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LTTP: Planescape:Torment
PieMan
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On the recommendation of forumites, I managed to purchase this gem 2nd hand off of Amazon, and after a good few weeks of playing it, finished it last night. The games so good it demands discussion!
What can change the nature of a man?
Wiki: Planescape: Torment is a computer role-playing game developed for Microsoft Windows by Black Isle Studios. Released on December 12, 1999 (see 1999 in video gaming), the game takes place in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Planescape campaign setting. Torment places emphasis on conversation and storyline instead of combat. The game begins in Sigil, where the protagonist, an enigmatic and heavily scarred immortal dubbed The Nameless One by the game's interface, wakes up in a mortuary with no memory of his identity and past experiences. Assuming the role of The Nameless One, players embark on a quest to solve the mysteries surrounding him.
With a few exceptions, I've always found story in video games to be sorta like comedians in strip clubs. Entertaining, but not really what you're there for. The story on this game drew me in and I felt compelled to keep playing just to immerse myself further in the world. Anyhoo, discuss!
What can change the nature of a man?
Wiki: Planescape: Torment is a computer role-playing game developed for Microsoft Windows by Black Isle Studios. Released on December 12, 1999 (see 1999 in video gaming), the game takes place in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Planescape campaign setting. Torment places emphasis on conversation and storyline instead of combat. The game begins in Sigil, where the protagonist, an enigmatic and heavily scarred immortal dubbed The Nameless One by the game's interface, wakes up in a mortuary with no memory of his identity and past experiences. Assuming the role of The Nameless One, players embark on a quest to solve the mysteries surrounding him.
With a few exceptions, I've always found story in video games to be sorta like comedians in strip clubs. Entertaining, but not really what you're there for. The story on this game drew me in and I felt compelled to keep playing just to immerse myself further in the world. Anyhoo, discuss!
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i think terrible is too strong a word, flawed sometimes yes, but it doesn't stand in the way of enjoying the game.
Anyway, I've played PS:T exactly twice, and consider both playings to be among my greatest gaming experiences, and it's the best CRPG I've ever played.
My favorite thing, I think was when you discovered the origin of the Rings of Zerthimon.
Well, favorite plot revelation.
My favorite thing was the voice acting for Annah. Marry me, Sheena!
It's pricey on eBay. I remember years ago seeing it at GoGamer in the double game pack for 10 or 20 bucks. Now it's 40-50.
Well, i suppose its a subjective matter, but for me it was a real struggle. I endured the frustration as the visual design and story was unbelievably good and made it worth the effort, plus the game itself was quite open and non-linear which was interesting. Maybe its cause i played it relatively recently, as i had struggled to find a copy of the game, and my expectations in terms of gameplay and UI have been spoilt by modern day releases.
I will probably get ass kicked for saying this, but maybe a remake with better combat, graphics and interface, with the same story and characters?
Edit: Oh, and was anyone else ticked off after playing this delightful game and then finding out that the Planescape setting for D&D had been abandoned? The only D&D setting that has ever really interested me is the one they decide to drop.
This is an excellent idea. Straight remake using the Temple of Elemental Evil engine (after last fan patch). Troika certainly isn't doing anything with it.
The next time I replay this, I'm just going to give myself god mode or perfect stats or something.
To be fair, they dropped most of their settings in the 90's, and all but Forgotten Realms & Greyhawk by the time 3E rolled around.
I was the biggest Planescape setting fan in those days, so I was pretty crushed when they cancelled it. There's a good number of modules and supplements, though, and you can find them used in gaming stores still.
Looking through the modern D&D outer-planar stuff, it's pretty clear to me that everything in Planescape's setting is still basically used: Sigil, the Blood War, portals, The Lady, and the Outlands... it's not like they just scrapped all of that... they just ditched the Cant (some people hated it) and most of the amazing art, writing, and themes to go with easier-to-process and more marketable stuff.
I understand the decision at the same time as I lament it.
Constitution 25. You pretty much can't die.
I find this hilariously, perfectly appropriate, given the story of the game.
I will probably be the one getting his ass kicked, but I have not finished Torment because of the gameplay aspect.
The story was beyond amazing, but when I got to the
The fact that I was fresh off beating BGII and expected much the same in the way of interface didn't help.
Game was the quite the find at $10 from a church garage sale though, I really should try again.
I did this last time. You can die, against five or so greater shadows, TTO or the greater glabrezu, but you'll still seriously ruin shit with con 25. You can twink nameless out pretty hard.
I think it was the part with the underground kingdom and such.
no spoilers though.
They dropped it around the time they dropped everything and anything that made D&D any good.
I'm very interested in playing Torment, but I'm not sure how Gametap works. If I subscribe, can I only play their games as long as I keep a subscription, or can I actually buy something.
Hardly. You can probably guess my fanboy status, and I've been wanting this exact thing for a few years now. Honestly, if we could put Torment in the Icewind Dale II variety of the Infinity Engine, giving us better resolution and a shift to 3rd edition rules, I would die content.
Well as for resolution, it might be worth trying this:
http://www.gibberlings3.net/widescreen/
Not tried it myself.
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Not enough?
Although we seem to get one every few months. Everyone says the game was so unsuccesful but IIRC while it didn't sell Baldur's Gate levels, it was still a succesful game (it even outsold Fallout).
I guess I'll have to get a GameTap sub if I want to play it. There are so many other game on my list, but this is one I've been wanting to play for awhile.
There's a quote somewhere in the game that fits this perfectly, and I can't remember what exactly it is.
Nah. This was ages ago back on the Black Isle forums, before Black Isle sank (Or rather, before Interplay sank and took Black Isle with them). One of the Dev's basically said that it was still a decent product for the company and that (at that time) had outsold Fallout 1. Not brilliant in sales, but certainly not a failure.
They just scrapped all of that for D&D 4E.
Really? What's their plan for planar travel? Or are they just going to pull the "IT IS A MYSTERY" card?
Unless they're expressly doing something else, I get the feeling that they'll go back to it when they realize that they can make money by publishing a planar travel supplement, and don't have the creativity to do anything better than rehash Planescape in an even blander way.
I just ran past most everything.
Oh, and any and everyone who hasn't played and just might, keep the