I so dislike the Patriots. I would like to see them and my team the Packers go to the Superbowl and watch Favre beat them. That would be very pleasing.
The trend in games right now seems to be eye candy. See how realistic they can make the graphics appears to be the game developers priority over making a game with a good story filled with interesting characters. The IE games had decent stories, well developed characters and good implementation of the rule sets. I doubt we'll see anything good like that again.
An old dog can't learn new tricks.
Did you read the links, tutorials and other helpful topics at Bioware's NWN2 boards? Soak in all of that knowledge before you start.
I can play it mostly on low settings at 1024x768 on my 1.7GHz P4, Radeon 9600 Pro and 3/4 of a gig of ram.
Well that is good. My P4 2.8 MHz, 1.5G RAM with my ATI1950 Pro should be able to handle it without difficulty.