Planescape: Torment Second Best RPG per eToychest

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(Originally posted by chevalier)

At eToychest, they have put up a list of ten best RPGs. Planescape: Torment comes second and Pool of Radiance is also there. The first one. Here's a snip:

Planescape: Torment is what every contemporary PC role-playing game should strive to emulate. Everything here works in harmony, from the fantastic story, to the fluid mechanics, so that every attribute included in the game experience helps to accentuate or enhance that experience. I consider this to be Interplay and Black isle Studio's best work, even though when released it was vastly overshadowed by their more popular Baldur's Gate games.

...and of Pool of Radiance:

During the 80’s D&D had gone from underground geek culture to mainstream in the blink of an eye. The franchise spawned a toy line, a cartoon, and it even occupied a scene in the movie E.T. In 1988 SSI released the first game in the highly successful “gold box” series of AD&D adaptations, and it was a smash hit. This single event is arguably more responsible for hooking players on computer role-playing than any other.

The one aspect of Pool of Radiance that was perhaps the most innovative for the time, as well as the most fun is its non-linear nature. In Pool of Radiance players are tasked embarking with a six-character party on a quest for fortune, as well as rebuilding the city of Phlan. Players can take on these commissions, or they can go off and do their own adventuring.

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(Originally posted by Blog)

Pool of Radiance made the top ten? Wow... I liked its sequels much more. He must have been really impressed with his level 6 mage... (exp cap)

Take a look at PoR's right-most screenshot. That is how D&D combat is meant to be: turn-based and strategic battle formations.

I wonder where he forgot to place Ultima 4 ??