Torment: Tides of Numenera

[Leferd]

Nice to see it coming along. It's still about another year out, no?

[Bill Gates' Son]

The UI is sexy.  I hope they don't change it.

[Ganrich]

Yeah, watching the video again.  That UI is soooooooo PST.   It should stay. 

[ManifestedISO]

Just now pledged for Torment, why not sooner, I don't know. Am I supposed to wait for a Manage Pledge email or something. I'm not super smart and pledged before creating an account, and so now it says there aren't any donations on record. 

[PrimeJunta]

Well damn, they certainly got the vibe right. Music, visuals, even the UI.

[IndiraLightfoot]

Prediction: GOTC! (C being Century)

 

That vid was spectacular. The music, the atmosphere, the cool environments, the weird props, the read-your-text-nerd-UI, the lot! I loved it all.

 

So far, I don't regret backing this game hard, like in among the top hundreds (foolish and desperate, but it seems it was for a good cause).

Edited September 18, 2014 by IndiraLightfoot

[PrimeJunta]

I've been hyped before so I'll try to keep it under control at this point, but... yeah. That does look sweet. A bit too much VO perhaps.

 

I've been a leetle concerned because of the setting; Numenera doesn't have the built-in thematic coherence of Planescape, so it's all up what the team can make of it. Fortunately it sure looks like they have a clear vision about it.

 

But yeah, at least they hit the atmosphere right out of the park. The music is pure PS:T of course, but the mix of weird, pseudo-medieval and sci-fie, squalor, ancient technology, and alien beings is somehow all very Sigil too, much more so than I expected/hoped.

[IndiraLightfoot]

As long as the VO is good as well as focussed on companions and interesting NPCs primarily, I'm fine with it.

 

Interestingly, the vid, it says that T:ToN is made in the PoE engine, and here we don't see that transparent 3D models over 2D backgrounds issue, and also we see a brave decision of making the text UI centre stage. Given the MotB-ish and PST-ish team behind it, I think we can expect some really interesting stories and dilemmas, not to mention depth to the stuff we encounter and are supposed to deal with in the way we wish.

Edited September 18, 2014 by IndiraLightfoot

[Hiro Protagonist II]

Decided to pop over to the Codex to see their reaction (as it's sometimes fun to see their reaction to things) and even they're excited too. I didn't have high expectations with inXile pulling this off but with WL2 and now Torment.. wow, they have their **** together. They got the UI right first time. I was also concerned about their decision with TB combat but having experienced how rtwp can go so wrong (PoE), I'm glad they did go with TB, not that combat was great in PS:T.

 

Seeing this has inspired me to read up on the Numenera setting over the weekend with the physical books I received from my pledge. Books have been sitting in my bookcase for months.

[IndiraLightfoot]

I've watched it three times now. Matkina seems to be a very cool companion.

[Lexx]

How the hell do I increase my pledge on that new website? I can't find any button about it.

 

/Edit: And looks like the website is down now. Doesn't work for me anymore at least.

Edited September 18, 2014 by Lexx

[IndiraLightfoot]

Lexx: I was on it ten minutes before you wrote that, and now I just entered it without any problems again. It sure is up.

 

And Ganrich asked about that on the previous page, check out the help he got there.

[Ashen Rohk]

Holy catballs that looks amazing.

 

Loving the different gaits of characters and the close feel of it. Can't wait.

[Bos_hybrid]

So do you have to register to the site? Or does it recognize a WL2 account?

[Hiro Protagonist II]

Not 100% sure. Probably try your wasteland 2 email log in and see if it works first. Otherwise you may have to register.

[Sensuki]

Yeah my first comment over at the Codex was hey they easily beat the Pillars of Eternity UI on the first try.

[Hiro Protagonist II]

Considering this is pre-alpha, it looks pretty damn good. The character animations look better than PoE. The capes look great. I'd like to know what resolution they're making it because the characters look slightly bigger and clearer than the ones in PoE. Maybe it's the art style that makes it look clearer or it was a design decision to make the characters slightly bigger. The music sounds like the original and the areas have that weird looking Torment feel to them like the original game. They've definitely nailed the feel of Torment imo. It'll be impossible not to compare both TToN and PoE considering they're using the same technology and both paying homage to the IE games, and ultimately decide which is the better game.

[Sensuki]

It was a design decision to have a closer zoom but yeah the character animations are a lot better than PE.

Edited September 18, 2014 by Sensuki

[Trodat]

I didn't have high hopes after WL2 but man, they got their **** together.  I really like the enviroments, for some weird reason I get a FF7 vibe from them. That game was very beautiful. And dat Mark Morgan music

 

The UI is super. :takemymoney:

[IndiraLightfoot]

Yeah, the animations shown so far seem superb, and that other-wordly mood is spot on!

On top of the obvious similarities to PST, I also get a darker vibe in the story snippets as well as in the settings we've seen glimpses of, and that vibe is akin to MotB's fantastic areas. With people like Kevin Saunders and George Ziets behind it all, I shouldn't perhaps be surprised at all.

 

All creds to OE, though - they have saved a tonne of development time for InXile by doing all that engine stuff.

[Nonek]

Yes quite enthused by that trailer, very Torment-ish ambience. Was that little quote at the end Mr Fargo's subtle dig at the SJF's? After all the gentleman is a gamer, formed a company that had the tagline, by gamers, for gamers and now is supposedly after decades of advancing game development judged to be a hindrance to the industry.

[Starwars]

-The animations *look* really nice but I'm not so sure I'll be crazy about that "walking when close to click, running while far away to click" when actually playing the game. I hope it will feel smooth to control.

 

-The Bloom areas look pretty plastic-y and not really organic and some of the textures are not so good. The outside area look a lot nicer. Nevertheless, the art design look really promising overall.

 

-Love the conversation interface. It takes its place, it's obviously an important part of a game like this.

 

-Writing looks great from what we see here.

 

-I hope that it will not have that amount of voiceacting in it as shown in this demo.

 

-Music is great though I think that horn makes it feel a bit too close to PS:T, feels a bit cheap-o.

 

Overall, this is a fantastic showing for how early on it is. Much better than I expected actually. Very excited about this.

[IndiraLightfoot]

In my first playthrough, I'll try to play it as if the protagonist is me - any decisions I'll try to replicate what I would have done in those situations, ethically and for self-preservation as well as altruistic reasons. It will be like one big psychology test, and then I'll end up in some asylum afterwards.

[Keyrock]

Fargo definitely likes to take shots at the industry and create a us (gamers) vs them (publishers) vibe.  Whether he's truly bitter, really believes his own rhetoric, or it's just a marketing ploy (judging from the amount of pledges he's gotten for his 2 Kickstarters, a successful one), I don't much care, I mostly tune that stuff out and try to go by the games or game concepts themselves.

 

Anyway, the gameplay footage itself looks absolutely marvelous, in my opinion (as exhibited by the Sailor Moon heart eyes gif I posted).  I was really struck by just how insanely gorgeous everything looked.  It's hard not to compare it to what we've seen of PoE, and I'm thoroughly happy with what I've seen of PoE in action, but this...  my eyes literally popped open wide and my jaw dropped a bit when I saw TToN in action.  Much of it is likely because of how alien everything looked, that's part of what I loved so much about PST and Morrowind, but also everything just looked so beautiful and the animations were so good.

[PrimeJunta]

@Indira I can see that happening.

 

:screams: WHAT DOES ONE LIFE MATTER!?!

:bangs head against bars: