Part one: What is the best game to come out of the 80s?
This is the second part of the series. This is eventually all going to get compiled into one megathread for people who want gaming recommendations from Chapos specifically. Other decades and consoles will come in sporadic subsequent threads.
Expanding on your choice is definitely a plus.
Planescape Torment
Mechanically a pretty clunky RPG with an even wonkier interpretation of the already-wonky D&D 2e rules, but it didn't really matter because the setting and the story and the characters were so amazing. The beautiful painted backgrounds mean it really still holds up really well now too.
I have tried to play that game so many times over the years and every time something in my life gets in the way of me finishing it.
I broke down and just read plot spoilers for the story and characters... and wow.... super impressed. Also like how a huge amount of the "level progression" seemed based around talking to NPC's instead of killing NPC's.
If you decide to give it another go, the enhanced edition makes really good use of the higher resolution to show more of a location at once, and give a better feel for the places
And yeah I love that the combat very much takes a back seat to all the dialogue and exploration (and much of the combat can be skipped). Baldur's Gate 2 is much better as a "proper" RPG but I think everything else makes Torment the much better game
Fully agreed. One of these rare games that can touch you as profoundly as a great book.