13th November 2004, 12:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 13th November 2004, 1:16 AM by A Black Falcon.)
Cool, one of my all-time favorites and (imo) the best adventure game of the last five years... :)
And yeah, The Nameless One might make you think of that when you look at him but he quite definitely isn't like that. That is, unless you want him to be like that; the game will certainly let you be a stupid warrior if you want... it's probably not as fun that way, but it'll let you.
"Soulbringer"? Huh? Haven't heard of that one... what, was it one of those Interplay dual-case titles that come with just a CD case? I've seen those before... the one I know of is Septerra Core/Sanitarium (both quite good games, though Septerra Core has major sound issues on my PC and I can only wish that I had Sanitarium (a quite good top-down adventure game)...), but it'd stand to reason that there would be more. Eh, whatever that game is, it doesn't matter much really given that the other game is Torment. :)
Torment's manual wasn't really all that special, so all you really miss are the box (nice box, I think) and, probably, the nice three-fold paper cd holder...
Oh yeah, and is it the 2-CD version or the 3-CD version? The 3-CD one has a patch you see, while the 2-CD one is prepatched. You probably have the 2-CD one. If so, be happy, because the 3-CD one requires either disk switching (like BG) or you to get the game to full install without a built-in full install option... easy enough if you know what you're doing, but a little bit harder than having an option for it. ... even with no disk switching actually I might full install just to cut down on the frequent load times...
Torment... such a fantastic game. As soon as I started playing it (beyond half an hour or something) I said "what have I been doing for the past three years (while we had owned it and I hadn't played it)???" because of how great it was. I ignored the slowdown issues (that is, the game would memory leak or something and periodically slow down to the point of freezing and require a restart, very annoying in battles!) and some related CD issues (a good part of why I learned how to do a full install, it helped some with those problems) without much annoyance because of how great the game is. If I had to say a flaw it'd simply be that the game is not very hard at all. But given that the game isn't about being hard, that's not a flaw really... if you want hard D&D combat play Icewind Dale, not Torment, after all. But you sacrifice all but the semblances of a story. It's interesting, really, to see a team go from one extreme to the other with those two games... hard to believe the same people made both of them... not to say IWD is bad, as it is quite adaquate at doing what it set out to do, but in comparison... well there really is no comparison. Hmm, would a better flaw be the lack of weapon and item variety? ... nah, that's not very relevant either really... and darnit, even if it doesn't have many upgrades using teeth as a weapon is just plain cool!
It's not the best game ever, but it's almost certainly #3 after two certain Blizzard RTSes. It does have the most developed and supported (background, world detail, etc) and probably the best story of any game ever though. I know it obliterates Warcraft III story-wise...
And yeah, The Nameless One might make you think of that when you look at him but he quite definitely isn't like that. That is, unless you want him to be like that; the game will certainly let you be a stupid warrior if you want... it's probably not as fun that way, but it'll let you.
"Soulbringer"? Huh? Haven't heard of that one... what, was it one of those Interplay dual-case titles that come with just a CD case? I've seen those before... the one I know of is Septerra Core/Sanitarium (both quite good games, though Septerra Core has major sound issues on my PC and I can only wish that I had Sanitarium (a quite good top-down adventure game)...), but it'd stand to reason that there would be more. Eh, whatever that game is, it doesn't matter much really given that the other game is Torment. :)
Torment's manual wasn't really all that special, so all you really miss are the box (nice box, I think) and, probably, the nice three-fold paper cd holder...
Oh yeah, and is it the 2-CD version or the 3-CD version? The 3-CD one has a patch you see, while the 2-CD one is prepatched. You probably have the 2-CD one. If so, be happy, because the 3-CD one requires either disk switching (like BG) or you to get the game to full install without a built-in full install option... easy enough if you know what you're doing, but a little bit harder than having an option for it. ... even with no disk switching actually I might full install just to cut down on the frequent load times...
Torment... such a fantastic game. As soon as I started playing it (beyond half an hour or something) I said "what have I been doing for the past three years (while we had owned it and I hadn't played it)???" because of how great it was. I ignored the slowdown issues (that is, the game would memory leak or something and periodically slow down to the point of freezing and require a restart, very annoying in battles!) and some related CD issues (a good part of why I learned how to do a full install, it helped some with those problems) without much annoyance because of how great the game is. If I had to say a flaw it'd simply be that the game is not very hard at all. But given that the game isn't about being hard, that's not a flaw really... if you want hard D&D combat play Icewind Dale, not Torment, after all. But you sacrifice all but the semblances of a story. It's interesting, really, to see a team go from one extreme to the other with those two games... hard to believe the same people made both of them... not to say IWD is bad, as it is quite adaquate at doing what it set out to do, but in comparison... well there really is no comparison. Hmm, would a better flaw be the lack of weapon and item variety? ... nah, that's not very relevant either really... and darnit, even if it doesn't have many upgrades using teeth as a weapon is just plain cool!
It's not the best game ever, but it's almost certainly #3 after two certain Blizzard RTSes. It does have the most developed and supported (background, world detail, etc) and probably the best story of any game ever though. I know it obliterates Warcraft III story-wise...
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