The problem with Torment is that it's a great piece of interactive fiction trapped within the RTS-turned-RPG engine they inherited from Baldur's Gate. Torment's

The problem with Torment is that it's a great piece of interactive fiction trapped within the RTS-turned-RPG engine they inherited from Baldur's Gate. Torment's strength is the writing, which you have to read through the engine's small and clumsy dialogue system, which becomes painful pretty quickly.