https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd43NYBzHuk
Torment: Tides of Numenera is another game heading to Linux from inXile entertainment that was funded on Kickstarter. They have released a new video to show off just how amazing it looks.
I'm going to be honest here and say that I wasn't remotely interested before, but that video has pretty much sold this one for me. The game is heading to Linux as confirmed by their previous Kickstarter.
You can still pledge by grabbing a copy from their official website at a minimum of $30. The price will rise when they stop their crowdfunding.
They have hit in total over $4.6M and it's now pretty easy to see why.
Official About
Thanks to its more than 80,000 backers, Torment: Tides of Numenera continues the thematic legacy of the critically acclaimed Planescape: Torment. Set in Monte Cook's tabletop role-playing world, Numenera, the newest Torment asks: What does one life matter? We're creating a rich experience that explores deep, personal themes.
The Setting
Numenera's Ninth World is a fantastic vision of a world in which hyper-advanced civilizations have risen and fallen and left their inventions behind. Their achievements became part of the accumulated detritus of eons… and now this assortment of ancient power is there for the taking. The humans of the Ninth World take and use what they can. They call these artefacts the numenera.
What did you think to the video? Fantastic that we are getting such an RPG on Linux. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Torment: Tides of Numenera is another game heading to Linux from inXile entertainment that was funded on Kickstarter. They have released a new video to show off just how amazing it looks.
I'm going to be honest here and say that I wasn't remotely interested before, but that video has pretty much sold this one for me. The game is heading to Linux as confirmed by their previous Kickstarter.
You can still pledge by grabbing a copy from their official website at a minimum of $30. The price will rise when they stop their crowdfunding.
They have hit in total over $4.6M and it's now pretty easy to see why.
Official About
Thanks to its more than 80,000 backers, Torment: Tides of Numenera continues the thematic legacy of the critically acclaimed Planescape: Torment. Set in Monte Cook's tabletop role-playing world, Numenera, the newest Torment asks: What does one life matter? We're creating a rich experience that explores deep, personal themes.
The Setting
Numenera's Ninth World is a fantastic vision of a world in which hyper-advanced civilizations have risen and fallen and left their inventions behind. Their achievements became part of the accumulated detritus of eons… and now this assortment of ancient power is there for the taking. The humans of the Ninth World take and use what they can. They call these artefacts the numenera.
What did you think to the video? Fantastic that we are getting such an RPG on Linux. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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They're also going for another stretch goal, an area called "The Gullet", if they reach $4.75m by October 16th: http://tormentrpg.tumblr.com/post/97763206275/updated-our-journal-32-a-new-look
Really, this video looks, sounds and feels so damn much like Planescape: Torment, I can't contain myself.
Really, this video looks, sounds and feels so damn much like Planescape: Torment, I can't contain myself.
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Plintslîcho Sep 18, 2014
Hmh, I don't dig the setting and presentation. Looks all too surreal to me.
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Looks nice for what it is, but I’m not interested. I’d rather play a first person action-RPG.Totally different here. I find action RPGs so boring :D
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I'm going to be honest here and say that I wasn't remotely interested before, but that video has pretty much sold this one for me. The game is heading to Linux as confirmed by their previous Kickstarter.
Have you played Planescape Torment or any of the Original Infinity Engine games (like Icewind Dale or Baldur's Gate)? If you're not interested in the CRPG genre, then you probably won't like this game.
I already pledged for Torment and Pillars of Eternity a year ago, so I don't need to tell anybody how much of a Obsidian/Black Isle/Inxile fanboy I am.
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I suppose my nickname in the quotation was by mistake :)
I believe liam is not going to like Torment. We had a discussion few months ago where he wanted to persuade me that every game is RPG, when I had expresses my distaste for hack n slash action RPGs. So I'm sure that true RPGs, as I call the CRPGs, are not his cup of tea ;)
I believe liam is not going to like Torment. We had a discussion few months ago where he wanted to persuade me that every game is RPG, when I had expresses my distaste for hack n slash action RPGs. So I'm sure that true RPGs, as I call the CRPGs, are not his cup of tea ;)
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Yeah, this will be a story-heavy CRPG, where the combat will be mostly optional. More focus on atmosphere, story and the question "What does one life matter?". And lots of reading. :)
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It's going to be a great RPG in the spirit of Planescape Torment. If you've never played it, pick up the original on GOG.
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Yeah, this will be a story-heavy CRPG, where the combat will be mostly optional. More focus on atmosphere, story and the question "What does one life matter?". And lots of reading. :)
So this will not be "diablo like"? I don't mind reading and a good story, but I do enjoy plowing through hordes of minions though. The developers also said they don't have any plans for multiplayer, so no co-op. The co-op is half of the fun of a game such as diablo for me.
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Such games don't need multiplayer since they try to be close to pen and paper RPGs but in game form. To make it similar with multiplayer one needs a serious environment with GMs and such like some MMORPGs do to be conductive for roleplaying. And that's a completely different scope of a project.
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Such games don't need multiplayer since they try to be close to pen and paper RPGs but in game form. To make it similar with multiplayer one needs a serious environment with GMs and such like some MMORPGs do to be conductive for roleplaying. And that's a completely different scope of a project.
so what you are saying is it's not diablo. That's all I needed to know. Highly highly doubt this will be my "cup of tea" then. It does look nice though for the people who will enjoy it.
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I don't pre-order crowdfunded games any more. But it does look great, and once the Linux version is out, I'll buy it.
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so what you are saying is it's not diablo.
It surely isn't. If you want a historic comparison, take a look at what inspired this game: https://www.gog.com/game/planescape_torment
More details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planescape:_Torment
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Such games don't need multiplayer since they try to be close to pen and paper RPGs but in game form. To make it similar with multiplayer one needs a serious environment with GMs and such like some MMORPGs do to be conductive for roleplaying. And that's a completely different scope of a project.so what you are saying is it's not diablo. That's all I needed to know. Highly highly doubt this will be my "cup of tea" then. It does look nice though for the people who will enjoy it.
Never doubt anything. I thought all hack & slash games like Diablo were dull until I actually played a lot of Path of Exile. Now I'm hooked on the genre.
You should definitely buy Planescape Torment or Baldur's Gate 2 from GoG. You may end up liking them.
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oldrocker99 Sep 18, 2014
A sort-of-sequel to the very best story-driven RPG ever, Planescape:Torment, is precisely what I have been waiting for, and if it doesn't come out before 2015, it'll still be oh-so-well worth waiting for, and so will Pillars of Eternity.
And if anyone reading this hasn't played Planescape:Torment, I urge you to go to GOG.com and buy it and play it (it runs great under wine, as every Infinity Engine game has, ever since they were new games).
You'll be amazed at the story.
No kidding!
And if anyone reading this hasn't played Planescape:Torment, I urge you to go to GOG.com and buy it and play it (it runs great under wine, as every Infinity Engine game has, ever since they were new games).
You'll be amazed at the story.
No kidding!
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So this will not be "diablo like"?Hell no! This a story driven cRPG where the decisions of your character affect the story.
Diablos are not RPGs. They are hack n slash action games with RPG elements (ie level up and skill points system).
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I can't wait!! I love a proper CRPG. Current addiction is Shadowrun...
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