I'm glad to be of service. =)

You bet... Actually one of the advantages of Planescape was that the DM could shove almost any module/campaign: it just required some portal travel to a suitable plane and that was it. Otherwise, some adventures would be about staying in Sigil killing demons from different factions that were nothing to the players, for example...

Just to bring up an example of things that Planescape: Torment improved: The factions. To mention one, the headquarters of the Sensates appeared clearly, in the heart of the Market, while its description in the Box was little more than a stub.

Edit: little more than a stub.

Names are not important. Every "PC" (companion) in the game except Annah has a basically gender-neutral name.

What's important and is the focus of the narrative is the physical body that (spoiler alert for a game that's old enough to vote) was at different times the host of different personalities and is now the host of the one you play. The body is by design ugly, scarred, and corpse-like. That's a major, conscious design choice in the game -- it's named Torment for a reason. The character is not ever going to look hot, attractive, pleasing to the eye, blinged out, and is never going to fit among white-picket-fence people.

The designers also made the arbitrary choice to have the body look masculine, and wrote a number of romantic subplots with, of course, female characters (it was 1999). The protagonist doesn't have to reciprocate, but multiple character being/having been romantically interested is important to the plot. (I don't remember if the game supports a genderless reading, but I won't be surprised if it does.)

However, the fact that it's not possible to adjust the appearance of the body to one more pleasing to the player is a feature, and the game would be much worse otherwise.

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Also, while I'm at that:

Numa allowing the player to customize gender and only gender is a very early piece of evidence for its lazy, unambitious design. There was potential for a great, transcendental metaphor that could've made Numa a masterpiece on the level of Watchmen or Spider and Web or The Neverending Story or Spectral Stalkers and they bungled it from the outset.

The premise: an extremely powerful entity is interacting, perhaps of cosmic boredom, with the world through custom-designed avatars that it creates. You play a consciousness that gets to inhabit an avatar when the entity is done with it (for an unclear reason). They should've either not let the player pick a body AT ALL (for roughly the same reasons as in PS:T -- someone else made that body and you're stuck with it) or allowed a wide selection of completely [s]batshit[/s] ahem, unorthodox choices (like the companions of PS:T). Or maybe randomize it. Instead, they made a design decision that's lazy, cowardly and conciliatory to the lowest denominator (so, in line with the rest of the game, hur hur.)

+1 and thanks for the complement, bro. ;p

This sucks ass. When will companies stop giving priority to Steam? Stop giving us inferior versions, asshats.

Because Steam has a LOT more customers then GOG. Welcome to the real world.
Although I admit I have never given a shit about achievements.

I dind't ask WHY, I asked when, cap. obvious. And only future will tell. Hopefully some game companies will see that Steam is not a godly store like some believe, by kissing their ass at every opportunity, and start treating clients of other stores as equal. They better, if it wasn't for their clients they wouldn't pay their bills or put food in their tables.
Hopefully we won't need for Steam to die first.
Unfortunately there's not many big fish siding with gOg. If more of them come here, we can expect to see many small fish following their example.

I'm glad there isn't, I wouldn't trust Beamdog to create a decent multiplayer mode for PS:T, not in a million years.

TO be honest, I think that PT is not the kind of game that lends itself to "acheivments" ,. A bit too serous a game for that kind of thing.

Create another game? Riiight, we all know how that turned out: Dragonspear. anyone?
No, I'll keep my money in my pocket since I already own the original and I am not feeling any love for greedy grubs that take an age and a half to fix the newly introduced bugs in a remaster.

When a company is getting even more stick than Bioware got from the ME3 ending, they have screwed up massively somewhere.

Same here.

Achievements are for Hamsters who cannot enjoy a game without running in a wheel.

Pretty much the human being every government is happy to have.

Just to point out the obvious: It's actually possible to be critical of moneygrabbing dogturds independent of whatever personal political stance you may have. The company have made diabolical decisions every step of the way, and quite frankly, it would be a bit odd to not be critical to them at this stage. Hence my satirical comparison earlier about what it would take.

GOG has announced their Galaxy application will be released in April with the feature for achievements. They have worked on achievements for games in the BETA version of Galaxy, but of course not everything in a BETA version of software makes it into the final release. The possibility for achievements in a game did actually make it.

So, in Galaxy 1.2 after it's released in April achievements become an official feature possible in games on GOG. Then after that the game developers can confidently modify their own games themselves to support an official feature of the non-beta version of Galaxy from GOG.

Isn't that the truth.

Next there'll be a client that breastfeeds you and changes your nappy while it sucks your bank account dry.