Nerve Gas
Educated
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- Sep 10, 2007
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And it pretty much, well, kinda sucked.
I was recommended this game and Fallout time and again, by people I had a high opinion of on various forums. I was also told about this site, and it's supposedly exquisite taste in RPGs.
So, I gave Fallout a try, but gave up on it quite soon. It just wasn't engaging, the graphics were poor, and whatever, I didn't like it.
Planetscape Torment, on the other hand, seemed like it could be a fun game. So I gave it a try.
Cool starting movie, although it left me WTFing for a moment. What was going on there?
The character creation seemed nice, at first. The first step was choosing stats. Nice. It used the same system as Baldur's Gate, so that's always a plus. I decided to play a mage, so I put most of my points in INT, DEX and CON. And then I pressed next.
WTF? That was it? No choosing your class? Not even choosing your appearance and name? What's up with that? Is this supposed to be a fucking RPG?
So I talk to the skull, Morte, way too long for a goddamn starting conversation in an RPG. It would be cool if this was an adventure game, but really, RPGs should be more like Baldur's Gate, not goddamn Syberia or The Longest Journey.
The skull becomes a party member, cool, but it seems he can't be customized because he's a skull. WTF again?
I get out of the mortuary, having fought all the guys upstairs and NOT having fought the zombies. I suppose the designers were trying to be original, like "we have rooms full of zombies but they are friendly, isn't our game soooo cool because of that?".
I'm supposed to find Pharod, but apparently nobody knows. And to figure out who actually knows, I have to read pages and more pages of text. Really, if I knew that the game was like that I would have rather read the BG novels again instead. Or jumped off a bridge (not sure which is worse).
So I find him, and he sends me into a dungeon, to find some artifact. Boy, how original... Inside the dungeon, there are dozens of zombies, skeletons and all those stuff. Really, they were fun the first couple of games, but enough is enough.
Any reason why I should continue playing? Enlighten me, oh experts of RPGs. Is it at least half as good as BG 2? I wouldn't even dare compare it to BG 1.
I was recommended this game and Fallout time and again, by people I had a high opinion of on various forums. I was also told about this site, and it's supposedly exquisite taste in RPGs.
So, I gave Fallout a try, but gave up on it quite soon. It just wasn't engaging, the graphics were poor, and whatever, I didn't like it.
Planetscape Torment, on the other hand, seemed like it could be a fun game. So I gave it a try.
Cool starting movie, although it left me WTFing for a moment. What was going on there?
The character creation seemed nice, at first. The first step was choosing stats. Nice. It used the same system as Baldur's Gate, so that's always a plus. I decided to play a mage, so I put most of my points in INT, DEX and CON. And then I pressed next.
WTF? That was it? No choosing your class? Not even choosing your appearance and name? What's up with that? Is this supposed to be a fucking RPG?
So I talk to the skull, Morte, way too long for a goddamn starting conversation in an RPG. It would be cool if this was an adventure game, but really, RPGs should be more like Baldur's Gate, not goddamn Syberia or The Longest Journey.
The skull becomes a party member, cool, but it seems he can't be customized because he's a skull. WTF again?
I get out of the mortuary, having fought all the guys upstairs and NOT having fought the zombies. I suppose the designers were trying to be original, like "we have rooms full of zombies but they are friendly, isn't our game soooo cool because of that?".
I'm supposed to find Pharod, but apparently nobody knows. And to figure out who actually knows, I have to read pages and more pages of text. Really, if I knew that the game was like that I would have rather read the BG novels again instead. Or jumped off a bridge (not sure which is worse).
So I find him, and he sends me into a dungeon, to find some artifact. Boy, how original... Inside the dungeon, there are dozens of zombies, skeletons and all those stuff. Really, they were fun the first couple of games, but enough is enough.
Any reason why I should continue playing? Enlighten me, oh experts of RPGs. Is it at least half as good as BG 2? I wouldn't even dare compare it to BG 1.