Volourn

"BG2 was a mage battle-fest, and if you didn't use any debuff spells then you were a pretty crappy player. Granted, in vanilla BG2 you could still fight your way past with ze awesome loot you get and all, but with some of the harder and better mods out there, no way. " Crappy player? Why would I be a crappy player by not needing useless and overrated spells? The crappy players are the ones who were so dependent on one type of spell. R00fles! "You're telling me you just slashed and pierced every stoneskin down instead of casting Breach? ROFL TOFL." Absolutely. Breach is overrated.

WOW! M summons seem to last until the duration runs around. Espicially the elementals sicne they're immune to many things and Mord's swords. Even the animals cna keep truckin' at appropriate levels. didn't summon any outsider sor udnead yet though. This is how I deal with stoneskin - hack away through it! I never sued admantine weapons. They seem wussy. 2 extra magical damage? Big whoop.

"Summons are really way too weak in this game" Eh? You musta used different summons than me. And, heck, I didn't use any 'debuffing' spells the entire game. Heck, i never bothered with them in any IE game for that matter. Do use them in NWN1 though, and I'm sure I will come various modules/PWs in NWN2.

"Dwarves: I consider dwarves to be rather clumsy people (they dont even know how to walk silently) +2 CON, -2 DEX. However, they are strong but fugly: +2 STR and -2 CHA" That must explain why they are excellent craftsman and have excellent scouts. On top of that, dwarves are NOT ugly. Not to mention charisma is about force of personality and not too many beings have a stronger force of personality than dwarves do.

WOW! You play football in the kitchen? NOW, that is tough. My poor mom.

"Philly, Dallas, and Atlanta." All good teams. they also could have evary easily beaten the Colts (which would ahve meant no undefeatable talk). And, they could have taken out Chicago last week despite ahorrible game by their QB and misisng a good chunk of their team (espicially on defense). The Giants wer every much super bowl claibre. Now, I'm not so sure, obviously. And, no, that shot wasn't dirty. It was clean. If it was dirty there'd have been a penalty since the refs obviosuly saw it. You cna make a list of hudnreds of plays and quotes by millions of ex players. If it was dirty it be illegal. Game over.

"I think the Dragon could have been harder if they made the AI better; i.e. make it randomly change targets eveyr once in a while" LOL My version of the dragon decide to ignore my tanks and went straight for Grobnar who was on the other side of the map. HA! Poor little guy didn't stand a chance and died rather quickly. The dragon mya move funnily and very slowly but it has a HUGE reach.

Yeah, I should actually comment on the video. That poo is whacked out, man! p.s. He supposedly apologized afetrwards; but won't speak on camera about it. Seinfield says that was disagraceful and is ure that his old tv buddy feels horrible about it. Meh.

Tomato tomato.

Aww.. Thought you meant NWN2! BOO!!

"The stupidest thing that i really REALLY hate is that area of effect, and even Chain Lightning, hurts containers. Half the dragon loot was broken. I mean, what the hell is that?! Fireball and whatever I can understand, but chain lightning is supposed to jump from hostile to hostile. If it can avoid jumping to friendlies why can't it avoid jumping to boxes? Dunno how it works in pnp, but poopies." It's how Obsidian seems to have viewed hardcore/D&D rules in NWN2. Pretty much any spell - espciially area effect spells - seem to target EVERYTHING in their area. Thankfully, due to some cajoling, much of this seems to be on the go for a fix - most noteably spells like IGMS being party friendly as well as spells like Fireburst *not* effectiing the caster since it shouldn't. I'm hopeing to get them to change a few spells so they can be more 'true' to the intention of the spell in question. IIRC, in pnp, I'm not even sure Cl can even jump party members. It effects whatever is in its path. I may be wrong as it's been awhile since I opened a pnp book and the lightning spells have never been amongst my 'go to' spells. As for it breaking up the loot. LOL I never had that happen to me with the drgaon hoard. hehe. Most of its junk anyways, imo. The good part comes when you get back to the keep and see how much loot your goons brought back. "Volo, I found Firkraag ridiculously easy, so its just personal opinion. I don't think any of the dragons were really hard though, except for some of those super-modded BG2 dragons. They were insane." I don't use BG mods; but while I agree Firkragg isn't hard or anything; he's surely more challenging than this one. Though, he has some tricks like regen. Wing bffet won't ruin your spells if your casters aren't near - neither of mine were. Raven: Try the regen spell. Z should ahve it, and I'm sure Elanee has it as well IIRC. You regen very quickly; but duration is hort. It's what the dragon casts I believe. Grobnar is not that good as an offensive spellcaster. Heh. he's a bard. Most of his offensive spells won't likely work on bosses though ice storm should be decent. With stoneskin, the drgaon should do soemwhere in the neighbourhood of 25-30 damage in my experience. "like using that effect on custom weapons also." HAHAHA! That's possible? R00fles!

Stoneskin. It's your friend. Getting your ac around 35ish means he will miss time to time. Teahc him a lesson, and use his own trick by casting regen. Summons could help (I only used Mord's. (Greater) Heroism, and other spells really help to boost your offensive capabilities. GH is I think probably the most underrated new NWN2 spell (well, it was in the IE games too). Very useful.

No. It's wayyyyyyyyyyyy easier than Firkragg. Heck, it's easier than every NWN dragon except maybe a couple of them. And, don't get me started on the blacks. They wer ebeyond a joke. Big Red's best ability was its regen spell. That's what seemed to get me in the first fight (outside of my own laziness). Does it matter if your PC is a rogue? Use the other party members!

The red dragon was pretty easy. Took a couple of tries because the first two times I just rushed in after wasting 99% of my seplls beforehand. It also didn't help that I had way too many fire based offesnive spells memorized. Hahaha. Anyways, fire immunity is your friend. Read my earlier post in this thread about my encounter with Big red. He was probably my 3rd most challenging battle in the game though he's the only battle I died twice at (and I only died 4 times total). Wish he was a little harder though. I want to feel the need to beg for mercy.

"As far as Chris Rock goes, could you point out an instance of him being racist towards white people in the same way as Kramer or Mel Gibson?" Absolutely. It's obvious. Don't get me wrong. his jokes - even his racist ones - can be funny; but the guy is racist. Or at least he acts like one to get the cheap laugh. Let's face it, if a white person made even a quarter of Rock's type of jokes they'd definitely be labeled as racist and rightfully so. You can be funny like Chris Rock and still be racist.

Yes, that seems to work. One of my major beefs is now dealt with. Now just gotta beat up the camera. LOL

"graphics is that it looks a bit like Lego. Sure, the pieces fit snugly into place, but you can still see it's made out of blocks." Like Sand said, it's NWN2. It uses the same absed engine. I'm sure the graphics engine itself while totally 'new' is based off ther Aurora hence the same kind of look depsite NWN2 looking much better (as it should). Why people are surprised by this, I don't know. "Spell effects are cool, especially new "summoning familiar" is much better than it was in NWN1. Meh, all of them are." I dunno. While NWN2's spell effects are much flashier many of them I wouldn't term them 'better' than NWN1's. NWN1 had and still has awesome spell effects.

He went for a block so the guy couldn't get reach the QB. If what he did was so horrible; the refs would have nailed him.

"Even healthy, the Giants weren't "great". I have a feeling were using different expectations for great. They were/are likely a playoff team, but I never thought they were a super bowl type team like many people were hinting at pre-season." That's because you are silly. The Giants are (well were without all the injures) a Super Calibre team. Their offense is as good as anyone's and while their pass defense isn't the best; they quite possible have the best one-two punbch for defensive ends. Of course, they're both injured now. LOL Considering their biggest weakness on offense is their QB who is pretty damn good says a lot. "That twit on the donkey's went for his knee's. He had every right to be pissed, however he did not handle himself well." The 'twit' did nothing wrong. Nice try though.

"Come on, they sound almost exactly the same. The exact same whiny delivery. The exact same smart alec responses. Face it Imoen and Neeshka are one and the same." Nope. Not even close. I never found Imoen annoying or whiny. I never found Neeshak 'smart alecky' either. Imoen was cute. Neeshka was just a bunch of bad names I'm not allowed to post on these boards.

Hmm.. I'll try that. I fit does, thanks. if not, urgh. LOL

Urgh. Trying to mae an area is annoying because unless I'm missing soemthing you can delte everything you palce which means you have to put things down perfectly. I really wish you could delete things simply by right clicking them and have a 'delete' option. if there is an uption to do this, please tgell. My other big beef is all the 'extra' work you have to do outside the actual area squares. that means twice the work (almost) just to make the area look nice even thoguh the outer half can't be tocuhed by the player in game. Other than that, and some camera problems; the toolset is very nice.

It is a lock for the Bears. By beating the Giants; they assured that. I give them props for that, "The Giants are over-rated, at least post injuries, not the Jets. Jets are a team that has (had) a chance at a playoff spot, but thats as far as they would get." Giants aren't overrated. They are a great team. I think most people know that the Giants post injury binge aren't as good as they'd otherwise be so how cna they be overrated? The Jets are overrated. Plain, and simple. People keep on saying they are on the brink of being an elite team. R00fles! To that! "As for the Bears, a wins a win, thank god opinions don't factor into it. Thats why the BCS sucks." I agree.

Beating the overrated Jets, and a Ginats team missing what seems to be half their team isn't too impressive. Sorry. Still, I'll give them credit for beating the Giants; but not the Jets.

This should only be a big deal to the voice actors in question. Not to us posters... so, why is it a thread? :crazy: