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To be fair, if you've gotten as far as the sewer level and still don't like the game, then it's only going to get worse for you. The game is actually going to be more linear in the future, not less so. What I loved in the game was the athmosphere, including voice acting and other sound, the great roleplaying opportunities and the quests I felt were among the best in any RPG. If you've encountered all of that and still don't like the game, well...

I believe the more appropriate words are that NWN2 doesn't have a mappable z-axis. All three dimensions clearly exists, you just can't move through one of them.

You mean apart from the two sequels (and no, X-Com: Enforcer and X-Com: Interceptor don't count) and the much more recent "spiritual succesors" UFO: Aftermath and UFO: Aftershock (the latter which was released only a few months ago).

I'm no expert on the issue, but from what I understand independent developers (such as Obsidian) generally gets all their expenses taken care of from the publishers when the game is being developed. I'd guess they get this in the shape of payments after milestones have been reached as mentioned earlier. Once a game goes to retail they get a small percentage (I've heard something like 7% of the retail price), but they only get anything once their share is higher than the amount they've already been paid during the development.

The Raptor may be expensive, but it's so worth it. It really is MUCH faster. Personally, if I could afford it, I'd get a small Raptor (36 GB) for the os and apps then another HD for storage.

!'m 99% sure that there are stakes in Spellhold. I'm not totally sure where, but I think in or just outside the library. I wouldn't have gone back to an earlier save in your position though. Either Shadowkeeper or the games concole would have come to my rescue.

Bloodlines was playable for me out of the box. It had one gamestopping bug that could be circumvented fairly easily. True, I'd prefer that I didn't have to do that, but it didn't render the game unplayable for me.

The XP increase will probably not matter much, at least not unless you get rid of the level cap. I've always reached the cap way before the end with a full party.

On the first book, yes. If you buy The Two Towers, "Sagan om Ringen" is nowhere to be found. I'm sure you're right when it comes to collected editions though, haven't payed attention to those. And I agree with common conversation, but that's only because "Sagan om Ringen" is a much better name than "H

Hey, I'm not vindictive. If you get a flawless experience I'll be happy for you. Mindnumbingly jealous, but happy. (of course if you get even the slightest bug I'll be the first to say I told you so)

I'm not 100% sure about this, but I believe that the lower your humanity gets the harder it is to lower it further. So when you're at 3 it'll probably take something truly spectacular to go to 2.

Actually, this is incorrect. The collective name of the trilogy is "H

How large of a map is the demo? And how far in time do you get to play? My problems only appear on large or huge maps and only in the later stages (1500+). Except for that problem (which is fixed with older drivers) it runs flawlessly on my rig with all settings maxed out, so I don't find the release to be extremely buggy, although it's kinda annoying to have to use older drivers. Especialy when the driver that worked the best with Civ IV caused another game to not work (Thief 3). Other's have had worse bugs though, but it's certainly not as buggy as say ToEE.

Not necessarilly. It depends on the mod. Usually a mod mentions if a new game is required. But if you install mods without starting a new game you always run the risk of something not working properly (although to be honest, that risk exists when you restart as well).

Quite a lot of enemies at any rate. You don't HAVE to actually fight most of them, stealth gets you very far if that's your game (it doesn't even ahve to be Obfuscate, in fact in some places ordinary stealth actually works better). But yeah, there is much fighting. But the fighting leading up to the bosses isn't exactly difficult, so in regards to what character builds can do what it doesn't really count.

I have a very different experience. Maybe Gangrel's suck in the end fights (haven't played one), but I beat the game with a brawl-based Brujah. Using only my fists I took them both down. Although I don't know how it'd work without Celerity though. Besides, one can always side with the prince to get away from one fight and the boss you'll have to fight in that case can be mellowed a little with a flamethrower (about 50% or so of the health with two full clips). All in all I find that melee-based characters have the easiest time in the boss fights. But maybe that depends on how well developed your FPS-reflex are (mine = not so much).

If you think the game is too easy, try tactics. It really ups the difficulty although some parts of it are stupid hard (but it probably requires ToB so I guess that's out). As for ease-of-use it really doesn't make the game much easier for the most part. Just removes a lot of hassle. Like having arrows taking up a lot of inventory space.

It didn't fix the issue of poor driver support though. If I use newr drivers I still get slow downs and random crashes, problems that vanished when I rolled back to previous versions.

Actually I'm a little confused at this statement from Kaftan. At the least the power-plant part. There is a Swedish word that is a direct translation of force (kraft) and while it would sound a little corny to a Swedish ear, I'm sure the original force sounds just as corny to english-native ears.

The official and fan made patches can be found here: http://www.worthdownloading.com/game.php?gid=196

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What skills you want all depend on your playstyle. All are useful in their own way. Well, maybe not subterfuge and appearance, but the others are. I wouldn't advice it. I've heard from multiple sources that performance really improves with 1GB. It's still enjoyable on a sub par computer, my first playthrough was on a laptop with a dated graphics card and 512mb ram and I liked it. But there were horrendous loading times and a lot of graphics lag. On my current setup the game ran much better but since this is a different computer it's hard for me to say what caused the biggest improvement.

Bloodlines is very good if you have a computer that can handle it.

Just to clarify (in case you were unaware), Fable: TLC is not a sequel. It's the same game as Fable but with some added content. A couple of hours or so I'd guess. As for your question I do believe it's out for the X-box and know it's out for the PC.

The question is if the impatient people are actually getting the games or simply just don't play them instead. And in regards to StarForce, I know of several people who refuse to buy any game that uses that paticular protection because it messed up their computer. Not only made the game unplayable (which is more common) but actually stopped things from working.