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What can change the nature of game development? New Torment Kickstarter!

firesnakeariesfiresnakearies Member Posts: 307 Arc User
edited March 2013 in Off Topic
For many of us old-school RPG fans, Planescape: Torment is the greatest game ever made.

Now a true successor is finally being made.

Go, and help bring back amazing games:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera
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  • zaphtasticzaphtastic Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Silverstars Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I'm not big into the entire kickstarter thing, but I dropped $20 on this one without a second thought. I'm seriously considering upgrading to the $75 tier, actually...


    edit: did you know there was a novelization of the game? See here
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  • firesnakeariesfiresnakearies Member Posts: 307 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    I backed this for more than my pledges for the other five games I've backed on Kickstarter combined. This is the game I've been waiting and asking for someone to make for the last 13 years.

    Even if it's only half as good as Planescape: Torment was, it'll still be twice as good as every other RPG that's come out since PS:T.
  • firesnakeariesfiresnakearies Member Posts: 307 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Yeah, I knew about that novelization.

    Want to read something else really cool? Check out the original Vision Document for Torment:

    http://www.rpgwatch.com/files/Files/00-0208/Torment_Vision_Statement_1997.pdf

    I wish we'd see more game designers coming up with ideas like this!
  • jenny867jenny867 Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 75
    edited March 2013
    Looks great.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • whichwaywhichway Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Hero Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 7 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Thanks for posting this as I hadn't seen it and have become a backer. I really hope it turns out well.

    Regards
  • firesnakeariesfiresnakearies Member Posts: 307 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Amazing.

    It reached its $900,000 funding goal in SIX HOURS. That's a crazy record right there.
  • zaphtasticzaphtastic Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Silverstars Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    No kidding. Are they going to get Avellone on board as one of the stretch goals? Though with him working on Project Eternity, that may not be an option...
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  • firesnakeariesfiresnakearies Member Posts: 307 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    It seems almost unimaginable to me that Avellone won't get creatively involved in this somehow, at least in a minor capacity. It will happen.
  • firesnakeariesfiresnakearies Member Posts: 307 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    It's over 2.6 million dollars now, with 21 days to go. I'm hoping it raises over 5 million!
  • rickdeckyrickdecky Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    looks amazing... i must dig out Torment.. i have the boxed game knocking about somewhere...

    looks like they will need more stretch goals on kickstarter!
  • firesnakeariesfiresnakearies Member Posts: 307 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Patrick Rothfuss AND Chris Avellone are gonna be working on this game!

    Raise those pledges, people!
  • dwellerofvault13dwellerofvault13 Member Posts: 41 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    This is the best news I have heard since Shadowrun and Wasteland II were being kickstarted.

    Planescape was my one of my favorite settings because of the depth and intertwining of faith, philosophy, and otherworldliness.

    If only a real "Dark Sun" CRPG were being created as well. Any takers out there?
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  • firesnakeariesfiresnakearies Member Posts: 307 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Oh man, that would be amazing. Dark Sun is my favorite setting of all time.
  • dwellerofvault13dwellerofvault13 Member Posts: 41 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    Dark Sun was amazing. I still own every Box Set, Manual, Novel, and every Dark Sun card for the old Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Trading Cards. I can also add the CRPGs and the ill fated MMORPGs source code.

    I have always been a fan of the Apocalyptic Dystopian settings, future or past.

    Dark Sun was great because the world was so unlike a typical fantasy setting and yet so similar.

    And Pardon my Thri-Kreen Avatar. I preferred when they still had abdomens. I guess Wizards of the Coast thought that an insectoid race should look like every other bi-pedal race. Excluding the extra arms.

    Also, they like to allow old races to be something they never were before, like a bow-wielding Ranger Thri-Kreen. But that is a story for another day. Good hunting!
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  • firesnakeariesfiresnakearies Member Posts: 307 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    The original Thri-Kreen were definitely better, no doubt.
  • zaphtasticzaphtastic Member, Neverwinter Beta Users, Neverwinter Guardian Users, Silverstars Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2013
    SSI did make two Dark Sun games (Shattered Lands, Wake of the Ravager) back in 1992-ish... in many ways, they were the predecessors of Baldur's Gate (except they were even better because they actually had turn-based combat! ha!). I liked those games quite a bit, though the second one got kind of silly with the power creep.

    Ontopic, it's pretty neat to see how the funding gets closer to the 3mil mark, and still seems to be going strong. Avellone at $3.5m was kind of expected, but still cool (and if that level isn't reached, I'll eat my hat)! I wonder if the kickstarter will hit 5mil+ by the end?
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