It’s great news to hear that Interplay is re-releasing the RPG classic Planescape: Torment, although it’s a little disheartening that it’s going for $20 or so. I think that after 10 years, you should resign yourself to the fact that your game is now and forever more shalt be in the “budget” section.
Still, Planescape is one of my absolute favorite role-playing games on the PC. In fact, a friend and I were gushing about it just the other night, and I was telling him of the cool Widescreen Mod that’s updated the game so that you can see full environments on modern PC monitors. I’d be tempted to get PT again just to see it this way.
Planescape: Torment was such an odd release back in the day — it absolutely bowled over critics and players with its radically different approach to storytelling and setting, but it failed to gather a large enough playerbase to become the smash hit it deserved. It didn’t help that the box art was hideously ugly, that most people couldn’t envision Dungeons & Dragons in a setting other than Forgotten Realms (something that plagues DDO to this day), and that it was more of a thinker’s RPG than a fighter’s. You could actually complete the entire game and avoid combat except for two mandatory fights — I can’t think of another modern RPG that could make this claim.
It had deep themes, fantastic companions, and a truly spectacular and bizarre world, one that I wish would have gotten a followup instead of being relegated to the dusty shelves. Hopefully, this re-release might garner a new generation of fans for this terrific title.
I think I actually have a copy of Planescape:Torment but I’ve never played it. I’m not even sure it would run on my current machine unless there are patches to make it XP-compatible. Love the old DOS games, hate that they cannot be played in Windows, not even using the DOS simulator.
Cap’n, that’s exactly why I love Good Old Games. They take the time to make the things work on modern systems. The price point and lack of DRM are icing on the cake.
A lot of old DOS games I would love to play. That’s why I’m kind of paying homage to the oldies on my blog, like Bard’s tale, the Gold Box series, Zork even.
Wasn’t for these games we be playing Mario all day
Oh god these days, feels like i played the game ages ago.
I don´t mind the price, as long as they make sure(!) that it is playable on XP/Vista/7.
Would be realy nice to play that one again. Hm when i think about it, it might run XP *goes searching thru the big stash of old games*
Planescape: Torment is one of my 2 favorite RPGs of all time (the other is SW Knights of the Old Republic).
Absolutely amazing game with a great story and amazing style points. To this day, I still use one of the lines when gaming:
When your backstab was up to (I believe) x5, the Nameless One would say:
“You left yourself exposed, idiot.”