RPGmasterBoo

Remeber his Witcher review. One of his all time classics. Its a funny review, but he has no clue what he's playing. He uses criteria for third person action games, to rate an RPG

Its plot is better, its characters are more interesting, its huge and offers a lot of exploration, it has great quests and spans a single storyline over three games that really deserves the word epic. Its a unique experience to watch your character come so far from the first game, from a nobody to a god, and its pulled off as believably as such a thing can be. Its eight years now and nothing significant has been improved over it in any game apart from graphics and the amount of voice acting. Purely as a game it lacks nothing, it has no major flaw and even minor flaws are in short supply. The much vaunted choices in latter games are ridiculous because they as a rule boil down to a saint/genocidal maniac choice. Choices themselves mean nothing if they are not made in a believable, immersive context. Who cares about any choice in NWN when the entire gameworld is so drab and your charater a nobody? Same goes for KOTOR. The Jedi/Sith thing is shoved so far down the players throat that you're locked into playing either of two extremes. Mass Effect was even worse, it color coded the dialog so you don't make a mistake. The last choice over saving the fleet or the council came off as so irrelevant i was begging for a "I dont care" dialog option... no such luck. Baldurs Gate gets only one choice at the end of ToB and that one carries real weight since you've gone through hell to get to it. Baldurs Gate is not a game about such a superficial thing as Intimidate/Diplomacy/Bluff skill checks. Its a game about an inescapable fate and crawling through blood and guts to get to decide your place in the world, either to get power for yourself or to get some peace at last. It carries a real struggle of the hero against the world and against himself, and when in the end you stand triumphant you can say: its been a hell of a journey. If someone wants real role playing with choices that matter I point them in the way of Torment or Fallout. Both of them do their job great but I see them as equal to Baldurs Gate, not superior or inferior since the experience offered in those games is wildly different from BG. However they are all successful games in the sense that they deliver on what they try to do. Unlike the crap that came afterwards, that doesn't have either the epic of BG, the personal of Torment or the freedom of Fallout.

I was expecting a blaster +3 for enduring those conversations. I got squat. Jokes aside, its not bad its just that Bio characters are too often like that.

That's the only real issue I have with them. I'd support you further in this discussion but hitting my head on the wall would be a better occupation probably.

That's why i have you to disagree with me, since you post about as much as the lot of them. Your definition of better RPG is understood only by you alone, and I dont see how repeating it will enlighten us as to what the hell you're talking about.

yes.

Nope. I just decided as of this evening, that there are too few people on the Bioboards to have meaningful discussions with (in fact none, the Maria chick above excluded), the rest pretty much are nodders (as in they nod to every dev post) and clappers (guess what they do), and there was no point in hanging around anymore. You lot might be *bleep* but at least its fun to argue with you. I think.

Clever deduction, though my split personalities have much the same personality Oh, and - was.

I think they are trying to make the PC always appear and feel superior to the characters. Bioware has a bad cas of this, many of their characters are emotional wrecks for no real reason and it gnaws on any sane mans patience. Even Aerie pissed me of with he whining sometimes, but that was nothing compared to Bastila, Carth, Kaidan, Ashley etc etc

Its like an inverse mirror of the Witcher, that was beauty of a somber sort, of a "doomed" world... this is more like pure fairy tale beauty. Yes it eats NWN2 for breakfast. I think there is something about the european approach to visual art in games that only someone from europe can fully appreciate. I look at the nature in the Witcher and literally see my countryside and also feel it. Its like its instantly familiar. I look at Oblivion's nature and all I see is made up world with twenty types of grass and trees but nothing alike the real world whether in a realistic (Witcher/Gothic) or symbolic (Drakensang) manner. Err - artificial seems to sum it up best.

For someone relatively respected in the RPG community such as it is, you say awfully stupid things.

This might make me reconsider. I couldn't get at it before without coming of as incestuous

You're not seeing the emotional value. Git.

What? Why? What have I done that you must unleash the Witcher EE unto me? Ungrateful Estonian git.

I am about to die laughing. Purkake, I leave my Witcher Enhanced Editon to you. hahahahahhahahahahhahah

Thus ceases my interest in this game, at least in buying it. Though it didn't take much admittedly, it was a toss up between Risen, AP and this. So now its gonna be Risen and AP.

Yes, Its artistic design was obviously made by people who knew how to bring out the important things in each scene - as in knowing what real "fairy tale" beauty is. There is no substitution for the eye of a real artist. I cant praise them enough for that. I think its German perfectionism at work. Gothic III owned Oblivion in terms of graphical beauty.

Its a generic fantasy NWN2 style RPG with pretty graphics, nice music, relaxing atmosphere and in the right mindset - very fun to play. The plot and quests are trivial, but the combat, party mechanics, excellent optimization for weaker PCs and cute atmosphere render it very playable. Charming, if not exactly original is how I'd sum it up. Party based, stat heavy RPGs are rarer than water in the desert these days, but they are my kind of thing so it might not fit everyone...

NWN is better than IWD2? In what universe? or TOEE? This game, like IWD2 actually is DnD and has a small thing called party based tactical combat. NWN is what happens when DnD beds Diablo. So a full game beats its own expansion and perhaps the worst DnD RPG ever made (POR2)? Yaay, there's probably an unlockable achievement for that. Yes its 6 years old. Unfortunately Baldurs Gate is older. And better. In just about everything. The criticism would never have been so harsh if NWN wasn't a generation behind the games released by the same company up to that time. It wouldn't even be so terrible only if there was any actual ambition behind it - so we could say: "look, they tried and didn't make it, better luck next time". But the only thing we can say is "look they saw Diablo II sales figures and went green with envy, and decided to slap together a Diablo of their own"

Most of which are simplistic, limited by technology and downright unplayable today. So what's your point? Being better than a pile of outdated ancient era games is some sort of measure of quality? The only thing "awesome" is that they had the cheek to release it and stamp a "From the creators of Baldurs Gate" on the box.

Its not the old school model, its the only viable model when DnD is concerned. If anyone wants to solo they have Oblivion and Diablo, which were made for that. Everything was wrong about NWN. Its graphics were bad, its interface was ugly, the storyline was generic, the characters...wait what characters?, the fighting was pointless since you couldn't lose, there were no tactics at all, overall it was a lonely and pointless endavour and I'm ashamed to say I didn't see that right until the very end of the campaign. The expansions that were hyped in an effort to fix this were average themselves, and only looked good when compared to the OC, which doesn't say much since the OC sits somewhere around Oblivion level. Also the Shadows of the Underdark were blatantly overpowered, and somebody should have told me to turn left at Albuquerque when i was slogging through the 200 hours of Bg+BGII+ToB to get epic level characters, because apparently it can be done in a fraction of the time. As for the toolkit: if I wanted to play build my own adventure I would have bought a bucket of LEGO instead of forking 40 euros for this trash. The ultimate toolkit.

Or getting it at all for that matter. Most likely they would try to fix it themselves which would only mess it up more.

It still hasnt shown up here, either officially or unofficialy, so I don't have much of a choice.

Demo's still downloading.