Planescape Torment: Great RPG or Greatest?

[A Black Falcon]

FFT isn't that great, I bought it shortly after getting my PSX in 2005 because everyone said it was so good but it just didn't hold my interest and I never got more than three or four levels in. But that and Ogre Battle are strategy games, not RPGs like D&D... not that either one can even remotely compare to any of the better D&D games, they certainly cannot. (Ogre Battle 64 is better than FFT, but still nothing compared to any of the better D&D games, if I must compare games that really aren't at all alike)

I was playing DD when you were learning how to piss standing up. During games I was GM usually and my best char was a human monk with wizard as my secondary (lawful good). But the DD video games are fucking shit and if either of you ever played the actual game you'd know that. Pen and paper, and cyberpunk was even better than DD.

I've played real D&D too. And yeah, it's great, but so are the computer games, and particularly the Infinity Engine and Neverwinter Nights 2 games. You basically confirm here that yeah, you haven't played them. Sure you can't do anything like you can in a pen & paper game, but they make up for it in other ways, I'd say. Torment's great writing and story really does stand out, for instance, and the way it de-emphasizes combat and emphasizes reading is so unlike most other RPGs. But you'd know that if you'd played it, which anyone (yes, anyone) who hasn't should, for a while at least to see if they like the style.