Volourn

CRPGs are not PnP. "traps, picking locks, scouting ahead, without someone to handle these tasks the party will die." Horrible DM. The best DM cator their campaigns for the pklayers not the other waya round. This, btw, can mean many things including giving them the oppurtunity to hire a 'scout' npc; but a DM should never be the one demanding players need x class/race/gender unless its some sort of special campaign. P.S. This would eman I would never require players to have fighters , mages, or clercis as PCS either. i woukld craft the campaign around them, and if a quest came up where it wa slogical a cleric/mage was needed I'd give them options around the issue 9that they may or may not figure out). That's what a GOOD dm would do. Are you a good DM or a bad DM?

Old. It's not real D&D. It's gonna suck the big one. I expect it to be worse than POR2.

"He actually brings good and well thought-out critizism to the table" No, no he doesn't. Nothing wrong with that either since it's true of 100% of us internet dweebs.

"also, a fighter and a wizard? who is going to heal them when they get hurt? who will pick locks and find traps? is this a D&D game with no traps? inquiring minds want to know!" I have never played a D&D game where a rogue was required. Heck, i have never played a RPG where a rogue was required. And, like all RPGs, NWN OC has tons of healing potions around to be used.

"The ones that came with the OC weren't." Wrong. "This has been a plothole ever since BG2. I'd think the Academy would make it standard procedure to cast a Detect Alignment/Detect Illusion spell on any new applicant to prevent Luskan spies, Zentharim, or any other evil faction, from infiltrating." There are counter spells to counter the detect spells.

In the famous words of our beloved Hades: "NWN OC is the worst RPG ever and I know this by having played it 4 times!" Sorry, if me going to Hell means gettuing to play NWN OC, that ain't half bad. Certainly, the Devil has much mor devious ways to punish one as evil as me. R00fles!

" but the OC was really sucky! " No. it was slightly above average... just like NWN2 OC. *shrug*

NWN > NWN2 No contest. The OCs, on the other hand,a re absically equal with their own share of great and bad stuff.

"I haven't heard encouraging things about combat and I want to see that is solid" O RLY? repeatedly, previews have stated that it basically plays just like DA1. If you liked DA1 combat - which you calim you do - how is that not encouraging? L0L "But in this case you are forced to preorder if you want all the NPC's, right? " Youa ren't forced to do anything. EA isn't gonna come by your house and kick your butt if you don't preorder. . You said it yourself. It's a WANT not a NEED. You do know the difference between the two, right? p.s. People whine about DA2's graphics being so much worse than DA1's but with every new screenshot/video, it looks better and better. *shrug*

Each PC cna hire e a henchman. Also, you gonna play both characters on two different computyers. Isn't that gonna make things annoying? Heh. NWN uses the new age point buy method so no real min max of stats is possible.

Someone else buying or not buying a agme doesn't effect me. I gain or lose nothing from it. You can't see the bashing? Did you read the last 22 pages of this thread? Everytime something new comes out the same people come in to proclaim how it's further proof that DA2 will be the biggets piece of crap ever.. yet, we all know they'll be there buying the game the moment it comes out. The illogicalness of such actions weirds me out. Just ask the Codex. The Codex loathes BIO and Bethesda yet those two conmpanies always get the most threads dedciated to them, and Codexers still buy/play/steal their games. Sometimes even playing them multiple times!

"I meant people paying $5000 a month for a game. Obviously they're addicts being exploited by EA." Jay Leno is an addict that car companies take advantage of as he spends millions on cars he never even uses. You shouldn't throw the word addict around without actual evidence. What happens if the people spending $5K cana fford it and it is a small amount of their money? People have the right to spend their money on what they want without being trashed for it becasuse someone dissaproves. tsk, tsk.

Best type of epic on the net.

"Weird view that, your opinion is irrelevant because you bought the game ? Hm. Hard to evaluate the game otherwise, no ? Then again, if you're classing nitpicky comments as whining, heh, well." 1. BIO and EA don't care about our opinions. They care about our monies. The only thing that matters is if they can hoodwink you out of your $. 2. My point is it is hard to take bashing seriously pre releasew hen we all know full well that the mahjority of people bashing DA2 and is proclaiming it is gonna suck big time are gonna buy the game anyways. It would be like me loudly proclaiming I hate the Cleveland Cavaliers for their poor tretament of Lebron then I go out and buy their jersey. It does NOT make sense. If people hate BIO, 'know' that DA2 will suck, and have gone on for months about it yet go out and buy the game anyways, they obviously have a few screws loose and therefore their opinions are suspect at best. For me, this means I would be in the same boat if I went out and bought Skyrim b/c I believe it will suck. Then again, if you read that thread, you would notice I don't post in it as Skyrim is a wste of my time. And, that's all I'm saying about it as I was just making a point. "So, what you're saying is that I should drop my pre-order. Then I can complain. Or will I end up in a catch-22 situation where if I don't buy the game, I'm obviously not the target audience, so it doesn't matter what I say anyway. Fun how that works. " No. What I am saying is if yiou think the game is gonna suck, don't buy it, don't play, don't worry about it. Concentrate on games you think you'll enjoy and stop wasting your time on sucha agabrage game or like you said on a game that 'you aren't the target audience'.

No.

Sorry, but giantic breasts (as opposed to big ones) are disgusting. But... whya re we talking about this?m L0L This is Codexian dialogue. Heh. Anyways, people whining about DA2 will buy DA2 so their opinions in the end are irrelervant since they'll be adding to the BIO monies anyways.

She looks late teen. *shrug* And, the boobs quite frnakly are no more noticeable then the way the boobs (ie. posters) tend to act in threads like these. L0L

*shrug*

"Matt Hasselback is the Volourn of the NFL. " You are the very defintion of a troll scumbag. Anyways, glad the Hawks won as I find NO, their players, and their supports to be arrogant punks. Dissapointed that Vick lost, and that Rogers win. I do laugh how someone one playoff win into his careedr and people are claiming it proves he's at Favre's levl. L0L Too bad Manning lost but not surprising since he's playing on a team that's worse than Seattle. Only saving grave for them is the QB and kicker. The Baltimore victory is not shocking at all.

"Her misfortune is that she lives in a country where, if you disagree with someone, you can go down to your local supermarket, buy an automatic, kill them and be seen as a hero.'" This is dumb. You make it sound that this a common occurance that occurs every day. That's silly talk. There's a reason why stuff like this is shocking. It's because it's rare. The % of people who would buy a gun and go kill someone simply because they disagree with someone is miniscule. Hell, if I killed someone simply b/c I had a disagreemnt, I'd probabkly b avergainhg about 10 murders per day. L0L Yet, i have never killed anyone. The same is true for pretty much everyone else.

Geralt is NOT cool in any way whatsoever.

The Drizzt copycats on the other hand... not so cool...

"Sadly, the bad bits of old-skool D&D (2E)." Fighters could duel weild in 2E.

What award isn't?

Except 99% of the people who bash BIO/DA2 in this thread actually love BIO/DA/DA2 and will end up buying/enjoying the game no matter what they post. *shrug*