Development Info Torment Kickstarter Update #58: Legacy & Meaning Trailer, Building the Necropolis

[Lurker King]

If there are JRPGs with more than teenagers wanting to get laid

Just a little incest

And some poorly disguised pedophilia too.

In terms of classic JRPGs it never got better than Chrono Trigger. Years later I could easily draw most of the CT characters from memory. One month after playing the T:ToN beta I'd have difficulty remembering what the companions looked like.

You would remember T:ToN characters if the main artist of the game were Akira Toriyama.

A good console port of a game will sell VERY well with:

- a slower pace

- unique sounding premise

- special sounding scifi setting

- the legendary Torment name.

That means nothing to console gamers.

 

[MRY]

The one that jumps out at me is memorable character design. Years later I could easily draw most of the CT characters from memory.

Yes, this is a feature of CT that PS:T emulated very well: the idea that party members should have significantly different silhouettes/phenotypes. Most earlier jRPGs had used cookie cutter deformed/superdeformed character sprite shapes. PC RPGs with 3D models have the same problem, too, because of recycling rigging and so forth. Developers always think that you can make up for the same silhouette and bones and movements with different flair, but I've never seen it work. But players brought this on themselves with their desire to play dress up on paper dolls, so a pox on everyone. :D

 

[hpstg]

And some poorly disguised pedophilia too.



You would remember T:ToN characters if the main artist of the game were Akira Toriyama.



That means nothing to console gamers.

We have to wait and see I guess. My premise is harder to exist, since both the game and it's marketing need to be good, and Techland didn't even manage to promote Dying Light as they could have for console.

Since the XCOM remake, there has always been a market for more slow paced games, and there is a whole pseudo-intellectual "movement" going right now, whose constituents consider the PC space and everything around it the playground of fucking white males. They only need to emphasize the parts of the game that would stroke the ego of people like that, and just have decent performance and three good slaves in their QA for the console controls.

You mean sites that only cover PC games?

No, I mean places where James Dean porn is considered artsy, and Undertale is better than the Witcher.