Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Pre-Release Thread [ALPHA RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Jaesun]

Edgy.

 

[Arkeus]

Edgy.

Nah, it's just that i loath loath loath the guy's writing, and i can't buy any product he participates in anymore.

 

[Jaesun]

So you want Gaider as a stretch goal?

 

[Arkeus]

So you want Gaider as a stretch goal?

No, there is just a list of stretch goals writers i absolutely do NOT want (Terry Goodkind, the Gor Writer, Pat Rothfuss are those that come to mind right now).

 

[DeepOcean]

This Rothfuss namedrop appear to have increased the speed of the pledging or am I seeing things?

 

[Rake]

So you want Gaider as a stretch goal?

No, there is just a list of stretch goals writers i absolutely do NOT want (Terry Goodkind, the Gor Writer, Pat Rothfuss are those that come to mind right now).

Wait wait wait. I don't realy like his novels, but to put his name in the same sentence with Goodkind or Norman is blasphemy. I would prefer Gaider from those two.

 

[Maelflux]

It must be serious shit, if you listed it with Goodkind??

 

[Hobz]

if more credentials are needed, a little comic from Pats blog.
he did the writing of course.
i think that settles it.

 

[Brzęczyszczykiewicz]

This Rothfuss namedrop appear to have increased the speed of the pledging or am I seeing things?

You could say that.

 

[DeepOcean]

So you want Gaider as a stretch goal?

Don't play with my emotions Jaesun, I almost had a heart attack reading his name. They should add David Gaider but as a tentacle beast that could make you insane by sending you to a parallel dimension equivalent of the BSN forums, full of Biodrones discussing all day long the smell of Tali sweat.

 

[hiver]

This Rothfuss namedrop appear to have increased the speed of the pledging or am I seeing things?

Yeah, you could say that...

As for Arkeus.... thats fine. nobody is forcing anyone here. I guess the team will just have to manage... somehow...

 

[Infinitron]

This Rothfuss namedrop appear to have increased the speed of the pledging or am I seeing things?

You could say that.

This probably has more to do with Americans waking up.

 

[Hobz]

I've not read his books yet but the guy clearly has tastes, so i'll give it a go tonight.

 

[Jaesun]

Yeah it's 9:00 Am here on the West Coast.

 

[Jaesun]

51,420
backers
$2,800,239
pledged of $900,000 goal
15
days to go

 

[evdk]

Pat Rothfuss is a talented author (and apparently a really nice guy) whose book's success is most likely both a blessing and a curse, in the sense that it is something he's been working on for decades now and which, as a writer, he has long since completely outgrown and is obviously struggling rather hard to revise and complete (a task which is in my experience a good deal more difficult than writing something new from scratch -- and, unfortunately, the results are generally worse, too).

If this is true it would actually explain some of the issues I have with his books.

 

[Brzęczyszczykiewicz]

This probably has more to do with Americans waking up.

Yeah it's 9:00 Am here on the West Coast.

I don't think so.

 

[hoverdog]

4,000,000 - Steven Erikson joins the writing team

 

[hiver]

I've not read his books yet but the guy clearly has tastes, so i'll give it a go tonight.

The "problem" in his novels is that Kvothe is a bit over the top awesome. I didnt like that at all.
But, luckily there isnt that much of it in the first book. And the setup is that Kvothe is telling the story while being older and currently in self exile and doesnt want to get involved in shit anymore.

I didnt read the second one but ive seen small reviews from people i kinda trust in these matters. It seems the second book is full throttle mega epic awesome Kvothe gets it all - and thats why i didnt even want to read it.
The starting setup seems to point in direction of some serious shit going down.. so the next book hopefully should be darker, for lack of the better word.

However!

The writing skill itself, the style, the way he tells the story... thats actually fucking great.
Of course... personal tastes and preferences about writing style are different so naturally there are people who dont like that either. But mostly its people who cant even differentiate between writing skill and talent and specific plot parts - events in the story.

 

[Infinitron]

Fair enough, there is a bit of a larger than usual spike there. I don't know if it's due to the content of the update itself, or just due to the fact that it's the first major update in a while.

 

[hiver]

hoverdog
thats a brofist in Rake`s name

 

[Surf Solar]

How many different area designers/writers were put in the original PS:T team? I am a bit worried that the endproduct might look weird if so many different people work on it. As the german saying goes "Viele Koeche verderben den Brei" :/

 

[Kosmonaut]

How many different area designers/writers were put in the original PS:T team? I am a bit worried that the endproduct might look weird if so many different people work on it. As the german saying goes "Viele Koeche verderben den Brei" :/

Supposedly, each new writer on board will do a specific, modular area of the game, and some of them a novella.

Yeah, it's kinda worrisome, but at the same time, there's a project manager that (I guess) will keep track of consistency and writing/level/design/quest design uniformity.

 

[evdk]

4,000,000 - Steven Erikson joins the writing team

That would force me to double my pledge.

 

[Jashiin]

Kruppe