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"J.D. Berry" wrote:

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>
> Before anyone else complains, I LIKE some of these games too!  My
> primary theory--IF is not the medium best suited to them.  Planescape
> was fun.  Can you imagine how it would read, though?

I'm not sure you have to imagine. I've heard reports of someone
actually compiling a Torment "novel"- basically a complete transcript of
 the text seen when playing through Torment. Then again, my memory is
bad enough and my imagination good enough that I could be pulling this
out of nowhere. Sorry.

Peter

