Duck and Cover

Has anybody played through the game as a thief?

Yeah, it's not a lot different from playing as a fighter. The main differences are that combat can be slightly more difficult (TNO can't tank as well obviously, less weapons to use) and you can pickpocket like crazy. Not sure if the tradeoff is worth it, but if you're going to play it multiple times you might as well try it.

I love that game. I can't see what the big deal is with the combat, it's much better than anything like we see nowadays (Beth stuff and Troika's for example). I think you can actually play the game as an hybrid of two classes if you want to, since you get two points in the game where you earn your respective class skills. I've never tried but I think it's possible.

Don't forget to install the unofficial patch (http://www.bootstrike.com/Torment/files.html), it's worth the trouble.

Damn, I feel like playing it again.

And if you want, you can install the Leprechaun Annah mod.

VasikkA wrote:Mine came with a nice poster.

Mine came with a .txt file on how to crack it.

i tried playing it twice, found it boring and uninstalled it

Mad Max RW wrote:I played it for a while and couldn't get past how bad the combat was. Same reason I never beat Baldur's Gate 2.

Jet Baby wrote:Amazing story, shit for gameplay.

Read a book instead.

This pretty much summed it up for me as well.

VasikkA wrote:And if you want, you can install the Leprechaun Annah mod.

....What the hell am I looking at?

Although the combat in the game isn't the best, the fact that you have so many options for dealing with things and that you generally don't need to fight abates this somewhat.

I wouldn't recommend playing a fighter as it's much better to play a mage due to the emphasis on wisdom/intelligence. These give you the majority of the most interesting solutions to things in the game and much more dialogue options otherwise. Additionally the magic users are far stronger overall towards the end of the game, meaning you can pretty much breeze through the combat to get to the other story parts. It's certainly not for everyone though because the game is practically a novel that you interact with.

It's still a very good game however.

Minigun- It was a St. Patricks day easter egg thingamagig or something. It just makes her have a skanky green outfit compared to what she normally wears.

Morte Easter makes me barf

atoga wrote: I remember Dak'kon (the guy of the race I cannot remember right now)

Githzerai.

A monkish race. Like a Vulcan Samurai. Wonderful tank.

Has anybody played through the game as a thief?

No, but I really want to try some of the special thief items.

Vampiric Paralysis Punch Dagger.

Yum!

Automatic backstabs on paralyzed opponents.

Whee!

Too bad you'd actually have to paralyze them first, eh.

There is a Dak'kon's Zerth Blade in Baldur's Gate 2, I think. It gives some extra spells, or sth.

jetbaby wrote:Mine was owned by like... two other people first.

So was mine. I could never get past the junkyard or something. Lame combat ruined it for me. Might go back through it though as a mage or whatever.

Nicolai wrote:Too bad you'd actually have to paralyze them first, eh.

There is a chance every hit that the dagger will paralyze them.

stabstabstabstabstab

I enjoyed PS:T a little too much. So much, in fact, when I approached the end of the game, I quit, because I could not bear to live knowing there would be no more.

I didn't pay attention to the combat, however. That's something I picked up while playing Arcanum.