Just picked up from Richard Cobbett’s twitter, it appears that Interplay are re-releasing Planescape Torment. Its release date is listed as the 30th October and the price is a – not-much-change-from-the-nature-of-twenty-quid – 17.99 of your Earth pounds. In fact, it appears to be a whole load of Interplay other material too. It’s a surprise to see a decade-old game released at a mid-range price… but it’s also one that I find hard to argue against. A game that’s still placing high in all-time lists, that’s been unavailable for years, that goes for full-price when it turns up on eBay and hasn’t been superseded in any way. If the gaming equivalent of the Beatle’s price never going down and this means that Dan Gril has no excuse but to finally return Alec’s copy to him. Hand it back, you bast.
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too pricey…. luckily I can complain from my high altar as I still have my original 4 disc copy in sleeve etc.
If it was $15, I’d buy it in an instant. At least Baldur’s Gate that is. Amazon.com is still saying $28.68 which is an improvement from the previous price of $80.
This better be on GOG. If it’s on GoG AND Steam… I… I may buy it twice!
On gog.com for $30? That’s about three times as much as their most expensive game.
Don’t know if they ship internationally (probably not), but in Poland you can buy Planescape for the equivalent of 6,5 quid or for a quid less at retail. http://www.gram.pl/gra_8Q7e5_Planescape_Torment.html
Considering it’s still the best story based RPG ever made by an alarming margin, I’d say 18 quid is a steal. If you haven’t played it yet, buybuybuy!
Old games sell for a lot of money if they are both hard to find and very highly rated. I have no doubt that Torment will sell at 18 pounds, but I doubt it will sell anywhere near as well as it could if put on GoG for, say, $10.
GOG/STEAM please. Planescape: Torment really is a fantastic game.
Wow! D00d — they are releasing this on MY BIRTHDAY because they love me! I am a lucky internet man!
On a somewhat related note:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000098XL9/ref=s9_k2a_gw_ir03?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-5&pf_rd_r=0C0JKXM20S9Q6WJE9PG1&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128293&pf_rd_i=468294
what what what
When was this released?
If he wanted it back that much, he’d come over here and get it.
Just be thankful Bethesda didn’t buy the rights to Torment along with the Fallout franchise.
Just to report this game seems to work fine in Windows 7 – I’ve installed the Widescreen mod, the GUI fix, the nvidia patch, and enabled software mirroring (else everyone breakdanced backwards when moving right).
PLEASE release this in NA!
I want a physical box and stuff…
Oh…it looks like UK only.
That sucks. I really want a physical copy of this game. If nothing else I want to be able to download it from somewhere…
Caleb – don’t you know anyone in the UK? Perhaps they could order one for you and mail it over.
Yeah, it looks like I might have to bother one of the other writers over at the Dreamcast Junkyard.
Amazon are shipping these out right now btw.