Is the game fun?

[Davor]

I have read a few reviews, but I don't trust the "proffesional" reviewers so I ask here the people who actually play it. Is the game fun? I never got to play Planescape:Torment and played a bit of Baulders Gater I and II. Never got to finish them but loved playing those games.

So I ask if I loved what little I played with BG I and II, do you think I iwll like Torment? Is the game fun? By that I mean how stable is the game. Nothing more infurating is a game constally crashing.

How customable is the game. I remember in BG I and II you could change the look of your character to sound to colours to look. You can also custom how the game plays through the combat stopping every 10 seconds or action or what not. Is that still there?

While I just found out about this game I am thinking of getting it next pay in two weeks. Question is I want to see the game is fun first. Then I am wondering what version to get. For those who go the other verions are you happy with them? I always like getting a strategy guide, is it strategy guide good? I like to make sure what version to budget for if indeed the game is fun,.

[juggalotus]

im 35, have game my whole life bg 1 & 2, Icewinddale 1 & 2, fallout 1,2, some of my fav games of all times but then there is planescape torment, man tlk about a fukcing og storyone of the most creative ever. Yea bg 2 is the best of htem all but Planescape is just as good if not better just because the enviorments,atmosphere ,story, characters etc yea the combat sucked but so what,planscape tormnent had me more immersed in the game then skyrim could ever hope to(played elderscrolls series sense daggerfall) Ok, ive been playing like 8 hours an only one combat scene so far, im digging the pscape t vibe but i hate this future ♥♥♥♥, i mean there is WAY WAY TO MANY WALLS OF TEXT IN this game,story is confusing as ♥♥♥♥(But none of this is a bad thing as tons of other fans of this genre lovvvveee a that text more poewr to them ;)if this didnt have the pscape t vibe i iwould have droped it cu all the text, but here i am still playing so yea its fun, its good, ust wish it woud hve been set in a dark gritty world like pscape torment, i hope this helps kinda tired i know im all over the place so if u never played planescape torment, go play that first then get this,oh ya TONS of diff ways to side quest hope this helsp

[ha]

Did only first city and so far it is fun.

[Taritu]

The combat is weak, to me, and even frustrating (my character is not built for combat and some of it is unavoidable.) The rest of it is fun and does have that Planescape feel to it.

[Davor]

Thanks guys for the replies. I am trying to stay away from Youtube let's play since that could spoil it for me and I want to come into this game not knowing anything story wise. Wish I knew about this game last week. I must have been living under a rock just found out about it yesterday. Pay day can't come soon enough.

[sajmon]

for me so far its been fun. but you better get ready for A LOT of reading and running around.

[SwobyJ]

I can't speak to how fun the whole game is but..

If you get it, prepare to read. A lot. And immerse into a story like a complicated novel. And to roleplay. REALLY roleplay. Not just kick butt (though I suppose you can play more like that!) or be completionist of some checklist (though you can try!).

Camp in, whenever you play, and absorb. Its one of those games.

[juggalotus]

i just wish they would have stuck with the same setting as planescape dark morbid, no future ♥♥♥♥ but the game is really good

[Briggs]

Tons of fun. It is different.

[NikitaDarkstar]

If you enjoy slower paced games and don't mind reading a whole lot then yes it's a fun game. But it's one of those "I'm just going to finish this one quest... what do you mean it's 12 hours later?!" kind of games.

It has a similar vibe to Planescape Torment, but it takes a spin towars the fantastically absurd with a pinch of morbid creepyness to it rather than Planescapes dark gritty twist.


@Juggalotus The issue is that Wizards of the Coast (aka the company behind D&D) owns Planescape. These guys has done some work on D&D in the past but the rights to the Planescape setting belongs to Wizards of the Coast.
And well, the last thing the world needs is yet another D&D clone, setting wise, or mechanics wise. :p

[Cannibal Holiday]

I'm not sure why some people who are playing the game are bothered by the "walls of text", as that was a huge part of Planescape. There was enough text for Mitch Pileggi's character alone to fill a medium sized novel.

Combine the lore-rich nature of the original, with the collision-of-worlds environment of Sagus and its neighbors and you're obviously going to be reading tons of material.

Some people will talk more formally, while others use street vernacular, or specialized class phrases that you just infer meaning from as you hear them in context. (imagine going to another country and hearing new curses for the first time :P )

Anyway, the game is at the polar opposite of Icewind Dale (which was all about the combat). So far (for me at least) it's even more peaceful than Planescape, so I'm diving into story over swordfights.

And I totally agree with nikitadarkstar about the "just one quest" thing. If you like the game you're going to be sucked in and trying to keep your eyelids from closing while you try and read a new dialog tree :D

Also, go to GoG and get Planescape. It's fantastic. Though there was a critical bug in the game when I last played it that would cause it to crash on me 2/3 of the way through. I hope they fixed it by now. It was probably related to loading one of the CD images in the emulation.

[Stoibs]

Fun is Subjective.
Already heard more than my share of people refunding and calling this 'boring crap' because it apparently has too much reading (I believe the amount of words in this game's script has actually been a long running marketing shtick and a boast from the devs leading up to release from what I've seen, so this really ought to have been expected... but I digress)

I'm the type of person who fell in love Planescape's writing and lore, who spent hours pouring through the Library of Vivec's shelves devouring the stories, who spent an evening being enamored by Mass Effect's codex entries and understanding the world lore ranging from the history to the engineering mechanics of how each and every piece of technology works etc.

I'm 4 and a bit hours in so far and it didn't even occur to me that the tutorial battle has been the one and only fight I've been in so far. Enjoying the storyline and sidequests/quirky characters and dialogues etc. too much to notice or care.

[Hominid.Ape]

I'm loving the game so far, but I would strongly recommend that you perhaps start with Planescape: Torment first, instead of Torment: Tides of Numenera. InXile definitely succeeded in pulling off a spiritual successor to PS:T with this game. Only reason I'd recommend trying PS:T first though is that it's much cheaper. So if you're on the fence, don't want to drop $50ish bucks on T:ToN just yet, and want to see if you'd enjoy this type of game then definitely pick up PS:T first. It's a great game.

I'm not terribly far into the game just yet, but so far I'd say that PS:T probably has more combat than T:ToN, mostly because a great deal of the encounters in T:ToN appear to be completely optional. Not to say that PS:T is really combat heavy to begin with though.

[Davor]

Originally posted by nikitadarkstar:

If you enjoy slower paced games and don't mind reading a whole lot then yes it's a fun game. But it's one of those "I'm just going to finish this one quest... what do you mean it's 12 hours later?!" kind of games.

I remember doing that for Baulders Gate I and II. :D

That said, you know what is missing? The manual. I don't know if the original Planescape:Torment had it, but BG II manual I just loved. I remembering reading that for hours. Since this is a game to the great old days of reading a story while playing would have been great if there was an option to get a manual to go with it as well.

Looks like I will like this since it is like BG I and II. Almost makes me want to go back and try to start over again and finish all 3 games I never did.

Thanks for the comments everyone you have helped a lot. I just can't understand why people would say reading is a bad thing. It is one of the great things about playing.

[nocent]

interactive novel

2city

10or less combat