Torment Torment: Tides of Numenera Beta Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[One-and-a-half-Ivan]

Torment: Tides of Numenera story trailer:

This is simply amazing! Can't wait to play it.

This part was funny:
"The Changing God awakened an ancient creature, known as the Sorrow. This grim guardian of balance..."

You got me thinking... Sorrow... Sawyer... Saryew... There's something in it for sure.

 

[Sigourn]

The trailer is cool, not exactly "AWESOME", but the thing I really liked is the concept behind the player character.

 

[Schizophrenic monolog]

Holy shit!

This trailer is awesome!

Good job InXile!!!

https://youtu.be/V7QKH891Huc

Is the trailer the game's intro or an ad for the game? mindful of spoilers

After playing the beta, it looks like it's the opening...

 

[2house2fly]

I'm annoyed by them spewing out the whole plot in the trailer, but clearly it's what players prefer- look at the pitch for Pillars Of Eternity 2, "a big evil baddie wrecked your castle, you know he's a baddie because he beat you up, go chase him in your pirate ship". Can't blame them for chasing sales, hopefully the side content is entertaining.

 

[Abu Antar]

I haven't touched the beta in ages, but I am almost certain that they told you about most of this in the first 30 minutes of the game.

 

[Luckmann]

Just so you guys know, no response from inXile in regards to refunds and no reponses on twitter from inXile or sea. Should I start tweeting Fargo?

I sent a quite stern email earlier today demanding my money and have just received a reply and paypal confirmation of the transfer

so if you don't get anything soon try sounding like an aggressive dickhead in your next attempt

As someone that always tries to be courteous in all my dealings, it frustrates me that shit like this works. Threaten everything up to (but not including) violence and shit suddenly works.

Unless it's the government, because then it's the other way around. Piss off the wrong fairy there and everything grinds to a halt. Forever.

From that trailer, looks like they doubled-down on the exposition. I hope there's a lot of story left to discover.

Well, given that they basically spoon-feed you half the plot in the first real dialogue in the game, and then give you the rest within 30 minutes, it's a real good question where the story is going to go, or if it's just another Baldur's Gate II where you just chase something you stopped caring about twenty hours ago and then you're oh-what-a-twist-wounded in some soul-related event that just forces you to go on and hunt down your arch-nemesis for reasons that are now clear, either because he's evul or because you need to to - gasp - survive. Cue dramatic chipmunk.

The narrative pacing in the Tides of Numenera beta is all kinds of fucked up. Instant lore-dumps and all the graceful exposition a mallet to the face could possibly muster. What a time to be alive.

And with so many narrative-mechanical aspects butchered and left for dead, the story better be good, because being an amazing interactive novel is probably the only thing that can save this wreck by now. It's sure as hell not going to be character options or CNPC interactions.

 

[J_C]

I'm annoyed by them spewing out the whole plot in the trailer, but clearly it's what players prefer- look at the pitch for Pillars Of Eternity 2, "a big evil baddie wrecked your castle, you know he's a baddie because he beat you up, go chase him in your pirate ship". Can't blame them for chasing sales, hopefully the side content is entertaining.

While I liked this trailer, I regret that it spoonfed the basic premise to us. Although I'm sure the main plot will be much more elaborate, it would have been cool to discover the story of this trailer in the game.

 

[Merlkir]

I think that trailer's art was made by the same artist as the Witcher 3 animated story bits. He's very good.

 

[Ivan]

damn! that was pretty enthralling!
will wait for patches though

 

[Darth Roxor]

cucks itt

 

[ga♥]

https://af.gog.com/news/twitch_alert_watch_colin_mccomb_play_planescape_torment?as=1649904300

TWITCH ALERT: WATCH COLIN MCCOMB PLAY PLANESCAPE: TORMENT AND TALK ABOUT TIDES OF NUMENERA

Well this was quite interesting. Probably stuff you already knew, but Colin revealed some background on PS:T development. Like who made which character, who wrote the sensorium stones and so on.

Sadly I missed it and had to watch the twich videos, so I couldn't make some decent questions. The people on the twitch chat were all hurr durr can we import planescape torment savegames in numenera, so yeah. Looking forward for the next streaming.

 

[ga♥]

I am totally virgin to the plot; the trailer is awesome but I am bit mixed on the story spoiler hmmm...

So far it reminds me of a mix between legacy of kain vampires AND stargate's Ra (the 1994 movie)?

What are the chances you are the changing god itself?

 

[Abu Antar]

I am totally virgin to the plot; the trailer is awesome but I am bit mixed on the story spoiler hmmm...

So far it reminds me of a mix between legacy of kain vampires AND stargate's Ra (the 1994 movie)?

What are the chances you are the changing god itself?

You'll be some sort of special snowflake. More than just a castoff. That's my personal guess.

 

[Ivan]

are the castoffs creations of the Changing God, a la Doctor Frankenstein?

 

[vortex]

are the castoffs creations of the Changing God, a la Doctor Frankenstein?

... a la Doctor Moreau but more exotic.

 

[Sad He-Man]

I am totally virgin to the plot; the trailer is awesome but I am bit mixed on the story spoiler hmmm...

So far it reminds me of a mix between legacy of kain vampires AND stargate's Ra (the 1994 movie)?

What are the chances you are the changing god itself?

You'll be some sort of special snowflake. More than just a castoff. That's my personal guess.

Well, in the trailer it is said that "each new vessel is healthier, stronger and more resilient".

So the PC is the strongest incarnation, excluding current changing god.

so yeah...

 

[Roguey]

7 novellas. Why so many? That's a lot of resources that could've been spent improving and adding content to the actual game.

Those novellas were great and may in fact be the only good thing to come out of all this.

 

[Urthor]

The background to the silence in the trailer as a creature of balance is literally more than we get to know about him in the entire beta. I feel spoiled after watching that, I really liked the whole "wtf is this thing what is its origin" angle, and now it just feels like a generic deus ex machina in the making, not a really fleshed out villian/thing.

 

[Grotesque]

So wait... I thought that becoming/retaining conscious after being used as a vessel was what made the player character special.
Also I thought that this Changing God (lamest nickname ever) chose average joes as vessels that were left empty after discarded.
Mentioning The Sorrow in the game intro... all of this, lamest shit ever

 

[ga♥]

What can changing god the nature of man?!?!?

Btw, is that "1 billion years in the future" ok lorewise? Is there an explanation (in the Numenera setting) on why humans haven't changed in such a long time?

 

[t]

Fargo said he will make sure someone replies to my email. We will see.

 

[Infinitron]

What can changing god the nature of man?!?!?

Btw, is that "1 billion years in the future" ok lorewise? Is there an explanation (in the Numenera setting) on why humans haven't changed in such a long time?

They haven't been around for that entire time. In the setting, humans mysteriously reappeared in the world only a few thousand years ago.

 

[FeelTheRads]

https://af.gog.com/news/twitch_alert_watch_colin_mccomb_play_planescape_torment?as=1649904300

TWITCH ALERT: WATCH COLIN MCCOMB PLAY PLANESCAPE: TORMENT AND TALK ABOUT TIDES OF NUMENERA

Well this was quite interesting. Probably stuff you already knew, but Colin revealed some background on PS:T development. Like who made which character, who wrote the sensorium stones and so on.

Sadly I missed it and had to watch the twich videos, so I couldn't make some decent questions. The people on the twitch chat were all hurr durr can we import planescape torment savegames in numenera, so yeah. Looking forward for the next streaming.

Just watched this too. Pretty interesting.

But for a codexian thing... Colin obviously just had to mention the nakedness of women in the game and how he fought against it but was overruled because of the target audience of the game. You know, as opposed to what they do now where they don't do anything for their target audience.
And really, Colin, we know you're a stalwart defender of the oppressed, but the nakedness was essentially part of the Planescape tone. Perhaps you should've taken that to David Cook or Tony DiTerlizzi or whoever came up with the art direction, because the source books are chock-full of barely clothed people, not only women.

 

[Trash]

Both the new trailer and interview not enough for a frontpage article, Infinitron?

 

[Infinitron]

I thought there might be a Kickstarter update too.