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

[Zeriel]

I look at this game with a cautious interest.

My interest is less cautious, but I am concerned they will go the "weird fantasy" instead of "weird sci-fi" route. Not that that will make me hate the game--I'll just enjoy it a little less than I would have were it more straight-up sci-fi.

 

[Jaesun]

 

[evdk]

Well, to be honest, the more they will play up the sci fi part, the more money I will ejaculate. It's a simple equation.

 

[Infinitron]

Fuck fantasy, fuck sci-fi. I want them to play up the "weird shit you've never seen before" part.

 

[Rake]

I thought the whole point was for these two to be indistinguishable from each other.
Although Book of the New Sun was more "Fantasy with shi-fi elements" than "shi-fi with fantasy elements" for me

 

[Rake]

Fuck fantasy, fuck sci-fi. I want them to play up the "weird shit you've never seen before" part.

Also this.

 

[Irenaeus]

As far as interference-from-above goes, we probably could have used more than we had - like Fallout, Torment was sort of under the radar for a while, and the producer role changed several times over the course of the project. Brian Fargo was mostly hands off, except to complement us on the writing, and give me a pretty stern lecture (deservedly) about the localization costs for the game.

Also: "Complement." Some writer.

He means that Fargo complemented the writing with his own.

 

[evdk]

I just want a sci-fi RPG

 

[Rake]

I just want a sci-fi RPG

Don't worry. Mass Effect 4 its on its way.

 

[evdk]

I just want a sci-fi RPG

Don't worry. Mass Effect 4 its on its way.

I distinctly remember writing RPG.

 

[Infinitron]

What's the last real scifi RPG ever released? (by real I mean party-based, top down, non-action, etc)

 

[Shadenuat]

Somebody should just pre-order the book and make a lets-read Numenera out of it, then we'll know everything

 

[evdk]

I don't know, first hour of Albion, maybe.

 

[Jaesun]

I just want a sci-fi RPG

I do too, but that can be Fargo's 3rd blockbuster KS (and turn based). Basically re-do the Buck Rogers Gold Box Game, or something simmilar.

 

[Kosmonaut]

On one hand you have faggots that bitch about coupling mechanism in the Wasteland 2 trains. On the other hand we have another annoying faggot bitching about whether the game is Sci-Fi or Fantasy. Good to see well placed priorities!

 

[tuluse]

What's the last real scifi RPG ever released? (by real I mean party-based, top down, non-action, etc)

Fallout 2?

 

[Jaesun]

I want space ship sci-fi. And no, Mass Effect is NOT an rpg.

 

[Infinitron]

What's the last real scifi RPG ever released? (by real I mean party-based, top down, non-action, etc)

Fallout 2?

Post-apocalyptic doesn't count?

 

[hoverdog]

I want space ship sci-fi. And no, Mass Effect is NOT an rpg.

and it's not sci-fi.

 

[Infinitron]

Oh, wait, KOTOR2.

But before the KOTORs?

 

[Brother None]

I just want a sci-fi RPG

I was doodling a sci-fi RPG once, as my own little project. Small-scope retro RPG with callbacks to the Golden Age of sci fi writing, space adventures, set in an orbiting nuclear missile satellite. Never got very far though

I do too, but that can be Fargo's 3rd blockbuster KS (and turn based).

Wouldn't that be Bard's Tale IV tho? He could use the recently released video as a "this is what a publisher would do" and then a "but this is what we'll do "

 

[Infinitron]

Bard's Tale 4 would probably cause butthurt on the Codex due to GENERIC BLAND FANTASY SETTING.

He'd probably find a way to combine it with the 2004 snarky Bard, too. Which would actually be nice.

 

[tuluse]

Is it true that Fargo is delaying Bard's Tale IV because he's scared to compete with Grimoire? Don't lie to us Brother None.

 

[evdk]

Is it true that Fargo is delaying Bard's Tale IV because he's scared to compete with Grimoire? Don't lie to us Brother None.

So, Bard's Tale IV is coming out post singularity?

 

[Jaesun]

Him now owning the copyright to it would make sense.

But I want a fucking space ship and fucking pew pew lazar guns and turn based combat dammiit