Which games are you currently playing?

[JedExodus]

Originally Posted by Comrade Pants

Every time someone brings up Deus Ex, I guarantee that it prompts a shitload of people to re-download it.

In that case "Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines"

Enjoy your install

[ShaggE]

Originally Posted by JedExodus

In that case "Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines"

Enjoy your install

Damn you! It's on my hard drive already, but I've been caught up in a bunch of other games for the better part of a year. Now I have to set them all aside and start a new character... (I'd finish my current playthrough, but I think my Malkavian is unsalvageable at this point.)

[Comrade Pants]

Originally Posted by JedExodus

In that case "Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines"

Enjoy your install

Damn, you JedEx! Damn you! Um, let me see....


SystemShock2

[Secret Fawful]

Originally Posted by Comrade Pants

Damn, you JedEx! Damn you! Um, let me see....


SystemShock2

I just clicked this topic to read it randomly and...you son of a bitch.

>looks for my copy

Half-Life

[Comrade Pants]

Originally Posted by Secret Fawful

I just clicked this topic to read it randomly and...you son of a bitch.

>looks for my copy

Half-Life

I TROLL U!

Also, I totally bought it on Steam. Half-Life, that is. TIME TO PLAY!

Now, who's going to go revisit Wasteland?

[GuruGuru214]

I also bought Half-Life on Steam. Maybe when I get around to playing it, it'll run better than the ancient pirated copy my uncle gave me (out of nowhere, I might add) a decade ago.

But what I'm hoping is that Black Mesa will come out before I get the urge to play Half-Life again.

[ShaggE]

*ahem* Gentlemen...

Planescape: Torment

[Hayden]

Originally Posted by ShaggE

*ahem* Gentlemen...

Planescape: Torment

Fix'd .

Anyway, I've been considering buying this. Would you recommend it? Does it meet the same standard as games like Diablo II?

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by Hayden

Fix'd .

Anyway, I've been considering buying this. Would you recommend it? Does it meet the same standard as games like Diablo II?

Diablo II is by no means a proper cRPG in the sense that Planescape: Torment is. that is not to be a slight against Diablo, it's just that these guys are two entirely different beasts. You chose the Infinity Engine game FARTHEST from Diablo, and I can actually prove it.

In a 2001 interview with Gamustra, Feargus Urquhart, Black Isle's division director for Planescape, said: "the differences between the Baldur's Gate series, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Torment. All of the products use the same engine, but all of them are seen as very distinctly different products. The way we think about them is along a line from adventure to hack-and-slash. Torment is almost an adventure game, Icewind Dale is almost a true hack-and-slash like Diablo, and Baldur's Gate is somewhere right in the middle."

Planescape: Torment is one of my favorite games of all time. It has one of the best written stories in video games, and that is by NO means giving it anywhere NEAR enough praise. By today's standards the controls can feel kind of clunky, so a perusal of the manual is probably necessary, but there is a meat and value here that ages extremely gracefully. This is a true RPG, a game where your actions and your choices affect everything around you, a game where the story has the depth and intelligence of a well-written novel and then some. A game where your character and their stats are actually weighty and important.

I really think people should play it. It is really up the alley of adventure game players especially, I think.

[ShaggE]

^ That.

There's nothing on the market quite like Planescape. You *could* play it like a Baldur's Gate, or to some extent, a Diablo, but the real heft is in the conversations and exploration. 99% of the battles in the game are entirely optional.

Certainly can't hurt to give it a try. All I can say is, there's a reason people got all psycho-happy when GOG released it.

[Katsuro]

Originally Posted by Rather Dashing

Planescape: Torment is one of my favorite games of all time. It has one of the best written stories in video games, and that is by NO means giving it anywhere NEAR enough praise. By today's standards the controls can feel kind of clunky, so a perusal of the manual is probably necessary, but there is a meat and value here that ages extremely gracefully. This is a true RPG, a game where your actions and your choices affect everything around you, a game where the story has the depth and intelligence of a well-written novel and then some. A game where your character and their stats are actually weighty and important.

I really think people should play it. It is really up the alley of adventure game players especially, I think.

So what you are saying is that I should finally get it?
I think GOG has it now after their relaunch...

[JedExodus]

Originally Posted by Comrade Pants

SystemShock2

I was too poor to afford a computer back in those days, but i'm missing out on a classic. You may have gotten under my skin Andrew Pants

Originally Posted by Loads of guys

Planescape is sooooooo awesome! Best game ever!

I'm putting it on the list, if it's a dissapointment i'm coming back for every single one of you

[ShaggE]

All of you who are trying Planescape for the first time: Let us know what you think.

[Comrade Pants]

Originally Posted by JedExodus

I'm putting it on the list, if it's a dissapointment i'm coming back for every single one of you

Look, people keep forgetting that the greatest game ever is Morrowind and for this I am certainly a misanthropist. Anyway, glad I could get under your skin! Remember: you don't so much get skilled at System Shock 2 as you sort of catch System Shock 2 in a good mood and it lets you feel like you're winning.

[coolsome]

Last Horizon I got it off steam cos I liked the demo.

[GeorgeC]

Re-living Sam & Max hit the road, also playing Osmos and Minecraft

[Icedhope]

Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow, hecks yes!

[ShaggE]

Left 4 Dead 2. The new DLC rekindled my addiction, and my friends finally got copies of the game, so I don't have to torture myself with the public servers anymore.

[JedExodus]

Originally Posted by ShaggE

Left 4 Dead 2. The new DLC rekindled my addiction, and my friends finally got copies of the game, so I don't have to torture myself with the public servers anymore.

Still haven't cleared The Sacrifice myself but i'm lurving it. Apparently it's harder on the original for some reason

[ShaggE]

Really? That's surprising. I wasn't going to bother playing the L4D1 version, but now I'm curious.