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Originally Posted by synaesthetic
I'd buy the old gameplay excuse but other games with the same exact engine--Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale--have much better gameplay and combat. PS:T somehow managed to take the kinda-okay combat of the Infinity Engine and made it much worse.
As for better writing, that's easy. PS:T's purple prose was easily overshadowed by its own contemporaries... from the same studio... Fallout and Fallout 2.
For more recent examples? Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky is a good one, and it's probably the closest game you can compare to PS:T considering how both have a huge focus on dialogue, writing and story.
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LOH:TITS writing is nowhere near the level of PS:T, either in depth, plot or dialogue. The dialogues trees are much more rich and complex, also better written. A recent game that compares to PS:T in writing would be The Witcher 2, but still not the same level.