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Drifter posted:That's why you hold down the tab key to highlight interactive objects. B-b-but MY IMMERSION
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If you actually enjoy pixel hunting there's a surprisingly prolific and successful industry of hidden object games all for you to explore to your heart's content. They're real cheap, too. As far as I'm concerned, the only dioptre losses I desire to suffer from this game should come from committing irresistible onanism over how good it is.
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general chaos posted:I would assume things aren't going to be placed in the inaccessible corners of the backdrop. Having a fixed angle means objects would presumably be placed in unmissable spots. You're more likely to miss something with a free moving camera where you rotate it to a spot that obscures something cool. Much in the same way that I always seem to have my camera pointed in the wrong direction whenever one of the scary bits happens in FEAR. That's the thing though, I'd rather that you can move the camera around so that they can place things in more interesting locations, rather than everything be immediately visible from the top down. The world feels more immersive and dynamic if it's not a painting with all the interaction pointing directly out at the player.
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Mar 31, 2013 20:30
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"Guys! Guys, check it out!" *camera rotates* "The chest was BEHIND the tree the whole time!! Hah!" 
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Mar 31, 2013 20:48
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I know we joke about immersion, but it's still going to be a video game with limitations, and I'm fine with whatever choice they go with, because no design can completely work with everyone's wishes. Look, Bioshock Infinite is immersive as hell and really works with its mechanics and engine as an FPS, but I'm still aware it's a game, and no level of camera manipulation or UI design can change that.
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Mar 31, 2013 21:10
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They should announce that the last 200,000 from Fargo and (I forget the other name) will count towards the goals. "Avellone is once again a writer on Torment" along with some heavy publicizing of that fact should scoop in more people quickly. Regardless of how good anyone else is his name is pretty strongly attached to PS:T.
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Mar 31, 2013 22:40
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I don't even have analogies for these anymore. Have we reached R'lyeh?
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Mar 31, 2013 22:46
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I'm going to be picking the Master of Suicide as my legacy by the end of the Castoffs Labyrinth. That stuff looks cool. 
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Drifter posted:"Guys! Guys, check it out!" Dat sum reddit? Good poo poo 
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CottonWolf posted:I don't even have analogies for these anymore. I'm still having trouble figuring out the perspective of the dark bluish layer, is that like underneath, or spreading out from the layer above it?
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Mar 31, 2013 23:25
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hangedman1984 posted:I'm still having trouble figuring out the perspective of the dark bluish layer, is that like underneath, or spreading out from the layer above it? The weird whale layer? I thought that was essentially a vertical cliff, with the edge of the 'city' walls being built up against it.
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Mar 31, 2013 23:27
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One of the coolest things about this game is that half of it is afterlife focused so at death instead of going  TIME TO RELOAD MY SAVE instead you go  gently caress yeah I get to go to the surreal world and explore!
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Mar 31, 2013 23:32
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hangedman1984 posted:I'm still having trouble figuring out the perspective of the dark bluish layer, is that like underneath, or spreading out from the layer above it? Pretty sure that's supposed to be the ocean, which the whale is mostly submerged in aside from the "island" growing out of its back.
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Great Rumbler posted:Pretty sure that's supposed to be the ocean, which the whale is mostly submerged in aside from the "island" growing out of its back. 
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CottonWolf posted:I don't even have analogies for these anymore. The bottom-most root-tentacle-squid has the best  face.I really hope we get a high-resolution version of that image after the Kickstarter ends.
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That bio-tendril seems to be some kind of reaching-out from the tower on the left. The left tower is purposefully isolated from the tower on the right, which is protected by a small precarious crossing on top, and a maze on the bottom. The left tower seems to be using bio-tendril to see? influence? spread? to the other areas. Only the right tower is untouched. So PC-guy has some serious psychological issues basically. The left tower is "will to live" and the tendril is "using any possible technology"? The right maze is the isolation of morals and "humanity"? the right tower is "sanity, and what could have been"? Who knows. Should be fun.
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So, uh, what happened to the jump in pledges that typically happens? I figured we'd have hit 3.5m by now.
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As some people mentioned, Avellone, in his tweet, teased the screenshot, which seems to be coming to the next Monday, means tomorrow...wait...what is the date (maybe not an appropriate day to announce anything, especially stretch goals...)? Also, I wonder if it is being done through cooperation with Obsidian, though. I mean, especially related with the previous update of possible 2D background implementation, which is one of the design plans of Project Eternity.
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BenRGamer posted:So, uh, what happened to the jump in pledges that typically happens? I figured we'd have hit 3.5m by now.  It happened to PE for the last 6 days, to DFA for the last 5 days, for wasteland 2 for the last 3 or 4 days. Today's Easter so people are probably with family. There will still be a jump, I wouldn't worry unless they do an update tomorrow without there being a jump. Tuesday is also Patrick Rothfuss's monthly storyboard stream with other authors, so he'll probably plug the Kickstarter at least once during that.
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FRINGE posted:Turns out the whole game is a bad dream about an ex-girlfriend and the wizard that stole her heart. Mastadon: Not even once.
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CottonWolf posted:I don't even have analogies for these anymore. It's an Ur-Quan and a Kohr-Ah. 
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http://www.vg247.com/2013/04/01/torment-tides-of-numenera-first-gameplay-screen-revealed/
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Apr 1, 2013 11:59
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Looks great, anybody have it in higher res?
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Apr 1, 2013 12:34
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Man that looks sweet! I quite like that it's not as greasy and blurry as the concept art shown, but has good definition in the shapes of the building, or whatever the entrance leads to, and the bridge.
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Apr 1, 2013 12:55
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I guess it's a good thing I couldn't tell whether or not that was pre-rendered on the first glance. Looking at the text, it seems that it is pre-rendered, which is kind of surprising to me. I had assumed it would be 3D Unity tech like Eternity and Wasteland. That makes me even more interested!
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Hakkesshu posted:Looking at the text, it seems that it is pre-rendered, which is kind of surprising to me. I had assumed it would be 3D Unity tech like Eternity and Wasteland. That makes me even more interested!
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Hakkesshu posted:I guess it's a good thing I couldn't tell whether or not that was pre-rendered on the first glance. Prerendering doesn't preclude the use of a 3D engine. In fact, it requires one:  Additionally, Eternity is going to use 3D models in addition to the pre-rendered backgrounds so that it can do dynamic lighting, kinda like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F6JVZv2-k4
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Update 12 is up!
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Hot drat that looks amazing. If the final product even looks remotely similar I'll be more than pleased.
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Man I wished so long for more traditional isometric RPGs (I think TOEE is one of the prettiest games ever). And now this and PE. This owns owns owns
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Boner Slam posted:Man I wished so long for more traditional isometric RPGs (I think TOEE is one of the prettiest games ever). And now this and PE. This owns owns owns Traditional RPG lovers are really being spoiled these days. Divinity: Original Sin just started up a Kickstarter as well, and the game is looking pretty great (particularly the turn-based combat and the easy-to-use editor). Unfortunately, their timing is a little off, since we're all still busy throwing money at Torment.
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That background shot looks so good, now comes the long wait to explore that world for myself. 
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Phlegmish posted:Traditional RPG lovers are really being spoiled these days. Divinity: Original Sin just started up a Kickstarter as well, and the game is looking pretty great (particularly the turn-based combat and the easy-to-use editor). Unfortunately, their timing is a little off, since we're all still busy throwing money at Torment. This needs a lot more love.
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I grabbed the full-sized image, punched up the Bloom theme from the Kickstarter page, and then went full screen on that thing. So...yeah... Now, I'm imagining gurgling biological processes, hissing steam, crackling lamps, the din of a crowd in the distance, merchants calling out for my attention. Make it happen, guys! I'm ready!
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Megazver posted:This needs a lot more love. I already pledged. I hope they make it.
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Okay, that sure is pretty. Looks somewhat more cartoony than I was expecting, but I like it. EDIT: Also, looking more closely, the fact that the floor texture looks sort of like flaps of skin is a suitably creepy touch. CottonWolf fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Apr 1, 2013 |
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drat that is looking good. Reassuring to see that they understood why people were a bit worried about how the game would look and subsequently nailed it.
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Looks good. Brother None, do you know if you guys are going to do any parallax effect, so that distant background moves at a slightly different rate then the foreground? Seems like that would be a really nice effect.
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Screenshots looks awesome, but there is even better version of it coming later this weekBrian Fargo's Twitter account posted:The early feedback on the screen shot is super positive. Wait till you see animation in it this week!
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Zilkin posted:Screenshots looks awesome, but there is even better version of it coming later this week Here's a version (via RPGCodex) with the Planescape Torment characters pasted in: 
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