Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition: Video Game Overview

All sorts of HD reissues and remakes, fashion for which does not weaken, in the case of classic computer RPG, it would seem, do not have a special meaning – as they say, the graphics in such role-playing games are not in the first place. And in the case of the Great Planescape: Torment This is true. However, having acquainted with the improved version of this iconic RPG, I was convinced of the opposite – it makes sense, and what else ..Now during the pause turns on a black and white filter.

Nostalgia

The point is not that the authors somehow revived the unstasive classics. On the contrary, compared to Baldur’s Gate And Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition, who also studied studio BeamDog, changes here much less. There is no new content, new quests, heroes, NPC, some changes in the role-playing system (built, remind, according to the rules of AD & D) and so on. All changes touched on purely technical and cosmetic moments.

Case in magic of the original game itself. Going to B Planescape: Torment – Enhanced Edition, I launched a process that is very difficult to stop and which broke all the nearest plans. Finally reach Mass Effect: Andromeda (I already donate from rotten tomatoes), return to Nier: Automata, get the third level of reputation for his Valkyrie in For honor? Where there. Yes, even pro TORMENT: Tides of Numenera, ideological heiress Planescape, I forgot. And the day satisfied with old friends, in the company Morthe, Ignus, the fallen Grace and Unnamed, again plunging into the gray, dusty, existential world of this multual-depleted plans, where everyone talks about death, but death is not finite ..

The team of the youth of ours

And all because even after almost twenty years, after I met dozens of various role-playing games, Planescape: Torment still inevitably tightens with his head like a mermaid pulls the destroyed sailor to the pool. And how can not tighten the game where you come to yourself in the morgue and immediately you start to pee with a chatty skull Morthe, who is ten minutes after this unusual dating, looking at the zombie girls, winks to you: “Chef, you saw herlooked at me how the bending of my occipital bone?”Morthe, how did I miss you, old man ..Especially for improved editions made “Remastering” of the entire soundtrack, and the music in the game really sounds more juicy.
And when another ten minutes, you meet the ghost of beautiful deionarries and hear what kind of pain, she speaks Unnamed: “My love”, although he knows that he will forever betray her, promise to love to death, but again and again revive and rebornagain betray, – at that moment you feel like goosebumps running down the skin. Here immediately and understand what not enough TORMENT: Tides of Numenera – such as colorful characters like Morthe, such a fatality, high tragedy, who are heard in the voice and the image of the Daeonarra.

Of this attention to the study of characters, texts, dialogues, from total nonlinearity and multistriaativity (disguised as a zombie, to kill them all, to smash the “anther” to open the gate of a bitter, or find the right object and cigat into the portal?), of serious, adult arguments about love and betrayal, about life and death, about the border between madness and reality and develops, perhaps, the best computer RPG of all times and peoples.

Give comfort, give comfort!

And in this situation even for the better that Planescape: Torment – Enhanced Edition There is no new content – especially considering reviews about Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear, independent campaign issued BeamDog For improved edition.

No, if new quests and dialogs wrote himself Chris Avellon (Chris Avell1), chief designer and screenwriter of the original game, I would only be for. But he obviously worked with BeamDog The rights of the consultant and the invited star, in which quality and recorded the appeal to the players, meeting them when you first start. Yes, I think, Chris himself understood that this is exactly the case when everything is in the perfect balance sheet, everything is worth in their places and any new content will only fall out of the overall composition.

The developers focused on the game to felt a little more modern, convenient and dynamically. Naturally, B Enhanced Edition High resolution support appeared, the “zoom” mouse, highlighting of active points, the ability to immediately collect the whole “Lut” from one window and other “room amenities”.The text in high resolution looks more finely, and for someone it can become a problem.
The interface also became functional. Now, for example, you do not need to make extra television, climb into the inventory or into some other jets of the buttons to chat with partners, activate spell, special skill or change the weapon – the corresponding icons are immediately rendered on the screen. In addition, you can translate the interface in the “tablet” version, that is, intended for mobile devices. It is allowed to try it on PC – and in many ways this option does not look like more convenient, but rather, we are more familiar for a modern player.

No, no, no, no, we want in Russian!

Also, now on the map shows, so to speak, “Encoued” areas (Show Walkable) to immediately understand where to go through, and where. And when you turn on the Smooth Area Transitions feature, you will see the name of the location, being there. There are even additional settings that allow you to better see creatures, some effects and so on. The level of graphics has not changed, but all these features plus higher permissions make a picture clear and more comfortable – if you, of course, do not spoil everything with the maximum approach of the camera. Finally, it is now allowed to increase the overall speed of the game (and in movement, and in battles, and in the dialogs), simply by moving the corresponding slider.

However, the Yarym Old Believers and opponents of all these new-fashioned amenities are allowed at the start to refuse changes made by improved edition to play in classical conditions.

But from what exactly no one would give up, so it is from the official Russian localization. It’s not about sound (it’s just better to leave the original!), but about the text – in the game with so many letters knowledge or ignorance of English is of great importance. But Russian translation in Planescape: Torment – Enhanced Edition No. Although surely there will be craftsmen who can fasten to the improved edition of some fan or legendary translation from Fargusa.Mobile version of the interface seems quite comfortable.***
Output Planescape: Torment – Enhanced Edition – Event is very correct and important. I will say a banality, but for a modern player, this is an excellent opportunity to get acquainted with the Great game in the most comfortable conditions in this situation, without dancing with a tambourine and different informal assemblies, where you need to put some fashion and personally to prescribe screen resolution. Well, for the same “Oldfag”, like me, this is an improved edition – like a joyful exclamation of Morthe over the ear, who later wakes up you after many years, everything forgetting you again, and again calls to hard, but such a right journey to hear it again”My love” … “What, the chef, don’t remember anything again? Well, I went, I’ll tell you everything on the way … “

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