InXile Entertainment, and publisher Techland, have released the first of three trailers detailing the classes of Torment: Tides of Numenera.
Fans of the Monty Cook Games tabletop RPG, Numenera, will already be familiar with the three classes that serve as rough shells with which to create your character; Glaives, Nanos, and Jacks. For those who aren’t familiar however, the first trailer in the series -which focuses on the game’s rough ‘mage’ class- can be found below.
This is actually the first time we’ve mentioned Torment: Tides of Numenera here on B3, so for those of you who are coming across the game for the first time I’ll cover the setting and origin very quickly.
Torment: Tides of Numenera is a spiritual sequel to the -nigh legendary- Torment: Planescape, an isometric, squad-based CRPG that took moral, consequence-driven gameplay to an extreme, and also offered enough routes that two people could experience an almost completely different journey through the game-world. Playing stealthily, or manipulatively, was no longer treated to a couple of skill checks during the entire game, but dozens upon dozens.
Numenera is a Pen and Paper RPG created by Monty Cook, a veteran author of such works who had also previously contributed to Planescape, which was at the time published by the now head of inXile, Brian Fargo.
Numenera’s world is one of exploration and discovery, of characters in a distant future surviving through the remains of eight consecutive societal collapses. It feels very much like traditional D&D however instead of magic we have technology, and instead of monsters and dungeons we have ancient creations, technologies and ruins. It, much like Planescape (when compared to it’s contemporaries) feels refreshingly open and unrestricted.
inXile’s Wasteland 2 successfully funded through Kickstarter, Numenera did so too. Later, no doubt after a lot of cheer and some deliberation, the project for Torment: Tides of Numenera too launched it’s campaign, and fully funded.
Arthur C Clarke famously said “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” In which case, in a world littered with the ruins of ancient civilisations struck down in their prime, the Nano is the charismatic mage of Numenera.
Torment: Tides of Numenera is currently available through Steam Early Access, but is set to launch in full in 2017 for PC, Xbox One & PS4.
Source: Press Release
