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

[Infinitron]

Interview: http://www.redbull.com/en/games/stories/1331731003670/torment-tides-of-numenera-interview

 

[tuluse]

A lot of games make claims about reactivity, especially RPGs. How deep are we talking with Tides? You have at least one previous Alpha Protocol team member on-side in Chris Avellone – is that the standard of player agency you're aiming for?

MCA is the Alpha Protocol guy now?

 

[Athelas]

I suppose it must be awkward to refer to Brian Mitsoda as 'Alpha Protocol team member who was replaced with another writer'.

 

[Crooked Bee]

It's fairer to say JRPG aesthetics are Dying Earth-ish, rather

Maybe. Either way works for me. JRPGs do love these kinds of settings, is all I know.

 

[Trip]

Maybe. JRPGs do love these kinds of settings, is all I know.

Both JRPGs and anime are into baroque stuff in general. Combine that with some fantasy and some science-fiction and you almost always got Dying Earth. So I suppose they've arrived at it from a different angle.

 

[Infinitron]

Interesting, they're now planning to create "12-15 crises". It used to be just 12.

 

[Bubbles]

Need to reach at least 15 hours playing time.

 

[Trip]

400K words so far means maybe twice as many till they're done, so throw in the Crises and the exploration, and I think you'd have at least 30 hours per playthrough. But it also depends on the quantity and size of the maps; I haven't heard anything about that yet.

 

[Ninjerk]

Interview: http://www.redbull.com/en/games/stories/1331731003670/torment-tides-of-numenera-interview

Kind of skimmed it, but there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of new information.

 

[Abu Antar]

I don't mind if it's a 20-30 hour game with actual replay value. There are enough 50+ hour games out there.

 

[Infinitron]

From the office of Torment: Sagus Cliffs story session with (from left to right): Evan Hill, Josh Jertberg, Daniel Kim, John Winocur, George Ziets, Chris Felts, Colin McComb, with Jason Dora taking the photo.

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

Discussing their brofist ratios?

 

[Infinitron]

There's a dude hiding behind Josh Jertberg! Wonder who he is.

EDIT: According to Brother None that's Black Isle and Obsidian veteran environmental artist Aaron Meyers. Also ksaun is in the room too.

 

[Athelas]

I don't think he's hiding, just unaware of the angle of the photograph.

George Ziets seems like he's hiding though.

 

[Excidium II]

Imagine brainstorming RPG ideas being part of your job

 

[Athelas]

That guy next to Ziets bears an uncanny resemblance to:

 

[StaticSpine]

That guy next to Ziets bears an uncanny resemblance to:

So.. the right side of the table looks like (top to bottom)

 

[Infinitron]

In this E3 interview, Brian Fargo says the Alpha Systems Test will be ready "in the next month". That was a week and a half ago. But it sounds like they might still have to test it internally or something.

 

[Bester]

Wasn't the Alpha test supposed to be just an example of a dialogue with literally no gameplay where you can move your character and stuff like that?

Anyway my point is, what exactly are they going to show since the whole system was given to them by Obs and we pretty much experienced it in PoE already?

Upd: nvm, just saw the update, there will be gameplay in it.

 

[Fry]

Wasn't the Alpha test supposed to be just an example of a dialogue with literally no gameplay where you can move your character and stuff like that?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera/posts/1272133

As you may recall we have been planning to run a series of alpha systems tests, contained gameplay portions where you help us iterate on some of our gameplay concepts and implementations. We almost released the first AST several months ago, but the last week or two to finalize it, plus the ongoing iteration we’d want to make to address feedback, looked like it would detract too much from content creation at that time. We were still ramping up new team members who came over from Wasteland 2 and we wanted to keep the team more focused to speed things up. The good news is that the game overall has come a good distance since then, so there’ll be more to see. The very first AST will still be quite directed (i.e., brief), but originally it was going to be simply a conversation and now it’ll cover a bit more.

 

[ksaun]

In this E3 interview, Brian Fargo says the Alpha Systems Test will be ready "in the next month". That was a week and a half ago. But it sounds like they might still have to test it internally or something.

That's fairly accurate. But in general, its priority is still lower than many other things (e.g., any issue that blocks team members from working at maximum efficiency). So I'm avoiding committing to a firm date because I don't want to risk having to make unfortunate compromises.

Upd: nvm, just saw the update, there will be gameplay in it.

Yes (though not too much). (Really this first one is also about just setting up and trying out our process for the ASTs -- iron out the rough spots for the more substantial ones.)

 

[StaticSpine]

Did you notice that in the video there was a manta ray silhouette circling around this spherical tank? I love those moving details in backgrounds.

 

[Transfiguring Roar]

Also noticed the flying manta.

Ever since I saw that spherical thing, I've been dying to know what the fuck it is!

My guess is some kind of observatory/telescope.

 

[ArchAngel]

Also noticed the flying manta.

Ever since I saw that spherical thing, I've been dying to know what the fuck it is!

My guess is some kind of observatory/telescope.

Ah the newbies to Numenera :D
In Numenera you rarely find out the original purpose of something but only what it is currently being used for

 

[Grotesque]

I predict game launch on April 7, 2016. (Thursday)