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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kitsune" data-source="post: 627067" data-attributes="member: 4877">I am not impressed with NWN.  Using the 3E system is all well and good in theory, but in practice it possesses several drawbacks when put into a real-time computer format.  First and foremost are AOEs; since you can't control combat so precisely as you can in the turn-based game, you wind up taking tons of such attacks.  No free 5-foot steps here.  Your henchmen tend to be more hinderance than help at times, you'll be busy being beaten by a mob of monsters while they sit by the door and watch, or they'll charge into a room while you're busy trying to set up a plan.The graphics are nice, but, as has been pointed out, going 3-D has added absolutely nothing to the game.  You may as well be playing Baldur's Gate.</blockquote>