Planescape Torment question

[Atreides]

It's a lot down to the setting which lets weird things go on. It's not in the Prime plane so you can have weird stuff like belief/will defining reality. A game in the Githzerai plane of limbo would be pretty wacky.

[Sarjahurmaaja.]

"Compared to say IWD where they reused a lot of the animation and models it would have cost more I think."

 

True, but instead of praising the creators of PS:T, perhaps we should scold the creators of IWD.

[ShadowPaladin V1.0]

"Compared to say IWD where they reused a lot of the animation and models it would have cost more I think."

 

True, but instead of praising the creators of PS:T, perhaps we should scold the creators of IWD.

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Why ? It's not the same thing anyway. In PST you have a cast of known characters so you can make them look anyway you like. In IWD you have a cast of upto 6 characters from numerous possible classes races and genders.

 

Everything PST is basically built around those characters, the weapons, the spells , the story.

[Atreides]

I'm not praising or knocking - just observing that the amount of resources put into Planescape may have made it more difficult to be profitable.

 

I would agree that this is a special case relative to other IE incarnations - it would be normal for other games to have to start from scratch.

[Diamond]

I was surprised to find out that they had Dan Castellaneta and Mitch Pileggi for voice acting.

[ShadowPaladin V1.0]

I was surprised to find out that they had Dan Castellaneta and Mitch Pileggi for voice acting.

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That was prior to vo being the norm for games as well.

[Diamond]

Tells about how attentive I am when reading credits :">

[Sargallath Abraxium]

Why do people praise it to be the best game ever made?

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...prolly cuz they feel it is in theys experience...personal opinion be a marvelous thing...

 

 

...WHO LUVS YA, BABY!!...

[ShadowPaladin V1.0]

Tells about how attentive I am when reading credits :">

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You know who voices Anna dont you ?

[Darque]

Tells about how attentive I am when reading credits :">

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You know who voices Anna dont you ?

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Oh go ahead, spoil it for him

[Gorth]

Spoiling...

 

For all those interested in seeing what the Torment voice actors did before Torment:

[*]Trias done by John De Lancie

[Gabrielle]

Morte done by Rob Paulsen

[Diamond]

OK, you have reached your objective of spoiling it for me

[Atreides]

Dynaheir from BG?

[Darque]

...and Bastila.

[Atreides]

ZOMG!

[Darque]

Cool eh?

[Atreides]

Another Q about classes:

 

Say I'm a lvl 4 fighter, if I decide to become a mage and reach lvl 5 or more do I get back my lvl 4 fighter skills? What if I keep switching back and forth through the game? Is that extendable to the 3rd class (theif)?

[CoM_Solaufein]

...and Bastila.

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Jennifer Hale also did Mazzy from BG2.

[Gorth]

Another Q about classes: 

 

Say I'm a lvl 4 fighter, if I decide to become a mage and reach lvl 5 or more do I get back my lvl 4 fighter skills?  What if I keep switching back and forth through the game?  Is that extendable to the 3rd class (theif)?

It doesn't quite work that way. You will always only have one active class, but you switch between them as often as you want. You do however retain your weapon proficiencies and hp etc. so I always found it made sense to level up a bit as fighter first to get the weapon proficiencies and then stick with either thief or mage afterwards. Remember that there is a bonus to stats when you reach level 7 in a class and one more later. Only in the first class to reach level 7 though.

[Darque]

...and Bastila.

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Jennifer Hale also did Mazzy from BG2.

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I think she's been in more games than any other voice actor

[Magnum Opus]

And just to go completely off-topic, I just discovered that the guy from Prison Break -- John Whatsisname, mobster-type guy (real name Peter Stormare) -- was the voice of Isair in IWD2. First time I heard that guy speak long enough to get a real feel for how he speaks, and damn did it sound familiar.

 

Turns out it was.

 

*is always smug when he can make little associations out of the blue like that*

 

Ok... continue.

Edited November 8, 2005 by Magnum Opus

[Gabrielle]

...and Bastila.

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Jennifer Hale also did Mazzy from BG2.

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I think she's been in more games than any other voice actor

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She's one popular lady.

[Gabrielle]

As I was typing in a thread that got locked.

 

It was enough for me to call it quits.

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That style of gameplay isn't for everyone.

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Of course. I can tell if I'll like it or not in a brief moment of time. Plus the Torment world never interested me. I'm more into Forgotten Realms and Ravenloft.

[Atreides]

The belief-defines-reality setting (plane of limbo etc) would make for pretty wacky worlds which could be interesting. It's creativity on a different path.