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Planescape Dale? Planescape Gate?

Discussion in 'Planescape: Torment (Classic)' started by Philonious, Feb 24, 2004.

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    Remove all ads!
    Seeing as there are multiple conversions of one ie game to a second ie engine, how come no one has made a conversion/major overhaul of ps:t? It is by far the best of the crop and would aguably benefit from an update to the IWDII engine.
     
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    [​IMG] Westley Weimer has had to shelve Icewind Gate for some time now because he's knee-deep in his PhD work. It will be something if he even starts your proposal anytime soon.
     
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    Torment is fundamentally different from all other games using the Infinity Engine. It'd probably be pretty much impossible.
     
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    Thanks for the replies, this section of the boards seems fundamentally dead so I didn't think that I would hear much.

    The other downside is that free multiclassing pretty removes anything special about the NMO, but better resolutions would be nice, although it is a very pretty game, it is starting to show it's age. Also if it were possible, it would be another incentive to play through this uber-cool game.
     
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    This has been proposed at FWP before. The idea was fundamentally rejected because: (1) We'd have to mess with the best IE game which is already perfect as is; (2) WoTC could bring forth copyright issues.

    As Taluntain said, the stuff in PST is in a slightly different format than that in BG2 or IWD, but it is possible to convert between the two.
     
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    The resolution issue is another dear to my heart.

    Think of the character makeup. You can't decide on who can wield what type of weapons, for the most part, and only two characters have basic ranged attacks. Everyone else is basically a melee build.

    Even though you have some mages, which fudge it up a little, the resolution works much better at the 800x600 level. It forces you to take a closer look and a slower pace. Besides, it's not like combat in this game is hard at all. A higher resolution would degrade the visual beauty of this game, particularly the character animations, while adding nothing. Don't be a resolution whore.
     
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    If someone were only to make it playable in higher resolutions, I very much doubt WoTC would care. I've never had any problems with the game's resolution, but newbies keep complaining about it. Making them happy would be a worthwhile achievement, and I'm sure pretty much everyone else would want to check out how the game looks in higher resolutions as well.
     
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    [​IMG] Well if only someone could convert the Caracters to a Baldursgate 2 format I would be a very happy men :) (could you inmagin Annah walking in the graveyard district of amn? That would be so cool!).

    But I must say I realy like the game and the resolution it comes with :) .
     
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    Sadly, she likely hasn't all needed animations, which could crash the game, and she would be about 1,5* the height of other people.
     
    ArrynMorgerim, Mar 2, 2004
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    [​IMG] Yeah One time I coppied all the Annah files to my BG2 overide folder and the game crashed when I tried to sumon her :(
     
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    It's doable, but you'd need to convert her files into BG2 format. PST uses different headers for their files.

    You'd need to edit her animations a bit, too.
     
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