Welcome, fans of board games, drawing wizard biographies of heroes, as well as drawing the terrible dungeon. Today we talk about the revival of the genre of this role-playing game in the face of Torment: Tides of Numenera and be sure to remember the names of Brian Fargo and Chris Avellone.
Who already vereschit delight and climbs into the closet for the old drive – stop and keep reading. And who is not familiar with the creators of Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment still do not go – you learn a lot and maybe will sit down at the role of the adventure.
The history of the legendary series
The famous studio Interplay Entertainment released a role-playing game Planescape: Torment in the distant 1999. The project quickly gathered a crowd of fans, and despite the ordinary for those times a commercial failure has become a cult, ignoring those and still. Since then, much has changed: the company closed and its employees scattered at other studios.
But in 2015, the former director of the studio Brayan Fargo and his friend Chris Avellone decided to collect old development team, named inXile Entertainment and the intention is to make an ideological successor to their longtime and mega project Planescape: Torment .
The main characteristics of the character: strength, speed, intelligence.
However, to obtain the right to use the world Planescape guys failed (refers to table a series of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game). But they were not upset and decided to make a game based on the least exciting desktop project Numenera their former employee Monte Kuka. The creator of the game gave the nod, joined the team, and work has begun to boil. True to this Brayan Fargo asked fans 900 thousand dollars to develop, has received more than 4 million, and playfully raced to make the game. And now, after a year of closed test, thousands of corrections and minor improvements, Torment: Tides of Numeneramade it to release.
Ninth World Numenery
World Numenera – laminated, and a wonderful combination of science fiction, gothic steam-punk, classic and futuristic fantasy-philosophical madness. At the beginning of the game the local universe occupies the ninth civilization. It is located on the medieval level of technology, but uses the ultra-modern and unusual items to simplify life.
The fact that the previous eight advanced civilizations somehow so quickly died, that left behind a unique structure, mechanisms and things (in local numenery or ciphers) which have different properties. These artifacts and is used in everyday life, or in war-minded citizens of the new world.
But no one knows what can each successive found numener, so their use could be or is dangerous or helpful. And then the card will fall.
Features are used even in text jobs or move on the map.
По сюжету игры мы падаем с небес в облике неизвестного и безымянного человека. Другие называют его Последний Отверженный и говорят, что могущественный Меняющийся Бог воспользовался его телом как оболочкой. Позже он сбросил ее и оставил героя на произвол судьбы без памяти и с кашей в голове. Дальше оказывается, что этот Меняющийся Бог ради поиска смысла Бытия последние пару веков только и делает, что создает себе новые тела, вселяется в них, а потом бросает на произвол судьбы. Такие покинутые богом люди всю оставшуюся жизнь проводят в духовном смятении и представляют опасность для окружающих. Подобные игры с человеческими жизнями пробуждают могущественное и всеобъемлющее Зло по имени Скорбь. Оно считает своим долгом уничтожить Меняющегося Бога и оставленные им оболочки. Когда ваш протагонист узнает об этом, он решает найти и предупредить бывшего хозяина и заодно вспомнить, кем он был, а походу еще и разобраться, что делать дальше.
