Game News Planescape: Torment 2: Win the Blood War Announced

VentilatorOfDoom · May 12, 2011

Tags: Obsidian Entertainment; Planescape: Torment

... eh, not quite. But Feargus <a href="http://pc-mmo.nowgamer.com/news/5797/obsidian-dev-ponders-planescape-torment-return" target="_blank">seems to be pondering</a> the possibility of a sequel to MCA's masterpiece.
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So what does this mean for the chances of a sequel to the adored PC RPG, Planescape: Torment? Urquhart was surprisingly candid: “I remember right after finishing Planescape: Torment I spoke to Chris Avellone [Obsidian creative director] and asked what he wanted to do, and he was like, ‘I don’t wanna do a sequel!’ We haven’t talked about it in ten years, but it might be different now. But a lot of revisiting old games is about saying, ‘okay, that worked in 1999, what would work now?’ And how would you do it again?” “It would have to be done right, otherwise the fans of the original would be pissed off” But while it’s not entirely off the table, Urquhart does have concerns that would have to be addressed: “We’d have to think a lot about it, because it would have to be done right, otherwise the fans of the original would be pissed off and new people wouldn’t get it. That would be terrible.”
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To be honest, that doesn't sound like Obsidian has real plans to do it. They can only lose, whatever they do they won't top it. PS:T is a miracle that only happens once in your lifetime.
 
Thanks to Alexandros for pointing this out.

Phelot · May 12, 2011

OH God you know at this point I think they should just for the lulz and butthurt.

Jack_Deth · May 12, 2011

Whoever wrote the headline at NowGamer, didn't read the article

Forest Dweller · May 12, 2011

OP is a fag.

The Vanished One · May 12, 2011

Feargus Urquhart said:
it would have to be done right, otherwise the fans of the original would be pissed off

Clockwork Knight · May 12, 2011

Feargus Urquhart said:
it would have to be done right, otherwise the fans of the original would be pissed off

Avellone said:
Np, these freaks adore me for some reason, so they'll swallow whatever we give them.

r00fles!

Spectacle · May 12, 2011

While I'd hate to see another classic raped, I would rather they try and fail to make a sequel to torment than make only ambitionless popamole rpgs.

Catalina · May 12, 2011

Well, the title of THIS news post gave me my shocked heart attack of the day.

Phelot · May 12, 2011

Just trying to think of how they'd do this. I guess a prequel would be easy enough, but otherwise it obviously would have to do with escaping the Blood War except that that ending seems to show TNO pretty resolute with serving out his fate seeing as how trying to cheat fate landed him into his current mess. Maybe take place in and around the Blood War or maybe TNO is sent as an agent into the other planes? In any case, don't fucking do it Obsidian!

thesheeep · May 12, 2011

PS:T + Diablo 3 + Sexy Beach 3 = PS:T 2 ?

Ogg · May 12, 2011

thesheeep said:
PS:T + Diablo 3 + Sexy Beach 3 = PS:T 2 ?

I don't know what you're trying to say here. PS:T already had Diablo's combat and Sexy Beach's character design.

Excidium · May 12, 2011

I think a proper RPG on the planescape setting would be awesome, but leave TNO alone. His story is over.

Catalina said:
Well, the title of THIS news post gave me my shocked heart attack of the day.

MMXI · May 12, 2011

I'm not sure about this. I guess I would welcome it because Planescape: Torment was one of the best story-focused RPGs ever created. However, it was never representative of the direction I wanted RPGs to head in. A greater focus on story and characters over all else? That's now what BioWare does, but with incredibly shitty writers.

In other words, I can see a multi-platform Planescape: Torment II making BioTards (and other degenerate groups) froth at the mouth claiming that this is the game all old-school RPG players had been waiting for (much like what journalists now say about Dragon Age: Origins in retrospect).

So basically this is half :incline:

and half

from me. I don't want a new Planescape Torment tainting the mainstream perception of what "old-school RPGs" are the way Dragon Age: Origins has done.

GarfunkeL · May 12, 2011

Useless speculation - MCA has never (AFAIK) even entertained the idea of a sequel and it seems far-fetched that Obsidian would be so hard pressed to find material. Plus you have the licence problems.

Gragt · May 12, 2011

phelot said:
Just trying to think of how they'd do this. I guess a prequel would be easy enough, but otherwise it obviously would have to do with escaping the Blood War except that that ending seems to show TNO pretty resolute with serving out his fate seeing as how trying to cheat fate landed him into his current mess. Maybe take place in and around the Blood War or maybe TNO is sent as an agent into the other planes? In any case, don't fucking do it Obsidian!

Well, Fall-From-Grace said that she would look for him. That could be used as a start.

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