Game News Torment Kickstarter Update #56: Beta Released to All Backers, Game Delayed to Q1 2017

[Kev Inkline]

Torment has also grown to around 1 million words – bigger than the Bible

Why Fargo is to obsessed with the words count? Quantity over quality?

Because it sounds impressive to middlebrow normalfags and the man's a salesman.

For me, middlebrow is pretty elusive class(ification)/concept, but I am quite certain they don't play isometric games - so why'd you want to cater to that audience?

I'd say folks who started playing rpgs on consoles when FO3 was released fall more readily into that category. They also listen to Coldplay and read Paolo Coelho.

 

[Infinitron]

Planescape: Torment is a meme at this point, so some of them will. The people who would never play an isometric game I would call lowbrow.

 

[TwinkieGorilla]

You are aware that Baldur's Gate 2 and countless of Japanese erotic visual novels have a significantly higher word count than Torment?

Hi, Retard! Let me explain something to you:

Planescape: Torment is known, nay, famous...for having a VERY VERY big script. A businessman (that's Brian Fargo, Retard) is naturally going to try to sell a spiritual successor (that's Numenara, Retard) by claiming the thing he thinks made the previous game famous.

EDIT: I changed "infamous" to "famous" because one of you pedantic dipshits was likely to play that game with me. PREEMPTIVE STRIKE MUTHAFUCKAS.

 

[FeelTheRads]

I don't even know how many words PS:T has, but MCA himself said it should have had less.

Doesn't mean he's right. After all, the man might be infested with Obsidianite.

He keeps talking about this "show don't tell" thing, but it's not like it's some universal truth that works everywhere. Certainly not in an isometric game.
And Torment's best moments were certainly in the "tell" category and I don't see how you'd turn them into "show".

 

[Excidium II]

P. much all isometric RPGs aren't even isometric.