Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Thread

[Goral]

Avellone was the only person at obsidian with any imagination and creativity tho.

I agree, although now they have Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky so hopefully we'll get something better than bland PoE or Tyranny (which are worse than Torment IMO).

 

[Prime Junta]

Yeah, but it's not a narrative thing. I always wondered about the attributes though, can you go so high in the Planescape PnP? 20+ is almost always illegal in AD&D, let alone 25.

It's AD&D. You can do whatever the fuck you like. Houserules for great victory

(Officially? If you're playing a Human? No.)

 

[FeelTheRads]

The Planescape: Torment trinity was: Chris Avellone, David Maldonado, and Colin McComb. You can also add Monte Cook in there, since he helped create the Planescape setting.

Wasn't it David Cook who created Planescape?

Yes, but Monte Cook contributed a lot to its development afterwards.

Yeah but its still too much of hassle for me to go through, I bet the reward for completing the quest will be meaningless too.

Dunno, if you mean material rewards (items and shit) then pretty much. Most items are meaningless in this game.

Spoiler

If you leave some drones alive, but de-activated, you get better rewards.

 

[HoboForEternity]

I know guise, I was always pumping wis and int. The algorithm was: wait until you start missing PS:T, go play again with the same mage/wis/int build, repeat.

same

 

[t]

But maybe I can do CHA + Chaotic + joining revolutionary league. I never managed that.

 

[Rostere]

My first PST character maxed out CON. :mrfussy:

 

[Florian Gheorghe]

"We have bug fixes and other improvements planned too." posted by sea on inXile forum.

 

[ArchAngel]

I opened a stream of escapist magazine playing TToN yesterday. McComb was in chat and I did my 'Dex duty and told him TToN is shit mid and late game balance is shit. He ignored me

 

[Excidium II]

High CON makes fighting lulzy though

Yeah, but it's not a narrative thing. I always wondered about the attributes though, can you go so high in the Planescape PnP? 20+ is almost always illegal in AD&D, let alone 25.

Depends on the setting I guess. Remember those Dark Sun CRPGs 24 was the new 18

 

[Lilura]

Yeah, but it's not a narrative thing. I always wondered about the attributes though, can you go so high in the Planescape PnP? 20+ is almost always illegal in AD&D, let alone 25.

TNO is immortal. That's narrative enough to justify troll regen and titan strength.

 

[Nahel]

Even if I expected nothing from Inxile it is still sad. I backed this before requesting a refund (not willing to pay 65 $ to get blacklisted and have a console port). But the whole kickstarter dream died a little. It is ironic that medium sized companies can't be trusted anymore and are not better than AAA publishers. I mean with all the technological progress, we can't even have games half as good as BG2 and Planescape Torment. The only hope is in small companies, which gave us AOD, Battle Brothers and the rest. POE 2 might change that, but POE was really dull at release so I can't even get hyped anymore.
TLDR: fuck you for ruining my hopes Inxile.

 

[Lacrymas]

TNO is immortal. That's narrative enough to justify troll regen and titan strength.

I mean that high CON doesn't contribute to the narrative as much (or at all) as the mental stats.

 

[t]

Wow, did you know that you can gain up to 9 points of wisdom during the playthrough of Planetescape: Tournament? (I mean, without level up points)

 

[Lilura]

My first PST character maxed out CON.

It's pretty badass tanking without armor. TNO can get 25 strength, 3 ApR and 25 con at lvl12. It's like, "Look, just gimme the Hammer of Comminution and point me to a Black Abishai".

I mean that high CON doesn't contribute to the narrative as much (or at all) as the mental stats.

Never really bothered me.

 

[DeepOcean]

Shit, I checked Dan Simpson's excellent walkthrough and it seems that charisma is not so useful after all. Only Nordom and Ravel make a difference. And Vhalior/Fjull also I guess but not so important. I guess I didn't miss so much by never investing in charisma.

There is a pretty big quest on Sigil catacombs that has an ending gated by a charisma check too.

 

[t]

There is a pretty big quest on Sigil catacombs that has an ending gated by a charisma check too.

Ah, true. I never saw that dead fucker, not counting the times I killed everyone (but reloaded so it doesn't count).

 

[Luckmann]

"We have bug fixes and other improvements planned too." posted by sea on inXile forum.

Damage control. There's no small fixes to Tides of Numenera that is going to fix it. It needs a considerable overhaul and content expansion about equal to.. well.. an actual expansion. At best, they'll do something to speed up combat, but the problem isn't that things aren't zipping around the screen fast enough, it's that the combat is slow and sluggish as shit.

 

[hexer]

Everything's fine

 

[FeelTheRads]

What are they going to do? Advertise the shitty reviews from players?

Would be like putting a "3/10, wtf is this shit?" rating on the front of the box.

 

[hexer]

The first step towards fixing the problem, is acknowledging its existence.
Sadly, I don't see them doing it.

They're stuck in the 90s when press reviews had more influence over gamers purchasing decisions.
Today, players reviews are the king.
I don't give a damn about some bribed journalist's one page 9/10 review.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Naturally the central most important accolade they present is an 8.8 score. Zyklon Beekers strikes again.

 

[Jarmaro]

I don't want to read 60+ pages, what's Codex judgment? Game is good, average, bad or Bioware?

 

[Jarmaro]

Roxor, did you think about reviewing it?

 

[Ivan]

Downloading PS:T for the first time.

 

[Kalin]