Torment: Tides of Numenera

PROS: You're certainly not going to play another game like this, and the whole idea of the Castoffs is really interesting. The immortality mechanics from Planescape: Torment work perfectly here, and you can tell that they've set out to make the best homage they can. I also liked that combat provides no XP, quest and dialogue rewards were often permanent character enhancements, and there's a large array of unique and weird items to use. CONS: I'm writing this 5 years after it came out, but Torment was already 15-years-dated by the time it was released. It would almost work better as a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure game: virtually everything in the game is conveyed through text anyway, not visually. But I didn't love the style of the writing—it's weird for the sake of being weird, and you can *know* the author's smugness through the words. The combat is agonizingly bad, which would be more of a problem if there were more than a dozen fights in the entire game. And for a game obsessed with choice, it's hilarious that it has the same ending as Mass Effect 3. I didn't hate it. But I can't think of anyone that I could recommend it to. If a bizarre text adventure game with overly poetic language sounds up your alley, though, check it out. Otherwise, probably best to pass.

I just finished Torment: Tides of Numenera (still need to Re-Load a Save to get the Last Achievo), & Quite Liked it. There was a lot of Reading, but i didn't mind that since it was an Interesting Story & i Enjoyed it. The Graphics of the Characters was Good, nothing special, but the Environments & Backgrounds were Pretty Cool. There were also times when there'd be a Big Chunk of Text in the Corner along with a B&W Drawing looked quite well done. I would've liked more Voice Overs parts (there r some), but i guess voicing all of that Text would've cost a lot of $'s. Another thing i would've liked is a Rotating Camera, to b able to get better angles on some of the NPC's, but Oh Well, i still had Fun.

It's not a very good game. In fact, it's not much of a game at all; it's a book, comprised of a hundred smaller stories, loosely-connected to each other, and delivered through the backstory of various NPCs. Yet every story seems to exist in a vacuum, completely isolated from the other NPCs, and describing worlds/places/mechanics/people who will ultimately have little to no impact on your own world. The entire game is filler text, and completely forgettable, at that. You won't remember any of it; there's no cohesion to "glue" all of the different pieces together. I'm not enjoying this game, and thus - I'll stop at 20 hours. Not going to force myself to play something when I'm not having fun.

Exceptionally well written. The linguistic skills exhibited in the story line are above most. The interface is reminiscent of Fallout/Fallout 2. If you have no imagination, or do not enjoy reading, this game is not for you.

Some mechanics are interesting, but the game feels half-finished. I felt like I was only halfway through the main story when it was actually near the end. More should be done with the Tides. Leveling and progression did not seem very well paced. That said, the story and lore were very entertaining. Decent enough for a a short playthrough if you have a few bucks to spare. Edit: also very buggy

Plays more like an interactive novel than an rpg. The story is interesting, but I got tired of traveling back and forth to read the next chapter.

I loved Planescape: Torment. It was one of the greatest PC RPGs of all time. This game really does not do it justice. Most of the game is chatting with NPCs. That's fine if it's interesting, shocking, exciting, or evokes any emotion other than "Oh god, just get it over with". This doesn't. The Numenera setting is full of wonder, danger, excitement, and a love of exploration. This game is just walking around town and chatting to NPC's who aren't especially interesting. The actual Numenera crunch system is utter crap when translated from tabletop - it's a more freeform and open system which is great when you're with your friends and drunk but crap when it comes to a PC game. Example - there are 3 or 4 main disciplines (strength, intelligence, charm, etc) and you have a dice pool that gets used up as you use each pool. Unless your expertise in that discipline is high enough, in which case you pretty much just win the contest. You have 4 characters. There are 4 pools. Do the math - you just minmax each character and plod through the storyline. Speaking of the storyline - make it Interesting before trying to make it highbrow and up your own ass about it - I'd tuned out so much I didn't even know who the girl was at the end! Play Planescape: Torment instead. It's old but at least back then they understood that stories should be interesting and fun,

Опустошение и удовлетворение - вот мои ощущения после Torment: Tides of Numinera. После таких игр сложнее всего понять что же проходить дальше. Посмотрел буквально 2-3 мнения до начала игры. И бросил это неблагодарное занятие. Если продолжать читать, то разработчики виноваты буквально во всех грехах и ещё остались должны (а ещё с десяток мнений я всё-таки осилил, хотя уже и после прохождения - просто чтобы убедиться в своих предположениях). Порог входа в Torment достаточно высокий с первых минут - если нет желания читать мегабайты текста, то лучше даже не включать. Torment - это интерактивная книга с некоторой визуализацией. Я прочитал в 2021 полтора десятка книг и вписал Numinera в этот перечень 16-ой. У тех, кто продрался через стартовые стены текста, обычно возникают другие претензии - игра короткая, потенциал мира нераскрыт, видимость выбора. Меня всегда удивляет, когда подобные вещи вводят в претензии. Причём обычно это говорят люди с большим игровым опытом. Короткая? Fallout 1 проходился за 15 часов. Fallout 2 и Planescape Torment - по 30. Короткая - чаще всего яркая. Здесь все истории штучные - нет 200 необязательных квестов и 300 событийных к 100 обязательным. Потенциал нераскрыт? Почему-то все считают, что им должны разжевать все особенности мира. Torment заставляет включать фантазию - я уже забыл, когда это было в ролевой игре. Видимость выбора? Выбор в таких играх в первую очередь для себя самого, для отыгрыша роли. А не чтобы новых квестов подкинули. Из последнего, например: я не смог играть в Pathfinder: Kingmaker - она слишком обычная, игра не умеет удивлять. Хотя вроде бы всё качественно и хорошо. Стандартно. Прям ГОСТ. А я всё ещё хочу удивляться, а не ходить по проторенным дорожкам.

Albeit it didn't top the popularity charts, I found Torment: Tides of Numenera very intriguing. The lore and moral choices made this game for me and I was quite emotional about the ending. Do not expect it to be a continuation of Planescape: Torment - or create elaborate requirements for it, you'll have much more fun. Treat it with open head.