So if you had say, 25 AP you could expend 10 to get a low probability shot off at an opponent. It's a turn based game where you expend action points for an activity, whether it's running, climbing or shooting. However, JA2 has a similar mechanism to what you describe. I have played the original Torment, but not the new one (but I'll agree that interesting failure content is nice). They had a much better way around the problem, which was providing interesting failure content. A baked in 65% doesn't stop someone from reloading and adding an extra point to go to 75%. The problem with that is that Torment's system allows you to spend different amounts of consumable resources to change the percent success. There was a way around it though - if you moved your character, then moved another character, then tried to shoot again, it would recalculate the chance of hitting your target. No matter how many times you quickloaded, you would always miss. The game would bake into your save file the fact that you would miss the next shot. You would miss every time you quickloaded. If you quickloaded, surely you would hit the enemy if you tried again right? Let's say you had a 80% chance of hitting an enemy, but you missed. In the game, you had a percent chance of hitting an enemy with a gun (depending on variety of factors, including fatigue, gun condition, accuracy, distance, type of gun, cover, et cetera). Jagged Alliance 2, a tactical strategy game released about a decade and a half ago, had a pretty good solution. Maybe it's just me, but % chance of success coupled with quicksave/quickload seems a bit pointless. It's the best game I've played in the last 12 months. Some routes and avenues can only be opened by deliberately not succeeding. At one bit you talk about how the powerful tend to come together, either as friends or as foes.Ī lot of it to me, so far, is resisting the urge to succeed. The folk you pick up are also ridiculously powerful, but it fits into the game. You're the immensely powerful product of a goddamned deity. It's within your power - as by lore it should be - to succeed at everything. You can fail, and sometimes it's more rewarding to fail. It involves fire, cremation and you're given very ample opportunities, and straight up warnings, if it's about to happen. You can fail constantly, but it's exceptionally hard to actually lose. Whatever way you went, the Nameless One would adapt and come out stronger for it. You were even sometimes rewarded for failure. The original PS:T was one of the first games I ever played which rewarded, deeply, on a mental level. It gets you in every level of feels you have, even some you didn't know you have. The dominant Tide is shown with a graphic on the character screen but the values of the other Tides are hidden from the player.This game is already owning my life. The player is notified when her Tides shift.Dialogue options that seek information usually do not disappear and can be chosen in any order. Related options that express alternative opinions disappear when you've made your choice. Dialogue choices that ask you to express an opinion or make a judgement about something usually shift Tides.Silver represents admiration, fame and power.Red represents passion, emotion, action, pathos and zeal.Indigo represents justice, equity, compromise and the greater good.Gold represents empathy, compassion, charity and sacrifice.Blue represents wisdom, reason and insight.They affect how creatures and sentient beings react to you and they change throughout the game based on your actions and dialogue choices. The Tides represent something like core personal attributes.

Death can take you to another place that opens up new options and pathways. Dying does not necessarily mean loading the last save.This is another reason to talk to all of the named NPCs and read the descriptions. Experience comes from completing quests and discovering things in the world. You don't lose experience points by negotiating an end to a Crisis because killing enemies does not award experience.Talking your way out of a Crisis can open up new possibilities later in the game.If a talk bubble appears above an enemy's head, you can try to charm, bribe, or intimidate them into ending the fight. Combat events are called Crises and they are not always a zero-sum game. In some cases you don't have to kill all of your opponents to end the Crisis.

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