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[Frankie]

Originally Posted by ianfreddie07

Nice bump Frankie.

Anyway, in short... you're saying this is a terrible review?

Story driven RPGs are already fitting well in the genre, but then if the gameplay of the RPG can't support/complement the story well enough... Everything else falls apart. You'd be reading a book, instead of playing a game. Not good.

1) Was reading through reviews, found this, happens to be my favorite game, and I'm a careless necromancer anyway.

2) Yes.

3) I didn't have too many problems with the gameplay. The close view was weird at the start but I think it was applied for not to see your environment further then you should. I liked the spell's animations and I loathe Final Fantasy aswell. I really didn't get it why to whip those animations so hard if you'll have to read a lot a couple minutes later.
I'm trying to take out the best of games usually and play it the way it's intended. This one obviously focused on the story, I payed less attention for the graphics -- which was considered good in its time -- and I was familiar with the gameplay and could come over its drawbacks.

I like some games as I like a good movie. The more I analyse these, the more magic they lose imho. Play it through two or three times and have its memory like a movie's.

[ianfreddie07]

I thought you'd be coming at me with guns blazing.

Anyway, you are right on playing games the way they're intended. I would guess that Pigggy based the review on how he played the game he thinks the way it's intended to be played.

[red_avatar]

I knew before I read the review that Blood Piggy was going to slam it. He's very similar to russ in how he views games.

Anyway: the 'review' of BP is crap. It's a huge pile of mental masturbation, is way too long, totally unbalanced, is *extremely* subjective and exaggerates facts constantly to make his point. It's the typical kind of anti-fanboy review I tend to ignore because of its extreme view and those are rarely helpful except to those that agree. It misleads rather than guides people.

His entire review can be summed up in one line: Planescape has crappy gameplay which is an excuse to tell the story. Tadaa. Not that I agree, but that's really what those heaps of text are trying to say.

In any case, for many people, a good story is what pushes the game onwards. The main reason I give up on games, is the lack of a proper story and even a mediocre game will make me complete it if the stories interests me. Only with the very best games, a story is optional.

Personally, I prefer a game with an amazing story and good combat over a game with amazing combat and no or a pathetic story. Even games with amazing combat tend to make me think "well, what's the point?" after a while. For example: I loved Wing Commander Prophecy when I first played it, because the story was cleverly made to draw you in. The actual space combat was less than amazing but I still completed the game.

About Planescape: loved it and although I can see some of Blood Piggy's points, I think he's wrong, rating it based on what HE believes an RPG should be like instead of reviewing it on its own merits. Nothing worse than people bitching about a game because they wanted it to be something else, like the idiots that threw crap at Thief because you were weak in combat >_<. Planescape was ALWAYS supposed to be a story-rich RPG.

[Wolf Thug]

Lame Game , Its like walking the plank, You just walk till you reach the end and fall into a sea of lameness.

[Frankie]

Originally Posted by Wolf Thug

Lame Game , Its like walking the plank, You just walk till you reach the end and fall into a sea of lameness.

...where you, the lame shark is hunting for the prey. Where did this elaborate metaphor came from? -_-

[Wolf Thug]

Originally Posted by Frankie

...where you, the lame shark is hunting for the prey. Where did this elaborate metaphor came from? -_-

Huh !Your english is poor "the lame shark is hunting for the prey"??

[Wolf Thug]

It was a nice game tbh but Linear RPG = Lame.

[angry axe]

i thought this said runescape..... YOU TRICKED ME but seriously, if this game is linear like you say it must be extremely GAY

[Simoneer]

Do you really need to use "gay" as a synonym for bad that way?

Way to insult people.

[punch999]

Originally Posted by angry axe

i thought this said runescape..... YOU TRICKED ME but seriously, if this game is linear like you say it must be extremely GAY

You're a moron.