I love Torment. Played it through twice.Torment was always a niche product targeting a much narrower demographic than similar CRPGs of its era, like Baldur's Gate and Diablo. If you were part of that niche though, there's never been anything quite like it since.
CRPGs were never my cup of tea, and I was lacking the capacity to play a PC game in 1999.Torment was always a niche product targeting a much narrower demographic than similar CRPGs of its era, like Baldur's Gate and Diablo. If you were part of that niche though, there's never been anything quite like it since.
Noah is a national treasure! One of the best video essayists on the 'Tube.
Preach! Last month was wild... he just kept dropping them every day for like a week straight. The man knows how to troll an audience.Noah is a national treasure! One of the best video essayists on the 'Tube.
Back in the 2nd edition of D&D, there was a setting called Planescape, which posited a central "hub" plane to which all the other inner, outer, demi-, and elemental planes were connected. This hub was basically one enormous city named "Sigil", and the only thing consistent about it was that it was always changing. Structures were constantly getting demolished and rebuilt, streets were paved over old ruins, which were later re-excavated and turned into towering mansions. People died, then they got better, then they died again. The various factions vying for power grew, shifted, splintered, merged, and sometimes completely vanished without explanation. Assuming your first visit to Sigil wasn't your last, chances are it would have changed the next time you visited it even if only a few weeks had gone by. The bar you stopped at the last time might have been converted into a crematory attached to an insane asylum. The dwarven information broker you dealt with last time might have been replaced by a devil. The fountain in the square might now be a gigantic Mimic that loves eating all the coins people toss in for good luck, and there's nothing but a still-smoking crater where the Guild of Honest and Excellent Coopers used to stand because someone somewhere bought a defective barrel and was told, "All sales are final."
Planescape was fucking awesome!
Planescape: Torment is available in a modern, enhanced edition on GOG.com and other platforms. This is probably about as close as one can get to doing an actual solo campaign these days, alas...
Planescape: Torment is available in a modern, enhanced edition on GOG.com and other platforms. This is probably about as close as one can get to doing an actual solo campaign these days, alas...
