By Joseph Leray
When we first covered “Torment: Tides of Numenera,” I tried to stress that this was a Big Deal: it’s inXile’s follow up to Black Isle’s “Planescape: Torment,” itself a foundational mid-90s RPG that changed the way the industry looked at narrative design and interaction. Don’t take my word for it, though: 23,000 different people contributed more than $1.1 million to “Numenera”’s Kickstarter campaign in less than eight hours, shattering the project’s initial $900,000 goal.
Here’s the stat that will blow your mind: inXile is offering a $10,000 reward tier, and five people have already claimed it. A modest $20 pledge will secure you a copy of the game.
For more information about the game, its combat, and its setting, “Torment”’s Kickstarter page is exhaustive and detailed. There is, admittedly some boilerplate about the game’s sure-to-be sprawling narrative (“We’re taking the approach...
When we first covered “Torment: Tides of Numenera,” I tried to stress that this was a Big Deal: it’s inXile’s follow up to Black Isle’s “Planescape: Torment,” itself a foundational mid-90s RPG that changed the way the industry looked at narrative design and interaction. Don’t take my word for it, though: 23,000 different people contributed more than $1.1 million to “Numenera”’s Kickstarter campaign in less than eight hours, shattering the project’s initial $900,000 goal.
Here’s the stat that will blow your mind: inXile is offering a $10,000 reward tier, and five people have already claimed it. A modest $20 pledge will secure you a copy of the game.
For more information about the game, its combat, and its setting, “Torment”’s Kickstarter page is exhaustive and detailed. There is, admittedly some boilerplate about the game’s sure-to-be sprawling narrative (“We’re taking the approach...
- 3/7/2013
- by MTV Video Games
- MTV Multiplayer
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