This game has a great story, its very well written which is good because 80% of it is reading text.
the other 20% thats a typical dungeons and dragons style party rpg is complete and utter shit.
the graphics for their time were very nice, today the art style overall still caries mostly
the combat is receptive and boring requiring very little strategy. There are annoying encounters late in the game with enemies that can kill you very easily making it essential that you just avoid combat all together in some areas.
people have gone to the trouble of writing out the full script of this game including character blocking as a novel for the benefit of people that dont want to have to play it and still experience the story.
I made it 5/6 of the way through before giving up. Its just too boring.
If this were a proper novel im sure id like it as much a most of the sci-fi fantasy novels ive read but even to that standard it would not be exceptional.
as it stands Planescape torment is a great example of how well written text can be done in a game but the rest of it aside from some pretty visuals here and there is crap.
the other 20% thats a typical dungeons and dragons style party rpg is complete and utter shit.
the graphics for their time were very nice, today the art style overall still caries mostly
the combat is receptive and boring requiring very little strategy. There are annoying encounters late in the game with enemies that can kill you very easily making it essential that you just avoid combat all together in some areas.
people have gone to the trouble of writing out the full script of this game including character blocking as a novel for the benefit of people that dont want to have to play it and still experience the story.
I made it 5/6 of the way through before giving up. Its just too boring.
If this were a proper novel im sure id like it as much a most of the sci-fi fantasy novels ive read but even to that standard it would not be exceptional.
as it stands Planescape torment is a great example of how well written text can be done in a game but the rest of it aside from some pretty visuals here and there is crap.