GOG loves D&D! Here's why:

While our [url=http://www.gog.com/en/promo/hasbro_stacking_promo]Diamonds of D&D promo is in the works we--the GOG.com staff-- would like to share some very personal memories with you. Today we tackle with a legend. An RPG that is said to be the greatest achievement of computer games' storytelling. The one, that after all these years still haunts the dreams of many gamers. The one and only: Planescape: Torment!
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Ah, so we meet again, accursed Planescape: Torment! You irresistible fiend, I blame you for that failed modern history mid-term. Why did you have to be so damn enthralling? Why did you have to be so damn full of worlds, with stories much more compelling than our own? Why?!
--G-Doc, the GOG.com clickity-click guy


For quite a long time I misread the title of this game as "Planetscape: Tournament" and I was convinced that it was a arcade-style sci-fi beat 'em up. The blue-faced badass with rad dreadlocks on the cover made me 100% sure about it. But then someone told me what Torment actually was. I played it and enjoyed it as hell, but it was so long ago, that I don't even remember the name of the main character. Good times!
--Cables, the GOG.com IT witchdoctor


I had just finished wading through an army of supermutatants, talking the Master to death, and sinking a battleship in the first two Fallouts and I was hungry for more RPG goodness. I quested down to the local computer store and looted the bargain bin. I managed to wrest the superior 4-disc version, not the wimpy-skimpy 2-disc version, of Planescape: Torment from some wailing mother bearing an infant, I think, or was it a wailing infant bearing a mother? Anyways, after rushing off to play this hard-fought RPG, I was expecting it to be something along the vein of Fallout where I level up, shoot first and ask questions later. After all, it had the tried-and-true Black Isle log and some strange blue dude on the cover; this obviously was a subtle statement of quality.

Little did I know that I would enter a world where even something that is the equivalent of pocket lint might be an important quest object and you better not throw it away, which led my impressionable younger self to keep everything in my pockets in case I accidentally came across a portal. Meeting Ignus, the fire mage, was also a revelation as the guy wasn't just your average stereotypical mage who wants to discover the inner workings of magic and all that stereotypically boring magey stuff. No, Ignus did not go the casual route with an Awesome Button in hand, he cranked up his magic to 11: he decided to become Fire itself. I still can't forget the first time I equipped Morte with...teeth. I can only imagine the Nameless One trying to equip Morte with a new set of chompers.

Yes, Planescape Torment holds a place in my heart, not just for the unique characters, the well-crafted story that gives the impression that each word was carefully weighed and hand-placed, but also for being a game that had me examine what can truly change the nature of a man.
--Judas, the GOG.com content acquisitor extraordinare

So, there you have it. Our very own Planescape: Torment impressions, dreams, and nightmares. Care to share one of yours?

[i]The previous entry in our GOG loves D&D series, along with some great user-submitted stories (thank you!), can be found here:
GOG loves D&D: The Baldur's Gate series[/i]