21st March 2013, 1:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 21st March 2013, 10:17 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
Interesting. I was basing my "Veronica Mars" thing on an e-mail I received directly from this project's founders on the matter, but it is interesting to see a context.
Anyway, they've announced even higher tiers at this point. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
And now they've passed their newly added 2.85 tier. Mass Effect was a fun series of games, but just about everyone was pretty disappointed by the ending. Now, there were a lot of things to be annoyed by, but one of the bigger mentions was the total lack of any closure for all of the decisions your character made through the game, with the sole exception of the very last one. They expanded the ending to close up some more beyond those, but it still didn't really cover as much as you might hope. It certainly didn't provide the cast closure that a game like Final Fantasy 6 did. Now, the Torment people will be free to write a fully expanded ending as they choose.
So with all these promises, the doubts start closing in. Yes, I believe this will be a great game considering the talent, but can they really deliver on ALL of these promises by their December 2014 deadline? I don't think it'll end up another Fable, but I do suspect it could end up having previously promised content cut to make it in time.
This is why the biggest thing for me is that they don't adhere to the deadline. I'm not saying they reach Duke Nukem Forever levels of delay, but if they need to delay the game a full 1 or 2 years to get it just the way they want it, I fully support that. I'd rather a good game delayed to 2016 than a merely acceptable game released in 2014.
Anyway, they've announced even higher tiers at this point. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
And now they've passed their newly added 2.85 tier. Mass Effect was a fun series of games, but just about everyone was pretty disappointed by the ending. Now, there were a lot of things to be annoyed by, but one of the bigger mentions was the total lack of any closure for all of the decisions your character made through the game, with the sole exception of the very last one. They expanded the ending to close up some more beyond those, but it still didn't really cover as much as you might hope. It certainly didn't provide the cast closure that a game like Final Fantasy 6 did. Now, the Torment people will be free to write a fully expanded ending as they choose.
So with all these promises, the doubts start closing in. Yes, I believe this will be a great game considering the talent, but can they really deliver on ALL of these promises by their December 2014 deadline? I don't think it'll end up another Fable, but I do suspect it could end up having previously promised content cut to make it in time.
This is why the biggest thing for me is that they don't adhere to the deadline. I'm not saying they reach Duke Nukem Forever levels of delay, but if they need to delay the game a full 1 or 2 years to get it just the way they want it, I fully support that. I'd rather a good game delayed to 2016 than a merely acceptable game released in 2014.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)