Pc Rpg

[frogbeastegg]

I've done my appreciative spiel for Planescape: Torment many times over, so I will only repeat in brief: Buy. Now.

I loved the game. The darker setting, the sheer oddity of most of everything in the world, and the focus on talking and thinking bumped the game far above the Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale games in my froggy opinion. The humour was good too. I felt each NPC had more depth and detail than the ones in the other Black Isle games, and that the plot was a deal more personal. Epic is nice in its place, but the tighter focus here really appealed to me.

I picked up the game when it was brand new because I had bumbled (I'm dyslexic; all those nasty numbers sit there and scream "So you want to know how good your character is? Tough luck! Gah! We pwnz u n00b!!!1!1!" Another reason I loved Torment was that the numbers were a bit more hidden and a bit less important, meaning I didn’t need to cheat to survive and wasn’t perpetually puzzled) my way through the other D&D PC RPGS out there. I started the game, wandered about the mortuary, and basically thought I almost quit the game and gave up. But, to my eternal gratitude, I kept going, and as soon as I got into Sigil I fell in love with the game.

My only grumble with the whole game is that I've never been able to finish it. Every time I reach the UnderSigil area (near the end, about 85% of the way through) of the game it slows to not even 1FPS, so it's entirely unplayable. This has happened over and over on several different incarnations of my PC. The game's perfectly fine until the very second I go to that area, at which point everywhere is unplayable. Don't let this discourage you; I've never encountered anyone else with the same problem.

:cough: Alright, so I didn’t manage to keep it to just the two words. But that shows how much I love this game, and this is the short version of my ramblings.

Swords!

Dakon's zerth blade changes according to his level and state of mind. Celestial Fury can be a sword, as well as other weapons. You just have to talk to it and ask it to become one.

Combat!

There could be a fair bit of fighting in Torment, if you set your character and path to it. Just pump your points into 'muscle boy' attributes like strength and nmot wisdom, then keep on picking fights instead of taking the chances to talk your way out or reason with people. Play as evil for good measure. I really did love the way the game gave you this kind of choice, unlike the other RPGs where generally fighting was the rule, except in a few situations.


Now I feel like giving Torment another go. After all, my PC is almost entirely new thanks to that powercut which melted half the innards, so maybe Undersigil will work ...

[Uriel]

If hardware weren't an issue I'd definitely say Bloodlines. Best RPG I've played in years. Deus Ex is superb. Definitely one to get if you have an older PC.