I've had the same experience, tried out the game as everyone is so lyrical about it, but both times I've started it, I lost interested by the time I escaped the Mausoleum to arrive in Sygil's main square. What irked me the most, I like to equip my character in an RPG with weapons, shields, armour, not clogs of blood, rusty nails and other junk.

That may be the stumbling block for many. And for some bookworms also. I love books, but wouldn't want to read one on screen. The only exception is my Paperwhite. :)

I never got into Planescape Torment even though I really wanted to, but may possibly get into Numenera once the game comes out. It's just... an awful lot of text, and for the most part, my glasses are screeching from the itty-bittyness of the fonts on a 17-inch screen. :|

That's right, I have the same aversion to walls of text in games. And that's the reason I've downloaded from GOG version containing nice Polish dubbing instead of shedding tears over small fonts ;)

But I would admit that issues mentioned by you and also DubConqueror above are quite reasonable. At some stage I was also tired with Sigil with it's rusty and grungy setting. However this specific style creates great atmosphere and makes the game unique.

A little bit SimCity 2000 and Age of Wonders 3 which somehow doesn't capture me like it's predecessors. Maybe I'm currently not in the mood for turn-based games.
I also played Far Cry 2 and started Shattered Steel. But for whatever reason the game has problems with my mouse because sometimes the movement is lagging and I can't change weapons in the armoury. I also have to click the mousebutton for every shot instead of keeping the button pressed for continued fire.

I'll tell you what I'm not playing right now, and that's anything that requires Origin Login.

http://i.imgur.com/xFisbc6.jpg

Fortunately I have some DRM free games.

LIMBO and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

I think Planescape Torment is a great game (have completed it two times), but I'd also say it's overrated. Frankly it's too verbose (that seems to be Chris Avellone's style, Kotor 2 is even worse). And the gameplay is pretty bad...I recall reading somewhere that it's a great story, not so great as a game, and that description fits quite well imo.
But I'd still recommend everybody to at least try it.
I can see how Planescape Torment was disappointing in this regard since the creators intentionally wanted to get away from the usual RPG tropes like getting better equipment etc. And the combat is pretty horrible. It's a game you play for the story, the experience of leveling up your characters, getting better gear etc. is secondary at best.

I love it, there's so much goodness in it. It would make a proper GOG release too. ;)

Actually, The River of Time is prequel. ;)

I'm one of those someones, heh. Still my favorite game in 2017.

I've been playing Witcher 3. Really like it so far, best game in the series. Hate the quest level mechanic, though.

I would love to see it on GOG too, especially to have all games on one platform, I could get Drakensang the Dark Eye only on Gamersgate, and River of Time and Phileasson's secret shackled by Steam DRM. GOG could make it more compatible with windows 10 as well. As of now, I can only start the game properly by using a command line command to make the game run windowed, then press F11 for fullscreen once the game starts. If I set the settings itself to fullscreen, the game hangs.

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/the_dark_eye_drakensang
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/drakensang_the_river_of_time
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/drakensang_phileassons_secret

or https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/drakensang_complete_saga

Just finished the first 'real' (not the tutorial dungeon on the beginning) dungeon, the stone keep in TES:Arena.
My Breton battle mage is now level 7. Because of too few Mana(and seems like Mana don't regenerate automatically), I fought monsters with a broad sword/shield or a longbow rather than using fire arrow spell.
Some enemies were really tough such as ghoul, minotaurs and spider. Using shield spell helped a bit.
After a few battles, I had to rest to regenerate HP and Mana. but often I was attacked by monsters whole resting.
While fighting ghouls, I got a disease status and I cant return a town by the first travel (if do, I was killed). Fortunately one of loot items was a cure disease potion and I was healed by it.
After returned a town, I learned cure poison, cure paralyze and fire ball spells in a magic guild. I want to learn a cure disease spell but the guild didn't have that one. I bought a cure disease potion instead.
I'm going to go the fang lair dungeon for taking a part of the magical staff, which is the purpose of the game.

Drakensang: The Dark Eye, 109 hours now.

My Char is level 16 now, shes a healer/ thief / mage / sword and shield fighter. Well I think she has turned into a Rogue Paladin ^^

My Party is

Myself Charlatan shield+sword/fencing foil
Forgrimm shield+Axe
Rhulana shield+sabre
Gwendala Bow / shield+sword / daggers[I know!] throwing weapons / healer / summon pet [sprite beer]

Great fun, the Game starts off slow, but if you stick with it, it's really rewarding. The humor is great as well

I bought River of time during the winter sale £3.99 I think

All the best

I played a little Defender 2000 this morning. I'll probably put in some more time later on but this game really comes off as a bit of a misfire and it's largely because your ship is massive compared to the original game, and the issue is exacerbated by how fast it plays. Maybe it it was in widescreen it world work better, but as it is you're practically dead after you start moving because you have only a split-second to shoot or avoid what's coming at you. What was Jeff Minter thinking?

Dark Cloud on the PS4.

I almost finished this game years ago, but when I got to the final dungeon I ended up breaking a bunch of weapons one character used (don't remember how I even did that). At that point I just gave up since I didn't feel like grinding a few more hours just to get a few weapons to progress.

FYI, the Drakensang Complete Saga (DVD version) has no Steam; just install and play. No "activation limits" or "net connection needed" or other gimmicks. In the back side of the DVD box it says about Steamworks, it also has the logo of Steam, but it is actually wrong; it's completely installable & playable offline, without the need of any sort of account. ;)