Planescape: Torment

No, we just like to bring up and discuss old ass games that sucked donkey balls.

 

I will warn you, don't buy it if you don't want to read what is effectively an interactive book. There are about 1.2 million lines of dialog in the game (though depending on your alignment and the side quests you pick up, you'll average only reading 800,000 or so).

That said it is one of the greatest stories you will ever read. A rich, immersive story that really sucks you in. Tons of philosophy, multiple endings, NPCs that have their own reasons for joining you rather than "Hey you don't have somebody following you Mr. Hero, I will!!" that is popular in most RPGs, and an amazing quest to discover who you are make this one of the greatest games of all time.

 

Yea, the EQ-reference* said it better than I ever could.


*I originally was going to call you a pokemon, then I realized I was thinking of magicarp, so I looked up your pseudonym.

You ever played half the old console games that everyone loves? Some of them were genius, but a lot of them just, well, sucked.

 

Sadly, the genius ones and the suck ones were all too often the same.

 

Most people see my name and think magicarp.

 

Yep, but it made my copy unstable. Run it with the official patch & the widescreen patch (I used it in 1024x768).

Also, you can modify the game to run at 60fps instead of 30, but you need to switch it back in some in-game cutscenes.

 

Hey Frigo, what kinda system are you running it on?

 

AMD Athlon 64 3200+, Gigabyte K8NF9 Pro, 2x512MB DDR400, WD4000AAKS 400GB 7200rpm SATA2, Gigabyte Radeon X1600Pro 256MB, Dell 2007FP & Belinea 102035W, WinXP SP2 customized with nLite