Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition

Disclaimer: I have nothing against Beamdog; my critique is about the game itself. I own the original game and my critique is about that. Seriousy, what exactly is this... game? First of all, this is not an RPG, no matter how you stress the term. Sure, there are stats as in any RPG - except it makes no sense, since only one stat really matters and all the others are close to useless. Sure, there is combat, but it is so clunky that even fans of the game admit combat just sucks. You read a lot of text. Nothing wrong about that per se; I actually enjoyed other games involving long text reading. But in this particular game you read a lot of text just to get any useful information burried in an ocean of endless verbosity that goes on for an eternity. Some say this is a great visual novel. Well, I am sorry but it is not, unless you never read a real novel.. It starts as a hell of a text reminding necrophilia, and it keeps throwing tons of mediocre text to the player till the end. I can think of countless books in the literature which are really great novels and this sort of a game cannot stand a comparison. If I want to read a novel, I have plenty of choices, thank you very much. I don't need a long text pretending to be a video game/visual novel. So there is nothing good in this game? Well, nothing is all black nothing is all white, and this is not an exception. It does have some few moments. Some side quests have a rather interesting plot (but still ruined by the non-existant gameplay); in rare cases there is a good sense of humor too. But those good moments are few and far between, sunk at the bottom of an ocean of below-mediocrity. My advice: Do not waste a dime for this. Either pick a GoG game worth the money asked, or buy a book. The Trial by Franz Kafka is one of the many examples. Now all those admirers, go ahead and click "No" below. But I forgot, you already did that before reading what the other side has to say. As if I care, really.

You gotta love Planescape: Torment for being the most incredible tale with such deep moments and true wisdom within. Five stars is not enough for such a masterpiece in history of gaming. It is still easily at least as worthwhile as the new Torment: Tides of Numenera. However when someone unrelated comes way later and decides he's going to earn fortune from the game fame by selling a mod so horrendously overpriced it feels like an insult you have to see the game being shamelessly abused and raped. I am not saying that the Enhanced Edition is not handled well, in fact it is polished nicely. But the way this sale restricted classic version from being bought without this mod which is sold for at least twice as much, like as if it's worth more than the classic itself... that is plain abomination which makes you wanna puke. The only excuse would be if all the earnings from sales go distributed among ALL original devs who got terribly underappreciated back in the days. On the other hand this is DRM-free release so you know you are completely free to express your appreciation by the high sum which has been set. Or don't. I definitely recommend to get it one way or another.

i did not get very far, but the story is weird. if the beginning and story doesn't hook me in then i usually become disinterested.

This game plays like they wanted to make a point and click adventure game but randomly decided at the last minute to add fighting to it at random points as well just to aggravate people who are invested in the story. And furthermore, it seems almost like they went out of their way to make this unnecessary fighting as shallow and non tactical as possible to make sure that neither people who like fighting games nor people who like D&D will enjoy it either.

With awful combat.