Llyranor

Magical Volo is just bitter because he broke his TV.

Yeah, jerk. Don't forget Paradox.

I like playing games, rather than knowing that I have the capacity to play them. But that's just me.

I'm from Quebec, but I don't think anyone remotely cares. The whole thing is a joke, anyway.

True, but creativity is not all created equal.

Heh. I've found that creativity in and of itself is much more crucial for modding than technical skill itself. At worst, you can hire a scripting monkey or whatever to do the scut for you, but you can't buy creativity. You can, however, learn technical skills.

Console GOTY I've become surprisingly accustomed to the 360 controller now. I had a bit of trouble adjusting at first, but now controls are pretty smooth and aiming is pretty easy.

Because Bioware doesn't make Boring, Linear, Ugly, Non Immersive, Easy, and Annoying games, right? I mean, am I right folks? HAHA am I right?

Just because genuinely dynamic storytelling hasn't been done in a MMO before doesn't mean it can't be done. I don't think Bioware will be the one to pull it off, though. Not anytime soon, in any case.

No, *I* am.

Ah, crap. I have a massive backlog of games. For the PC, it's really about NWN2. I only just entered the Market District in Neverwinter :D Very cool so far. Then party interaction is the best of the game so far, it just better stay prominent. Otherwise, there's still my list of wargames I'm slowly progressing through. Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord (with Barbarossa to Berlin and Afrika Korps saved for after I finish the first one), Airborne Assault: Highway to the Reich (Conquest of the Aegean is also saved up), Take Command: 2nd Manassas, and Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday in coop with jerkface. On the DS side, I'm still going through Phoenix Wright, Advanced Wars, Rocket Slime, Trauma Center, and Children of Mana in coop with my sister. I finished Megaman ZX, but there's still hard mode to finish. I'm also going through Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow in Julius mode. I'm also unlocking everything in Kirby Canvas Curse. For the 360, Gears of War is an awesome coop game. We just finished casual and are playing hardcore mode now. GRAW seems kinda limited in coop for some reason. No story mode, no 3rd person look, no ability to get behind cover. What's up with that?

I see personal attacks aren't beneath you either. The problem is, since it's mostly all subjective there aren't any lies. Only points you disagree with. I never at one moment writing that thought to myself "hmm I should lie here". Rather it was a stream of consciousness in comparative connections with NWN1 and NWN2 thus far including my personal experience and those around me with the original over a five year span. In that regards I'm more qualified to speak in general terms for those I played with online, and you only for yourself since admittedly you don't play online. That's great you disagree, but liar I am not. I genuinely feel all of these 50 points are what make NWN1 better than NWN2. It's his personal opinion that you're a liar. You may disagree with his opinion, but he genuinely feels that you're a liar. Agree to disagree!

Time-travelling lizards rock. They rock so hard they deserve to be included in a sequel. Since NWN2 didn't give them that honor, I feel it falls on my shoulders as Obsidian CEO to bear that responsibility and do them justice for my mod. Time-travelling lizards 4 life. By mere association, NWN1 has the greatest plot of all time.

I dunno. Looking at the way placeables have been creatively used in the NWN2 OC so far, NWN2 interiors destroy NWN1 interiors by a long shot.

Yeah, because an extra inch makes all the difference. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Inch?! You didn't mod did you? you could build full on mountains underground, remember LOTR mods? Remember 9 layers scenarios? You had to ascend to the top of a giant throne that took five minutes and you knew you were going somewhere important. Now it's just "oh, theres the boss, right next to everyone else..*yawn*" <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes. It

As Obsidian CEO, I disagree.

I've been playing GoW for unhealthy periods of time since Friday. Freaking awesome coop.

This game is godly in coop.

Hmm, from what I saw of the convo editor, it seemed to be more efficientlin terms of applying scripts, while still giving you the option of scripting the old way if you wanted.

You can use NWN1 scripts directly. Some of the script commands might have been slightly changed, but it should be intact for the most part. Heck, you can import NWN1 mods and the scripts/dialogues will be imported. You can also use script generators already made for NWN1. Great tool for beginners http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=NWN2Ideas.Detail&id=2

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It really depends on what you're looking at. For terrain placement and such, NWN2 would be completely different. The included documentation (in the folder of the same name) goes through the basics well enough for that. The rest is more about experimentation. For scripting and dialogue, it's essentially the same, with some small additions. You can go through some NWN1 tutorials for scripting, and that'll benefit you a lot for NWN2. As for a hakpak, I'm not sure. NWN1 had an included tool to create such a file, as well as a hak folder in which to put them in. I see neither right now.

IIRC, how it worked in NWN1 was that you'd have to put the modified 2da file into a hakpak, which the mod would then use. Directly modifying from the root folder would affect the whole default game.

Yeah, Hades, that'll show them how much more of a life you have than them.