Monday, January 12, 2009

So here's my debut game review and some rants on the current state of my epic quest.

First off, a game everyone should play Planescape Torment:

Planescape Torment is a game that's like reading a life changing fantastic fantasy novel. Now I've lost about half of you, but the rest of you I'm sure have an anime eyebrow in the air that can only be described as "Go on".
Now for context I'll give an example. There are plenty of people who will understand this, playing Planescape Torment is as life changing and as important as reading Dune or Ender's Game. Yes it's that good.
The game revolves around a deadish guy called only "The Nameless One". You don't remember anything about your past, you look like a corpse, and whenever you die, you wake up a little while later. The game revolves around you going around figuring out what you were doing in the past several hundred years along with meeting some friends of a more recent past life.
You know when you've closed a book and you hold back tears. It's the last of a series and you've felt like you've just lost a friend? This game's dialogue, storyline, and cast of characters is just that good. And the best part is the scope. You can play the game ten times and not see or meet everyone. All things aside you can usually choose to be the most moral champion, or the most vile bastard, there's just so much to see you can never get it all in one play through. Played a in a world within worlds connected to other worlds randomly where faith and belief make reality. I'm almost afraid to give away all the "Oh man that's AWESOME" moments in fear it'll ruin the experience even a tiny bit you'll just have to trust me and go play it.

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