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« on: November 04, 2006, 05:47:12 am »
Im trying really hard to like it, I loved nwn, but for some reason this game has been an uphill battle so far.
It took a long time to install, it had an 83mb patch waiting, took another 15 minutes to DL and patch.
Then I experienced severe sound stutter and poor video during the 4 load screens for nvidea and so on.
And I have been trying to create a warlock, but I cant figure out what his primary stat is, the manual is like 25 pages long, a horrible piece of dung, and it say absolutely nothing about classes, stats, feats ..... anything, and the PDF manual on the DVD is the same carp, I cant even figure out how to quicksave, since I cant remap the keys from the options menu, at least I couldnt find the remap option, and yet they give the tip "save early, save often", hrmpf, I also wanted to remap the key that highlights all characters and items that you can interact with on screen, its on the Z key now, used to be on TAB.
Graphics are ok, story is fine so far, I have just picked up the drawf at the inn, I gave up making a warlock, and have rolled a wizard then a rogue, but I wanted to play a warlock so I find Im losing interest in the game already .....
Also the conversations seem very unpolished, the voice acting is excellent, but the coding behind it is lazy, there are virtually no pause between the recorded sound files, so it sounds rushed and computergenerated, a 0.5 second pause between sentences could have gone a long way towards more immersion.
Buff effects are annoying, a simple mage armor spell creates a huge intricately fashioned bubble around you, looks pretty, but in a battle, with several buffs going on 3 party members, its just impossible to see who is who and where or what everyone is, couple that with the insanely high walls used for the interior of buildings, wich seem to do its best to royally screw the 3d isometric view, by placing towering walls around tiny rooms so you have to look from straight above the heads instead of from an angle, well suffice to say, that was the reason I deleted my wizard, couldnt see a darn thing during the fight for Bevil's siblings.
On the plus side, the NPCs seem to respond extremely well to your chosen proffesion and character trait, I have played the tutorial with a good wizard and a wicked rogue, and responses were very different, my wizard even found himself being the student of Tarmas.
The overall feel of the game is like a much improved NWN though, the graphics style is nice, the clothes finally look nice, new cutscenes make the story come out much much better than it ever did in NWN, even though the scenes in NWN were voiced, they still felt somewhat generic, talking to important NPCs in NWN2 feels great now.
My biggest gripe is still the manual though, worst piece of poo I have seen so far, because you would expect a rulebook with an official wizards of the coast D&D game, the Americans and Canadians did get those nice big 177 page manuals, why they chose to give Europeans that crappy excuse for a manual is beyond me, it has already ruined a great deal of the pleasure I could have gotten from this game.
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