• Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!

GAF replays the best-written game ever made: Planescape: Torment!

D

DaBuddaDa

Member
Nordom: Attention; Morte. I have a question. Do you have a destiny? A purpose?

Morte: Is Annah still wearing clothes?

Nordom: Affirmatory.

Morte: Then the answer is yes.

slglX.png


---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

jcJQi.jpg



Planescape: Torment was just released on GOG.com for $9.99. Now, no RPG fan has any excuse to have not played this amazing goddamn game! If you haven't played it before, get ready for one of the best told stories in CRPG history. It was recently ranked GAF's number 3 RPG of all time.

If you've already played it, PLAY IT AGAIN! Now is as good as a time than ever, being the calm before the storm before the glut of holiday releases.

BUY IT NOW!

Minsc said:
This useful guide had the essential mods/and how to install them. Be sure to set them up, or you'll go without the great UI re-work for the widescreen support, you'll have tons of bugs, and you'll end up missing hours of inter-party banter, because there's bugs that make it trigger much rarer than it was supposed to!

Start at step 3 if you got the game from GoG! It is very clear what options to use for new players, and includes links to get all the mods, such as the widescreen mod, highly recommended UI mod, highly recommend fixpack, and others!

And if the mods are incompatible with GoG's version, just wait a few days, the widescreen mod for BG1 was fixed in under 24 hours from GoG's release.
Click to expand...
 
Holy Shit! A game was released on GOG that I was actually interested in! Keep it up, GOG! Let's see some Quest for Glory!
 
oh shit, they released it on GOG?

I just started a playthrough of this game a few weeks ago, currently in the Lower Ward. The game is awesome, highly recommended to all. Make sure to mod the UI, text, etc.
 
I still have the game on discs. I should see if it works on my computer and if not I may actually double-dip.

Also, I'm expecting a glut of "All is forgiven, GOG" posts in this thread so don't disappoint me.
 
This useful guide had the essential mods/and how to install them. Be sure to set them up, or you'll go without the great UI re-work for the widescreen support, you'll have tons of bugs, and you'll end up missing hours of inter-party banter, because there's bugs that make it trigger much rarer than it was supposed to!

Start at step 3 if you got the game from GoG! It is very clear what options to use for new players, and includes links to get all the mods, such as the widescreen mod, highly recommended UI mod, highly recommend fixpack, and others!

And if the mods are incompatible with GoG's version, just wait a few days, the widescreen mod for BG1 was fixed in under 24 hours from GoG's release.

Edit: Just noticed Parts 5, 6 & 7 from Step 2 about raising the loading speed and search nodes for pathing and game's speed are probably are worth not skipping.
 
Might ask well here, I have all the orginial disc for this and the BG series.
Is there a way to make them work on WIn7 myself? Or would it save alot of frustration just rebuyinh them from GOG? Also do they look beter graphialy from GOG?
 
^ Just use the guide I posted before instead of the above (unless you know what you're doing), it's a lot clearer on what order to do stuff, and how.

rSpooky said:
Might ask well here, I have all the orginial disc for this and the BG series.
Is there a way to make them work on WIn7 myself? Or would it save alot of frustration just rebuyinh them from GOG? Also do they look beter graphialy from GOG?
Click to expand...

See the link I posted above, it has relevant info for the mods (which are a must), and also before step 3-5, it shows how to install the game properly from discs.

They look graphically better after modding them to use higher resolutions/better UIs, nothing is enhanced in GoG's release.
 
I was still downloading the GOG package while I made this thread, so I'm not sure about your compatibility questions just yet. We'll find out soon.
 
DaBuddaDa said:
I was still downloading the GOG package while I made this thread, so I'm not sure about your compatibility questions just yet. We'll find out soon.
Click to expand...
The two things im worried about... First is just general slowdown. That can be easily fixed. The second is Widescreen and Ghostdogs UI might not work with the Gog release right away.
 
Minsc said:
^ Just use the guide I posted before instead of the above (unless you know what you're doing), it's a lot clearer on what order to do stuff, and how.



See the link I posted above, it has relevant info for the mods (which are a must), and also before step 3-5, it shows how to install the game properly from discs.

They look graphically better after modding them to use higher resolutions/better UIs, nothing is enhanced in GoG's release.
Click to expand...

Read the guide this man posted, seriously, you only need what is there, widescreen mod, ghost ui mod, and the three pst mods.
 
Yea, it may be rough for a couple days (and I'm likely over-stating the importance of the mods, since we all played the game without them in the first place), but I'm confident all compatibility issues with the mods and GoG's version will be worked out in time- GoG's community is pretty dedicated in getting stuff working and they like their mods.

How is anyone supposed to replay BG1, BG2, Torment, Icewind Dale 1 & 2 and whatever else comes out just weeks apart! I'm dying here, my backlog's large enough without wanting to replay all these 50+ hour titles again!

Great news for people who never played the game, and hopefully it shows up on Steam too so the steam-only people can play it as well!
 
rSpooky said:
Might ask well here, I have all the orginial disc for this and the BG series.
Is there a way to make them work on WIn7 myself? Or would it save alot of frustration just rebuyinh them from GOG? Also do they look beter graphialy from GOG?
Click to expand...
The main thing you have to worry about with the disc version (unknown if the Gog version has a workaround for MS removing old DirectX stuff from DX10) is slowdown. There is a program called D3DWindower that gets rid of all the slowdown issues. There is a link on that page that Minsc referenced.
 
Minsc said:
Yea, it may be rough for a couple days (and I'm likely over-stating the importance of the mods, since we all played the game without them in the first place), but I'm confident all compatibility issues with the mods and GoG's version will be worked out in time- GoG's community is pretty dedicated in getting stuff working and they like their mods.

How is anyone supposed to replay BG1, BG2, Torment, Icewind Dale 1 & 2 and whatever else comes out just weeks apart! I'm dying here, my backlog's large enough without wanting to replay all these 50+ hour titles again!

Great news for people who never played the game, and hopefully it shows up on Steam too so the steam-only people can play it as well!
Click to expand...

Yeah... if you rush em! :lol
 
I having been trying to find this for a while. Will it import in to steam? I would guess it does, but I have not tried importing into steam before.
 
Minsc said:
^ Just use the guide I posted before instead of the above (unless you know what you're doing), it's a lot clearer on what order to do stuff, and how.



See the link I posted above, it has relevant info for the mods (which are a must), and also before step 3-5, it shows how to install the game properly from discs.

They look graphically better after modding them to use higher resolutions/better UIs, nothing is enhanced in GoG's release.
Click to expand...
Thx for the link Minsc. say hi to boo for me ..
 
This useful guide had the essential mods/and how to install them. Be sure to set them up, or you'll go without the great UI re-work for the widescreen support, you'll have tons of bugs, and you'll end up missing hours of inter-party banter, because there's bugs that make it trigger much rarer than it was supposed to!

Start at step 3 if you got the game from GoG! It is very clear what options to use for new players, and includes links to get all the mods, such as the widescreen mod, highly recommended UI mod, highly recommend fixpack, and others!

And if the mods are incompatible with GoG's version, just wait a few days, the widescreen mod for BG1 was fixed in under 24 hours from GoG's release.

Edit: Just noticed Parts 5, 6 & 7 from Step 2 about raising the loading speed and search nodes for pathing and game's speed are probably are worth not skipping.
Click to expand...

Thanks mate, ill give it a whirl.
 
Managed to get widescreen + font mod working on gog version.
Excuse awful image quality.
5Qu48.jpg
 
Hmm Not sure if the Font mod patched my INI file, but I just checked and the cache size,Path Search Nodes and Maximum Frame Rate are already at the value the guide listed.
 
Deacan said:
Managed to get widescreen + font mod working on gog version.
Excuse awful image quality.
http://imgur.com/5Qu48.jpg[IMG][/QUOTE]
Looks good. Make sure the font for dialog is comfortable to read at that resolution :lol

The slowdown comes from spellcasting. Lots of cool effects happen. If youve played the game you can pick up You-*Know*-Who right away and test it out. Otherwise you will have to play a little bit to see if there is some stutter. The fix doesnt touch Save files at all so dont worry about losing progress.

[QUOTE=Deacan]Hmm Not sure if the Font mod patched my INI file, but I just checked and the cache size,Path Search Nodes and Maximum Frame Rate are already at the value the guide listed.[/QUOTE]
Are you referring to the Floating Dialogue change? Standard dialogue doesnt change from that just the floating comments above the characters and objects in the world. Going too high for PS:T can be a problem.
Click to expand...
 
water_wendi said:
Are you referring to the Floating Dialogue change? Standard dialogue doesnt change from that just the floating comments above the characters and objects in the world. Going too high for PS:T can be a problem.
Click to expand...

Yea, but you can see here that standard dialog can be changed with the UI patch though (from that guide above).
 
I am about halfway through a second playthrough since it came out, waaaaay back in college, but it has been a couple of months since loading it up. I will have to jump on this train and finally get through to the end.

This time I am playing as a "smart" character.
 
Still think Curse of Azure Bonds is better written
 
Here is a screenshot of the font, oh and Morte is awesome.

YJ8sB.jpg
 
revolverjgw said:
Can someone just post the script so I won't have to play it?
Click to expand...

You'd be seriously missing out. A lot of the "dialogue combat" is amazing and you'd be missing that completely. The art design is also pretty superb throughout.
 
Just started playing. All the mods from Minsc's link seem to work fine so far. Thanks!

This will be my first play-through and I can't wait! Well, first I have to sleep, and then work, but after that I'm totally playing Planescape. :D
 
Installed all the recommended mods on gog's version and I started playing for the first time in 8 years! I've never got past 3 hours in since my english wasn't very good back when I was 14 so it wasn't very fun. :lol

I'm playing in 1080p and it lloks great but even the 120% font patch isn't enough but I can manage.
 
Purkake4 said:
The unofficial novelization based on the in-game dialogue can be found here if anyone really wants it. The official one is shit IIRC.
Click to expand...

Though you are better off just playing the game. A book can only show one path through the game, which causes it to lose a lot of the impact.
 
Never could get into this game.... It's not bad and the story starts promising but you just need to much time to get into it. Imagine "playing" a game for 3 hours and you're reading 2,5 hours of those - that's Planescape Torment. Seemed to me like this game has more text than the Bible...
 
quick tech question - after following the guide on the blog, green outlines stutter in the bottom and right-side lines. i.e. the character selection dock on the bottom, or when holding the mouse down to select multiple units on the main game screen. is there a fix for this?
 
Love this game, love that you don't have to fight every enemy you see and love the writing. I actually find myself reading through all the dialogue instead of skipping it like a some other games (Dragon Age...).
 
This thread has all the architectural charm of a pregnant spider.

So long Halo Reach, Starcraft 2, and everything else I ever once enjoyed.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Planescape: Torment 2 was greenlit by Wizards of the Coast, 'they were really into what we were doing', but it refused to fund the sequel
Opinion Game Dev 
32
377
mèx replied
What is your almost the best game ever and what's missing for it to become the best game ever for you?
1
143
IAmRei replied
Best game ever
2 3 4
169
2K
DeaconOfTheDank replied
  • Poll
The best fan-made remasters ever made
2
89
4K
S0ULZB0URNE replied
IGN: The 10 Best Metroid Games Ever Made
Analysis Trailer  2
57
2K
Mr Hyde replied
Top Bottom