The Gaming News Thread

**TinCow** · 10-27-2009, 22:02

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Planescape: Torment is being re-released. Can we possibly be lucky enough to have all the bugs fixed and have the resolution increased?

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009...nt-re-release/

**econ21** · 10-27-2009, 22:32

Originally Posted by TinCow

Planescape: Torment is being re-released.

That news gives me an excuse to link to the trailer to the game, which was quite possibly the most memorable trailer to any game I've seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s2Q...eature=related

I read somewhere the weirdness of the trailer helped account for the disappointing sales of the game, but I found it mesmerising.

**Ser Clegane** · 10-28-2009, 19:02

Originally Posted by econ21

That news gives me an excuse to link to the trailer to the game, which was quite possibly the most memorable trailer to any game I've seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s2Q...eature=related

I read somewhere the weirdness of the trailer helped account for the disappointing sales of the game, but I found it mesmerising.

That was really a great trailer (probably the "most-watched" game trailer for me) - it made me actually buy the game

**Lemur** · 10-27-2009, 23:07

Originally Posted by TinCow

Planescape: Torment is being re-released.

Yeah, I read that it's being converted into a FPS by Bethesda, complete with level-scaling creatures from the planes. Cool, huh?

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

**Ferret** · 10-27-2009, 23:14

Happy 10,000th post Lemur

**frogbeastegg** · 10-28-2009, 18:40

Originally Posted by TinCow

Planescape: Torment is being re-released. Can we possibly be lucky enough to have all the bugs fixed and have the resolution increased?

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009...nt-re-release/

I wouldn't get your hopes up. Interplay lost the rights years ago; no one seems to know who owns them. Amazon are famous for making up release dates for things which don't exist or which got cancelled. The only thing which makes this even slightly believable is the PEGI rating.

A lot of the other games offered as supporting evidence on that link are old budget re-issues - I've got the Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale compilation DVD's sat on a shlef next to me right now. I picked them up last year when I was pondering a replay and didn't fancy installing from 200,000 (only a slight exaggeration) CDs and playing disc jockey each time I changed areas. Others appear to be the original releases!

If it's true then I'm buying a copy! I still own my mint condition 4 CD UK release version of the game but I've always had a weird bug that no one else has reported in the Undersigil area. It makes the game totally unplayable as it permanently drops the FPS to less than 1 per second for all areas in the game, so in many attempted playthroughs I have never once completed the game.

:continues to pray for Good Old Games versions of all the old Bioware/Black Isle RPGs:

**TinCow** · 10-28-2009, 18:55

Originally Posted by frogbeastegg

I wouldn't get your hopes up. Interplay lost the rights years ago; no one seems to know who owns them. Amazon are famous for making up release dates for things which don't exist or which got cancelled. The only thing which makes this even slightly believable is the PEGI rating.

The rumors I read were that it was actually Atari who was doing the re-release, and that they had acquired the license a while ago in some sale or another. The rumors also said it was updated to work with XP/Vista, though no word on bug fixes beyond that.

**frogbeastegg** · 10-28-2009, 19:13

Originally Posted by TinCow

The rumors I read were that it was actually Atari who was doing the re-release, and that they had acquired the license a while ago in some sale or another. The rumors also said it was updated to work with XP/Vista, though no word on bug fixes beyond that.

:considers holding breath: Hmm, no, I shall believe it when people are holding freshly pressed copies. Planescape re-releases have been rumoured for years, and surely there'd be some kind of press release to announce this?

**Meneldil** · 10-28-2009, 20:53

Various Bioshock 2 multiplayer videos have been released. Though it doesn't look as bad as expected (the "capture the sister" mod even looks interesting), it still looks way to shooty.
People are blowing up all over the place, shooting everywhere. Doesn't look really bioshock-ish to me. That wouldn't be too worrying in itself if it was limited to multiplayer (after all, it's taking place during a civil war), but singler player also look pretty similar as well (which isn't really surprising given that we'll play as a Big Daddy).

Oh well, even if the single player is only half as good as it was for Bioshock 1, I'll buy it.

**Monk** · 11-05-2009, 22:25

Interesting news for all fans of Indie games. EPIC just released the Unreal Developer Kit, essentially making the Unreal Engine public to anyone who wants a go at it.

Considering how many games these days are powered by it, this can only be good news.