| I, for one, will always proclaim PS:T as the single best CRPG, due to the depth of its storyline and characters. It not merely touched on ethical matters ( not the ' "Give the girl the cookie" or "Gauge her eyes with broken cookie and then show it to the grandma" ' stuff from other games), but acutally dug through them.
As a second strong point: it showed D&D at its pinnacle: Sigil, melting pot of everything and anything. Planescape simply IS fantasy. Not in the simplistic Elves, Dwarves, Orcs,... style, but true fantasy, where only your own imagining is the limit.
BG2 is much grander and allows for a lot more stat-juggling and class-development, but it just isn't so deep.
Mind you, BG2 is still awesome and a benchmark in RPGhistory.
I'd say: BG2 is an awesome book, but PS:T is classical literature. PS:T however, does require more patience and "brains" than BG2, since you really have to think about what you're reading and experiencing.
Still, I want to point out that BG2 is also one of my favourite games of all times. PS: T just has more of "it" than any other game.  |