Game News PS:T gets in GameSpy's Hall of Fame

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: Planescape: Torment

<A href="http://www.gamespy.com/">GameSpy</a> has placed <b>Planescape: Torment</b> in their <A href="http://www.gamespy.com/articles/540/540546p1.html">Hall of Fame</a>. Here's a clip:
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<blockquote>Torment also fulfilled the promise of <u>putting the "role" back in role-playing</u>. The game allowed players to play through the story however they wanted. Dialogue choices reflected a wide range of possibilities ranging from nobility to base evil. Character statistics would allow you to notice things a character of lower intelligence would never see and even get extra dialogue choices if your Charisma was high enough. The beauty of the system was that, regardless of the character you played, there was always a way to get through the story. If you played the most evil character in the universe, you could still finish the game in a completely satisfying manner, although your experience would quite different from the player who had chosen the Lawful Good path.</blockquote>
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Huh. Anyone keeping score on that?
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Thanks, <b>Kotario</b> of <a href="http://www.nma-fallout.com">NMA</a>!

 

[Vault Dweller]

What's next? They will start trashing NWN and demanding quality games?

 

[Transcendent One]

What's next? They will start trashing NWN

Fairly old article. Not exactly trashing, but a good start.

 

[jiujitsu]

<3 PS:T

 

[Kotario]

Well, if you think the staff of GameSpy are changing their ways, there is this lovely little quote (near the end of the article).

Unfortunately, the postscript for this story isn't a terribly happy one. For all its originality, quality, and the glowing reviews it received, Planescape ended up tanking at retail and Interplay quickly went back pumping out more Forgotten Realms games. Not that this was bad, of course, as it did result in games like Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate II.

 

[Araanor]

Huh. Anyone keeping score on that?

I think we've got a meme on the loose!

 

[Sol Invictus]

Just leave the meme out there for awhile and sit back and watch what it'll mutate into.

For some reason 'owned' became 'Al Capwn3d'

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Well, it's about time PST got some public praise.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Torment always had a fair amount of praise, it just lacked in high commercial success.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Yeah, but I've never really seen it on commercial websites like this in much other than forum praise. I think it's just refreshing for someone to write about gameplay rather than kewl gr4fx.

 

[Spazmo]

PST would probably have sold a lot better if those numbskulls at Interplay hadn't stopped printing copies. I know they stopped printing it precisely because it wasn't selling, but sheesh, look at the demand on eBay now.

 

[Ausir]

Funny how it's still selling like hot cakes in Poland, and CD Projekt is still printing it around here...

 

[Sol Invictus]

The Poles have a much more sophisticated appreciation of games than the stupid American market.

 

[Reklar]

Considering Gamespy's usual lack of intelligence I'm begining to wonder if they've hired on someone new to improve their PR department. Did anyone check to see if this review was plagurized from elsewhere?

-Reklar
(a Fallout/RPG fan)