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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2158811" data-attributes="member: 5171">If you've been disappointed in every RPG since BG2, then you shouldn't be playing RPGs. I'm not saying that in terms of Bioware. There's been some good stuff from a number of companies.  There have also been some issues that make RPGs a bit more challenging to make (compare the cost of painting the nice painted maps in BG2 to the cost of modeling the 3-D worlds in KOTOR, and you can make an art department director's head explode, which is at least one of the reasons that the 100-hours-of-play-single-campaign RPGs are behind us until the technology gets cheaper). If you're angry because you don't get 100 hours of play out of your RPG, you can blame the folks who don't buy games unless the graphics are cutting edge. I personally don't think an RPG needs cutting-edge graphics, but then, I don't pay attention to the effects in movies, either. (See Sin City thread...) I'm playing KOTOR2 right now, and I'm having a good time. I'm not saying your opinion is wrong, but it's possible that your opinion is a) the result of unrealistic expectations and b) the result of a little rose-tinting for games of the past, which look pretty lousy by today's standards. Or, you could really be into graphics, and KOTOR2 is based on a few-years-old graphics engine, the same used in KOTOR, which looked pretty good at the time.But then, it might be possible to have a more nuanced conversation if you made descriptions beyond "sucked" to explain why you didn't like it. The games that, according to you, sucked, sold enough copies and won enough awards that at least a few people disagree with you.</blockquote>

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