Planescape Torment. Video Games With the Best Stories
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- Genre: RPG
- What's good beyond the plot: top notch philosophical speculations
Video games tend to avoid dealing with philosophical topics, preferring to focus on more easily digestible matters, and to base any moral dilemmas on fairly simple foundations in which no player could get lost. Fortunately, sometimes there are exceptions that go beyond this pattern. And if the stars turns out to be favorable and a talented development team comes up with a more ambitious theme, we have a chance to get a masterpiece. One like Planescape Torment.
Black Isle Studios' classic RPG, fondly remembered by many even today, took us to the world of Planescape, in which we played as The Nameless One, an immortal being who lost his memories. He wakes up in a morgue and tries to remember his past, a number of tattoos on his back being the only clue.
The journey across the Planescape, unique, contradictory and full complicated rules, took the Nameless One and his colorful companions in search of answers not only to the mysteries of the past, but also to philosophical questions. The most important of these was: "what can change the human nature?” and the main storyline of the game was subordinated to this very question. And for many players the answer to this question was Planescape Torment, which, after one completed it, remained with them forever – in their hearts and minds.
