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Rumours have been swirling for years about a possible sequel to Black Isle’s legendary and powerful roleplaying game Planescape: Torment, but the closure of the original studio and the jealous guarding of the Planescape rights by owners Wizards of the Coast seemed to have put paid to any comeback. But with original Interplay boss Brian Fargo very much back in the RPG business with current studio inXile’s wildly successful Wasteland 2 crowdfunding, everything changes. He and his team have come up with a way to make a new Torment game: this is really happening. (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/01/09/planescape-torment-sequel/)

A little... unsure about the _______, but if it's a well made, even spiritual successor to _______, I'll be happy.

It's going to be an FPS isn't it?

What were we talking about again?

Updated our Journal...

You’ve got to be freaking kidding me!! We just funded in six hours!?!?!

Our heads are still spinning at the incredible response we have had from today's support of our Kickstarter campaign. We had plans to roll out our stretch goals and to write our Kickstarter updates but never in our wildest dreams did we think we would fund this quickly!!! We are joyfully scrambling right now to get a longer update and some stretch goals in front of you as soon as we can. We should have more to say later today.

You are all unbelievably awesome and we could not be happier about receiving your trust in us. For many years we have wanted to get back to making this style of RPG but it appeared that the market was going everywhere but that direction. Almost every article and new game was focused on being an MMO, multi-player or micro-transition based. This wasn’t our style and we couldn’t generate interest in the classical narrative type of RPG that we all grew up making and playing. Thank you for backing our vision once again and we will not let you down. We will continue to communicate and and make sure we solicit input such that the game is hitting all the right notes.

Our goal is to make great RPGs for you all for the rest of our careers.

Thank you,

Brian Fargo and the team at inXile

BTW, when looking at the "tides" alignment concept, did anyone else get a "hey that looks almost inspired by Magic's color wheel" vibe?

Tell us about the story and the world of Torment: Tides of Numenera in more detail? Who is the main character? Whom he will fight?

Colin: The Ninth World of Numenera is a far-future Earth — a billion years in the future. They call it the Ninth World because they say that eight great civilizations have come and gone on the earth: civilizations that onceacted as the hub of star-spanning empires, or that mastered the folding of time of space, or who had mastered the shaping of worlds, and more. They have left an indelible imprint on the face of the planet, and they share another feature: they have all vanished, leaving behind remnants of their knowledge and their tools. Now humanity rebuilds on the shattered ruins of these ancient civilizations, in a world filled with the unimaginable energies of forgotten races, and begins to discover its place in a universe that is very, very different from the one we know.

It’s against this backdrop that our story begins. A man decided he did not want to die — his reasons are lost to time — and discovered a way to grow a new body and transfer his mind into that new body. Over the course of thousands of years, he has lived countless lives in countless bodies… but what he doesn’t know — or perhaps doesn’t care to know — is that when he leaves those bodies, they don’t die. Instead, they begin their own lives in near-immortal shells, with no memory of the mind they housed before.

Something about the process has awoken an old enemy — the Angel of Entropy. It finds the Changing God and vows to eliminate his works, and now it hunts the PC.

You play the Last Castoff — a shell of the Changing God, on the run from the Angel of Entropy, in a desperate search for answers in a world where it seems nearly anything is possible.

Then I remembered I don't have an rpg group and the locals are into some bad fanfic d20 homebrew that creeps the hell out of me.

What does that mean?

What does that mean?

That really doesn't seem terribly different from the original story.

The video contains 3 minutes of pre-alpha footage from Torment: Tides of Numenera, which is currently wrapping up preproduction as inXile’s Wasteland 2 launches September 19, 2014. A cross-section of Torment gameplay, this first-glimpse shows an example of the narrative and choice-based focus of the upcoming cRPG.
tormentRPG.com

ooooo.  Did you buy it?

although the PS4 version seems to have its own share of problems.

They talk about it a bit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m0I2uVKuQc

Longer load times, sluggish, a bit of movement issues (due to direct control on a point/click pathfinding based map).

Or just playing from the couch on a PC - sitting back comfortably to read all the text sounds ideal to me, if your TV is good/big enough and/or the font size can be adjusted. Operative word being 'could' ofc, sounds like this one needs some work in that department.

Started game up and died within 30 seconds, before I'd even done character creation.  Think I'm going to enjoy this.

Wtf, how?

I'm reading that this is very short and is turn based instead of turn based with pause.  :(  Just how short is it?  $45 is a lot for a short game.

Just an FYI, this streams to a Surface tablet perfectly and is, so far, very playable with the stylus. I've not had any fights yet but it's quite pleasant being able to read the reams of text whilst lying in bed  :-)

Glad I took the perk thing that lets me read surface thoughts