Torment: Tides of Numenera Kickstarter

BlackCoat2k10 · 8 Mar 2013 at 16:49

$2,101,553
pledged of $900,000 goal

Stonking!!

I have backed this. Looks like it has potential, lets just hope with all this extra funding it will do well!

Paul_cz · 8 Mar 2013 at 17:09

I predict 4.3 million dollars by the end.

It is brilliant. So many oldschool hardcore PC RPGs will be coming out this and next year:

Wasteland 2
Eternity
Shadowrun Returns
Torment
Dead State
Age of Decadence

And I am probably forgetting some.

Surfer · 8 Mar 2013 at 17:30

JeditOjanen said:
It's nostalgia for Planescape: Torment, which is still one of the greatest RPGs ever produced. However, Tides of Numenera is not a Planescape game and hence is billed as a "spiritual successor" - though as I'm told Numenera is a sci-fi setting, T:ToN isn't even that. Different setting, different lead writer, different genre, same name. I will be skipping this one.

Whilst i agree - it could be intersting. The main draw for Planescape Torment was the story yeah ok...Colin Mccomb who is on the team for this Torment did story and design work on Planescape.

I think the mistake is calling it Torment...because people will think it will be in the world of Planescape.

On the downside...what have inxile done recently.......

FrenchTart · 8 Mar 2013 at 17:45

Quite an interesting looking one but they clearly don't need my kickstarter money so I think I'll wait and see how it all turns out

Indy500 · 8 Mar 2013 at 19:22

Surfer said:
Whilst i agree - it could be intersting. The main draw for Planescape Torment was the story yeah ok...Colin Mccomb who is on the team for this Torment did story and design work on Planescape.

Yeah, and like I said, he wrote the least convincing parts (asides from minor work like editing and proofreading). The highlights of the story like Ravel, TTO, Deionarra - that was all Chris Avellone. Though even MCA can put out bad work (Alpha Protocol for example).

Surfer said:
I think the mistake is calling it Torment...because people will think it will be in the world of Planescape.

On the downside...what have inxile done recently.......

A bunch of mobile and XBLA games. Bearing in mind that Fargo started the company the year after leaving Interplay in the clutches of Titus (2002), there's been precious little RPG content produced. Bard's Tale was obviously not a faithful remake either. Wasteland 2 looks decent so far, and that's all I'm backing for now.

Antar Bolaeisk · 22 Mar 2013 at 14:14

Looks like Tides of Numa Numa might get some input from Chris Avellone afterall, provided they hit the $3.5m mark.

joeyjojo · 22 Mar 2013 at 14:42

Antar Bolaeisk said:
Looks like Tides of Numa Numa might get some input from Chris Avellone afterall, provided they hit the $3.5m mark.

Chris commands a price!

Indy500 · 22 Mar 2013 at 22:49

Antar Bolaeisk said:
Looks like Tides of Numa Numa might get some input from Chris Avellone afterall, provided they hit the $3.5m mark.

Heh, and people are already asking about George Ziets as well

joeyjojo · 23 Mar 2013 at 21:38

2 weeks left to get that extra $500 K for Chris!

Arg I finally caved and went for the $35 one. Hope it's good...

sr4470 said:
Heh, and people are already asking about George Ziets as well

Ziets was already on at $2.5 M?

Indy500 · 24 Mar 2013 at 01:07

joeyjojo said:
Ziets was already on at $2.5 M?

Yes, but I mean expanding his role and specifics. He's not a key member of the development team in the same way that McComb is.

joeyjojo · 25 Mar 2013 at 11:35

Three million!

joeyjojo · 27 Mar 2013 at 15:52

Another $100K in the past 2 days, I reckon we'll be getting Chris Avellone after all.

Treebiter · 28 Mar 2013 at 13:01

JeditOjanen said:
It's nostalgia for Planescape: Torment, which is still one of the greatest RPGs ever produced. However, Tides of Numenera is not a Planescape game and hence is billed as a "spiritual successor" - though as I'm told Numenera is a sci-fi setting, T:ToN isn't even that. Different setting, different lead writer, different genre, same name. I will be skipping this one.

+1

The kicker is that I might have backed this if it had been sold on it's own merits and not tied to a game that it has very little to do with.

joeyjojo · 2 Apr 2013 at 16:54

Several updates in the last few days including an early screenshot of the "2.5-D" prerendered backgrounds we can expect.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera/posts

Also Chris Avellone is pretty much certain which is great news.

Antar Bolaeisk · 2 Apr 2013 at 17:21

joeyjojo said:
Another $100K in the past 2 days, I reckon we'll be getting Chris Avellone after all.

I think on average a lot of kickstarters get between 15-30% in the final run up so I'd imagine it should hit $3.5m

The more ambitious stretch goals won't be reached though.

Antar Bolaeisk · 3 Apr 2013 at 22:27

So Chris Avellone will be doing a bit of work on Torment: Tides of Numa Numa, he'll be writing one of the companions but it doesn't elaborate on if he'll be doing anything more.

There's also been some in-game footage posted to give an idea of what it'll look like (classic isometric RPG essentially):

Pneumonic · 5 Apr 2013 at 13:13

just shy of $3.9 million now.. looking good for the $4 million stretch goals.

Indy500 · 5 Apr 2013 at 13:28

Pneumonic said:
just shy of $3.9 million now.. looking good for the $4 million stretch goals.

Looks like they'll be rivalling Obsidian's total :eek:

Antar Bolaeisk · 5 Apr 2013 at 14:01

Pneumonic said:
just shy of $3.9 million now.. looking good for the $4 million stretch goals.

Don't they have about $100,000 from paypal as well plus the $200,000 from both Fargo and the other guy so they should be past it at this stage with the grand total.

Pneumonic · 5 Apr 2013 at 14:26

Yeah I think they have about $500,000 to add to whatever the KS total comes to.

Kickstarter has been the best thing to happen to PC gaming for years! I have backed 3 or 4 titles now and am actually getting really excited about new games for the first time in a long while!