Simplicity said:I can't believe the amount of vitriol being spewed at this game. The Atari boards and the reviews on the gaming websites make me really sad. You'd think Obsidian had written a game that kicks people's dog or something. The main complaints seem to be:
1) It's not as cool looking as Oblivion! (Duh. More people per screen + networked play)
2) Multiplayer isn't flawless yet (Well, it wasn't in NWN1 right out of the box either. The DM client is still in BETA for crying out loud. Give them some time. Yes, it'd be nice to live in a world where software worked perfectly out of the box. That's not the world we live in.)
3) Camera issues. There's four different types of camera. No, it's not a first person game.
4) Choppy graphics (Turn off shadows! Turn down resolution! Or buy a better computer. Don't whine because you have an old machine)
1up.com gave the review a 5/10. 5! The reviewer wrote something to the effect of: "I guess if you like D&D... maybe you'd like it." Gamespot gave the *graphics* a 6/10. Total score in the 8 range (which is LOW for Gamespot). Space Rangers 2 got a 7/10 for graphics. Whaaaaaat? The difference between the graphics in those two games is like night and day. Europa Universalis got a 7/10 for graphics. That game looked like CRAP (even in its day).
This game seems to have a lot of depth from what I've seen so far (about 6 hours of play),
and the graphics seem good to me.![]()
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Preaching to the choir. And I'm not a fanboy....I've been looking forward to it, definitely, but in the first day or two of the release, I was reading the Atari messageboards, and starting to think that preordering it was a mistake. Now that I actually have it, I'm thinking "did they buy the same game I did"?
NWN, because of the modularity, was almost the perfect D&D game in some way....sure, some like BG2 and PS:T had better stories....but you could do *anything* with NWN, and the community has produced tonnes of material. And now NWN 2 seems to take that trend even further...
Of course, I can't say I'm an expert on the topic, having only played for 30 minutes so far. But once I left the inn in which you start the game, my fears started melting away pretty quickly.
Quick Question: I've heard that some of the prestige classes require that you complete specific quests to gain access to them. Do you know if the Eldritch Knight requires this? Last night, I got my Sun Elf to level 2, so she's now F1/W1. Hopefully I can get her into Eldritch Knight pretty quickly.
Banshee