Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Pre-Release Thread [ALPHA RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

Cool video, but it does have some minor story spoilers for those that care that much about it.

 

Those 'meres' (?) sound like a really cool idea, something original that wasn't in PST, but yeah, giving spoilers isn't very good.

 

It is IMO. For me, part of the charm of my first playthrough of PST was that I knew nothing at all. The Nameless One awoke in the Mortuary and I was like "WTF where am I what is it how's that fucking skull alive and how can I shut it up?" and it went even further upon exiting it. With Tides, they are pretty much telling us how the beginning will look like. It might be good for marketing reasons, but reveals some of the magic too.

 

the way previews work these days, i doubt any of us will be left with much to figure out about who your character is and where he starts come release. Unless one goes on a media lockdown for a specific game.

 

I don't think this update is showing anything new, actually. Well, maybe the name of the city. So really, what spoilers.

 

Aight time to go dark on this before shit gets spoiled

 

They sound awesome. Like playable sensory stones, except whatever you do actually happens.

The more I hear about this game the more I

Also, I'm loving the one uppery of the guys working on the game. By the end of this campaign, it's gonna be like Colin will go skinny dipping in the East River if you raise another 100k.

 

Gosh, if only there were some way to avoid being exposed to the spoilers. Like, I dunno, not watching video updates that are clearly stated to include story details. Call me crazy, but I think it could work.

 

Not really. We knew that the MC would be able to project his consciousness into other people and the thing with improving or ruining their life is no spoiler, IMHO. Nor is the travel into other dimensions. But OK, I haven't known about the time travel.

 

Another nice update. Those updates illustrate what we can expect at the high level, without going into too much detail, and as such are informative without being too informative (i.e. spoilerish). Knowledge of high level ideas does not spoil the game, just like knowing the basics of the plot and characters doesn't spoil a book. Knowing that a main character of the book is a guy named Winston that works for Ministry of Truth in future dystopian totalitarian society doesn't spoil 1984. For one of the future updates, Colin should play something on the guitar that lies in the background. I won't be so cruel to suggest a singing update.

 

I'm with you here, but I'll watch it all nevertheless because with my fucked up memory I'll probably forget most of it by the time the game ships.

 

Oh hey it's video update #2. Oh well. Enjoy!

re: spoilers. Brian hates spoilers and as a matter of policy we try to avoid 'em. That said, if you want to go in completely blank the only way to assure that is to not read updates, really. With the way narrative and gameplay are intertwined in this title, it's hard to talk about even gameplay without mentioning any narrative.

Also minor spoiler: this update is going to give the Codex a total raging hard-on. True story.

 

2D is coming?

 

Circle jerk! Circle jerk!

 

He said RAGING hard on. It's 3D over the shoulder.

 

With cover and popping moles.

 

Clearly its going to be Avellone related. Probably either working on the game or reading the Arcanum manual for the LP.