Torment: Tides of Numenera

[h3]Just not captivating enough to play[/h3] There’s really nothing in this game that makes me want to return to it. The combat system is bad, the characters are bland, and the story is dull. I couldn’t be bothered to learn more, and I didn’t care to find out who my character is. To top it off, quests can be bugged. For one of these bugs, I found a workaround from two years ago that involves editing source files...

[h3] Great RPG and the closest thing to Planescape:Torment you can find [/h3] True adventure with a captivating story, memorable characters, and an atmospheric soundtrack. The biggest selling point of Torment: ToN, though, is a truly unique, inimitable science fantasy world the devs managed to create for this game. It's interesting to talk to every character, explore every level, and finish every quest because you never know what you'll witness or find out—there are so many interesting ideas in this game it'll make your head spin. The gameplay loop isn't that extraordinary but still pretty good due to the well-made leveling system with useful stats and skills. You'll constantly use them during journeys, dialogues and battles and find lots of different items you can utilize or sell. But keep in mind that as a true spiritual successor to Planescape, this game focuses on dialogues and storytelling rather than on combat and long travel sequences, so be prepared for A LOT of reading. If you're tired of samey RPGs that don't offer anything new to the player and keep feeding you old concepts like orcs, elves, castles, brave knights, or sci-fi robots and spaceships, Tides of Numenera wi…

Waaaaaayyy too much lore! Makes casual readers dizzy and confused. ...and I love it.

This is a semi-sequel to 'planescape torment', so there's two ways to approach it. Making a comparison against the first game for those who are familiar with it, and then a basic review for those who aren't. Either way I think this sequel is quite wanting in many areas. It's a CRPG that has hardly any combat and is bland in the action when it does. In 13 hours of playing it there has been maybe 5 enemy encounters, and the rest of the time it was tons of dialogue. Said dialogue really, really, reaaaaaally wants to be mysterious, enigmatic and trippy, but just ends up being bewildering 50% of the time and slightly tedious for the rest. Now, it takes place in a universe that is meant to be bizarre and unknowable, but still...the first game was far more accessible whilst being just as weird. If you've played 'planescape torment' then this can feel like it's a reskinned version of that without the charm or wit. You're an amnesiac who can't die, and even though there's a different explanation as to why that is, it to me feels like the story of the nameless one all over again. If you're new to the world of Torment: it can be simultaneously the strangest world for an RPG to take pla…

Like so many others, I played Planescape: Torment back in the day and loved every minute of it. So I was one of the original backers for this game's Kickstarter, but I never did get around to playing it for one reason or another. I was in grad school when it finally came out and, though I tried to play it, I was just too busy with school, work and personal life, so I just played it for a couple of hours and set it aside for "later" and now it's been 15 years and I'm only just now getting around to finally sitting down and playing it for real. As expected, it's a very unique game with its own weird game mechanics and ruleset, that attempts to retain the spirit of the original Torment by touching upon similarly crazy ideas about identity, mortality and morality by telling the story of one of the discarded-and-now-sentient former bodies of a being known as The Changing God, and set in a world easily as weird as Sigil the City of Doors from Planescape. And, as expected from PS:T's spiritual sequel, not everything can or needs to be fixed through combat. I've seen a fair amount of criticism about how the game fails to live up to expectations as a spiritual sequel to Planescape: Torm…

Unfortunately recent humanity's mass retardation did not pass developers of this game. Couldn't leave character creation screen. Left or Right trigger which are supposed to switch screens do nothing. I've tried to switch controllers type, but... I am way over all of this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I am not supposed to fix it. I am just supposed to play it. But hey I've managed to die before the game started.