Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition Chris Avellone Livestream Q&A

[@0mik3mik3]

11:46 The only way of playing Planescape is exploring every dialogue option :). I enjoyed this video very much. Chris is one of my heroes.

[@Audfile]

I just bought this game. Now mind you I have a ps4 pro and a PSVR and am knee deep in Horizon Zero Dawn on my 4K HDR and I still snapped this up this morning as soon as I knew it was available. why? Best Game of all Time. Thanks for doing this! I never actually beat the game waaaay back in the day, got near the end and my CD was scratched or something.

[@kummakummakummakummakummac8606]

I just bought it. Played before but never completed.

[@Audfile]

William Gregg is soooooo good. When you play it, pay attention to it, don't have like your TV going in the background, like let the ambience and story hook you, it is literally one of the best games ever made.

[@curtisleow]

I'd buy an enhanced version of Arcanum. It uses a weird engine though.

[@HandOfGlory141]

i would love to see it ported over to mac

[@Lancemaker]

its actually the same engine i think. infinity engine.

[@Schizm1]

Nope. Different engine.

[@kubeface115]

That game was such a broken mess. Absolutely loved it anyway. Same with Vampire - utterly broken and completely loved to this day. Something about the games those guys made was just special. As far as I know the Troika guys joined Obsidian a while back and are working on something new. No news what yet as far as I'm aware but I can't wait.

[@jeanvaljean819]

@@kubeface115 2 words to describe arcanum: Broken Masterpiece like indigo gaming said

[@LordMarlle]

Playing this game for the first time. Avellone is the best!

[@alexoelkers2292]

Yeah I'm playing it for the first time now, yeah it's a really good game.

[@botsmokie5388]

This game released when i was 5. Tried playing it around 10 and boy did i ever find it complicated. Glad i was able to resdiscover it after i saw the enhanced edition. Thanks for giving us such an amazing experience.

[@stevequincy388]

Looking forward to release! Have the original, never made it out of the Hive. It will be nice not having to install all of the mods to get it up and running. Even with mods the fog of war shimmered whenever I moved which was annoying. I installed a mod that was supposed to fix that, but then my mouse cursor left a trail behind it. Thanks Beamdog, glad I will be able to install and play this time. Bravo

[@Discovery2024-rn8kn]

Best narrative game of all time. More than 20 years old the story and theme still resonates

[@mygaffer]

The spell sound effects are so loud you can't hear what they are saying.

[@szymonwarsocki3942]

User agreed

[@mirjamheijn5214]

7:50 I like that middle-mouse button opens UPDATED MY JOURNAL mode

[@DrMengele1337]

Classic

[@Simi822]

This was originally broadcast on Twitch, April 11th, 2017., Published on Apr 5, 2017 - Time travel?

[@Beamdog]

Good catch. Can you tell we're focused on the 11th? ;)

[@joeymitchell2862]

Paradox can change the nature of a man.

[@returnMarcco]

Loominati

[@v-trigger6137]

Well the description says this was originally broadcast in April 3

[@romandoo]

The legend!!!

[@backupnoname]

I really liked this game, I felt like my decisions early game really affected the rest of my gameplay later but also that I could learn a lot about the real world by playing. Sixteen year old me, Twenty one year old me, and thirty year old me thanks you.

[@backupnoname]

"updated my journal."

[@anab0lic]

Never did finish this game as a kid, gonna have to go back and beat it some day.

[@muhammadzinc5228]

I stopped after I got the stupid hic-cup curse

[@paytonholmes6019]

That was one of the times in the game that I decided to use a walkthrough. I don't blame you.

[@skyhr]

It's soooo worth it. I just finished it a few weeks ago. I was in the same situation as you, but I got back to it lol.

[@StasSlu]

Amazing that they mentioned #Sanitarium at around 1:20:00, an AMAZING game I love the same as Planscape.

[@cluckeryduckery261]

loved the original game. Definitely wanna grab it on mobile, question though? how compatible is it with older ipad hardware? namely ipad2

[@GeneralPublic]

Yves the Tale-Chaser actually told a tale of a man who fell in love with the Lady of Pain which is pretty similar to this dating simulator idea. In this dating sim you would play as The Transcendent One and you would attempt to do your dating through remotely-controlled shadows which you would polymorph to make them look nicer and not look like shadows. And sometimes your shadows would get killed and you would get low on lives and you would have to hunt down and kill The Nameless One one or more times in order to get more lives. Anyway the game would actually just be a hack of Super Mario Brothers, where Mario would be a polymorphed shadow controlled by The Transcendent One, Bowser would be The Nameless One, the various monsters you fight would be The Nameless One's many many friends and acquaintances and lovers, all the castles except the final castle would have Toad who would really just be a dabus thanking you for rescuing him and giving you a clue on where to find the Lady of Pain, and in the final castle you would rescue the Princess who would actually be the Lady of Pain and you would finally free her from her cage, free her from Sigil, and all the dabuses would put in a good word for you with her and together you and the Lady of Pain would take over the entire multiverse with your combined powers once you finally hooked up together. In other words the game would just be a simple sprite hack of Super Mario Brothers.

[@sn33v]

Arcanum is just begging for an Enhanced Edition. Such a gem of a game but lots of small details and bugs that could be ironed out. For me the roleplaying experience is on par with Torment.

[@danielandersson6945]

It has always bothered me that there hasn't been other campaigns in Planescape using this engine (because of licenses?) I love Planescape:Torment, but have played it quite a few times. Time to bring in the story of some of the other characters (before and after they meet the Nameless One), possible other adventures.

[@zaphero5518]

Yes it is time... which is probably why Torment: Tides of Numenera came out two months ago.

[@danielandersson6945]

Yeah, but Planescape is still Planescape :)

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

Agree.

[@CtrlAndF4]

Hasbro owns the Planescape rights, wich means you will never ever see another Planescape game again, wich is a sad sad thing :(

[@danielandersson6945]

What does Hasbro gain by preventing another Planescape game?

[@TheHarperad]

I think there is a charm in those misspellings. It shows a human touch to the game. If a characters name is misspelled by different characters throughout the world then it gives the impression of there being different ways people pronounce the same name - again creating a more live experience.

[@srr5v]

I would love to hear what Mr. Avellone discusses about PS:T and KOTOR 2 (and anything else he'd be interested in sharing about), in a contemporary interview. Maybe archetypes are real (I'm not at all sure that they are, inclined to think they are not real), but also maybe they are produced by people, for themselves and/or others. And produced archetypes are definitely real I think, however that works.

[@kevinwigert6831]

@ 1:55 - I can't speak for the cognitive abilities of Mr Daigle, but did I just see Chris Avellone's towering intellect stumbled by the name 'Escherichia Coli'? That was painful.

[@Dregoro]

Arcanum:EE

[@Malesu32]

thank you so much, beamdog! will buy the Windows and Android Version!

[@Thagomizer]

Any story set in the Planescape setting (whether PS:T, your homebrewed campaign, or anything else) would be completely inappropriate for a live-action treatment of any sort. The peculiar art style is integral to the otherworldliness of the setting. Seriously, just look at the artwork of DiTerlizzi, Robh Ruppel, Dana Knutson, and their inspirations, like Brian Froud and Piranesi's Le Carceri etchings. Take a look at the art for PS:T itself. Could you actually imagine an actor wearing the spiky red Harmonium armor not looking utterly garish and ridiculous on camera? Could you imagine the modrons or guardinals not looking like ridiculous cartoons if they had to interact with live actors as cgi creations? Just think about all of the shitty live action adaptations of cartoons we've seen over the years, like The Flintstones, The Cat in the Hat, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Garfield, Scooby Doo, etc., or the weird CGI fests where everything is obviously shot in front of a greenscreen, like 300 , The Immortals, or the Star Wars prequels. Think of the astronomical budget required to do the scope of the setting justice. And even with a budget comparable to LoTR or something similar, it's still an issue of 'should' rather than 'can'. No, Planescape would need to be animated. There is literally no other way to do it. Animation frees the story to look the way it imagined, much like the best anime.

[@srr5v]

re: the team, I believe for certain there are good persons upstream. I don't know at all if this will make a material difference in the way human beings want. No person knows best, but without question some know better. Bobby Kennedy because of his moment of inertia, not because of where he started; H.S. Suhrawardy and MK Gandhi both, likewise. Look in the mirror.

[@Hiperid]

Only real complain I have are animations, they didn't touched them at all, which is real shame.

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

I Wonder why Avellone hates Star Wars.

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

Good thing they are a minority.

[@kambion]

I don't like it because it's played out. SW amounts to one great movie and a bunch of okay to terrible ones.

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

kambion have you watched any of the Expanded Universe material?

[@confrico]

he has said that the force is too righteously indignant and self-important, and he makes games to address the things he hates, so he made kotor 2 wanting to critically examine the force as a philosophy

[@biggestboss]

MCA

[@iokwong1871]

Why are there black board around every single character? My assumption: just being lazy? My thought: it can be good for some people to see a bit more clear where the characters are, but it also take the character out from the environment, now it looks more like a "game" not sure that's good for PST. Good job guys!!

[@Beamdog]

The sprite outline feature is optional and can easily be turned off. :)

[@iokwong1871]

Super Awesome! Wonderful Job guys, Already Bought the game!

[@RXQ79]

Enhanced edition looks like shit to me, I do not understand why would people opt to play this game in higher resolutions, which make characters look like small ants and you can not fully see the details in paintings/art, and I also do not like new stile/graphics of main menu and every other in-game menu. Games like this are just not meant to be played in high resolutions. Original gog version already updated this game to be playable on modern systems.

[@srr5v]

The interviewer seems to be a coward and a liar (and I've been cowardly and said lies in the past, and might do so again in the future, hopefully not). The emperor wears no clothes. The producers did a very poor job. Chris Avellone writes better fiction than Asimov AFAIK, and I appreciate some of Asimov's fiction writing.

[@ElGarm]

Sadly, combat still seems to be awful. All the rest looks great.

[@RealMisterDoge]

Thankfully you can generally avoid combat if your charisma is high enough

[@jccusell]

Luckily, combat is not why you buy or play this game.

[@vardellsfolly5200]

''Enhanced Edition''. Making few minor changes.. and milking that cow. Imagine if they did add some impressive elements. And making those games indeed ''enhanced'', instead of taking advantage these franchises.

[@pembehasan9647]

I think you are a teenager because we dont want to play remaster/remake PST. This game is a real legend and no, I dont want any change on it.

[@vardellsfolly5200]

@@pembehasan9647 First of all you are wrong, in your assumptions, about my age. Second, you are wrong, again, about your understanding of my statement. Personally, i believe that despite the game's many, many flaws, it is amazing. But these guys.. this company take advantage of Planescape's legacy, trying to earn some money, not doing much for their ''enhanced'' version.

[@pembehasan9647]

@@vardellsfolly5200 It's not right because this game supported and consulted by Chris Avellone's himself. His already creator of PST

[@vardellsfolly5200]

@@pembehasan9647 Ι αμ sorry, but i do not judge a game by what people support or influence. I judge a game by it's result. Planescape Torment Enhanced Edition brought nothing new, nothing at all.

[@dickthebirthdayboy2132]

​ @vardellsfolly5200 It absolutely did you stupid clown. The uprez prerendered background, better designed UI and menu and other quality of life improvements. Please shut up.