"Rumours have been swirling for years about a possible sequel to Black Isle’s legendary and powerful roleplaying game Planescape: Torment, but the closure of the original studio and the jealous guarding of the Planescape rights by owners Wizards of the Coast seemed to have put paid to any comeback. But with original Interplay boss Brian Fargo very much back in the RPG business with current studio inXile’s wildly successful Wasteland 2 crowdfunding, everything changes. He and his team have come up with a way to make a new Torment game:
this is really happening."
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posted by Paragon
on Jan 9, 2013 -
17 comments
In 1992, MicroProse published their first and only CRPG:
Darklands. Set in medieval Germany, the game gives a lot of immersion,
from its innovative lifepath system for
character generation, to its use of
period music, to the importance of knowing your
saints, to tatzelwurms, quite fearsome
dragons and
raubritters. The
game play is good, with lots of different ways of handling any conflict and a semi-realtime
combat system. The game is also fundamentally open-ended; while there is a main plot (
spoilers), it's possible to ignore that thread and keep playing for years.
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posted by jiawen
on Oct 9, 2011 -
35 comments
