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Torment: Tides of Numenera Kickstarter by InXile [Complete; $4.3 million funded]
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Europe is @ work currently and most of the sites didn't pick up it yet.
Hoping for a wisecracking pelvis this time
Betting on a somber tibia
Goddammit.
Why? You can still buy those games in future, the devs will certainly survive without those $50 or however much you would have pledged. Anyway, I have much more fun pledging to and following smaller projects, those in the $50k-$200k range.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
I promised myself that I wouldn't get more excited for this game if Avellone was a stretch goal, but damn I want that companion!
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Yes!
I really felt the same way until I finished the second book. I didn't even like the first book at all. Something just clicked and I gained a new found appreciation of the series, lol.
an under performing baculum
Forsaken82
Member
At this point I am all for an inXile/Obsidian merger. Two solid teams that can work on two independent yet competitive projects simultaneously while sharing creative talents.
Fooking hell, this is it.
I'm not sure it would work. There are great people on both sides, but some of them have a big ego as well.
Good job, InXile. Whether directly or indirectly, it feels like the important elements of the feedback in this thread are being noted.
Nice to see them address the "too many writers" concerns and hint at forthcoming information on the graphics as well. Thumbs up.
Nice to see them address the "too many writers" concerns and hint at forthcoming information on the graphics as well. Thumbs up.
Brother None
Member
Think we work better as separately but in good relations. The scope if inXile and Obsidian is pretty different, too.
That's coz I'm here!
Haha, nah, in all seriousness, I saw this question come up in a bunch of places, from our Kickstarter comments to different forums including here, and talking it over with Kevin and Adam we decided it was an important and legit enough concern to warrant addressing, yeah.
Forsaken82
Member
It was more of a joke post than anything else
That being said, I wish this type of i guess you can call it third party outsourcing occured more often in big budget titles to be honest. Instead you typically get companies that are in it for the pay check and have little to no interest in the actually material.
It was obvious from the beginning they would play the Avellone card at some point (and no, it's not hindsight, it was obvious).
The A-bomb.
Brother None
Member
It's kind of funny how many people claim this is the case, when on day one of this Kickstarter we at inXile were almost completely sure this wasn't going to happen, and it only got finalized that it actually could happen a few days ago.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Looks like I won the bet.
You reading this trab? :3
You reading this trab? :3
holy fuck! The power of crowd funded R&D!!!
Dynamic shadows in pre-rendered environments isn't new.
Alone in the Dark on the Dreamcast made great use of them. You overlay a simple (but invisible) 3D model over the 2D image and use that to calculate the shadows.
This last update doomed me. I succumbed to the Avellone hype as one 110$ slot opened and I jumped on it immediately. hehe
edit: I'm a bit worried of all this writing talent going into one game. I hope McComb is able to keep all this content consistent and meaningful in the end.
edit: I'm a bit worried of all this writing talent going into one game. I hope McComb is able to keep all this content consistent and meaningful in the end.
yeah, I knew about this but may be there is some other way... I think it's too trivial for Brennecke to mention in his Digipen interview because duh, of course you can put mesh in there and light the scene. May be there is some hybrid approach but what "hybrid" can be about this? You either put mesh there or you don't.
Anyway can't wait for Rezzed.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
I think they are at a minimum going for the amount of voice acting that was found in PS:T - which wasn't that much to begin with (compared to modern RPGs).
About fucking time! 3.5 million everyone hello please can we make it!
I imagine it will work a lot like TV would work, where the showrunner (lead designer) discusses the plot with all of the writers and everyone creates their little piece of it. If anything it should create an even more varied game instead of one writer tackling the entire thing on their own, especially in a game like Torment where the writing is key.
I imagine it will work a lot like TV would work, where the showrunner (lead designer) discusses the plot with all of the writers and everyone creates their little piece of it. If anything it should create an even more varied game instead of one writer tackling the entire thing on their own, especially in a game like Torment where the writing is key.
I assumed that would be the case but there's still a pending stretch goal for it so I dunno if that means it isn't a sure thing yet.
The voice acting was excellent, though (outside of comical TNO repetition - updated my journal).
SquiddyCracker
Banned
Updated my journal
that is actually the only line I didn't mind.
Yeah 2D is the important one.
Perhaps getting an airship or whatever was thunk up too.
SquiddyCracker
Banned
I'm all about a mind fortress over the airship now.
oh is that what it became, I wasn't following it's conceptual progression. I like airships though...
