Wonderful!

The original game, was the game that got me hooked on crpgs in the first place, it assured that no matter how many great adventures, strategy-games or (somewhat later) FPS-games I played, I would always remain a crpgamer first & foremost.

I still remember spending plenty of time making hand-drawn maps with pencil & ruler, of Skara Brae and the surronding towns, as well as fretting over my character choices and wondering if I should have formed a diiferent adventure-party in the first place.

Such a treat to get this on Linux, another Day 1 purchase!

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Nice, although it´s a pity the policy doesn´t include some kind of retroactive function. I have a folder in my steam-libraray marked: "Trash". Out of my 280+ games those are the handful that I consider so worthless to me, that I´d accept anything simply to have them removed from my steam-library.

If I could get 1 dollar for each of those games, that´d be christmas.

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Wishlisted & Followed.

Considering that I have played all modern (1997-present) games, with expansions, that has taken place in "Forgotten Realms", as well as some of the real oldies (SSI/Goldbox), this one was a pre-purchase no brainer.

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Oh gods, I think this just trumped both "The Witcher 3", "Mad Max" and "Batman: Arkham Knight" as "Most Anticipated Linux AAA-title". ^_^

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Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: FeistHowever, I´m hoping that it´s TBwP, like Pillars.

Pillars is Real-Time with Pause, not turn-based. Unlike the Infinity Engine games, combat in Pillars isn't even turn-based under the hood; it's fully real-time.

From what is currently known, Torment: Tides of Numenera will be fully turn-based, like Wasteland 2. But unlike Wasteland 2, combat in Torment is supposed to be mostly optional (at least depending on your playstyle and character). There's nearly always going to be other ways to solve things than through combat.

Oops, my bad. A weird typo, since I was (obviously) thinking RTwP, after all TBwP would be quite redundant (unless it was something like a chess game were you get a fixed amount of time to pick your move, but in this case you could pause if you absolutly need to).

About Torments combat, well it´s not that I dislike tb-combat, I just felt a bit overflooded with the resurgence of this type of combat and when it´s done well (xcom for example) it can be great fun! The idea of a non-combat crpg also feels very interesting, I can´t wait to see if they manage to make that approach entertaining or not.

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This game looks great! I love the excentric style of the game that feels like partly steampunk, partly high-fantasy and partly just unique.

I haven´t read anything about the combat of this game yet, so it´ll have to be a surprise. However, I´m hoping that it´s TBwP, like Pillars. That felt like a breath of fresh air, after playing through a long line of ordinary turn-based titles these last years, and I spent almost 120 hours exploring, fighting and adventuring my way through PoE..

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Seems rather interesting, the whole MadMax/FTL angle does sound kind of cool.

However, I´m starting to feel a bit tired with "pixelart". I´m not particularly taken with fancy graphics and tesselation, ssao and whatever it´s all called, but this "retro-trend" where the graphics are made to resemble late 80´s games, rather than mid 90´s or Y2K:ish, that´s taking it a bit too far imo.

For me, this kind of graphics is just a little bit *too* primitive/simplistic to be ignored, to the point where a superb 10/10 game can actually feel merely like a decent 7/10 game, because the graphics hurts the overall enjoyment.

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Another annoyance. I've played the first two games in the series on windows and I was looking forward to playing the upcoming third on Linux. Guess I'll invest in "Victor Vran" instead.

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...undecided.

At this point, I'm actually starting to lose interest in their games (or more accurately in anything produced by this studio). This latest "project", to arrange a vote where users who are pretty much inevitably a great majority of non-linux users, should vote whether to port the game to linux or do something that could directly benefit themselves instead....

I honestly can't decide whether to vote for a linux-port or write a mail explaining where they could shove their products.

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Seems like a nice product, however I never use gamepads. The versatility of the keyboard, the precision of a mouse, and yes even the "relaxation factor" of laying back and lazily dumping my left hand on a cordless keyboard and my right on a wireless mouse when gaming while more or less horizontal on my bed/sofa or couch.

Yup, if you ask me, m&kb has total supremacy in every sense except "compactness". ;-)

No, but more seriously I have of course used a gamepad in the past and for certain titles, fighting games, some platformers, some racing games, some titles developed exclusively for pad-gaming (with rotten m&kb support patched on later) etc. etc. In those cases, I did find a pad to be preferable and in a few cases almost indispensable.

However, in general such games fall outside my "sphere of interest", as far as the game-genrés are concerned, so I think the last time I owned a pad of my own was somewhere back in 2004-06 .

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