Torment: Tides of Numenera Kickstarter

If you have not already heard of this, there is a Kickstarter to make a spiritual successor to the old Infinity Engine CRPG, Planescape: Torment.  The people in charge of this are mostly people who worked on the original game, but due to licensing issues (and also in my mind because The Nameless One's story is already told), they are switching settings from Planescape to Numenera.

This Kickstarter has already broken a large number of records by achieving its goal in 6 hours, reaching $1 in under 8, and reaching $2 in two days.  It seems to be majorly slowing down now (possibly due to the weekend), and I think that needs to stop.  Both the original and this one have a focus on telling a deep story more than anything else, so all the extra money that goes in to the game will be spent towards making the story better and better.  If gaming is ever going to have its Citizen Kane, I think it's going to be in a game like this.  Also, on a more personal level, my brother, Adam, was a part of the original Torment game and they have gotten him involved in this one, too.  So the better it does, the more steady a job my brother has.

Lastly, I think it's important to fund awesome video games like this through Kickstarter because it not only tells publishers that gamers do want games like this and that we'll pay good money for it, but also funding games through Kickstarter helps free the developer from the chains of a publisher so they can make the game they want more than what the publisher says is popular right now.  The closer we can get to a video game business model with few publishers, the better.  I'd say no publishers, but I think they have their place as well.  I think there is room in this town for the the two of them.  Anyway, so if you haven't backed the game already, please do so!