planescape: torment

my favorite game. ever. far and away. it blows anything else away. it could be converted into a novel with ease, and maybe even a movie, although it would be all dialogue. maybe a play. a play would be good. it's so amazing. the story, the dialogue, the choices, the freedom.

in the same way i pleaded with amanda to read the golden compass, i beg austin to play this game. except with 897231432798 times the intensity. natalie, you read this, no? tell him to get this game. get this game for him. i don't care if it takes away from the free time that he spends with you. stop being so goddamn selfish!

it sells on ebay, packaged with some game i've never heard of, for less than $5!! after shipping it'd be more like $7 or 8, but everyone who likes video games, and pure awesomeness, needs to get this game.

this is a sample of the storytelling in this game.

"An elderly man was sitting alone on a dark path, right? He wasn't certain of which direction to go, and he'd forgotten both where he was traveling to and who he was. He'd sat down for a moment to rest his weary legs, and suddenly looked up to see an elderly woman before him. She grinned toothlessly and with a cackle, spoke: 'Now your *third* wish. What will it be?'"
"'Third wish?' The man was baffled. 'How can it be a third wish if I haven't had a first and second wish?'"
"'You've had two wishes already,' the hag said, 'but your second wish was for me to return everything to the way it was before you had made your first wish. That's why you remember nothing; because everything is the way it was before you made any wishes.' She cackled at the poor berk. 'So it is that you have one wish left.'"
"'All right,' said the man, "I don't believe this, but there's no harm in wishing. I wish to know who I am.'"
"'Funny,' said the old woman as she granted his wish and disappeared forever. 'That was your first wish.'"

planescape won game of the year 1999. at some point black isle was working on a sequel and the project was abandoned. so awful.

i just installed it on this computer. i'm going to play through the entire thing again, i think this will be the third or fourth time. every playthrough has taken tens of hours, and i loved every minute of it and will love it again.