123 Games With Untapped Franchise Potential
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Serious RPG nerds like to call this game avant-garde fantasy instead of high-fantasy because they enjoy using semantics to show they're smarter than you. Planescape: Torment is set in the traditional Dungeons and Dragons Universe, but far away from any elves, dwarves and magical +2 swords, in the shifting dimensional-gateway city of Sigil a home to some truly some freaky-deaky stuff, including a hidden blood war between armies of demons spanning thousands of years and an ancient hideously scarred man known as the Nameless One, who you play as.
You awaken on a mortuary embalming table as the game begins, and soon discover that your character is blessed with immortality (possibly by dying) but cursed with forgetting his past lives. The gameplay fixates on dialogue and nebulous moral choices to shape your character and progression, rather than combat and picking the good, neutral or evil path. Asking yourself if you really want someone to dig around in your guts for a clue a previous incarnation may or may not have put there is not an unusual question in Planescape: Torment. It's one of the most unique RPGs ever and will leave you scouring old RPGs for its literary equal (there is none), but of course, we couldn't say that if they'd made a sequel.
