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[Torment: Tides of Numenara] Are you the Fallen Star? Out now! HYYYYYYYPE
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Torment: Tides of Numenera is the thematic successor to Planescape: Torment, one of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games of all time. Immerse yourself in a single-player, isometric, story-driven RPG set in Monte Cook’s Numenera universe. What does one life matter? Find your answer.
The spiritual successor to the hugely beloved Planescape: Torment, Tides of Numenara is a new CRPG from inXile Entertainment. The first ~10 hours have been available to Early Access supporters on Steam or Kickstarter backers for awhile, but the full game comes out on Tuesday! I don't want to give too many story details in the OP, because you'll want to experience it for yourself.
No official reviews out yet, but Steam reviews are highly positive! Get hype!
The spiritual successor to the hugely beloved Planescape: Torment, Tides of Numenara is a new CRPG from inXile Entertainment. The first ~10 hours have been available to Early Access supporters on Steam or Kickstarter backers for awhile, but the full game comes out on Tuesday! I don't want to give too many story details in the OP, because you'll want to experience it for yourself.
- Gorgeous isometric art in a scifi/fantasy world filled with ancient relics of magic and technology
- Truly enormous amounts of lore and dialogue to explore and learn about the world, the characters, and the stories going on around you
- Multiple ways to solve every problem, including stealth, talking it out, brute force, or using the technology of the world around you. Supposedly, you can beat the entire game without throwing a single punch.
No official reviews out yet, but Steam reviews are highly positive! Get hype!
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It's kind of neat how the game deals with asking questions to NPCs. You can grill them for a ton of information, but if you later try to bluff them about you being someone local they'll just laugh in your face. It's also less reliant on player stats for conversations and the like. Really early on, you get easy access to a character who's way better at talking than you'll ever be without investing a ton of effort into it, and you can use him instead of your character for the majority of the rolls.
You can also be amazingly dickish, in ways that often don't yield you anything beyond making everyone involved completely loathe you. The quest involving that creature in the third screenshot is an excellent example of this, the "best" resolution and the "worst" resolution that I've found are a last-minute dialogue choice apart from each other.
Isn't it a Unity game? Aren't they all that by default? Issue with Unity is that it doesn't have a dedicated fullscreen mode.
You are correct!
What do you mean? I was playing a review build and finished the game about a week ago, so maybe they changed the opening.
As an aside, here are some companion recommendations based on my playthrough:
Also, I have no idea why I'm spoilering this but everybody else is spoilering, so whatever.
Hoping to dive in tonight. Is there any spoiler free character creation advice yet?
Steam profile.
Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
I have all the answers! Come into my van!
If you want to avoid combat encounters and get the most out of the dialog system, choose Nano and focus on building your Intelligence. Intelligence is the stat used by far the most, and those checks often show up in conversations and when interacting with many objects. The Nano class can also natively read the surface thoughts of other people, which makes it great for sussing out their motivations.
I'll put a few other suggestions for specific skills under a spoiler tag:
Yep, that came up a few times, as well. If you do have a high Intelligence pool and devote your Edge to that stat, you don't actually need to max out every exploration skill. You'll be so damn smart you'll have an easy time with most checks. You'll also find, buy, or passively gain bonuses to other skills as you play the game. Here's what my character had in terms of exploration skills by the end:
I started with high Anamnesis and Machine Lore from the Intelligent descriptor. I maxed them out and Persuasion when leveling. I put a single point into Concentration to max that out (I didn't start with Concentration trained but earned it as I played). I may have earned Perception, as well, but a single point was enough to easily pass every check.
Pretty psyched though!
Is the high INT character totally squishy, or can you still mix it up in combat from time to time? I don't know that I'd want to head into a playthrough trying to avoid all armed conflict.
Steam profile.
Getting started with BATTLETECH: Part 1 / Part 2
There are some encounters you can't avoid, though Numenera does let you solve them without killing everyone in them. You can actually talk to enemies to try and force a resolution or head off to interact with objects that may present a solution, as well.
My Nano was squishy to start with. As I leveled up, however, he gained quite the repertoire of damaging spells. But I didn't actually throw down many attacks even in the unavoidable encounters. I think I fought in maybe four or five combat encounters overall, and I ended the majority of them peacefully. I could have even avoided at least one of those if I wanted to skip a side-quest. Combat isn't a huge focus of the game unless you really want to go out of your way to antagonize and fight people.
I told some freaky blinding white mind reading space alien twins about a sexbot I found and one of them pulled a bunch of gems out of its stomach and gave them to me.
I feel like I'm playing a Rick and Morty episode.
Wow, I was reading through here to see if I would like this game or not. You just sold me on it, I think.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
(I'm reluctant, though, to go actually read the track titles for fear of mild spoilers.)
It worked basically the same way as in recent Elder Scrolls games. There are some also some stat bonuses, though, that I don't know if you can rebuild.
Reviews are mostly good too. I've been reading about the world and like it conceptually.
Ugh
Only issue I have with it so far is the UI has some deficiencies compared to the original torment.
Edit: I am a weak man
Dammit... See, I say this, but I'm still staring at it on PSN because it looks so interesting! How long is the game(if anyone even knows that yet), and are there reasons to go through multiple playthroughs?
Game's downloading now :rotate:
Anyone else share similar thoughts early on? How long did it take for it to click for you?
Until I got into Sagus Cliffs and started talking to The Genocide. Bout an hour, hour and a half.
Something to note for character creation: you're not locked into any choices you make during the dialogue/selection stuff. You can change all of them.
Has anyone gotten any of the surgeries (chirurgeries?) from the guy in the cliffside district?
Also there's a lot of non-violent options it seems. I haven't actually fought anyone yet (except for in the prologue, which I assume is unavoidable), but I have persuaded/lied my way out of two fights.
Supposedly you don't have to kill anyone to finish the game.
Being tripping balls weird was one of it's predecessor's greatest strengths.