Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Beta Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Florian Gheorghe]

aepervius says:

I see argument from both points of view. At this point I say wait and see.

What concerns me far more on a paersonal side, is that now there is a risk of dumbing down because console UI and console Input device are not like a mouse and a keyboard… I’ll just cross finger and wait for reviews.

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  01/09/2016 at 20:33 sear says:
  
  I do most of our UI design on Torment for both PC and console. That’s a valid concern and one we’ve seen a few times. However, I can say the PC version of the UI was pretty much finished before we even knew we were doing consoles. The PC version will stay the same (minus art and polish updates), while consoles are getting their own additions and improvements to work better on controllers (direct character control instead of point-and-click, radial menus instead of icons, etc.).
  • 01/09/2016 at 21:01 Fry says:
    
    Unless I’m misunderstanding previous statements, I thought the PC and console UI crews were separate. You’re the lead designer for both?

This is from the comments of RPS.

 

[Bubbles]

What's sea's track record with UI design?

 

[FeelTheRads]

What's sea's track record with UI design?

He used "quote" and "post" buttons on forums.

Or maybe he worked on the W2 UI too, which would help explain his severe butthurt with the Codex.

Nice to see that they've all been educated in delivering the same "we never knew we were going to do console until it was already done!" story.

 

[ZagorTeNej]

What's sea's track record with UI design?

IIRC he likes NWN 2 UI which kinda explains a lot. Right man for the job no doubt, Fargo only hires the best (and then gracefully steps aside to allow geniuses like Sea and Brother None to work their magic).

 

[Black Angel]

That’s one thing you’ll notice here – we don’t have handlers for you to talk to, you talk to me, to the writers, to the producers. We don’t have PR and marketing in between us, because we are right there on the nub and we love talking about what we do..

Uh-huh.

 

[Prime Junta]

In re imaginative settings vs good writing, why not have both?

 

[Lurker King]

sear says:

I do most of our UI design on Torment for both PC and console. That’s a valid concern and one we’ve seen a few times. However, I can say the PC version of the UI was pretty much finished before we even knew we were doing consoles. The PC version will stay the same (minus art and polish updates), while consoles are getting their own additions and Improvements to work better on controllers (direct character control instead of point-and-click, radial menus instead of icons, etc.).

So the idea that an ex-codexer (Sea or Brother None) was deeply involved with this Gamescom mess doesn’t seem implausible, huh? It is obvious that they both must be deeply resented with the Codex because W2 was demolished. This whole thing seems too personal and too amateurish to be a publisher decision. Techland my ass. This is Brother None and Sea’s revenge!

 

[J_C]

It is obvious that they both must be deeply resented towards the Codex because W2 was demolished.

I don't know what do you mean by demolished when the Codex gave a positive review for W2.

 

[Lurker King]

Hint: read the comments section and the other threads about the game.

 

[J_C]

Hint: read the comments section and the other threads about the game.

BN and Sea should have known that the Codex has a wide spectrum of opinions, did they really get butthurt about some people hating the game? I can't imagine they getting butthurt. They know what the Codex is like.

 

[Sensuki]

did they really get butthurt about some people hating the game?

As Infinitron said earlier, they took criticism of the WL2 beta very personally, and have never been the same since.

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.egx.net/egx/news/torment-tides-of-numenera-s-creative-lead-to-speak-at-egx

Torment: Tides of Numenera's Creative Lead to speak at EGX
Colin McComb, Creative Lead for the highly anticipated Torment: Tides of Numenera, will present a Developer Session at EGX 2016.

The follow up to 1999's smash hit RPG, Planescape: Torment, Tides of Numenera is set in a wonderfully bizarre world filled with incomprehensibly advanced technology. Colin McComb, the game's creative lead, will take to the EGX stage to discuss the process for creating believable characters and responsive stories for a game set a billion years in the future.

We're delighted to welcome Colin back to an EGX event, he joined us last year to present a fascinating talkat EGX Rezzed. Taking place at 2pm on Sunday 25th September this session is not to be missed.

Those not at EGX will be able to catch the session live on Twitch and it'll be available to watch later on ourYouTube channel.

This is the latest of many reveals for this year's EGX, we have loads of news to share with you in the coming weeks so stay tuned! Tickets are available to buy here.

 

[Sensuki]

DosBuster veevoir http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...intment-cancelled.110327/page-67#post-4705746

 

[existential_vacuum]

That’s one thing you’ll notice here – we don’t have handlers for you to talk to, you talk to me, to the writers, to the producers. We don’t have PR and marketing in between us, because we are right there on the nub and we love talking about what we do.

There is a need for Fargo/inXile version of this:

 

[Fry]

Just getting around to reading the TTON forums... https://forums.inxile-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=15806&start=120

Postby HarveyV » June 10th, 2016, 9:54 pm

you people just took a fat fucking shit all over the system.

i thought that the colors for the pools was fun and unique, and you made the health bar red.

you fucking suck. oh my god. i am legitimately fucking disgusted by this. you fucking ruined it.

why

why

why

why

Postby HarveyV » August 29th, 2016, 7:43 am

There isnt even anything left to live for again. I just want the black nothingness to slip over me but I'm a coward and a fool.

Is this guy a Codexer? If not, someone get him to register pronto. The unhinged butthurt is spectacular.

 

[Space Insect]

Just getting around to reading the TTON forums... https://forums.inxile-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=15806&start=120







Is this guy a Codexer? If not, someone get him to register pronto. The unhinged butthurt is spectacular.

@The Games Analist?

 

[Bubbles]

i want bioware level romances! I want to fuck my companions. I dont want to have interesting or in depth characters, no sir ee bob. I do not want a good story, I want a hammy romance written by a 40+ year old gay man who thinks the epitome of romantic writing is twilight and dating manga! WILL MY HARD EARNED BACKER DOLLARS BRING ME THIS????

YOU'RE FUCKING CO-PRODUCING IT WITH THE PEOPLE WHO MADE THE IP?????????????? WHAT THE FUCK BROTHER NONE???????????????????????? OH MY GOD I AM SO UPSET RIGHT NOW

I have nothing in my life but this game's upcoming release and they shit on it. I am planning on killing myself if the final release has a health bar.

He's a goon.

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

Very subtle trolling

 

[Fry]

Pfft. Fail.

You didn't even threaten suicide.

 

[Infinitron]

Bubbles Looks like Torment has a presence at PAX West after all:



https://www.twitch.tv/alienware/v/87406189?t=01h35m25s

 

[J_C]

Bubbles Looks like Torment has a presence at PAX West after all:



https://www.twitch.tv/alienware/v/87406189?t=01h28m40s

Great, Infinitron breaks NDA again, the Codex is really gonna be blacklisted now.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Great, Infinitron breaks NDA again, the Codex is really gonna be blacklisted now.

Doesn't matter, you can't go lower than codex tier.

 

[Infinitron]

That joke doesn't really make any sense when I'm directly quoting inXile's own Twitter account.

Watched half an hour of the stream (out of about 58 minutes). It's just a slow-paced playthrough of the beginning of the game.

 

[exe]

Can anyone explain to me all the rage about health bars? Serious question, haven't followed developement at all.

 

[Roguey]

Can anyone explain to me all the rage about health bars? Serious question, haven't followed developement at all.

Originally attacks would sap one of your three attributes, they decided this wasn't fun, now they just drain hp.