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setting and writing are a+++ combat is mediocre but bearable mechanics are kind of crap. graphics are what you'd expect (engine rudimentary, some nice art). dense in ideas like good dying earth is meant to be. some things from the first five hours: (1) The first thing yo usee walking into the city is a method of execution whereby all of the wrongs and evil someone has done are extracted from their psyche over several days into a living creature which then kills the person and dissipates. A cannibal cult that gets knowledge from eating people then devours the corpse to give details of the wrongdoing (2) Of my companions so far, one is a woman who accidentally put herself in contact with thousands of different copies of her in the multiverse, some who made the same mistake she did, some of whom are plotting to kill the others for accidentally putting them in contact (3) Another is an idiot like the Tick who has three voices in his head driving him to do random acts of 'heroism' to keep from any time of self-reflection. He has some kind of nanotech aura around him protecting him from his own stupidity. (4) The first city uses a militia where it builds the police by taking a year of each citizen's life to make it into a construct. If the year they took is bad (say, they die violently in the year that was taken) the construct is mentally damaged (5) A mutant in the poor area has some kind of mutation that causes tattoo type lines to appear. He found an augment that maps areas he discovers as he discovers them, making it so his entire body is covered in maps; it has some kind of narcotic effect so he does it as his life purpose. (6) A guy from a warrior race who had some kind of slave interdimensional whale that connected them all psychically and they drifted throughout time/dimensions conquering new civilisations until they hosed with your dad in game and he killed all of them but one who he bound to one time and forced to be peaceful and answer any question put to him good stuff. i have been pretty happy with the revival of the isometric rpg subgenre.
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Lumpy the Cook posted:I love OPs that look like CIA documents something else that's funny is a guy that sells cybernetic implants that had some strange side-effect that makes him incapable of lying and hitler tells you in exacting detail how painful and awful every implant you'll get will be and how he's ripping youargentina off
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Wasteland 2 kind of sucked and I didn't trust another game by the same guys to be good or have good writing just because it has the same word in the title as another game by different people did 15 years ago. It sounds cool though. i played wasteland at release and didn't like it - seemed to have some very anti-fun mechanics and for some reason it made the temperatures of my at the time high end computer ridiculous. they seem to have put in a lot of work since then, and i've been thinking of giving it another try once i'm done with torment given how much i like torment and reading a plot summary for wasteland 2 and thinking it maybe had some interesting aspects, but seeing these kinds of sentiments doesn't bode well. probably 2/3 through torment. still loving it. a guy in the games thread did a big effort post on how the central plot's themes in this game aren't as good as those in planescape torment. unlike many short essays posted on this forum about videogames and other childish things it actually seemed to have some merit. nonetheless, the weird sci fi stuff in this tickles my brain in a way planescape's fantasy stuff didn't, so i'm having a hard time accepting numenera is less fun than planescape (having done a playthrough of planescape immediately before this game out, and a few others over hte years)
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Zoq-Fot-Pik posted:What, can't handle 16 different lockpicking skills that are all RNG-based? ugh. after finishing torment i bought wasteland 2 on sale from gog. i'm enjoying it but my god, it has a core of good stuff wrapped in several layers of tedium and packaged in ugly 2003 graphics.
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Pee Shy posted:Tides of numenera sucks rear end lmao. What the gently caress is this place i'm sorry you didn't like it, friend, and i wish you good luck with your next gaming purchase 
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