Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition

The character development, dialog, descriptive text, and story remain the best I've encountered over 40 years of playing RPGs.

In knowing the teachings of Zerthimon, I recommend this game.

It's fun. 2nd Ed rules, but you get used to that. Lot's of cool lore.

I've never played book this good. Made me tear up even. If you like story driven games with combat on second plan i cannot recommend it highly enough. Art looks great even in high resolutions. Music is excelent. The only thing that bothered me was how bare bones and empty the last part of the game was. Still i realized it only durning my third playthrough. I dont even play crpgs but this one caught me by my soul. 10/10

My button click of a thumbs up also demands words in this box?
the game is dated.
the combat system is bad and a lot of things feel useless or overpowered so there is no real balance.
BUT this story and the philosophies behind it if you're in the right mood are almost unmatched. The story that drives the game is truly inspirational.
This game plays more like a visual novel that allows you to pick your own adventure than a traditional CRPG

Planescape: Torment - After all these years - still hits in the feels. It hits like a sledgehammer in the methods of how it has inspired my writing. Inspired my imagination and sparked an interest within the concept of Planes. It has stuck with me for the last 24+ Years on nearly every level and, upon finishing it again, I can't help but remember what games used to be able to deliver.

It is an old game. It is an aged game and, yes, some of the mechanics don't translate well into the future. It is, however, an amazing game. One of those games that you should play every year if possible just to experience, and remember, what stories used to be.

What can change the nature of a man? Playing through PlaneScape Torment.

I've never played another videogame, regardless of how "good" its story is, that had me reading through threads of people just discussing the philosophy behind the story and ending. This game is sincerely fantastic and the experience it provides cannot be replicated by another other "good story" game available in the market right now.

If you like fantasy novels and CRPGs than you will love this.

Good game, have fun!

This might be the only game where main character that is possibly uglier than the new Fable game. That said, amazing game from the past!

Fun grind.

"What can change the nature of a man?"

... Playing Planescape Torment? It might help, at least, reveal that nature:

"I believe there is a truth to the multiverse... even if that truth is that there is no truth at all. I believe that the Planes are meant to be experienced, and the more one experiences, in traveling, in joy, in pain, in merriment or in suffering, the more the multiverse reveals itself to you... And the more you are revealed to yourself."

游戏如其名，折磨。这个游戏真的不好玩，他只会让你沉迷并且无法自拔。

If you enjoy story, you are missing out if you don't play this.

Although the combat isn't the greatest, this game is one of the best ever written. it explores incredibly deep themes in a coherent manner and there's a lot of really cool things. It's well worth your time.

Old, but worthy. If you're a reader.

One of the best, perhaps THE BEST adventure games ever.

One of my favorite games. The Enhanced Edition is ok.

peak RTwP CRPG
i wish these characters existed in BG1+2 EE. i need a BG party with Morte, Ignus, Vhailor, TNO, Nordom and FFGrace so bad

Still one of the greatest games ever made

BRA

One of the best games ever made, if not the best. It's story and themes are leagues above any other game made before or after.

"In knowing your name, your true name, you know that you have gained back perhaps the most important part of yourself. In knowing your name, you know yourself, and you know, now, there is very little you cannot do."
Perhaps one of the best written games of all time.

I must have played this game hundreds of times and always loved it ,a classic of its time, i recommend it if you like playing 26 year old rpgs and see passed the crappy combat which i actually didn't really mind all that much. i like it.

Out of all the games I've ever played, if I had the chance to forget any one of them, just for the purpose of replaying and reliving the experience, I would choose this one.

The best review that I could give is this: this game does not waste your time, and you'll be glad you pumped your brakes, put it in turtle mode, and scoured through the text that lays in such verbosity within this world.

You will see that the game developers poured their heart into every conversation, should you decide to buy it

It's a classic Isometric RPG a - la Baldur's Gate I and II, Icewind Dale, or Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura--- but this story is much more captivating in that it keeps you on the edge of your chair saying, "Who is the Nameless One, and where the hell am I?"

What an adventure....i just finished my playthrough as a mage and i have to say: this is one of the best written games ever.

wow what a great game, an oldie but a goodie, this was my first time playing it and its a solid game

Would I recommend it? hell yes

One of the best narrative RPGs out there. Get it if you like plenty of reading and dialogue and minimal amount of combat.

Easily one of the best games of all time. It didn't age wonderfully, but when it was released it was phenomenal and the storytelling is excellent.

Probably can be called a godfather of modern crpgs, with super fasinating setting and plot. Sadly by today's standard the gameplay is a bit dated - combat is a bit clunky and teadious, and sometimes it feels more like reading a book by the amount of exposition you are given. Nevertheless, it's worth to experience at least part of it.

this game fucking slaps

An elderly man was sitting alone on a dark path, right? He wasn't certain of which direction to go, and he'd forgotten both where he was traveling to and who he was. He'd sat down for a moment to rest his weary legs, and suddenly looked up to see an elderly woman before him. She grinned toothlessly and with a cackle, spoke: 'Now your third wish. What will it be?'

'Third wish?' The man was baffled. 'How can it be a third wish if I haven't had a first and second wish?'

'You've had two wishes already,' the hag said, 'but your second wish was for me to return everything to the way it was before you had made your first wish. That's why you remember nothing; because everything is the way it was before you made any wishes.' She cackled at the poor berk. 'So it is that you have one wish left.'

'All right,' said the man, 'I don't believe this, but there's no harm in wishing. I wish to know who I am.'

'Funny,' said the old woman as she granted his wish and disappeared forever. 'That was your first wish.'

Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition was an exceptional experience then and still is an exceptional experience even by today's standards. With there being plenty of strategical setups and strategical setups and interchangeable character classes (for the Nameless One), players have a multitude of tools at their disposal to understand and overcome all challenges, from puzzles to combat situations, appropriately and satisfyingly. What consumers will be most interested to know about the product is its in-depth storytelling through dialogue and object descriptions, which tend to be expansive yet enamoring due to how the plot revolves around a scarred, amnesiac that slowly recovers his memory of self and the world around him. To say the least, this video game is refreshing in that it allows one to get a comprehensive understanding of the lore and game mechanics comfortably to the point where they can confidently face any trial within it with little to no error per se.

Not a big fan of the setting but despite that this is such a rich story that I have to keep playing.
The game is very easy to follow along and most of the battles aren't very hard either. Enemies are generally your level or lower unless you are simply attacking everything and everyone.

I highly recommend playing this with the mods for higher resolution video and textures.

The game is a classic for a reason.

The Good, Bad, and things that I'd like to have seen.

The Good:
Graphics amazing for the time it was made, and still hold up strong.
Its quick, and just as fun as I recall it was from the 90's.
The Story is top notch, and very deep when all the elements come together.
Playing as a fighter is easy, playing as a wizard slower, but rewarding.
Romance options that don't feel like they are forced.
friendships where you care about the twists that happen to your allies.
Everyone has a torment, and its super good.
Coin/loot excellent, same for lore too.
It's
The Bad:
Resting... Sucks now. You used to at least be able to rest, now not so much.
Unless your at an Inn, or someone lets you rest. This is bad for spell recovery.
Sometimes the game puts to many enemies at once.
Having to back track, or redo the same tree of conversation to get a new path forward.... a little tiring.
Some bugs still in the game that can make you have to reload a save. Nothing major but meh.

I would have liked them to leave the resting system alone.
A new game plus would have been fun, and for what it is 20 bucks is a bit much.
You can however; get it on sale, and its worth it 9.8/ 10.
Retro none Woke goodness, from a time when games were fun.

grand classic, great writing

Excellent story and characters in a uniquely memorable setting. Combat is sub-par but not the focus of the game.

It's a good game.

I don’t think it's any surprise given the game’s reputation, but the writing is the real star here. Despite the sheer quantity and quality of the writing, it does a surprisingly great job of speaking with a consistent voice. I’m not very familiar with D&D and the lore of its campaign settings so I can’t speak as to how much of this is just explanations of existing content versus the writers’ own additions, but I can say that P:T did a great job of conveying its setting and the forces behind it. There’s a huge amount of detail and lore embedded within the game even as you only experience a small slice of the actual universe with Sigil, the game’s main hub, essentially acting as the center of the universe where just about every faction, species, and plane is represented to some extent. Just in terms of invoking the soul of a place, PT has some of the best writing I've ever seen in a game.

The character writing is similarly strong. There are only a few recruitable party members, but they’re each given a great deal of attention through their backgrounds and distinctive personalities that I think the game made the right call by keeping its main cast small. Each party member has a very particular relationship with the Nameless One, your character, that serves to both flesh out your own history and provide a lens into the rest of the world. They each speak with a distinctive tone in the text and have great voice acting too. Those outside the main party are also very well-written, Ravel in particular being an absolute standout, but even many of the unimportant characters you’ll only speak to once will have a clear set of ideas and beliefs they want to convey to you.

Ultimately, PT’s writing succeeds because nothing feels wasteful. The game puts a huge focus on fleshing out its world both in the sense of literal descriptions of how it's structured and governed but also the beliefs underlying it all. How do people think of and cope with the universe, how do they feel about other people and groups trying to do the same, and how do your own experiences both personally and in-game shape your interactions with them? And these questions not only flesh out the world as you play but even end up as a part of the main narrative with your attempts to learn about and decide your feelings on it all becoming a driving force behind your progress throughout the story.

Planescape Torment is the 2nd best written game I have ever played, only losing out to Disco Elysium. But unlike Disco Elysium, there’s a lot more to this game than just reading. And that's where it fucks up.

The gameplay is…. not good. The best thing I can say about it is that you can circumvent most of it by either running away from any enemies or letting your party members do most of the heavy lifting. Even if you do engage directly, the combat is easy most of the time and only becomes an unavoidable issue during a few mandatory fights near the end.

The combat itself is a weird mix. It's very complex, largely owing to D&D dice rolls and other checks, such that you would need to spend a great deal of time to understand it. I played as a mage and it wasn’t uncommon for a spell to take up a whole screen of text describing how many D6s it rolls and what rolls enemies need to resist it and all sorts of other stuff. But at the same time, everything is actually being handled behind the scenes and it all happens so quickly that you don’t need to worry about any of the complexity behind the system. Just use a few spells or swing at the enemy with a melee weapon and it will all resolve before long. If an enemy is too strong, just run away and don’t bother with them. The combat isn’t fun nor is understanding it necessary to progress so it doesn’t really add anything to the game. But it still exists, its mere presence dragging down much of the experience whenever you move from talking and reading sections to the running and fighting sections.

Unfortunately, not everything can be circumvented. Enemies take up physical space so when you’re in a narrow corridor or there are large groups of them, it may be impossible to run past them without some very awkward movement. Even getting past regular enemies, there are a handful of encounters you can’t meaningfully avoid. Ravel and Trias are both required boss fights and end up being a gigantic pain to deal with, especially if you’ve avoided combat and thus lack the needed gear or levels to stand a chance against them. Neither of them were enjoyable and I had to resort to a mix of reloading the fight over and over plus some cheese strategies to eventually beat them both. If you just removed the combat from Planescape Torment and replaced it with literally nothing the game would be a full point higher.

And this is made worse by how the good and bad parts are distributed within the game. The first half is excellent, heavy on dialogue with little necessary combat (and what few fights are hard to avoid are quite easy) and show off the various sides of Sigil and how they all connect. But once you enter Ravel’s Maze, everything starts going to shit. There are still a handful of great conversations, but the rest of the game falters. Combat becomes much harder and avoiding it becomes tedious, there are no more sidequests, no new factions, the story becomes extremely linear, and the areas you’re sent to feel disconnected from one another as if the game was getting worried that Sigil was too boring and you really needed to see all the other cool planes before the game ended. Luckily the very final area was another great one and provided a fantastic resolution so the last half wasn't a total wash, but it is unfortunate that Planescape Torment had that rough gap from the 50% mark to the 90% mark that killed much of the flow.

As a whole, Planescape Torment is still a fantastic game. It's the only game I’ve played that comes close to Disco Elysium for the quality of its writing and, had different design decisions been made, it could have entered the sacred hall of 10/10s. But some very rough combat and a weak 2nd half hurt the experience to the point where I can’t just overlook it.

really makes you think

Going into this game having never played it before and having no nostalgia, I was worried it might feel too dated and I had heard the combat was dreadful but after hearing so much praise decided to give it a go.

It was an absolute fantastic experience. Combat is fine, it's not great but it's straightforward enough and does not take up that much of the game. Everything else though is just absolutely fantastic.

It was a bit of a slow start. It didn't pull me in straight from the start but did intrigue me enough to want to know what was going on. As I started to explore and talk to NPCs, starting doing quests, getting companions etc it all just started to come together. I found myself wanting to speak to everyone because the conversations and writing was just so good. The world building was absolutely superb and I found myself eager to keep finding out about this world and my character.

Also really loved that it had 9 different alignments. While none of that was new and it's using an already established system, it was really refreshing to have so many different ways you could take your character rather than just good or bad. I also liked that somethings like joining certain factions are alignment based.

I also love that you can pickpocket to farm money. I just love any game that has this.

One thing I often hate with a lot of RPGs is how useless non-combat traits can feel. Like so many games taking charisma and similar things ends up making combat less fun as you're not as strong as you could be for very little reward like a few extra bits of dialogue but in this game actually going a non-combat route (although not all combat is skippable) is super rewarding. Like sticking a ton of points into charisma and wisdom even if you're a warrior will still make for an amazing playthrough.

One thing that also sets this game apart is that it's set in an already established world with a ton of lore. What's nice about this is a few things in game I was curious about and before I knew it I was just going down this rabbit hole of lore. Like you come across a lot of a certain religious sect, a lot of games it's just maybe they're right or maybe they're wrong but I found myself outside of the game reading Planescape books and actually finding out about the after life and which religions actually got it right and wrong.

Overall it's just an amazing journey to the end held up by incredible writing and an incredible story in a world that you just come to love.

This game is a masterpiece that everyone who has uttered the words "I like RPG's" needs to play at least once. This is arguably the greatest single player storyline of any game written both past and present. it's the only video game I would put up there as equals to classic novels. You owe it to yourself to know and live this story.

Transcendentally great game, solid edition, you must at least try this if you think of yourself as someone who likes RPGs

Planescape: Torment is a classic narrative experience that still holds up today. The characters are memorable, and while the combat is weak, it's mostly optional if you play smart. If you love deep storytelling, you'll enjoy this—but be ready to do a lot of reading!

It really is as good of a story as everyone said.

What can change the nature of a man?

That's the kind of thing this game forces you to think about and consider. As someone who's not that deep into philosophy, especially metaphysical topics (materialist ftw) this game and the Planescape setting in general is very interesting to me. In a world where our beliefs can't actually shape our surroundings, it is fun to explore entire towns and planes of existence that can be. Want to remove yourself from the fabric of existence? Just believe it enough. Want your entire town to be a bastion of good? Spread goodness in your town, let your people follow suit, and it will be. Want to make a faction that has such strong beliefs in the idea of a God that is more powerful and beyond comprehension than the Gods of D&D? Not only is that possible, but there's even CLERICS for it! That's where Planescape Torment shines, seeing the effects that beliefs can have physically on the world around you and their consequences.

For that alone, this game is really interesting. That's not even touching on the weird factions, the NPCs, the design of Sigil, and the tragic story of the Nameless One, which have blended together to make one of the greatest RPGS I've ever played (or read). This game is worthy of being a novel with the dialogue alone, and a damn good one at that. The only downsides are really the age and the combat, but neither are so bad to the point that it diminishes the game's quality. The real gem of this game is exploring a narrative that hasn't been replicated in gaming since, a very personal story that forces you to come to terms with your own immortality.

It's great, Morte is great, the pregnant alleyway (not joking) is great, the morally ambiguous celestials and fiends are great, the 2nd Edition lore on the Devils and Demons are great, literally everything except again the combat and maybe that slog of the Prison?

Play this game if you can see past the old engine, and have the patience to really hone in on the writing and dialogue. This game is not for the drones that like endless grinding and gameplay loops, it's a lot more special than that. Now, time to update my journal.

The pinnacle of its genre and storytelling in video games. Adapting to the mechanics of AD&D 2E today can be a bit challenging, but the game more than rewards the effort.

Гра чудова, але мені ліньки було писати огляд. Тому тримайте огляд від нейромережі, яка пише тексти в тому ж стилі, що і я:

ЩО МОЖЕ ЗМІНИТИ ПРИРОДУ ЛЮДИНИ?

Well, well, well... Ще одна гра, яка вийшла до мого народження. Як це зі мною буває, я довго скептично ставився до ігор такої давнини, поки нарешті не вирішив: "Час настав!" І ось я занурився у пригоди Безіменного. Перше, що спало на думку: "Кріс Авеллон — геній". Половина діалогів тут у стилі: "Як відкрити двері без ключа" або "Чому б Богу не створити камінь, який він не може підняти?"

Чи застаріла гра? Так, але нічого настільки ж крутого у подібному стилі/сеттингу з того часу так і не вийшло. Головний герой поводиться як випускник філософського факультету, вступаючи з кожним другим NPC у глибокі дискусії.

Відповіді на сенс життя я, звісно, не знайшов, але майже почав сумніватися в реальності своїх друзів. Діалоги персонажів Planescape: Torment написані настільки добре, що мотивації NPC виглядають набагато зрозумілішими.

Один момент запам'ятався особливо. У грі є квест, де можна не іронічно переконати смерть, що вона некомпетентна у своїй роботі. Ви коли-небудь бачили, щоб смерть звільнили за проф. непридатнісю? Я — тепер бачив.

Єдине, що мені не сподобалося, — це те, що навігація по світу не надто інтуїтивно зрозуміла. Деяких компаньйонів або дуже важко залучити до своєї партії, або гра дає їх занадто пізно.

ПЛЮСИ:

+ діалоги — кожен написаний так, що хочеться роздрукувати і перечитувати перед сном

+ атмосфера світу — це справжній Planescape, де реальність тече, як річка, а логіка вчиняє самогубство

+ персонажі — це просто скарб. Морт — це такий собі Шрек у світі філософів

+ музика — вона настільки глибока, що здається, ніби ти чуєш голоси з іншого виміру

+ сюжет — один із найкращих у іграх взалі

МІНУСИ:

- бойова система — таке враження, що її розробляли спеціально, щоб ви ненавиділи себе

- менеджмент предметів — що зберегти, що продати, що використовувати — загадка рівня "навіщо ми тут"

- графіка — якщо вам потрібна 4К, то проходьте повз

- важкість гри для новачків — без гайдів, проходження займе в 2-3 рази більше часу, і це при умови якщо його не дропнути

- місцями занадто багато тексту — це гра, а не дипломна робота

I was expecting this to be the standard dnd fantasy fare but I was surprised by the depth of the story. You take on more of a detective role rather than a fantasy adventurer. Reminds me a lot of disco elysium.