Torment: Tides of Numenera

I ran across this game by accident and totally love it, never played Planescape, so didn't have any expectations. I am about 25'% through and enjoying it quite a bit.

Something about the writing and setting just works for me. Combat is just a side feature, the experience is where it's it at. Just let go and let the Tides carry you.

Really awesome game. Amazing world, music, art, story, etc. Main/only gripe was that the combat didn't have a 2x speed feature.

Better than Planescape Torment. Somewhat buggy. At least once I had to load an earlier autosave because I literally could not do anything (not even move the camera). There's something screwy with the coding of the crisis system.

I was super hyped about this after playing the orginal game when I was a teenageer. But... I got a crappy copy without the amazing choises you could make. here you are forced to play the way devs intendent too. From the very beggining you are forced to talk our way out of things instead of be able to choice conflict and fights. Overall really disappointed with it

One of the rougher updated CRPGs, but still a pretty great story. I really like what they were trying to do to mimic Planescape and they did a pretty great job of not treading on the same ground. You still see how this is a little bit of a spin on that, but you don't need to play Planescape to get it. As far as story goes, this is a very mature and dark look at the world. Civilization is not in a great state and it never has. The world is in flux when you start joining in and that makes it a more interesting thing to experience. It's not just you alone setting events in motion like you would normally see. All that positive is really let down by the actual combat when you get locked into it. Most of the time you can avoid it, but sometimes it seems like there is no longer anyway to avoid it depending on the sequence of events before hand. Now, I could dig that if you were caught in a web and eventually it traps you. The problem is, you never see the peaceful ways to resolve the problem. So that is always a bummer and when you do start getting into the turn based combat, it is just not great. Luckily, by the end I had a pretty good streak of hitting the right options before hand to avoid combat.