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    Quote Originally Posted by Asai Nagamasa View Post
    I haven't played much RPG after Baldurs Gate 2. I recently played through NWN and was quite impessed, but it lacks a lot of depth and is very dumbed down. I hated that fact that you can walk into a home and loot it in front of the owner and not even see your alignment affected or get chased off by the local law enforcement.
    The official NWN campaign did lack depth and was dumbed down, when compared to BG2 (well, most things are). But I think the engine - with its editor - was capable of dealing with issues like looting affecting law enforcement and alignment. As with BG1, I think Bioware did not do everything it could with the first game using an original engine. (That's a common pattern with computer games, where sequels - unlike those for movies - are usually superior to the originals.) The two expansions were better and there are some great user made modules that almost match BG2. I really liked the Shadowcatcher/Dreamlands series, which was so good, Bioware gave the creator, Adam Miller, a job. It was fascinating watch the modder learn his craft with ever more sophisticated modules until he became a virtuoso. By the end, he even got you playing space invaders on the NWN engine, which was frankly mind-boggling. Nonetheless, I confess, I did still find NWN rather soulless and too generically "modular" to really grab me.

    Have you tried the Kotor games and Vampire Bloodlines? Those are titles that I would put up there with BG2 and the Fallouts. They do lack somewhat in vastness, as Meneldil says, but to be honest, they are long enough. I think they are games which build on the elements in BG2 that I loved (the characterful NPCs, cinematic main story and interesting sidequests).

    Quote Originally Posted by frogbeastegg
    The template. That is, all at once, the greatest problem with the genre, the biggest limitation, the biggest dinosaur wandering planet RPG. Or in my humble opinion it is.
    You have a point. The opening cartoon for the "noob comic" echoes it nicely (Meneldil, as an ex-WoW player, might enjoy later cartoons in the series too - I did).

    http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.php?pos=1
    Last edited by econ21; 12-10-2009 at 19:32.

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