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[Llyranor]

Played the full backer beta on steam and its marvelous, i have not played a game with as interesting side stories, npc conversations and amazing world lore since the original Torment, seriously. When i finished the 1st chapter i just wanted more. I did every side quests and they were all interesting, all NPCs' conversations added to the lore in some way.

Oh nice, looking forward to this. PST is the best.

Before playing Baldur's Gate on PC I would have been really happy yet now I dunno. Would it suit playing it with a controller? and were Wasteland 2 and Original Sin good using it?

Turn-based with a gamepad works way better than real-time with pause, so I wouldn't worry about it

 

[Pilgrimzero]

What can change the nature of a man?

 

[Bl@de]

What can change the nature of a man?

I... don't know.

 

[Purkake4]

What can change the nature of a man?

It's about one life mattering this time, bruh.

I'm waiting and seeing. I don't trust inExile to manage QA on one platform let alone three.

 

[Vincent Grayson]

What can change the nature of a man?

Regret was always my favorite (and honest) answer to this question.

I've always maintained that if I were to ever quit my current career and go into teaching that "What can change the nature of a man?" would be the first paper I'd assign every semester.

 

[Pilgrimzero]

Regret was always my favorite (and honest) answer to this question.

I've always maintained that if I were to ever quit my current career and go into teaching that "What can change the nature of a man?" would be the first paper I'd assign every semester.

I usually went with "Love".

 

[Purkake4]

Regret was always my favorite (and honest) answer to this question.

I've always maintained that if I were to ever quit my current career and go into teaching that "What can change the nature of a man?" would be the first paper I'd assign every semester.

I usually went with "Love".

It's obviously belief.

 

[FallenGrace]

Awesome news. I'm a console only gamer but love RPGs. I was all over Divinity and Wasteland 2. I'll be all over this as well.

 

[Voror]

Hmmm, I'd be open to switching my backed copy to PS4 then potentially. Though if it's PC then I should be able to run it fine.

 

[Llyranor]

Regret was always my favorite (and honest) answer to this question.

I've always maintained that if I were to ever quit my current career and go into teaching that "What can change the nature of a man?" would be the first paper I'd assign every semester.

It's totally Regret.

 

[JustSomeone]

As long as the game was designed with pc in mind, that's ok, i guess.

 

[Miletius]

Good story and good writing isn't the same, though. You can have a really good story with some messy writing and you can have great writing inside a boring-ass story.

Neither of which has been proven yet, since the game is unreleased. I'm hopeful, of course, but lets not call this a return of a classic until it's actually been verified.

That being said, the more people the game comes to, the better.

 

[Mister_Bubbles]

Seems like a good idea so long as they have a decent marketing push to the consoles behind it as well.

What can change the nature of a man?

slimmy console money.

 

[Fushichou187]

I should not read YT comments

One of the replies to that basket case was perfect though:

Go outside
Meet people.
Then come back and tell me how much this actually matters

 

[Taruranto]

Good, more people get to experience what actual good video game writing is all about!

Yeah, let's not jump ahead of ourself now.

Avellone isn't even working on this (expect one character).

 

[Caronte]

guess we know who posted that

I'm not complaining about a console version, but delays.

It's been available as an Early Access title since January and was most recently patched the second week of June (which isn't to imply that work has since slowed).

I don't have Windows and don't enjoy being a beta tester for free anyway, so that's not an option.

I'm going to guess that the people working on porting the game aren't the ones making sure the game is content complete.

That people haven't been able to make the game playable on Mac/Linux in 6 months since they released the beta on Windows, so it's easy to understand my concern about adding new platforms.

 

[Zukkoyaki]

Techland is already a better publisher than Deep Silver

 

[Skelter]

Dude. The last of Us. Dark souls series. C'mon

DUde. Not even close.

 

[Decado]

May I recommend a steam controller?

While the steam controller is great, native controller support in games like this has the added benefit of getting devs to consider comfy couch PC gaming...meaning bigger text

 

[Purkake4]

While the steam controller is great, native controller support in games like this has the added benefit of getting devs to consider comfy couch PC gaming...meaning bigger text

Unless they redo the UI for console, bigger text is going to mean even more scrolling.

 

[dude]

As long as they are focusing on delivering the sort of game we expect on PC, the more the merrier!

I was not too impressed with the early version I got as a backer, but I hope it'll shape up to be a worthy successor.

 

[Night Hunter]

Bu-bu-but they told me it couldn't be done. They told me these games were far too complex for my tiny console gamer brain to handle a gamepad.

Anyway, the only thing I want to know is if my 130$ gets me a PS4 version or if I have to buy that separately.

The Last of Us is good by videogame standards I'll give you that.

No, it's just good. Not perfect, maybe not even great, but it's good, whatever standards you measure it by.

 

[Unai]

Bu-bu-but they told me it couldn't be done. They told me these games were far too complex for my tiny console gamer brain to handle a gamepad.

Not the same game? You probably thinking of Pillars of Eternity since it's a Real Time with Pause game. This one is turn-based.

 

[Decado]

Unless they redo the UI for console, bigger text is going to mean even more scrolling.

More than likely they will. Even if not, I'd rather be able to read it on my TV. Can live with some scrolling.

Does this mean the console versions of wasteland 2 were successful?

 

[CHC]

From the YouTube comment section.

Comments should just be disabled everywhere. They had their time, it's over now.

 

[Labadal]

I'm not shocked. Having played the beta, it's very playable with a controller. It's turn-based. Wasteland 2 ended up on consoles.

 

[HStallion]

Has there been any mention of backers being able to get a console version?

 

[Night Hunter]

Not the same game? You probably thinking of Pillars of Eternity since it's a Real Time with Pause game. This one is turn-based.

No, it was a general discussion about old school cRPGs and how, because of all the micro management it was too complex for a gamepad. And yes, there was also a lot of "but console gamers are not interested in these kinds of games" in there.

 

[Staf]

Before playing Baldur's Gate on PC I would have been really happy yet now I dunno. Would it suit playing it with a controller? and were Wasteland 2 and Original Sin good using it?

Only played Original sin with a controller but it's really, really good with a controller.

 

[molnizzle]

There is nothing to get together for Obisidan. PoE is a real time crpg as opposed to all the turn-based ones that are making the jump to consoles.

Real time with pause.

 

[Miletius]

No, it was a general discussion about old school cRPGs and how, because of all the micro management it was too complex for a gamepad. And yes, there was also a lot of "but console gamers are not interested in these kinds of games" in there.

It is somewhat interesting because when Divinity:OS and Wasteland 2 were being ported to console there was a discussion about how they would sell and if it would be worth the effort to port. The consensus ended up being that if they did well enough we'd probably see future games like Torment come to console. This ought to be taken as a piece of evidence that Wasteland 2C did well enough on consoles to warrant a port. Will be interesting to see if Divinity:OS 2 follows the same route.

 

[Taruranto]

No, it was a general discussion about old school cRPGs and how, because of all the micro management it was too complex for a gamepad. And yes, there was also a lot of "but console gamers are not interested in these kinds of games" in there.

A lot of these old school cRGP play like Pillars, i.e. Real time with Pause.

Something like BG2 with a gamepad sounds like a nightmare.

 

[kevin1025]

This is really cool news. I might consider the console version if the controls are looking good; if not, to PC it is! This will give the game more of an audience, being on all three, which is always a good thing.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

It's totally Regret.

Regret was always my favorite (and honest) answer to this question.

I've always maintained that if I were to ever quit my current career and go into teaching that "What can change the nature of a man?" would be the first paper I'd assign every semester.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Interesting. Up until recently I wouldn't imagine that oldschool RPG's like Wasteland 2 or Torment would hit the console market as well. I don't think I'll play Torment, though, and besides there are probably going to be issues with small text. I had enough of that in the PS4 version of Invisible Inc.

 

[BouncyFrag]

Sweet.

 

[Purkake4]

More than likely they will. Even if not, I'd rather be able to read it on my TV. Can live with some scrolling.

I'll believe it when I see it. Nothing wrong with having more options though, just not very impressed with WL2's UI.

Does this mean the console versions of wasteland 2 were successful?

That's what they said in the new kickstarter update.

 

[aravuus]

Is the PC version being delayed because of this? Because that would be pretty disgusting.

I have to admit, this was my first thought and I said "oh no" out loud lol, but that was probably a stupid conclusion to jump to. No idea how the game's gonna shape up since I haven't been following the development at all, but the thought of as many people as possible being able to play a hopefully very well written CRPG makes me happy.

 

[Weizor]

Bu-bu-but they told me it couldn't be done. They told me these games were far too complex for my tiny console gamer brain to handle a gamepad.

You can't. Either the game will play horribly on consoles, or they've made concessions to make it playable. Just look at XCom 2. The strategic layer is anemic and they kept the console UI from the first game.

 

[dancrane212]

Physical release confirmed for consoles in addition to PC.

Update: A Techland representative confirmed to Polygon that Torment: Tides of Numenera will have a physical retail release on "all platforms."

 

[Delusibeta]

Techland's publishing? Good grab for a first project.

Physical release confirmed for consoles in addition to PC.

Makes sense for Europe. Don't hold your breath for a US physical release for the PC version.

 

[IvorB]

ughh why did you say this

now i need this

Ha ha. Welcome to my world.

 

[Rap2thaMoon]

So maybe The Bard Tales 4 has a chance to?

 

[dancrane212]

Techland's publishing? Good grab for a first project.



Makes sense for Europe. Don't hold your breath for a US physical release for the PC version.

Console retail was what I was hoping for but the PC version was already announced as a global retail release.

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

Hopefully it runs better than wasteland 2.

 

[MasterMenace]

Hell yea! Now, it would be even better if they got it on 3DS.

 

[Varth]

Hopefully it runs better than wasteland 2.

Keep hearing this. Got it on day one but never got around to play it. Whats wrong with it aside from text size?

 

[Saphirax]

Keep hearing this. Got it on day one but never got around to play it. Whats wrong with it aside from text size?

One common issue is the camera suddenly going haywire and the only way to fix it is to restart the game. Had it happen more than half a dozen times.

 

[Movalpolos]

May I recommend a steam controller?

I personally dont enjoy having to configure a controller for every game I want to play.

 

[Brandon F]

From the YouTube comment section.

PC Master Race indeed!