https://youtu.be/307omU48Feg?t=56

 

[Fry]

The run/walk animation In TTON drives me nuts, too, but comparing what a small team produced to a Ubisoft demo with mocap data is just a bit unfair.

 

[Excidium II]

Do it right or don't bother. All it achieves is making movement look sluggish/unresponsive.

 

[Bubbles]

They should do it like Battle Brothers and just remove the legs.

 

[Fry]

"Don't bother" is the right answer. Pillars-style movement is fine.

 

[Excidium II]

"Don't bother" is the right answer. Pillars-style movement is fine.

Yeah. Well not pillars specifically, since it also has something odd going on. Like the characters move at a different pace than their leg movements seem to indicate.

 

[Bester]

but comparing what a small team produced to a Ubisoft demo with mocap data is just a bit unfair

Why's that? Mocap equipment isn't that expensive (and kinda useful when you're developing games), or they could've rented it for a couple of days, or they could've outsourced those animations to professional companies who get their bread and butter recording animations. I did some work for a small 3d modeling/animation company that had 4 people on staff and they specialized in mocap animations, and they somehow had the equipment and produced amazing quality stuff. They got contracted by Ubisoft, Crytek, Microsoft etc in the past, so why couldn't inXile hire them? And mocap animations of a person running/walking/strafing is something that doesn't exactly cost a fortune, it takes a few days to record and clean up.

The animators at inXile had 3-4 years to do realistic humanoid animations and blend between them to make a controller like on that video. I realize there may be something we don't know, but even still, I don't think it's unfair to call their competency into question here.

 

[Fry]

Sorry, they spent all that dosh on 45 writers. You think Avellone's creatine injections come cheap?

But, seriously... priorities. I think you're underestimating the cost of contracting it out to specialists. Putting that much effort into run/walk animations in a low-budget isometric game is kinda silly.

The problem here is their animator got a bug up his ass about what he thought was a great idea for a system, and it didn't work out... but he seems to love it so much no one had the balls to tell him no.

 

[Shin]

Avellone's creatine injections

do you even lift bruh? creatine injections?

 

[LizardWizard]

Sorry, they spent all that dosh on 45 writers. You think Avellone's creatine injections come cheap?

Creatine is cheap as fuck. But he probably spends much more on burritos these days.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

*barf* *retch* *vomit* urggghhhh

*gasp* blech, urk, that console interface.... oh god

*spew* oh why god why make it stop... *tears*

 

[Fry]

Avellone's creatine injections

do you even lift bruh? creatine injections?

Real men do it in the veins.

 

[Crescent Hawk]

Looks good. But the art can be a bit weird, its like they are going for the fluid Moebius style but failing. Somebody needs to make a Druillet, Lone Sloane rpg.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Looks good. But the art can be a bit weird, its like they are going for the fluid Moebius style but failing. Somebody needs to make a Druillet, Lone Sloane rpg.

god damn, this shit gorgeous. is it a good comic though?

 

[Excidium II]

But the art can be a bit weird, its like they are going for the fluid Moebius style but failing

Weird is the last word I'd use to describe the art in tworment.

It looks too relatable, like something some centuries from now rather than a billion years in the future.

 

[Viata]

RPG Codex should change its name to RPG Cuckdex, because even after being cucked, they would still please their overlord Fargo.