Am I the only one who struggled to enjoy PS:T? The story was great, but the combat and slow start made it worse than either BG, IMO. Hopefully the sequel will do well though-loving the surge in popularity of old-school rpgs!
this should be good like all the old-school rap legends that went independent and started doing exactly the type of music they wanted to do for the fans
Am I the only one who struggled to enjoy PS:T? The story was great, but the combat and slow start made it worse than either BG, IMO. Hopefully the sequel will do well though-loving the surge in popularity of old-school rpgs!
I didn't enjoy PS:T as much as I thought I would, I'm more looking forward to Project Eternity and have pledged for that
if this is true, it seems my interest in video-gaming may be born anew, after few long years of being fed up with various crap out there. so- bg:ee, bg2:ee, pst:ee, project eternity and TORMENT. sounds good to me.
and btw- i REALLY like the thought process- what is life's worth if it has any. sounds like a worthy premise, a one i hope to see flourish with its potential and not becoming pretentious. :')
I can't imagine it'd be much of a sequel if you know, they don't have the Planescape license? Maybe just turning it into a series or something. I'm pessimistic, but I always am.
Count me in. Original Black Isle people involved? Heck yeah, I would back it on KS and/or play the hell out of it. Enhanced editions of BG 1 & 2, Wasteland 2, Project Eternity, a new take on PS:T, a possible BG 3, the Witcher series, Skyrim, too, and DA:O not so long ago. I ask you: has there ever been a better time to be a cRPGer? It's starting to look like a whole new golden age is afoot.
Apologies @Jalily (Imoen). I didn't see it as a topic, so I was excited to get it here. I hate duplicating threads, but my heart was in the right place.
You can play PST on Windows 7. Just get it from GOG, they even put together a list of essential mods if you have any trouble.
As for a sequel, whatever. I love PST but it is hardly sequel material. I suppose they probably mean it will be a "spiritual successor" which, good for it I guess.
"I have a lot of ideas about what to put into a new Torment game, but my primary goal would be to help the player tell a story that was evocative of the original Torment without aping it," McComb writes. "To be faithful to the odyssey of the Nameless One, and to recognize that it has ended, and that stories of Torment are ongoing."
I love this quote, it's exactly what I think a Torment sequel should be.
Loved Torment. One of the best, if not the best, RPGs of all time.
Any game that wishes to claim spiritual sequelence to it sure has got some big shoes to fill. I instinctively doubt they can do it, and will remain suspicious until they've proven otherwise. No words is going to impress me about this.
After reading that, my question is how are you going to do Planescape...without Planescape?
At the core, Torment is a game about a lost figure seeking his identity and his companions who each have their secrets and personal torment. It's a game about belief, pain, loss and the consequences of actions, some long in the past.
Keep the overall theme and depth and they can have the setting be Disney World for all I care.
Hope Chris Avellone will be involved sooner or later, too. And I also hope it will not share the same fate as the RPG project by Guido Henkel (Thorvalla) which was recently canceled by the project creator.
Methinks some people do not know what Sequel means.
Sorry but create a similar game, with a similar theme, but not setting it in the same universe means that guess what? It isn't a sequel. If that were true then we could say that both Warlock Master of the Arcane and Fallen Enchantress are sequels to Master of Magic.
And Gal Civ is a sequel to Civilization.
Or Dragon Age is the Sequel to Baldur's Gate.
It's like saying a n RTS game called Space Trek Armada featuring the Clappingons, the Rimulans, the Borogs, the Vandassians, and the Funerengi is the sequel to Star Trek Armada.
Honestly.
Taking a gaming that is similar and slapping on the Torment name does not a sequel make.
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o wow...
if this is true, it seems my interest in video-gaming may be born anew, after few long years of being fed up with various crap out there. so- bg:ee, bg2:ee, pst:ee, project eternity and TORMENT. sounds good to me.
and btw- i REALLY like the thought process- what is life's worth if it has any. sounds like a worthy premise, a one i hope to see flourish with its potential and not becoming pretentious.
:')
How about PST:EE ?
You can play PST on Windows 7. Just get it from GOG, they even put together a list of essential mods if you have any trouble.
As for a sequel, whatever. I love PST but it is hardly sequel material. I suppose they probably mean it will be a "spiritual successor" which, good for it I guess.
Obviously nothing to do with the heart warming revival of the old classic but perhaps something for our friends at Beamdog to investigate?
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/12/04/planescape-torment-writer-ponders-sequel-fargo-owns-torment-ip/
"I have a lot of ideas about what to put into a new Torment game, but my primary goal would be to help the player tell a story that was evocative of the original Torment without aping it," McComb writes. "To be faithful to the odyssey of the Nameless One, and to recognize that it has ended, and that stories of Torment are ongoing."
I love this quote, it's exactly what I think a Torment sequel should be.
Any game that wishes to claim spiritual sequelence to it sure has got some big shoes to fill. I instinctively doubt they can do it, and will remain suspicious until they've proven otherwise. No words is going to impress me about this.
Keep the overall theme and depth and they can have the setting be Disney World for all I care.
Methinks some people do not know what Sequel means.
Sorry but create a similar game, with a similar theme, but not setting it in the same universe means that guess what? It isn't a sequel.
If that were true then we could say that both Warlock Master of the Arcane and Fallen Enchantress are sequels to Master of Magic.
And Gal Civ is a sequel to Civilization.
Or Dragon Age is the Sequel to Baldur's Gate.
It's like saying a n RTS game called Space Trek Armada featuring the Clappingons, the Rimulans, the Borogs, the Vandassians, and the Funerengi is the sequel to Star Trek Armada.
Honestly.
Taking a gaming that is similar and slapping on the Torment name does not a sequel make.
i'm gonna be locking myself in my apartment and start an epic journey!
to the beamdog crew, take your time i'm willing to wait decades as long as its polished.
I would like to mention, though, that we have a full-running thread for the next Planescape game, where you can find out all the details: https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/34885/torment-tides-of-numenera#latest. InXile are the developers of this game, and an alpha test has already begun.
As for the latest Beamdog work, check https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/40963/baldurs-gate-siege-of-dragonspear-previously-known-as-the-adventure-y-project#latest