Agreed, the story and characters really make no sense. I still found the game interesting enough to play it to the end, and it was ok. It was really the setting that kept me going, though.

PSA, the Trapped in Limbo DLC is hot garbage and should be avoided, it will instantly ruin any good memory you had of the game.

This is kind of misleading though. It was common at the time for games to run as fast as possible and then break as CPUs got faster.

One famous example is Wing Commander which is unplayable on a Pentium-class machine because it runs too fast.

This is also why DOSBox has a speed setting and a keyboard shortcut to adjust it at runtime.