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Torment: Tides of Numenera |OT| What Can Change The Nature of a Man?
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Not a bug? I tried my beta save and Erritis is unmovable no matter what I do, he does teleport with me in screen changes, still seems I might get hosed in a crisis if he is left behind.
That's a bug that happens regardless. It was brought up in beta but never fixed.
KraftyKrankins
Member
Play it, it's an unquestionably well done game. Way better than the first iteration of Wasteland 2 for me.
Oh fudge me, so he is bugged regardless, change party member then? too bad he is the only companion that seems interesting besides Rhin.
Moff
Member
I am playing on native 1440p and I think it's fine
Link?
Does this have 4k support?
Have you tried talking to him? That usually unbugs it.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I went through character creation and explored the first room before I had to get back to work
Guys I think this game is maybe going to be pretty good
Guys I think this game is maybe going to be pretty good
Thanks!
Edit: That review kinda confirms what I was expecting all along. "Reverse engineered Torment." Sigh. The perils of crowd-funding, I suppose.
Just don't give me bugs, and I'll be satisfied.
Tried it, also the I want you out of the party and in again, and nothing.
More_Badass
Member
AWizardDidIt
Member
I know, which is why I was never as high on this game as I was on, say, Pillars.
Imo, the things that make Torment great aren't items to be checked off a list, but a singular, cohesive creative vision. The piecemeal approach, if anything, runs counter to that in every single way.
I'm speaking about my personal relationship with Torment. Like any good review (which we sadly don't get a lot of in gaming), one person can read it and understand that they'd enjoy the game, while another can read it and see red flags that they're skeptical about.
Imo, the things that make Torment great aren't items to be checked off a list, but a singular, cohesive creative vision. The piecemeal approach, if anything, runs counter to that in every single way.
I'm speaking about my personal relationship with Torment. Like any good review (which we sadly don't get a lot of in gaming), one person can read it and understand that they'd enjoy the game, while another can read it and see red flags that they're skeptical about.
Dunkelgrau
Member
So how is the text-size on PS4?
Gentleman Jack
Member
Okay how do I fix this cripping problem of the text scroll gradually slowing down until it literally takes minutes for a paragraph to fully load. Of all the performance problems for a game to have, the fact that the text in a narrative RPG is unplayably slow is effectively a dealbreaker for me.
Vincent Grayson
Member
I'm wondering about this too. It crops up in the first conversation with your two companions. It was doing this in the final beta too.
Fatalmephisto
Member
Looks like the PS4 version digital wise isn't coming out today. I mean the store is pretty much updated.
Do you already own the game? Lists on the front page exclude games in your library now.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Are there spoilers for OG Torment? I've yet to finish it.
Defo saw it on PSN EU.
Fatalmephisto
Member
yeah I saw it on my UK account and I noticed the DLC on the Canadian PSN store. Maybe just taken a while to update the store or something.
Huh, and I thought the exact opposite after I had to play the first couple of minutes of the game lol. I thought it was ugly as fuck from the very first moment I saw the main menu, and I kind of hate the half-a-second delay between choosing a reply and actually seeing new text.
It's a non-issue, though, so I'm not gonna whine about it more than that.
That explains it. Thanks!
AWizardDidIt
Member
They actually split the review into a few sections, one for those familiar with the game and one for those coming fresh. No spoilers at all in the first section for the uninitiated
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
They actually split the review into a few sections, one for those familiar with the game and one for those coming fresh. No spoilers at all in the first section for the uninitiated
Nice one!
(also, finish Torment!!)
Fatalmephisto
Member
Okay its up on the PSN store. God damn I gotta pay 66 bucks my copy digital. Gotta love Canada.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Jag
Member
Wow. I got my PC copy free by backing Bard's Tale.
bati
Member
I don't know what it is about the writing in this game but it's like I'm actually watching images instead of text, holy fucking shit \o/. Maybe it's because everything is so alien that I'm forced to read the text carefully, plus it prevents me from jumping to conclusions because it's so unlike other more typical rpg settings so I'm more in tune with the moment, so to speak. The whole thing is just a lot easier to swallow than the lore dumps in Pillars or Tyranny.
More_Badass
Member
That's the magic of good writing
Ive read it described as having a "winamp skin" aesthetic, which feels pretty on the nose, but personally that has been a slight plus to me so far, really brings me back haha
Herr Starr
Member
Well I'm loving this after my first evening of play. Just barely managed to locate the companion written by Patrick Rothfuss by the time I had to shut the game off, so I'm looking forward to playing it again. Too bad I'm probably going to put this on hold while I play Horizon Zero Dawn tomorrow.
I'm (for the most part) keeping myself from reloading if I fail at a skill test in this game. The devs have said that they've tried to make failure interesting, so I'm taking them at their word. Lots of ways to solve many of the sidequests so far, some obvious and some not obvious at all. It's also refreshing to play a game where any dialogue option with a skill check you're good at isn't automatically the best thing to pick. In the last conversation I did before turning the game off, a simple Persuade check would have led to the death of an innocent person had I succeeded, but I almost clicked the option out of reflex from years of RPG conditioning. It's good to have a game shake things up.
I'm (for the most part) keeping myself from reloading if I fail at a skill test in this game. The devs have said that they've tried to make failure interesting, so I'm taking them at their word. Lots of ways to solve many of the sidequests so far, some obvious and some not obvious at all. It's also refreshing to play a game where any dialogue option with a skill check you're good at isn't automatically the best thing to pick. In the last conversation I did before turning the game off, a simple Persuade check would have led to the death of an innocent person had I succeeded, but I almost clicked the option out of reflex from years of RPG conditioning. It's good to have a game shake things up.
The Illiterati
Member
After three hours, I think the game is fantastic. I went with Intelligent Jack, and I'm finding Amanuensis to be a HUGE perk. I'm getting so many details and extra info with it. For those who want to go in depth, seems invaluable. And no combat so far!
More_Badass
Member
Does it open up new dialogue choices?
I went with a Nano with Read Thoughts, and was disappointed that it didn't seem to give you additional choices related to people's thoughts. Although Steam discussion said it does, but they aren't labeled as a Read Thought check/option, so not 100% sure
Herr Starr
Member
I went with an Intelligent Nano Who Brandishes a Silver Tongue.
There are dialogue options you only get through Read Thoughts (I just managed to resolve a Crisis thanks to it), but they aren't common and can be somewhat subtle, with dramatic exceptions. Its greatest use is in learning more about the characters you encounter, particularly whether or not they are trustworthy.
There are dialogue options you only get through Read Thoughts (I just managed to resolve a Crisis thanks to it), but they aren't common and can be somewhat subtle, with dramatic exceptions. Its greatest use is in learning more about the characters you encounter, particularly whether or not they are trustworthy.
Winamp skin aesthetic is perfect lmao
No wonder I did feel a weird tinge of nostalgia when I saw it
superdeluxe
Member
lol Winamp..the Nostalgia feels
bati
Member
This is perfect, lol.
I'm playing a Clever Jack and put points into Perception, Persuasion and Deception. I hope I can avoid combat all the way to the end of the game.
Well fuck. Not gonna get it now unless it gets fixed.
Funyarinpa
Member
Welp. Y'all are hyping me up for my first CRPG lol
The Illiterati
Member
It has brought up at a few, maybe more, but they're not labeled as such so I really can't be sure. For instance on the City Council Clerk:
I had a vision that I actually created and birthed him! I could tell him he was created by me, but then he rejected that notion. I don't know if this really effected anything or if it's possible to be more than flavor text.