Normally when we hear a game is being delayed we are fed the traditional corporate line about putting polish on it, or fine tuning this or that, but for a game like Torment, the sheer amount of content found within would take even the largest big name companies years to pull off, and when I say amount of content, I say that because this was one of the largest RPG's I've played in a long, long time. It was clear that the public wanted this game badly. While that number of years’ for a delay is impressive, Torment also set a record on Kickstarter as it was the highest funded video game of all time on the platform raking in a titanic 4 million dollars, meeting its original goal in only the first 6 hours of its inception on the Kickstarter platform. Starting as a Kickstarter back in March of 2013, the game was originally supposed to launch in December of 2014, and it was delayed to February 28, 2017. I have to touch on this because it's one story that has to be told and explains how it came to even exist. Now, many decades have passed and the successor to Planescape has finally been released and it's called Torment: Tides of Numenera.

This was a stroke of brilliance and it paid off. I will provide you with all the answers you seek, and more, because this could easily be one of the best sleeper hits ever found on the Xbox One platform.īlack Isle Studios developed a game way back in 1999 called Planescape: Torment, and what was brilliant about this game was that it relied heavily on story telling, but to make things smooth, Black Isle Studios did something absolutely brilliant, they modified the in-game engine found in Bioware's Baldur's Gate. Now, you may be asking who are they and why should you care. Torment: Tides of Numenera, which is developed by inXile Entertainment, is one such title. Because of my youth at the time, I didn't know at these types of stories involved multiple story arcs and conclusions, but the whole aspect has been found in some of the most successful video games ever made. I loved how it gave you a choice in how you wanted to experience the story and the freedom to feel like you were writing your own journey. When I was growing up I had a fondness for the types of books that were written in a 'choose your own adventure' style.

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