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Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Pre-Release Thread [ALPHA RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]
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Holy shit, the guy doing the TNO voice in the videos is Alexander Brandon of Deus Ex soundtrack fame.
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Updated my journal.
hiver
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Updated my Update.
If Pat Rothfuss joins the writing team, Roguey is going to (pretend to) blow a fuse.
I don't care much for the guy either but it will be a nice publicity boost for sure, he has a huge fandom.
I don't care much for the guy either but it will be a nice publicity boost for sure, he has a huge fandom.
hiver
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Preferences over Patrick novels mean nothing.
I had several objections to this or that in the story of Kvothe - but thats a different story.
He has a very, very good way with words - he is top quality writer and using his talent and skills in Tides is going to create awesome.
Plus he has a proper view of games. Fallouts, Planescape, loves text adventures.
And he hates same things that we do.
Plus yes, a large publicity boost.
thats THREE positives. I dont see how you could do better than that.
I had several objections to this or that in the story of Kvothe - but thats a different story.
He has a very, very good way with words - he is top quality writer and using his talent and skills in Tides is going to create awesome.
Plus he has a proper view of games. Fallouts, Planescape, loves text adventures.
And he hates same things that we do.
Plus yes, a large publicity boost.
thats THREE positives. I dont see how you could do better than that.
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Ahahaha oh wow
I'd cancel those pledges were I you, wouldn't want to achieve *that* goal.
Rake
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.This.
I don't realy like his novels, but he is one of the best writers out there in writting quality.
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Brother None, can we get a high resolution of the Fathoms images?
Hopefully he will have no hand in plotting.
Gondolin
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I was going to say that, having realized that Rothfuss is responsible for that Kvothe crap I tried reading once, he's not worth it as a stretch goal. But then I remembered that Raymond Feist's shit stories worked far better in Betrayal at Krondor (a computer game medium), than in his books. So there.
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evdk
and others jumping to conclusions:
Maybe you could read this:
http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2013/03/concerning-games-torment-and-a-sense-of-play/
not that i give a flying fuck about what you think, but read.
(has a bit of clarification about what Patrick will be doing too)
A small part of that:
On Sunday, a tall dark stranger came up to me and said, “You’re Pat Rothfuss, aren’t you?”
“Yup,” I said. We shook hands and I read his badge. “Nice to meet you Colin,” I gestured to the vast panoply of geekery around us. “How do you fit into all of this?”
“I write games,” he said.
“Role Playing stuff? Computer games?”
“Both,” he said. “I worked on Planescape back in the day…”
“The computer game?” I asked.
He nodded.
“Planescape Torment?” I asked.
He nodded again.
“You are fucking kidding me,” I said. “I was just talking to someone about Torment. That was one of the best games I’ve ever played.”
He looked at little surprised at this, “Wow,” he said. “I….”
“The narrative was brilliant,” I said. “It’s been ten years, and I haven’t known a game to come close to it.”
“Well…”
“I mean you had honest-to-god open-ended character development that was an integral part of the main narrative,” I said. “Nobody else has ever pulled that off as well. It was amazing.”
“It…”
“I still remember the interaction you could have with some of the NPC’s,” I said. “You actually had to be clever talking to them. You could offend them and piss them off. The writing was solid and smart. You had a branching narrative that still felt cohesive and engaging. I’ve never seen that handled so well except for maybe in the early Fallout games.”
“…”
and others jumping to conclusions:
Maybe you could read this:
http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2013/03/concerning-games-torment-and-a-sense-of-play/
not that i give a flying fuck about what you think, but read.
(has a bit of clarification about what Patrick will be doing too)
A small part of that:
On Sunday, a tall dark stranger came up to me and said, “You’re Pat Rothfuss, aren’t you?”
“Yup,” I said. We shook hands and I read his badge. “Nice to meet you Colin,” I gestured to the vast panoply of geekery around us. “How do you fit into all of this?”
“I write games,” he said.
“Role Playing stuff? Computer games?”
“Both,” he said. “I worked on Planescape back in the day…”
“The computer game?” I asked.
He nodded.
“Planescape Torment?” I asked.
He nodded again.
“You are fucking kidding me,” I said. “I was just talking to someone about Torment. That was one of the best games I’ve ever played.”
He looked at little surprised at this, “Wow,” he said. “I….”
“The narrative was brilliant,” I said. “It’s been ten years, and I haven’t known a game to come close to it.”
“Well…”
“I mean you had honest-to-god open-ended character development that was an integral part of the main narrative,” I said. “Nobody else has ever pulled that off as well. It was amazing.”
“It…”
“I still remember the interaction you could have with some of the NPC’s,” I said. “You actually had to be clever talking to them. You could offend them and piss them off. The writing was solid and smart. You had a branching narrative that still felt cohesive and engaging. I’ve never seen that handled so well except for maybe in the early Fallout games.”
“…”
I bought Name of The Wind (and the sequel) for my wife and she loved it. Haven't read it myself, though, Maybe it's time to do it.
His enthusiasm is catching.
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Pat is an excellent writter and his tastes are 
. But as evdk said, his plotting is weak. To be honest i enjoy his blog more than his novels. But as himself said, he can do one area and be involved in a character arc, things he is good at. So i think he is a good addition to the team, and a chance to have writting on par or even better than Planescape's in this game. So, 
. But as evdk said, his plotting is weak. To be honest i enjoy his blog more than his novels. But as himself said, he can do one area and be involved in a character arc, things he is good at. So i think he is a good addition to the team, and a chance to have writting on par or even better than Planescape's in this game. So, 
hiver
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if more credentials are needed, a little comic from Pats blog.
he did the writing of course.
i think that settles it.
he did the writing of course.
i think that settles it.
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Before that my enthusiasm for this project was based on hope and abstract factors.
But Georgie boy came by and showed me a glimpse of actual game storytelling.
indeed...
Marquess Cornwallis
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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). I'm not a huge fan of the novels (the second one in particular would in my opinion have only benefited from being trimmed down by a third or so), but I'm really curious about anything he writes apart from that, Torment included. (Also, I loved George Ziets' poker face delivery in the video).
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And now I know who is on my avatar, heh.
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I misspelled Ziets... hehehehe. It's a weird name.
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