Planescape: Torment Comes to GOG

[Unrulyhandbag]

If anyone doesn't have this game on CD then go and buy it, NOW. You won't regret it.

Now see, I already own a copy that I've painstakingly copied over to my hard drive and configured to not require using the discs and transferred along with each subsequent iteration of my PC, so I don't really need to buy a new copy from GOG.

I'm extremely tempted to anyway after reading that list of extras. Soundtrack = very yes.

you know, you can just convert the ACM files to get all the music. If I didn't have a disc copy and have it nicely backed up as you do I WOULD buy this but as it stands there is no reason for me to buy it. Oooh..104 artworks you say...damn it.

 

[Jared]

Fnatastic! A purchase in the bag me thinks

 

[Nimzar]

I've never actually played Planescape Torment, though I keep hearing it's very good. Though I don't actually hear much about the content of the game itself, just how good it is.

Well you've received many replies to this statement so far, but there is something that should be mentioned. Planescape: Torment is a very text heavy game, and therefore should only be played when one is in the mood for such. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Planescape: Torment. But if I'm more in the mood for a game I don't have to think overmuch about I will not play it.

So really good. If you're in the mood for that type of thing at the time.

 

[mattaui]

I made a point to pick up a bargain copy of this when it was on its way out years ago, and I'm sure I've got it sitting around somewhere. However, there's something to be said for a digital distribution tweaked to work on modern OSes. I haven't even tried fiddling with getting it to run from disk on Win7, though it might make good Netbook fodder.

The Planescape setting was a beautiful thing, though it was so very different from the core qualities that are D&D that Wizards of the Coast just couldn't cope with it, I suppose. It fits in with a lot of what was going on in the tabletop RPG scene in the early to mid 90s, with all the off-the-wall genre mingling that was taking place such as Shadowrun, Torg, Rifts and so on.

 

[Trotgar]

I've always been confused about the sales of this game: some people say it sold very poorly and some people say the game's sales were OK. Does anyone know how much it sold?

One thing is sure though, it didn't get as many sales as it deserves.

That aside, Planescape: Torment is my second favourite game of all time (just behind ME). Great setting, great sounds, great story, great characters and great dialogue. Even the graphics, while dated now, are used very well and look good still. The flaws were mostly technical and to me they were very minor in my opinion.

So, this is very nice news, though I myself have it on CD, so I shall not be buying this, at least for now.

 

[Loonerinoes]

/salutes

Of all the old-school 90s RPGs, I still consider this one to be the finest and considering how highly I think of the Baldur's Gate series, that worked so well across all installments, that's saying something.

But not even Baldur's Gate can compare with personally painted organic landscapes...Mark Morgan's interesting musical score...characters as wierd as they are deep...and a question that drove me to write novel-sized fanfiction, in spite of almost never doing so these days.

What can change the nature of a man indeed?

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Soundtrack = very yes.

you know, you can just convert the ACM files to get all the music. If I didn't have a disc copy and have it nicely backed up as you do I WOULD buy this but as it stands there is no reason for me to buy it. Oooh..104 artworks you say...damn it.

If it was just the music I wouldn't be tempted - as an audiophile that's what I'm drawn to the most but I do technically have access to it now if I wanted to bother with it. The addition of the artwork though tilts it firmly into the "quite tempted to pay for a game you already own" territory.

 

[Broken Orange]

I would be buying the shit out that website if the games were available for Macs. Oh well.

 

[Harker067]

yay I was just planning on torrenting this. This saves me time and effort .

 

[Bantis]

Well seems, like others, the PR stunt got me too... I didn't know about the site until I read about it closing here... And just in the past few days I've purchased Arcanum and Fallout 2. And now they've got Torment.

I was up til 3 last night with FO2... How am I expected to find the time to sleep?

 

[Orthon]

Cool stuff, alot of people will be happy about this.

Personally I've always wanted to like games like Baldur's gate 2 and Planescape, and when I've played them, I've enjoyed the story, characters and the locations you travel to. But the gameplay itself I've never been able to enjoy. I get the gist of it, but any advanced tactics in these types of games eludes me.

Maybe I'm just not meant to be able to enjoy oldschool RPGs. It's a shame, really, cause I want to ;<

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Planescape: Torment from Black Isle Studios was an absolute high-water mark in the RPG genre, which makes it an even greater shame that nobody played it.

Lots of people played it. It was called KOTOR 2. Avellone basically remade the plot with Star Wars.

 

[Delusibeta]

I would be buying the shit out that website if the games were available for Macs. Oh well.

Planescape Torment never got a Mac version anyway, and considering it's from 1999, DOSbox won't help you.

 

[Ruairi iliffe]

I would go on about how much i love Planescape and rant like any fanboy, but instead i'll just say my entire right arm has the symbols of Annor and Torrment along it, as that should be enough.

 

[Loonerinoes]

Planescape: Torment from Black Isle Studios was an absolute high-water mark in the RPG genre, which makes it an even greater shame that nobody played it.

Lots of people played it. It was called KOTOR 2. Avellone basically remade the plot with Star Wars.

Having played both, this argument really is moronic.

Sure, there are similar themes in both games and sure, both of them have a far more individualistic feel to them than most other RPGs, as well as challenging conventional wisdom held for their universes.

But the central plot and story? One about a man who needs to remember his lengthy and violent past in order to realize his nature while another about a Jedi that swims against the tide of what his peers expect is right? Come the heck on!

But meh...it's the age old argument about how a few similar themes and feelings automatically equal copying. Sure, Avellone has a certain style of writing but a similar style does not equal the same content. For example, sure Terry Pratchet writes in a certain style that constantly dances around the reader's mind, but if you think that every single one of his works if exactly the same as the other...come on!

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Planescape: Torment from Black Isle Studios was an absolute high-water mark in the RPG genre, which makes it an even greater shame that nobody played it.

Lots of people played it. It was called KOTOR 2. Avellone basically remade the plot with Star Wars.

Having played both, this argument really is moronic.

Sure, there are similar themes in both games and sure, both of them have a far more individualistic feel to them than most other RPGs, as well as challenging conventional wisdom held for their universes.

But the central plot and story? One about a man who needs to remember his lengthy and violent past in order to realize his nature while another about a Jedi that swims against the tide of what his peers expect is right? Come the heck on!

But meh...it's the age old argument about how a few similar themes and feelings automatically equal copying. Sure, Avellone has a certain style of writing but a similar style does not equal the same content. For example, sure Terry Pratchet writes in a certain style that constantly dances around the reader's mind, but if you think that every single one of his works if exactly the same as the other...come on!

I know, I'm sorry if I was a little blunt. It was meant to be a little tongue in cheek. It is true that you can draw a number of comparisons between the two however.

 

[Keava]

I know, I'm sorry if I was a little blunt. It was meant to be a little tongue in cheek. It is true that you can draw a number of comparisons between the two however.

You can draw a number of comparisons in majority if not all fiction stories as described by this man, and it has being going on even long before people started to write stuff down properly.

 

[antipunt]

Oh wow, that's awesome. Does that mean they finally have this game in a decent resolution/compatability/etc?