Planescape: Torment
Windows - 1999
Description of Planescape: Torment
Despite blazing reviews, Interplay's formidable marketing machine, and many accolades of "1999 RPG of the year," Planescape: Torment did not achieve the same commercial success of Baldur's Gate.
Perharps some of reasons for poor sales are the fact that there were quite a few bugs in the initial release, the sheer amount of text the player had to read, and the fact that the well-known interface from Baldur's Gate was changed into something more difficult to use. Interface tweaks, however, were necessary to make room for the larger and more detailed animations. Or perhaps the leap from the familiar AD&D world of Baldur's Gate to the alien setting and more mature storyline of Torment was just too great for the many followers of Baldur's Gate.
Nevertheless, if you are looking for an excellent RPG with a truly superb storyline that puts the "kill the foozle" plot of most other RPGs to shame, Torment is a must-have. The game casts you as Nameless, a hero who woke up with amnesia. The catch: you discover that you have become an immortal. A god walking on Earth, so to speak. As you journey into the strange and wonderful world of Planescape, you will slowly learn about your life... and must eventually come to terms with horrible deeds you have committed in the past.
Anyone who has played any Black Isle game will be familiar with the interface - which is very easy to learn and use. There are many keyboard shortcuts for most important actions, and you will quickly get used to keyboard + mouse combination. The graphics is simply superb, and even strangely compelling. One of the most fun aspects of Torment is that the weird setting influences everything from weapons to NPCs and beyond. What other game lets you recruit a talkative flying skull as your companion, and then lets you equip him with different kinds of teeth as "weapon upgrades"? Like any good RPG, there are plenty of people to talk to, experience to gain, cool magic to wield, quests and sub-plots to enjoy, and dark deep secrets to discover.
Although Torment is not a "free-form" game in the same way that Morrowind is, it still offers a good range of options and alternate paths - many of which are dependent on your character's alignment, which is in turn influenced by your behavior. You can be anything from a do-gooder to absolute evil - it's all up to you. Your actions will lead you to one of the game's multiple endings, each of which nicely ties together loose ends, but not all of which is wholly satisfying.
With the best writing I have ever seen in an RPG game, Planescape: Torment will leave you deep in thought long after the game is over - that's how profound and fascinating the story really is. Truly a masterpiece, and a must-have for every RPG fan.
Review By HOTUD
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Comments and reviews
Larwin 2023-05-16 0 point
they made they enhanced edition they just want make the original so it wasnt free i guess. makes sense now.
Larwin 2023-05-16 0 point
what doesnt make sense to me is a game being out two decades on abandonware site then being taken off. so why was it here in first place?
Larwin 2023-05-16 0 point
So the older titles got claimed as gogs owner ship took them. i thought games that ran on dos box could still be considered abandoned. but they can be sold by those that own the copyright. i did a tiny bit of research and this game has been around since 1994. i guess if gog owns the copyright they can do what they want. otherwise gog is making their own rules. theres at least a couple versions made prior to torment.
aaqarab 2021-10-22 0 point
All these games were abandonware before gog came and grabbed everything. I 'll never buy any game from gog, go to hell !
Felipe 2021-10-03 0 point
If you have a non-enhanced edition version you MUST follow this guide that shows how to install the game plus what mods you should use and their settings:
http://thunderpeel2001.blogspot.com/2009/01/planescape-torment-fully-modded.html
B.B.K. 2021-09-20 0 point
Is it illegal to have downloaded abandon-ware when it becomes no longer abandoned? There seems to be an alarming trend toward software being un-abandoned. Who do the companies in question buy the rights from? This whole thing doesn't make sense to me and smells fishy.
B.K. 2021-09-20 0 point
How do games that are abandonware get unabandoned? Is it illegal to download a game for free when a year or two later a company claims to have the right to sell it? I just want the game as it used to be without junk added by companies like GOG. I wont be paying because I don't believe it is legal to stake claims on abandoned software.
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