So ummm.... I just got the immortal edition of Torment: ToN and created this thread in order to meet others who have done that to be able to feel better about myself. :-l

I'm still waiting for confirmation that Techland started shipping the boxes, so I only have the backer edition for now. Oh well, plenty of time to wait.

I saw a video (likely YouTube) of someone named AngryJoe (seems to have some fame) that got a preview from the developers themselves who were visiting him for the express purpose of him reviewing it. (They called him up beforehand.) IIRC, he pointed out there was a lot of reading, like PoE, though it seems like his initial impression was the writing was much better in TToN. Maybe? Perhaps there's a full review by now, and by others. No doubt there is a lot of reading, so I think it's going to be about the quality/fluidity.

I would guess there's more than Pillars, since the game that Numenera is inspired by was well known for its lengthy word count (Planescape:Torment, with over 1 million words of text).

Judging by the amount of hype around this game (and it's predecessor) I'm the crazy one for not buying it and not liking the first one :D

boxes?

I'm an oddity collector.

oh i see :)

I'll wait for a nice 50-75% off promo.

I'm not usually one for physical items, but this game is an exception.

among other physical goodies

I'm getting a T-Shirt !!!!!

all I ever wear are T-Shirts (sometimes with hoodies over when it's cold of course)

That said, from what I gathered from the RPS review it may also suffer from being wordy for wordy-ness sake.

I think I'll rather read a half-decent book instead when it comes down to such things. *shrug*

The IGF thread reminded me I'd paid $420 for Spirits in a humble bundle, and I didn't even get anything special and/or permanent for it except my powerword on top of the leaderboard while the sale lasted.

So if you like the game, you're fine.

It's wordy in the same way PS:T was. If you liked PS:T and haven't grown world-weary and jaded then you should like T:ToN just fine. The writing style is similar, though I'd say each bit of dialog feels like it has been edited to trim things down a little. Sometimes PS:T could border on the Faulknerian with descriptions, but T:ToN gives the descriptions without having vast paragraphs.

If you just don't want to read your way through a game, then T;ToN is not going to be the game for you. If you'd like to explore a bizarre world (technically our world, according to the devs) and get the narrative context for the strangeness of it all, then you'll probably feel right at home with the flowing sentences, the italics, and all the other stuff that makes it feel like PS:T.

He (AnryJoe) has only played a few of these kind of games, so his experience and perspective is rather narrow. Of-course that could still be useful, the more reviews a person sees/reads the more informed they are likely to be.