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I don't like Planescape: Torment that much.

Kaanyrvhok

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MicoSelva said:
The strongest point of PST is its creativity overload. There are so many cool ideas everywhere that You never really know what You will find around the corner. When I played it for the first time, I felt excited every time I was about to talk to someone new - and it rarely ended up in a disappointment.

Also the way all these ideas interconnect with each other is amazing. It's easy to make a "creative dump" and leave it like that, but here it's all made into a coherent whole that is hard to grasp all at once. Many layers can only be noticed on a second playthrough, when You aready have the big picture in mind.
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:salute: :salute: :salute: :salute:

Its not just that the game is fucking theatric. Playing PST is like watching the godfather. It has culture. Even the little things are entertaining.
 
Wyrmlord

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Fallout 2 and Torment have similar styles.

For example, both games have quests with no clear and visible solution at the time you get them.

Later, solving a completely unrelated quest gives you the solution to the quest you left unsolved earlier. I love that!

And sometimes, an entire mix of unrelated quests produces a new quest or a solution to a quest.

Example from Fallout 2 are all the series of actions required to buy a car from the Den. Example from Torment is the Dodecahedron, Brothel, lawyer, and other disparate quests all providing you a portal to Ravel's maze.

It's basically telling the player, "Forget about a solution. Just explore and find things, and a solution will reveal itself."
 
Raghar

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It worked well in Witcher, players tried to explore whole swamp, even when a book contained hint the last stuff will arrive by itself more or less unexpectedly.
 
meanwhileInPoland

meanwhileInPoland

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Raghar said:
It worked well in Witcher, players tried to explore whole swamp, even when a book contained hint the last stuff will arrive by itself more or less unexpectedly.
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fuck no. the whole swamp did not work thanks to thousands respawning mobs :decline:
 
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