Why don't any developers just remake Planescape Torment with modern graphics?

Seriously though. It would sell like hotcakes! Most PC RPG fans would buy it. And if it was a quality remake, it could prove to be the best PC RPG ever made.

It would seem that remaking Planescape Torment would be an obvious choice, so how come it hasn't been done?

Originality? To be fair, I prefer sequels to remakes - at least they take a genre/story and try to advance it. Remakes are lazy in movies and lazy in games. They might look better, but a given game's moment has passed - players and genres move on.

Copyright or something like that.

I honestly don't think it would do well, sadly enough. The game is deliberately paced, to put it kindly, and many gamers simply wouldn't have the patience to follow it through. For another thing, with the vast amount of dialogue in PST, it would cost a fortune to voice it all, and you know it would have to be voiced to appeal to the modern taste.

As good as PST and its like were, I really think that style of game is a thing of the past.

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I think for the most part they just know they will never capture that same feeling that made the game great in the first place. Devs don't dare touch legendary games in the fear they will probably just screw it up. It's best to leave whats passed in the past and enjoy it for what it was.

Because there's really no need.

I disagree that all the dialogue would have to be voice-acted. Maybe just the first sentence of every conversation could be voice-acted. If the graphics were top notch, the combat all made real-time, and the dialogue and story all kept the same, it would do extremely well sales-wise.

Just look how good the Resident Evil remake on the Gamecube was. It was excellent and made the game so much better than the original.

What were the sales figures for Planescape Torment in its day?

Because there's really no need.

broken_bass_bin

exactly.

the game is great as it is. it's a cult cIassic; it doesn't need cosmetic modernization to get crowd approval and recognition.

cinematic tricks sell games, with or without quality stories. there's no need to drag a story out of a cult cIassic.

I think the game looks fine, the artstyle holds up well on its own. If anything, it need more voice acting. The voice acting in Planescape was very rare, but it was incredible when it was spoke.

I disagree that all the dialogue would have to be voice-acted. Maybe just the first sentence of every conversation could be voice-acted. If the graphics were top notch, the combat all made real-time, and the dialogue and story all kept the same, it would do extremely well sales-wise.

Just look how good the Resident Evil remake on the Gamecube was. It was excellent and made the game so much better than the original.

Baurus_1

The combat in PST is already real-time but if you're talking "real-time"like Mass Effect or Fallout:Oblivion combat...dear god, no. Just no.

I really hope they never do a remake, they'd only screw it up stream-lining it to appeal to the much coveted groundling audience.

PST is fine just how it is. If modern gamers can't deal with a little reading, or the graphics (which actually still look quite good in high rez.) then tough. Sorry, butI have little to no sympathy for the ADHD Generation. There are already enough crappy (and a few decent), "RPGs" being made for that particular demographic, thanks.

Now, if they made another game in the Planescape setting I'd be okay with that but not a direct sequel, prequel, and most of all, not a remake.

I don't think classic games should be rehashed again and again for the sake of graphics overhauls, that's one of the things Nintendo keep doing that bugs me.

An Indie group put together an Ultima V remake on the DS engine. Probably something similar to that would have to happen for a remake of this title to happen.

Its likely they would just end up making a FPS for the consolites, like they did with Fallout and XCOM.

Its likely they would just end up making a FPS for the consolites, like they did with Fallout and XCOM.

pelvist

I think it would be even better if somebody remade ultima 7 :(

I miss good open world RPGs. Now all we have is elder scrolls.

copyright

plain and simple

you dont think there are dozens of modders out there that don't want what you want? They do, but they get slapped with a "cease and desist" letter the second they go public.

publishers and developers would get outright sued for it, and no one is going to drop millions for the rights to an old game that, frankly, wouldnt sell more than a million copies.

copyright

plain and simple

you dont think there are dozens of modders out there that don't want what you want? They do, but they get slapped with a "cease and desist" letter the second they go public.

publishers and developers would get outright sued for it, and no one is going to drop millions for the rights to an old game that, frankly, wouldnt sell more than a million copies.

mrbojangles25

Anyway, they could, but then you'd have to deal with even more acerbic posters than in this thread, and frankly, a remake's just not worth all that trouble.

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Its likely they would just end up making a FPS for the consolites, like they did with Fallout and XCOM.

Elann2008

Good God I'm getting that!

I don't think Planescape needs an update, the graphics are retro and it's the writing, the story, the world, the lore and the characters that give the game that magic touch. Modern devs would just butcher the game, even devs such as CDProjekt wouldn't live up to that level of writing.

[QUOTE="pelvist"]

Its likely they would just end up making a FPS for the consolites, like they did with Fallout and XCOM.

Elann2008

Yes I am realy looking forward to that iv been a fan of the series since Beyond the Frontier and Tention, its good to see at least one franchise staying true to its fans.

It wouldn't sell crap. The market has advanced where the storytelling methods used would put off large amounts of people and if they reimagined it would be a royal ****storm beyond just making combat more fun or something like that. With that said I would love to see it done if the company does it like the Monkey Island remakes.

I seriously doubt there is a big market for this kind of game. Wasn't Obsidian talking about remaking it? I think it was probably just wishful thinking though.