Torment Is Tides of Numenera the video game equivalent of an ice-flavored popsicle?

[El Presidente]

Nobody loves it, nobody passionately hates it, nobody talks about it, nobody mentions it, nobody remembers it. It has no footprint on the Codex or elsewhere for that matter, be it good or bad. It's like there was never even an attempt on a PS:T (spiritual?) successor. That's pretty sad.

 

[Fedora Master]

No, your threads are.

 

[Lady Error]

We do have the special edition Numanuma avatars. So at least we make fun of it.

 

[El Presidente]

No, your threads are.

I still have a few more up my sleeve before I get tired and go do other stuff with my life for 6 months, next one is slightly higher effort tho

 

[ds]

No, it's more like a turd-flavored popsicle. Plain ice would at least be enjoyable during summer.

It's like there was never even an attempt on a PS:T (spiritual?) successor.

There wasn't, only an attempt to sell an unrelated game as one.

 

[Maxie]

i havent played it but i remember posting quite the number of angry posts about it

 

[Infinitron]

It got plenty of hate during its development and shortly afterwards, but then people moved on. I think Disco Elysium showed that "Yeah, you actually can do this, I guess those guys just fucked up".

 

[Dadd]

Discord Elysium showed you actually shouldn't do this at all

 

[Gandalf]

They Cooked a rather boring game with it's weird visual setting being one of the strongest reasons to play the game. I liked some quests and locations in it, but there's nothing to write home about.

 

[Roguey]

I played it twice and liked it well enough. Nothing worth dwelling on though, lacks the memorability of its predecessor.

 

[Radiane]

at least this game has turn based combat which also doesn't seem too shabby

 

[goregasm]

I didn't despise it, but I also didn't particularly love it or hold it against it's supposed predecessor.

Not the absolute worst pile I shit I have ever stepped in, can name at least 5 other rpgs I would pass on to play this if torture were involved.

 

[Atlantico]

Planescape Torment was an unmitigated dumpsterfire egoproject by Avellone. It had nothing to do with Planescape and everything to do with sub-par modern fantasy fiction. Walking simulator in 2D written by a man who didn't understand the source material.

Granted that wasn't exactly easy, but it doesn't mean you have to give up and go "oh well I'll just write my own shit then".

Making a "spiritual sequel" to a sup-par modern fantasy fiction is not going to excite a lot of people.

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

Numa Numa sounds like a cool game but I think most people can't be fucked to do that much reading anymore.

 

[Lagole Gon]

The Bloom was actually solid.
Shame the rest of the game was not.

 

[The Jester]

This is a combat game for players who hate combat; a skill game for people who hate to fail; a story game for people who measure story by word count.

 

[The Jester]

This is a combat game for players who hate combat; a skill game for people who hate to fail; a story game for people who measure story by word count.

Infinitron I didn't post anything.

 

[Infinitron]

This is a combat game for players who hate combat; a skill game for people who hate to fail; a story game for people who measure story by word count.

Infinitron I didn't post anything.

Click on the source of felipe's post that you quoted.

 

[Viata]

It's what happens when people get what they asked for. Simple as that. A reminder that you should always make a game for yourself, not for others.

 

[Forest Dweller]

Nobody loves it,

I love it.

 

[BING XI LAO]

Nobody loves it, nobody passionately hates it, nobody talks about it, nobody mentions it, nobody remembers it. It has no footprint on the Codex or elsewhere for that matter, be it good or bad. It's like there was never even an attempt on a PS:T (spiritual?) successor. That's pretty sad.

I PASSIONATELY hated it through like 2017 to 2019. Scarred.

 

[Mr. Magniloquent]

I tried it out. I wandered around the first town after the tutorial area, but didn't get into it. The writing was overwrought, and the "anything goes" setting is a bit too alien for me I think. Hypertech mixed in with prehistory style vendor markets didn't mix. Its still installed and I would like to give it a fair shake, but it's a very low priority.

 

[Hammer Of The Heretics]

I played it when it came out, made it to the Bloom, and just... stopped. I didn't hate it, I just lost all motivation to continue. I'm not even sure why.

 

[BING XI LAO]

The setting is not a setting. It's an anti-setting. No delimitation, no specificity. AND SUPPOSEDLY THAT IS THE SELLING POINT!!! PURE DOGSHIT!!!!
"What can change the nature of a man?" from planescape was a compelling theme and question. "What does one life matter" is libtardian humanist dogshite. If you are a libtardian you get to jack yourself about how every nigro aids baby is sacred, if you are not... then it's a boring dumbfuck question.

 

[BING XI LAO]

Like, if you answer the Planescape question with "Nothing can change the nature of a man", that is STILL AN INTERESTING ANSWER!!!
If you answer "what does one life matter" in the negative you say "Not very much, or only relative to a particular time and place..." MEH. BOOOORING!!!!

Also, since i played it before coming to this forum, I can confirm that the hamfisted "hopw reowur ne", "Face that never remembered", and "incline/decline" references DID NOT STAND OUT AT ALL FROM THE REST OF THE WRITING. IT SEEMED A NORMAL PART OF THE GAME WORLD.