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Torment: Tides of Numenera Kickstarter by InXile [Complete; $4.3 million funded]
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Forsaken82
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"Planetary Annihilation brings Real-Time Strategy to a new generation of gamers in a way they’ve never been seen before: Total Annihilation-inspired gameplay on a planetary scale."
Star Citizen fits your argument better
(but even that coasted on the longing for another Freelancer/Wing Commander style game)SquiddyCracker
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Avellone is on the wrong project.
There making good progress on that one. Backed it also.
trab pu kcip
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fizzelopeguss
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$39,299,382
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I love how crazy Kicktraq gets
They could buy some high quality fonts for 40 mil.
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I wonder what a $39 million dollar Isometic RPG game would look like?
They ran an amazing kickstarter campaign(and their pitch video still is the best). Nobody in the thread thought they'd hit 1.5m and they ended up with 2.2.
Edit: Here's the thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=487088&page=4
Edit 2: The best crowd funding thread is the Star Citizen one. "Those stretch goals are madness! They'll never reach them" lol.
A Human Becoming
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Who says he can't supervise this one as well?
He seems to give his blessing, so I'm fine with it. It would have been nice to get the entire band back together, but sometimes that isn't possible.
I was wondering what the odds were on another Avellone stretch goal, but I imagine he's pretty busy, even if his work on Wasteland 2 is done. Plus he may feel like Eternity and Torment duties would overlap to some extent, so he would probably prefer to work on just one of those.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Obsidian is his company. He works for them. He doesn't work for InExile.
But at this point they should just probably merge already.
Starsunder
Member
Goddamn right.
darkjedi187
Member
Holy mother. I was going to drop $20 this afternoon and had to run out. Come back and it's all gone. Guess I'm going to have to go $25.
Every RPG Kickstarter can make use of an Avellone Bump, probably none more than the sequel to Torment. Even if it's just token representation like designing one of the party members and consulting on the story, both parties know it would be more than worthwhile to make that happen.
No, he's not. Avellone is not going to make another as text-heavy ("vomits of text") game as Torment.
A Black Falcon
Member
Planescape: Torment isn't considered probably the best RPG ever for nothing... it's obvious that there was a lot of demand for a followup.
Also though, Torment: Tides of Numenera has a better pitch video and post, and better tiers too -- $65 for the basic boxed game, for instance, and $95/110 ($110 only now, for as long as they last) for the collector's edition, while Dreamfall Chapters is $110 for the basic boxed version, while the collectors' edition costs way more. Torment has much better, more affordable physical tiers that get you more for less money. I mean, in Torment you get a physical artbook, soundtrack CD, and cloth map at $95/$110! In Dreamfall Chapters you get just a disc and manual for that price. Torment makes me want to bump up to the $110 tier, while Dreamfall Chapters? There's much less incentive to, so I've just stayed at the basic digital tier. I'm not paying over $100 for just the basic box, and I wouldn't have with this game either if the basic box was $95 or $110 and the collector's edition more. But they didn't do that, to their benefit.
theSlacker
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I can only thank our good fortune that we can even complain about something like this.
An Avellone stretch goal here would undoubtedly be a juggernaut. For the most part his lack of participation seems to be the single biggest reservation people have.
Meccanical
Member
The explanation is that PC gamers have more disposable income than anyone else I think.
theSlacker
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Well it's just $25 for a digital copy of the game. Not like you need deep pockets to reach into for that.
InXile did a good job with the tiers.
Considering that the PC gaming demographic probably skews somewhat older and therefore probably has a higher income level, then that's a reasonable conclusion.
Vulcano's assistant
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if rumors are true that Nvidia and AMD delayed their next series of cards then 2013 is the year to take advantage of.
Traumahound
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Those that fondly remember playing Torment, Baldur's Gate, Fallout, etc. are likely over thirty and probably do have the disposable income to help fund these projects. I know I'm in that camp.
Missed out on the wasteland 2 kickstarter.
Bam. $45 = Torment and Wasteland 2.
And publishers by and large are shit heels in gaming.
The publisher attached to Mechwarrior Online has just pushed in a 'feature' that the developers claimed that they'd never do when they pitched it: Pay 2 win.
Will be leaving game over that one.
Bam. $45 = Torment and Wasteland 2.
And publishers by and large are shit heels in gaming.
The publisher attached to Mechwarrior Online has just pushed in a 'feature' that the developers claimed that they'd never do when they pitched it: Pay 2 win.
Will be leaving game over that one.
fizzelopeguss
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I can't blame avellone for not wanting anything to do with it, PS:T was his magnum opus. There's a huge potential for fuck up on this and who wants to pull a warren spector/DX2?
trab pu kcip
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aw come on, I love the artwork too but P:E's stuff has a certain charme to it.
Avellone has said that he wants to do another game like Torment for years now. I feel like his genuine hatred for RPG tropes would be better suited for this than Eternity but he's one of the most important people at Obsidian now.
Newer PE art was great, just original stuff was bland.
Yeah, I doubt theres a western pub that would fund this kind of project without requesting some major gameplay downgrades or worst, some social microtransactions bullshit. Just look how people got rilled up when they made that distributing deal with Origin.
Brother None
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MCA was interested. If the timing was different he could've joined. As it is, he'll likely work on another Torment successor somewhere down the line, I hope. Joining in with this project as a stretch goal is exceedingly unlikely, he's got a full plate with Eternity and Obsidian's publisher pitches.
I just hope we get the stretch goals up soon because we're closing in on our next stretch goal, haha.
This pretty much sums of the entire gravity of this whole thing. It's an honor to generate such discussion in the gaming community.
Someone needs to make some kind of Sonic gotta go fast gif with the kickstarter total increasing in the background. Or maybe the remaining reward slots decreasing
Delusibeta
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Someone needs to make some kind of Sonic gotta go fast gif with the kickstarter total increasing in the background. Or maybe the remaining reward slots decreasing
I half expect Harry Enfield gifs with Brian Fargo's head badly photoshopped on top.
SerArthurDayne
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Fluctuating between 250 and 500. I "reserved" a $250, but have pledge $500. I would really like the wall map, and signatures are cool. My only problem is that since the rule and guidebook are signed, I'll probably never read them. At least you have digital copy of the novellas to read and leave those as they are.
I think a 350 tier with the wall map and maybe the box only signed would be my sweetspot, but I'm now probably going to just jump up to $500 and say fuck it. More than I gave to Project Eternity, but I actually have income now, and this pitch looks amazing.
Is Numenera brand new? I did my research on the phone, and ended up with Numenaria, which was obviously wrong. Looks like it is launching soon, not really out there yet?
I think a 350 tier with the wall map and maybe the box only signed would be my sweetspot, but I'm now probably going to just jump up to $500 and say fuck it. More than I gave to Project Eternity, but I actually have income now, and this pitch looks amazing.
Is Numenera brand new? I did my research on the phone, and ended up with Numenaria, which was obviously wrong. Looks like it is launching soon, not really out there yet?
Yes, Monte Cook kickstarted it last year: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1433901524/numenera-a-new-roleplaying-game-from-monte-cook
It was kickstarted recently. And I always type "numenara" for some reason.
SerArthurDayne
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Okay so he achieved 25x his funding goal that means Torment will make 22 million i can foresee these things using maths.
And I expect the stretch goals to be better handled than Wasteland 2 hehehe Granted it was uncharted territory then, Fargo knows better by now. Remember the "More content! More depth! We'll hire more people!"? Good times.