Planescape: Torment: Think Smart Thoughts Basedly

[@Warlockracy]

Deidranna.

[@theeternal2734]

Translation: Dehydrate Us

[@eshinnightrunner6290]

how the fuck is this comment 5 hours old when the video was uploaded 1 minute ago

[@itsuadman]

Is she gonna slap Elliott, that idiot? Hope you're doing well warlockracy!

[@albatrousse]

Dehydrate us.

[@Ghostface6]

​@@albatrousseWhat does this mean 😭

[@giovannicervantes2053]

Updated my journal

[@paulhammons7077]

Now it's in my head!!!!!

[@jeremytitus9519]

But have you ever upjournaled a datum?

[@KingLich451]

Your path is mine.

[@StoneClever]

Its is *known*

[@jakedunkin4728]

She Tormented my Planescape until I Updated my Journal.

[@ladymushroom9485]

In fairness to Ravel, if a man who was a withered dessicated corpse told me "it's ok, you're beatiful on the inside," I would also retreat to a pocket dimension to live in a fortress of vines and thorns.

[@Spacemongerr]

😅

[@JayJohnaJackJJJ58]

I mean that's only a roast if you accept it as one

[@Marandal]

explains why my gf left me

[@YouSoSpice]

"He Tormented across the room very Planescapedly"

[@rexnihilum7822]

nice sseth reference

[@hillbillypowpow]

Sseth is Warlockracy's sociopathic incarnation.

[@RenStrive]

What incarnation Mandaloregaming would be?

[@SirVesanus]

@@RenStrive Another sociopathic one :))

[@quint3ssent1a]

@@RenStrive nice incarnation. You know, the one who had helped nameless one.

[@darknessvamp]

A game so good I played it twice. If I remember Morte's deal when he was part of the Pillar of Skulls, he had access to it's knowledge and his memories of why he was there. He tricked the incarnation that ripped him from the Pillar into thinking that by taking him he would have a portable repository of it's knowledge but once he was removed he forgot pretty much everything. So essentially that incarnation didn't realise he was walking around with just a smart-ass skull until much later which prompts 'Don't trust the skull' line from the practical incarnation.

[@YouSoSpice]

at least we got Morte's Planar Parade out of it so it was worth it

[@quint3ssent1a]

So that's why he said "his secrets are worthless to us"...

[@THEFabianValenzuela]

Holy shit a homestuck

[@yoel9396]

The incarnation that saves morte from the pillar learns that morte lost his knowledge pretty quickly and doesn't take it too well, don't know why he kept morte around after that

[@wiwysova]

Only twice? I thought you meant you liked it .................

[@Yarghvid]

'Fortune abandoned you the moment I found you.' goes so damn hard. R.I.P Tony Jay

[@Zeithri]

The Elder God \o/

[@Chinothebad]

The Lieutenant.

[@egoalter1276]

I ficking knew I have heared that voice before. We need a lot more sheaksperean acfors in VA.

[@davidreeding9176]

"We need to use this plane to e'scape this torment!" -John Torment, 2019

[@peeblespeebles6761]

Folks, we've found the perfect youtube comment. Don't bother making anymore. Its over.

[@dgam4211]

'Even on another plane you wont e'scape the torment!' -John Torment, 1999

[@heilmodrhinnheimski]

Peak Cinema

[@Giantcrabz]

Sounds like a Ben Shapiro novel character

[@zersockpuppet]

The severe lack of Nordom in this video has attracted a Great Modron March to your native plane. Roll initiative.

[@proskub5039]

mfw walking tin can gets picked over nerd cube

[@fillosof66689]

Nowadays I am deeply offended by the idea of arbitrary party limits in any RPG I play. So next time I will be replaying Planescape Torment, I will find the appropriate mods to alleviate those, or gosh darn, I will make one myself.

[@nikonru2000]

I mean, considering that all companions of the Nameless one had died in the end, missing Nordom isn't such a bad move after all.

[@GreatgoatonFire]

It is *Known* that "Endure, in Enduring grow Strong" is the hardest of lines.

[@SSangsen]

"I may be bested in the battle, but I shall be never defeated".

[@gorkmork682]

As "Steel can mark flesh, but flesh cannot mark steel" is the sharpest?

[@gorkmork682]

But you seem to put particular emphasys on the word "Know"

[@misterkefir]

By far my favourite video game line ever written.

[@donatodiniccolodibettobardi842]

😶

[@Scipio219]

The “good” alignment ending of this game is the most satisfying game ending ever

[@Winhert]

Fall-fom-Grace's promise was the cherry on top :)

[@josephshriner2850]

Playing the game lawful good is a thoroughly enjoyable experience .

[@JohnSmith-bs9ym]

​@@josephshriner2850 I kept falling into chaos because I honestly couldn't stop making snarky remarks to the skeletons or other undeads lol

[@josephshriner2850]

@JohnSmith-bs9ym still a valid play, sir. Can't say the game doesn't have character.

[@JohnSmith-bs9ym]

@@josephshriner2850 Well said! They don't make games like this anymore...

[@GuitarbardUnstrung]

I'm an active member of Sigil: Planar Legends and we recently got a HUGE influx of new players. A bunch of us were super confused until someone in the Discord said, "hey, did you see Warlockracy's new video?" Well, I have now, and thank you so much for your kind words!! We've all put a lot of love into the server and we have a great time there. 😊

[@vinegar3617]

Hey, don't you play Elan?

[@GuitarbardUnstrung]

@vinegar3617 Lol, busteeeeeed. Yup, that's me.

[@TrollDragomir]

I get it now, this story is The Hangover but in the dystopian shadow of the collective unconscious of the entire mulitverse instead of Vegas.

[@kafkaesque6459]

"In knowing the teachings of Galifianakis, I have become stronger."

[@vivianboor14]

You've basically just said it was set in Vegas, and not Vegas...

[@xefiroth]

More like Memento ;)

[@Drawica]

New Warlockracy video? *Updated my journal*

[@yaldabaoth2]

Imagine showing steamdb owner numbers when I have the literal box from 1999 behind me. Proud nerd (and old) moment.

[@Dinidan]

Same, I have it in the fold out sleeve CD case. The art is so sick.

[@planescaped]

I lent mine to a buddy in highschool and never got it back from him, I did that a lot with games lol. He told me he still has it. I hope you finally played it Sean!

[@Slop_Dogg]

That vg insights number is actually the physical sales btw.

[@dylanpiazza6358]

The old cases are something the newer generations dont get to experience and i feel for em almost. Nothing like unfolding or opening multiple sleeves with 4 or 5 discs and all the old school artwork.

[@artur6912]

I do you one better. I have 3 copies of it. The original 4 cd edition. A steam copy of EE and a switch copy of PST:EE/IWD:EE

[@nathan1507]

I started playing Torment for the meme. You joked about how Avellone used the same idea twice in your KOTOR 2 video and I wanted to see it for myself. I did not regret it.

[@Tortue-et-Fitness]

To echo the words from Sweet in GTA: San Andreas : "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

[@hughgrection7246]

@@Tortue-et-Fitness To echo the words of 8-ball "My hands are all messed up so you better drive brotha"

[@MrTreesusChrist-s5d]

"I like the idea of the nameless one constantly bickering with his own mortality through internal dialogue. That sounds like a fun game...its called disco Elysium" NEXT VIDEO TOPIC DROP CMON. Raphael ambrosius costeau's wild ride time, featuring Kim Kitsuragi from devil may cry.

[@gege0298]

Ahh, but this one's a bit too fresh innit? Give it some five more years at least.

[@quint3ssent1a]

@@MrTreesusChrist-s5d nah, it's doomsayer prophet all the way down. The wolf, Kim ... The wolf will eat the Sun...

[@Kris-wo4pj]

@@gege0298 ah but its eastern european so it gets bumped up by a few years and we get alot of history and philosophy esp about communism and marxism.

[@thecandlemaker1329]

If he thought Planescape: Torment had too much pointless text in it, I recommend giving Disco Elysium the widest berk.

[@zinitrad]

@@thecandlemaker1329 Both have immense amounts of dialogue and texts, but DE always ties right back into the themes of the story or insane bullshit content of Harry being a complete weirdo. Meanwhile every single npc conversation in Torment that's a unique conversation is some unnecessary 'cosmic philosophy' hijinks that goes nowhere or excessively repetitive in its choices of descriptive text. They're both giant novels of games, but DE knows better how to make use of that time spent. This isn't to say Torment doesn't go hard as fuck when its saying what it needs to, it just wastes a lot of time on its side convos.

[@ZX-Gear]

First Ssethtzeentach uploads and now Warlockracy does Planescape Torment. Quite the Christmas Gift.

[@bishoptrees]

Indeed. Sseth's left me uninspired though. Don't forget strat's contribution last week, fresh Kenshi goodness. Wonder what Mandalore has cooking?

[@harrysox2815]

​@@bishoptreesthe sseth video wasn't great but ig not everything can be a hit

[@ZX-Gear]

@@harrysox2815 Kinda been hard for him to find obscure games for him to spin his oratory skills with

[@oranguman9360]

The trinity of narrative gaming reviews.

[@HamidKarzai]

@@bishoptrees who is strat?

[@chrisczyz449]

I was waiting for this one, thank you for covering this gem. "What can change the nature of a man" question from Ravel still haunts me. Pinnacle of Polish localisation too, CDproject took care of it, selling the game from the back of their van. Such turbulen, yet incredibly interesting times, good old 90s.

[@chillax319]

I got the game in the early 2000s most likely and it took me my second attempt to actually enjoy the game. When I first played it I was perhaps 11 years old or something. Few years later I suppose I was mature enough to get sucked into it. P:Torment is one of my favourite fictional stories and my favourite story from any video-game I ever played. Such a fantastic journey and great polish translation keeping the Sigil and their lingo unique charm. I know Larian will not do it but I'd love for a game centered in the Sigil to be made by them. Imagine that madness!

[@chrisczyz449]

We were at teh similiar age when we played it for the first time it seems :} It's definitely a game that might not sit well with you when you play it for the first time, no matter the age, mostly due how "not RPG-like" it is. Always starting as a warrior? No class selection? Not needing to fight in every encounter? Extremely dialogue heavy? Those were not the RPG tropes of that time (BG1, Icewind Dale, etc). Planescape was and will be an unique experience, which will reward anyone willing to dive into the turmoils of the city of Sigil and its multicultural, multiplanar machinations. To finish my tyrade - Mortes main ability is still one of my absolute favourite ability any party mmber in any RPG game had, especialy the way you could "improve" it ^^ I am very glad that you liked the game Mr. Chillax, and that you gave it a second. P.S - there is only one Torment game, we don't talk about Tides of Numenera. If we don't talk about it, it can't hurt us D:

[@chillax319]

@@chrisczyz449 Tides were dissapointment. But that's on me. I was expecting the second coming of Planescape.

[@chrisczyz449]

@@chillax319 Same here, sadly what it was, was a different game in its entirety. Hopes too high, falling down like Icarus after flying too high :/

[@mirceazaharia2094]

That's when I began my gaming hobby, I discovered Cartoon Network, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, learned English, read the most influential books of my life, and cemented the core of my life's philosophy. The 90's in post-communist Eastern Europe was a challenging, but rewarding time to grow up in.

[@wheremedad]

Proud to be one of 3 zoomers who played Torment for the first time 20 years after release. I even played Disco Elysium right after so I could get a double whammy of “Wow, I’m forever changed and I can’t experience this for the first time again.”

[@skirtsnake8808]

Based and cRPG-pilled

[@KingLich451]

overdosed on rpg

[@SpecShadow]

One - congrats second - other RPGs will feel inferior in comparison

[@mgk780]

That's literally me!! I've played both in the last 2 months. Playing planescape and then disco elysium after it made me discover so much about a lot of things, one of them is that the symbol of alcoholism is a tie, and that anything can change the of a man.

[@Indochicyon]

Zoomer who only played Disco Elysium here. I have yet to properly play Planescape Torment, but DE ruined my standards in games forever.

[@memph1ston]

You know, for the longest time I thought this game was called "Plane*T*scape: Torment". No wonder I couldn't find it on Steam.

[@sylvan429]

Planetscaper is a survival crafting indie hit set on Mars. it doesn't exist but I bet you thought it did.

[@planescaped]

I used to have people call me planet scraped all the time...

[@TheMTSilver]

@@sylvan429 you got me, goddamnit

[@quint3ssent1a]

Planet escape, as it is called in some circles of online jokesters.

[@cjnf11]

Planet Escape Tournament is a meme that is old almost as the game itself.

[@libenhagos9335]

Part of Dak'kon's crisis of faith stems from his fear that Zerthimon was being controlled by the Illithids when he made the two skies proclamation. I remember having a conversation with him where you can read between the lines of the initial 6 stories and come to the conclusion the illithids would have had a great opportunity to make him a sleeper agent the first time zerthimon's rebellion is exposed.

[@jhudsu1]

and then you fix it by just adding two fake chapters that amount to "aw buddy dont worry its fine"

[@MajorCoolD]

@@jhudsu1 I mean ultimately there is room for interpretation. While there ARE absolutes, KNOW that there is always a subjective element to things. By QUESTIONING what we KNOW, we can DEFINE what we KNOW. Like a Mason can inspect a wall for cracks and fix them, one has to self-reflect and re-examine, QUESTION what we KNOW, so we can UNDERSTAND. Ultimately I KNOW that this whole journey of Dakkon was to realize that by blindly following doctrines we BELIEVE to be right, we can sometimes FORGET their meaning. Only by objectively examining things and then subjectively assigning them a value and deciding about it's meaning we can KNOW what this means for us. Or maybe it's far too late in the Night and I read too much into this game, it's fictious characters and maybe we shouldnt take things too seriously. Both are equally true and equally valid points of view I suppose.

[@Sepreturex]

@@MajorCoolD I dont think the KNOW methodology creates complex systems of entanglement where you can change how the world works. Am I an observer that changes the system or am I part of the system that works within the confines? Can I KNOW to change how belief works and will the process to change?

[@quint3ssent1a]

@@jhudsu1 which he didn't read because he was too stupid to figure how to scroll past first 6 chapters.

[@Cruelty1633]

lik syria

[@TheHalogen131]

Thank you for this video. To this day this game contains one of my favourite stories in a side quest. It's the quest you unfortunately omitted and deals with Deionarra's father, where after you learn of her fate in a sensory stone, you can simply go to him and... Apologise. And he forgives you. Noah Caldwell Gervais has a great take on this: Games often deal with great crimes and injustices, battles of evil and goodz but you rarely deal with stories about a simple broken promise and the immense damage it can create. I fucking love this game because of these little stories. The accidental creation of Adahn, the talk with cremated remains of a person, who the Paranoid incarnation killed after learning the most obscure language from him. The talk with a doubting Dustman and being able to sway his mind via breaking your own neck. While the main plot of this game is awesome, it's these smaller quests and conversations make this game such a joy to experience. At least from me.

[@chillax319]

Where was her father? I played this game multiple times and most likely I did it but I honestly cannot remember for the life of me. PS: I know there are different ways to make the Dustman change his mind but I always pick up the breaking option due to how uhinged it is.

[@TheHalogen131]

@chillax319 I played a Polish version, so I don't know the original, but he is in Upper Ward and might be called Lawyer, maybe advocate, something to do with law.

[@chillax319]

@@TheHalogen131 Ok I checked the wiki. Now I remember, vaguely but for sure I encountered him. That whole stone experience in the Guild was....something. Especially when pragmatic ones memories were starting to emerge and our current MC was desperate to try to save Deionarra.

[@warcheef]

30:43 I sure did not expect to see Max Stirner in a Planescape: Torment video, though his books do read like something a resident of Sigil would write. I guess I should update my journal.

[@RvEijndhoven]

Stirner's a really good choice for representing the Signers and their full-of-themselves attitude too.

[@Sangerrosun]

It needs to be accompanied by that one song about him from an Estonian punk band.

[@michaelbarbarich3965]

Ignus burns people because it pleases my ego

[@BLIGHTROT666]

Updated my journal. We WILL be watching again.

[@dive_bomb3r]

1:02:57 "You shall meet enemies three..." bit, about being twisted by planes refers to, supposedly: - Trias (good creature, does evil), - Fhjull (evil creature, does good), - Ravel (neutral creature, does both and isn't neutral at all). That's what I heard, anyway. Neither incarnations nor these three really fit, because not all of them are even enemies.

[@interdimensionalcommunicat9750]

Fhjull's role was really cut down from what it was originally going to be. In the novelization which is apparently based on a really early draft, the Nameless One sold his soul to him back when he was a mortal thus being the whole reason he tried to escape his doom in the first place.

[@MajorCoolD]

Though at one point they are and oppose you in a sense. But yeah, the ring motive, the power of belief and the rule of three... universal laws and all that I suppose. :)

[@planescaped]

@@interdimensionalcommunicat9750 Fhjull Forktongue always felt like there was a lot more there than what we got. I can remember Platter and the others discussing it on the gamefaqs message board back in the day.

[@stupidsillylace]

this really updated my journal

[@mothfyre]

The amount of care and love you put into editing this video out of all of your videos really stands out. Makes it obvious that you love this one. Makes me so happy to know.

[@killerexe007]

Oh wow. I have played Torment long years ago and I completely forgot that Dak'kon was a Gith, the story of Zerthimon and in general that the Gith even exist. Last year, when playing Baldurs Gate 3 I thought I was encountering the Gith for the first time but I had this feeling in the back of my mind that I should know something about them. And especially when I was reading the discs about Prince Orpheus I was absolutely sure I have read something like it before but I could not remember what it could have been. And as soon as you started talking about the Unbroken circle of Zerthimon it suddenly all clicked and it finally makes sense. So thank you for that.

[@lachlank.8270]

He's also voiced by Mitch Pileggi aka Skinner from the X-Files

[@cameronscott3111]

I really need to replay planescape

[@Henchgirl7342]

What can change the nature of a MILLENNIAL, an analysis of YIIK: A post-modern RPG

[@VileFemboy]

The answer is nothing, for they are inherently cringe

[@Henchgirl7342]

@VileFemboy I can't wait for this episode

[@YouSoSpice]

Alex Yiik was the worst incarnation of all

[@Henchgirl7342]

@@YouSoSpice The low intelligence/ High charisma build...

[@czarkusa2018]

@@Henchgirl7342 *brainrot rizz

[@SinnerBeta]

While I usually prefer playing English games in their original language to avoid bad mistranslations of mechanics or awkward dubs, the Polish localization of this game was a big thing at the time and still is - they translated everything, including concept and slang words perfectly, the voice cast was perfect too. I don't replay it these days but I cleared it a few times, although I always ended up as a mage, even when I wanted to give thief a chance.

[@ohmygoditisspider7953]

Dude please tell me you have a few examples of polish-to-sigil-cant

[@libenhagos9335]

Pharrod having memory of his daughter isnt an oversight. While the skulls are attatched to the pillar they are basicslly omniscient and have access to the entire repository of knowledge held by the skulls. When a skull gets taken off the pillar is when they lose their memories. "Dont trust the skull" was added bc Morte tricked the practical one into taking him off the pillar by claiming to know how to fix him then lost his memories afterwards.

[@Pthlgc.]

I love that one of the incarnations is just Chris Avellone with a smirk.

[@saschaberger3212]

Hearing Tony Jay's voice always gives me goosebumps and sends me back to Soul Reaver. Knowing he lent his voice for this game as well is reason enough to play it

[@Brandelwyn]

You are worthy

[@gustavvaip1600]

What was even crazier to me was learning that Dan Castellaneta the voice of Homer Simpson did Nordom

[@tomaszsotysik9438]

Can't wait to play the remaster of Sould Reavers coming in a few days

[@stacksmalacks8826]

Almost had tears in my eyes seeing this in my subscriptions

[@NorskBN]

I felt the same truly.

[@BardBoss64]

Fun fact! Morte is voiced by Rob Paulsen, he voiced Yakko in the animaniacs and Pinky in Pinky and the Brain!

[@Anomaly188]

This game has a who's who of 90s western VA talent on it's roster. Vhailor is Keith David, Fall From Grace is Jennifer Hale, Ignus is Charlie Adler, Nordom is Dan Castellaneta, Trias is John de Lancie, Fhjull is Rodger Bumpass, and the Transcendent One is Tony Jay.

[@dive_bomb3r]

Also, Anomen from BG2.

[@SOLARITY333]

His name is Robert Paulsen. His name is Robert Paulsen. His name...

[@Green-Raccoon777]

Dak'konn's also voiced by Mitch Pileggi, who played Skinner from The X-Files, and Annah is played by Shara Easton, the lady who sung For Your Eyes Only back in the early 80's

[@Superschokokeks]

Since grim beards review of this game i use the "updated my journal" sound bit as my smartphone notification sound. Hearing that in this video confused me a bid

[@dylanbell268]

My discord name comes from this game. I was playing it during my freshman year of college and went on a forum to get advice for entering the puzzle dungeon, and a random slavic man and i started talking about it. I was dubbed TheSleeplessOne for playing Planescape at 4 in the morning.

[@JPR3D]

I'm so glad you are covering this game. Any game with Tony Jay, Keith David, and Jennifer Hale providing voice work is a sign of a great one.

[@JoshSweetvale]

What a strange and terrible world I beheld, and dangerous too I was certain. And I was friendless, and homeless, and so... I prayed.

[@ParalyzedHorse95]

Both SsethTzeentach and Warlockracy upload hours from one another in the same day. Must be a gift.

[@BurgermanForever-nh2vp]

Except this video is worth watching 😂

[@lyricpleasants4261]

omg ikr

[@AbNormalHumanBeingsStuff]

I remember first hearing about Planescape: Torment from my bigger brother telling me of a game "with an immortal that has his life history tattooed on his back." It would be many years until I finally got to play it myself, and I was pretty blown away, personally, but then again, I am and always have been, a massive nerd. When wanting to replay it in the past years, I always ran up against the wall of the presentation and style just not being as good as my nostalgia told me after a few hours. Amazing ideas and concepts, but as Idiot Doom Spiral showed: High Concept isnˋt always as good as it sounds.

[@Anomaly188]

Imagine my predicament: I was a kid when this game released, but I wasn't a big PC RPG player and neither was anyone I knew, but years later I grew more accustomed to RPGs and gave this game a try after reading online on how good the story and characters were. When I did I had a really hard time getting into it because of how dense the story actually is.

[@lordfriedrick7911]

A little tidbit on the Lady Of Pain: In D&D she doesn't have any stat, meaning: *DO NOT CROSS HER PATH OR UPSET HER OR YOU DIE*

[@egoalter1276]

As soon as you put stats to something l, players will kill it. If you domt put stazs to it, players will still kill it, but will have to be more creative. Its the Lord British principle, and goes bacl to the first CRPGs, Ultima in particular.

[@lordfriedrick7911]

@egoalter1276 Lord British: you can kill me but you will not finish Ultima Pick your poison

[@johngleeman8347]

@@lordfriedrick7911 Hand over your overpowered crown and you can live. ;3

[@MusicalPixels22]

Painfully awaiting the next warlockracy vid is TORMENT I never want to escape

[@reefjackson2418]

I use his videos to fall asleep to, so when I've exhausted his catalog nothing awaits me but TORMENT

[@mrwtfwhy]

my TORMENT is key... and, the key.

[@TheHalogen131]

Truly the TORNEMT of our times

[@yaboosnubs]

You will do 20 years in the waiting room

[@saintbrodee8021]

Yo! That's me Gary! That's the NWN1 Server I play on! +Points at the Screen+ That was a fun surprise at the end.

[@perryborn2777]

This video got me to try that server out, and I spoke at length with a Gary, at least I think he was Gary... I spoke with lots of folk. Are you a Doomguard?

[@saintbrodee8021]

@@perryborn2777 I was doin' a spongebob reference "Look Gary its me on TV!" I do have a Doomguard named Greg.

[@GuitarbardUnstrung]

Hi, BroDee. :P (another server player finding their compatriot in the comments)

[@johngleeman8347]

You are so right that the video game is more about Sigil than it is about Planescape. Not that Sigil isn't important of course, but there are so many amazing planes to visit that a lot of folks might come to the false conclusion that your typical Planescape campaign is about surviving fantasy Industrial Revolution England. The fun is exploring the mysteries of remote parts of existence and becoming wealthy and wise in the process.

[@KingLich451]

shame the only other way to enjoy this world requires you to role play.

[@JenxRodwell]

That is a tension that is kind of inherit in the setting in general. In some ways, the video game captured that quite well I suppose.

[@Wormopera]

Shame that's its only in table top

[@chillax319]

True but Sigil worked well as a, and I hate this word, melting pot of the multiverse. The only thing that I didn't liked about the Sigil was...where are all the angels? We got some demons, devils but no heavenly beings in the city itself.

[@AuspexAO]

I had my D&D party find a portal nexus with a gate to every outer and inner plane. The barbarian entered the fire plane where the meme, “it's just fire.” was born while he desperately sought a place that would stop incinerating him.

[@Malthael2797]

Thank you for this video, Planescape Torment is one of those game I hear referenced a lot but would never play myself, so this is a helpful explanation/brief recap to kinda get an idea of what folks mean when they mention it.

[@vinegar3617]

Couple thoughts about the video: - I think the intentionality in the Fortress of Regrets' design isn't a plothole or a mistake. I always interpreted the craftsmanship behind the Fortress to be because it was the original incarnation's fortress in life, before he made the bargain with Ravel, but it manifests here in the Negative Material Plane as a representation of his old life as the evil person who committed the crime that would damn him to the Blood War. The fact that it looks like a spaceship also may hint that TNO is originally from the Spelljammer setting - On that note, I always interpreted TTO's personality and power as a hint that he's not only TNO'S mortality given individuality and form, but the original incarnation himself - or at least, his soul essence, his personality, and his power willing itself into existence by the laws of the planes. It explains to me why he's not only powerful enough to "forge planes with his power", but why he's so callous and evil despite his sympathetic motivation. It also explains why he remembers everything TNO has forgotten, because those were HIS memories. - There is no Nordom in this video, which I unfortunately have to mark points down for. I can understand not wanting to do that dungeon but you still need to do your due diligence.

[@Mithrevan]

It's been a long time coming, but finally. Warlockracy makes a Planescape TORRMENT video

[@Heyoka86]

Currently playing Tyranny, after postponing it for many years. It's very good. - someone who finished Planescape and Arcanum multiple times

[@heretic7486]

It is good, not Planescape level but still. Sadly Obsidian fully give up on making isometric rpgs after Tyranny.

[@shoestorekiddo]

Tyranny was amazing man, one of the most original games in a genre that is stagnant trying to replicate the classics

[@Just.Kidding]

@@shoestorekiddo maybe you're just looking in the wrong places, but this genre is SO far from stagnant. There's wildly original stuff coming out all the time.

[@OlofPalm3]

@@heretic7486 they made poe2 too

[@yaldabaoth2]

If Tyranny had an actual ending and not just a cliffhanger, I might have also considered it good. But as it is, just mediocre, telling no story at all.

[@michaandrzejczak3748]

From what I remember concerning the matter of Morte’s memories the skulls located in the pillar itself maintain the entirety of there knowledge but after there removal from the pillar they suffer significant damage to there memory, because of that the pragmatical incarnation nearly tossed Morte back to the pillar after realizing that he no longer posses the informations that he needed

[@SalazarXenoria]

You have no idea how much you've improved my evening, with this upload. Thank you.

[@JM-iu7qx]

0:10 This is a great gag.

[@NinjaAgnostic]

The holy trinity of Sseth, Mandalore and Warlockarcy. Today is a good day

[@Laxboss69]

Mandalore uploaded?

[@TheHalogen131]

Maybe on patreon?

[@manigoldo8736]

Mandalore - Good incarnation Warlockracy - Practical incarnation Sseth - Paranoid incarnation

[@SpecShadow]

@@manigoldo8736 "Mandalore - Good incarnation" oh sweet summer child - you don't know capabilites of his goblin mode...

[@geoffl7461]

0:15 Damn, roasted within 15 seconds of starting the video.

[@cerocero2817]

Can't say it wasn't spot on. I think I'm going to play it for real this time out of spite.

[@nefariousyawn]

Every time I'm reminded of this game I check Steam to see how much it costs and maybe wishlist it for later, only to see that I already bought it some time ago. Maybe this weekend I'll play it, we'll see.

[@vvitchofthewest]

i have to say, the satisfaction i felt going into that intro blind as a person that started playing a month ago was unparallelled

[@gambit_elstar]

There is a more plausible theory that the Nameless One was a general who committed a war crime of enormous proportions (such vision in one of the sensory stones). Like The Exile from KOTOR 2 and Fate Binder from Tyranny

[@JoshSweetvale]

It could be more than just genocide. Ever been to Athas? Genocide in the classical 'kill a species to the last person' sense is one of the steps on the way to becoming a dragon-god.

[@adahnyemeth6317]

i've also heard a theory that he was the one to start the Blood war in the first place. Since the game is so thematicly oriented, you know. I think its possible, but dont personally believe in it, cos that would make him beyond ancient, and not just 1000-3000 years old

[@JoshSweetvale]

@@adahnyemeth6317 Didn't the Devils start the Blood War by falling en masse, deliberately to fight the Demons?

[@adahnyemeth6317]

@@JoshSweetvale well, he might've stuck his nose into that matter, like giving them the idea in the first place. Who knows. I didnt even know this, and it doesnt much matter, its just a fun hypothesis. But ty for answering

[@JoshSweetvale]

@@adahnyemeth6317 Good answer. Excellent speculation.

[@TheGateShallStand]

Ah, I got into this by playing the spiritual successor Torment: Tides of Numenera, very happy to see a full length video on it.

[@Gledster]

I've had Tormen:Tides... for years and never given it a proper shot. That's a plan for 2025. Thank you for reminding me of that.

[@interdimensionalcommunicat9750]

So in the original design document of the game there were supposed to be three endings: *Bad Ending: The Nameless One is too chicken to permanently kill himself and lets the Transcendant One kill him. He loses his memories and wakes up in the Mortuary again with Morte, who is depressed knowing there's no way out now. *Neutral Ending: The Nameless One merges with the Transcendant One and regains his mortality, before dying and fighting in the Blood War. Basically the ending we got in the final game. *Good Ending: The Nameless One kills the Transcendant One, which permanently destroys his mortality. He is now a happy immortal with none of the downsides of his original condition. While I think removing the Good Ending was the right choice, because "The Nameless One takes responsibility for his actions and willingly accepts the thousands of years in Hell his original incarnation tried to cheat his way out of" is a way more powerful ending than "The Nameless One has his cake and eats it too and is just this super OP immortal now", I wish the Bad Ending was still kept because the ending as it currently stands is unfit for an evil character. You can be an utter self-serving bastard in this game; selling Morte to the Tower of Skulls, abusing Dak'kon's oath of loyalty to you to turn him into your slave, joining in all the crime in Carceri and so on but I don't think willingly accepting punishment really fits with a sociopath run.

[@scrumpy8192]

The reputation this game has actually is earned. It really is that well written.

[@CybrosisEvolved]

Warlockcry and Noah Cadwell Gervis are polar opposites. Watching them both gives the perfect antithesis-synthesis of a peice of media. It's like the NCR-Cesars legion and Yes Man fused together with wax. Organic but not permanent

[@admiraltonydawning3847]

And then there's Chris Davis. An outsider peeking into the psych ward of RPG esthusiasts.

[@virginiasaintj]

Warlockracy has much better writing and is able to read his script without stuttering, or at least is nice enough to edit it out.

[@ProblemForSolution]

I never understood people who didnt like the game or found it boring. Its one of thr most detailed if not the most detailed game. It has so much to offer. The writing is so good and the conversations are incredibly interesting. There is a lots of philosophy, introspection, its very mature. The art is incredible. Everything looks strange, bizzare, mysterious and yet aesthetically pleasing. Its the only game that made me feel I learned something new. Its the only game that felt like reading some forbidden occult book.

[@studentt6064]

You listed the strong points of the game yes, but even as a fan I have to admit that the combat is a very weak element of this game, and I couldn't blame someone for for putting down this game if that is what they care about.

[@ProblemForSolution]

@studentt6064 I dont play dnd games, I tried bg1 and 2 and dropped botg after some time. Combat is pretty similiar to those games, isnt it? Not everyone likes that combat but in this case you gotta make a compromise. Its jusr the nature of the isometric rpg medium.

[@raifthemad]

Don't worry, many people, especially the young do not understand anyone, who isn't like them. You are in a big club. In fact If I may be so bold, imo, most denizens of this Planet of the Apes fall under that category.

[@ProblemForSolution]

@@raifthemad I don't think its that. The younger generations enjoyed disco elysium which is also heavy on dialogue and reading. I find a lot of people regardless of their age start playing it and don't find it interesting for some reason.

[@raifthemad]

@ That's not what I wanted to convey at al. I was trying to say, that apparently based on your statement "I never understood people who didn't like the game or found it boring," you do not understand people that do not think/feel like you. And not to worry, since that's a very common trait amongst humans. Not many can put themselves in the shoes of those that are not like them.

[@reax5526]

Never could finish this game but always wanted to know the story, thanks m8 you showed it really nicely. I had no idea the world building went that deep

[@czeslawireneusz8069]

Ahh, Planescape:torment, I remember the gameplay being Morte using his ability to aggro the enemy, as all the other party members beat the foe.

[@jhudsu1]

this is pretty much the difference between success and failure with Trias because he gets so mad he forgets to cast his party wiping 9th level spells

[@czeslawireneusz8069]

@jhudsu1 this is true for all High level enemies really.

[@masterdesattardes1055]

@@jhudsu1it’s a shame the high tier spells come so late into the game and are practically unusable given the whole work that was put into their animations. Wish another game would pick up the overly dramatic fanfare of Planescape’s magic. My favourite is the Mechanus Cannon.

[@planescaped]

I remember mages being the only "fun" class to play.

[@chillax319]

@@masterdesattardes1055 Gold dragon orbital cannon is my second fav.

[@phunkyzilla]

This is the greatest 3 hours after a Warlockracy simulation I’ve ever experienced. Glad to be watching!

[@JenxRodwell]

An absolutely banger of an episode, as expected. Worth the wait! 10/10, no notes! But seriously though, this was one of your best episodes.

[@PizzaRollExpert]

I'm very happy that I decided to start playing planescape just weeks before this upload so that I could feel smug about actually having started the game during the intro. This has also given me much needed motivation to finish it so I can finish watching the rest of this video

[@beoweasel]

1:04:04 It's kind of funny how you portray the Paranoid Incarnation as a hapless sadsack, when he was a Chaotic Evil lunatic. Yeah, he was trapped in circumstances that were beyond his control, but that didn't stop him from trying to fuck over his future incarnations and his casual mass murder.

[@drpretzel2086]

The memory’s of I and my mother playing this game crawled out from the back of my brain and it was nice to feel those memories again

[@Valchrist1313]

The Baldur's Gate 2 enhanced edition has a shop in the very starting area full of Torment reference items, including Dakkon's Zerth blade. It described how he died shortly after joining with an entity called "The Nameless One".

[@donatodiniccolodibettobardi842]

I miss the Doomguard NPCs or companion in this game. Coaxmetal's beliefs about the nature of order and the multivetse is an interesting companion piece to their own philosophy. Basically, all Doomguard believe that everything will end and the end is inevitable. The rot, death, disintegration, apocalypse. Everything is doomed. Haer'Dalis, a bard in Baldur's Gate 2 is a believer. The ruling majority of the faction believes that the end must be accelerated, although some believe it must be slowed down or that nothing must be done at all. They also have 4 citadels in planes adjacent to the Negative plane, which might've inspired the fortress of regrets. (Spoiler-ish? Not related to the main quest or anything, just something you might wish to explore on your own): Coaxmetal doesn't think about inevitability of Entropy at all. What he is concerned about is the endless march of Order, putting the world in chains. The Stasis, an unchanging wasteland of law. And for him destruction, war, death and weaponry are the tools of resistance and liberation - to avoid that end. He's not canon Planescape tabletop character, but I like his addition to the video game.

[@JastrzabTrzeci]

The polish dub of this game is still the best localisation i've expirienced. Hands down. They brought actual film and theatre actors to do dub an edgy millenial rpg. Also they've translated all of the sigils cant. "Przestań trzonsć trumnom, skurlu!"

[@egoalter1276]

The original also has theater actors as voice talent.

[@LegalPhantom]

Finally the holy Duology of Planescape Torment reviews: Warlockracy and Grim Beard. We only need Majuular to review it and we'll have the Holy trinity

[@albertmilton9424]

You should watch Noah Caldwell-Gervais if you haven't

[@tantalus1210]

Idk, Majuular just cannot help himself saying something so cringe every now and then, that I kind of zone out from the otherwise well research content of his vids...

[@donatodiniccolodibettobardi842]

​@@tantalus1210Who?

[@PointyHairedJedi]

You can add MrEdders123 to that list too!

[@Kingshadowac]

@@tantalus1210 Sounds like your brain has rotted.

[@mannypardo1080]

This is still the best D&D game of all time. I finally got around to beating it after a decade and I'm not disappointed.

[@tomasz9429]

I first played Planescape: Torment in 2001. Since then I replay this game every few years. Last time was in 2022, it's high time for another one. This time I'll do another solo mage run. My favorite.

[@louderbacker]

Love the video, but a recap really can't replicate the feeling of playing this game for the first time. You can spend hours and hours between waking up in the Mortuary and finding Pharod, in my opinion it felt even more open and free than Fallout 1.

[@MajorCoolD]

Yeah I was also surprised by his progression... to the point where I start to wonder wheter some crucial key-points are indeed optional and you have several ways to get there, or if it's just Warlock glossing over some details.

[@powerist209]

Now seems that any Planescape materials tend to follow Torment. Like the module started off at a morgue and also going to Casino (probably New Vegas fan), and the comic had an amnesiac who reincarnated into other person after each deaths.

[@Diskhate]

This is one of those games that i replay every 4 years or so, and the more i mature in life the more i appreciate It. When i first played it in my teenage years i thought it was an amazing story, when i played it in my mid 20s i thought it was an amazing AND profound story, and now that i ve played it in my 30s i see in it a coherent and continuous statement about the universe rather than just the story of the nameless one.

[@theaspectofvoid]

After all the years, all the small jokes and music snippets from P:T in other videos you finaly did it... merry christmas my dude. Thank you So Much!

[@Draguling]

I have completed this game 4 times. It is well worth regularly replaying.

[@thomasneal9291]

every five years since it came out for me. I get something new out of it every time.

[@leech8303]

I read about the game on Wikipedia when i was around 13 years old,played the game 7 years later for less than 30 minutes before quit;then i passed trough my teenager face how to deal with consequences and played Torment again...everyone should have his own conclusions about their action's consequences.

[@zanethezaniest274]

Warlockracy references PT in his Olympus 2207 video all those years ago and now he himself completes the Unity of Rings by covering PT. It’s like poetry.

[@SpecShadow]

There are 3 games in the series - Planescape Torment, Neverwinter Night 2 - Mask of Betrayer and Disco Elysium. All of them made by studios that are either gone or their writing department wiped.

[@JohnSagin-SimViDeLucis579]

Omg FINALLY, THANK YOU! This game kicked off my existencial delema as a kid. My dad almost snapped the disk lol Edit: After finishing the video, scenario A sounds badass! Thank you again because... I never beat this game and seeing how it ends has dissolved my REGRET. Theres just too much to say in the attempt to inform you how important this video is to me, let alone the GAME. It essentially informed my core limit to..the ineffable. Death. An early obsession of mine. Black Isle/Obsidian has had more INFLUENCE over my psychological development than the entire works of Disney, .... You know what? More than television/movie media entirely. Torment to spark the dilemma and then years later KOTOR 1&2 to stoke it.

[@NorskBN]

Thank you again. I really appreciated this video.

[@uyaratful]

Jesus, I loved this game as a kid. It was so sophisticated and full of secrets. I know it's good practice to make fun of the P:T, but it really has wonderful thematic consistency, foreshadowing, and a coherent message.

[@thomasneal9291]

" I know it's good practice to make fun of the P:T" ask yourself why you think that. this too, is a lesson the game itself tries to teach you. think, examine yourself, learn.

[@kukriking1359]

Nice to see a really solid Planescape video. The concepts shown in this game are really cool.

[@BurgermanForever-nh2vp]

Got 14 minutes in and said "Crap, I need to play this myself". I'll be commenting again once I have 😂

[@StevenSeagull123]

Updating my journal so hard right now

[@mothfyre]

The video we've been waiting for. Played this back in 2012 and return periodically. One of the few games that I can unironically say was life altering. Gold standard for storytelling and setting.

[@bf1701]

"You won't play this game." Me: *Spinning up a virtual machine and installing from the original four CDs to play it AGAIN.*

[@ennuiespada]

Updated my journal.

[@JuanRuiz-bu4zk]

getting to speak in Tony Jay voice is all the reward a man needs

[@SSangsen]

That really updated my journal.

[@MajorCinnamonBuns]

Awesome video. Also Sigil - Planar Legends is great. When I played I made it my quest to map out the outer planes and ended up going to ones people didn't even think you could get to like Ysgard.

[@HamidKarzai]

this game had a major impact on my adolescent self, it had a significant hand in shaping my worldview, along with KOTOR 2. The philosophies of the various factions are so interesting, like I find the sensates objectionable in many ways but i've also internalized their view such that i am more open minded and willing to try new experiences than I would have been otherwise

[@MajorCoolD]

Indeed, on the one hand you can consider Sensates nothing more than adrenaline crazed thrill-junkies who apparently have nothing better to do with their lives that the powers have bestowed upon them. On the other hand, how can you judge something without having experienced it? Ultimately mortal creatures are slaves to their senses and all 'immortal' creatures were mortal once to some extent, not to mention that arguably mortals hold the greatest power of all in the Planes as it is their power of imagination that shapes the planes in many ways. Therefore one could rightfully claim that the Sensates are the closest to whatever there is to enlightenment, while many of the other factions are more often than not about enforcing their seemingly arbitrary believe system onto others.

[@VashdaCrash]

Hey, I played it. With a wisdom walkthrough, it was great!

[@mehmedmaloparic]

This video really updates my journal

[@SneedDrinker]

Thanks warlockracy, I have always wanted to know the story of planescape but the writing was too wordy for my taste thus I couldnt get into. This video explains perfectly

[@pathfindersavant3988]

Tony Jay's voice acting is immaculate as always in this.

[@davedavedave8929]

It's been 20 years and i still cant get rid off that leitmotif out of my head.

[@gromolko-cn8kp]

What, no Nordom? Inconceivable. What amazes me is that I have played this 20+ times, and still there seems to be stuff I've never found out.

[@2013Arcturus]

"You won't play this game" _Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch! I was there when it was written._