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[Xiahou]

On NWN, I actually liked the first expansion better than the second. It was nothing grand but well written and manageable. (I actually finished it, unlike the official campaign and HoTU). Deekin and the Dragon were very entertaining and paladins got lots of nice stuff.

The original campaign is pretty awful, but has its moments. The Chapter 1 finale was a blast and Charwood was as good a sidequest as any in a CRPG IMO.

Huh, I really enjoyed the OC storyline... to each their own, I guess.

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The only thing I remember being peeved about was being unable to prevent Aribeth's execution.

Anyone know if the Bioware downloadable campaigns still require a phone-home every time you load a game? I wanted to buy a few of them, but wasn't willing to put up with that.

[econ21]

Huh, I really enjoyed the OC storyline... to each their own, I guess.

I did not have a problem with the storyline; my beef was with the repetitive and ridiculously unchallenging "filler" combat that was stuffed into Chapter 1 and 2. I found the first quadrant in Chapter 1 that you clear quite well balanced, but then it was as if the other three did not scale appropriately to my level. And I remember in Chapter 2, fighting some challenge rating 2 creatures (orcs?) when my character was level 10 or some such.

Plus the dialogue and sidequests did not meet the high standards of, say, BG2 or KOTOR. (Charwood and one or two others parts excepted.)

[Zenicetus]

The problem with the Charwood side quest in NWN's original plotline is that it was brilliant, and made the rest of the writing look lame by comparison.

IIRC, that was done by a different person than the rest of the game, and it showed. It did point the way to what the users could do on their own though, so that was worthwhile. I played many user modules that were of that quality. NWN is worth trying out just for that.... the way they gave a tool kit to the users, to create their own RPG stories.

I skipped over NWN2... just too busy doing other things (both IRL and other games). Does that version have user-created modules of similar quality to the best of the NWN modules?

[FactionHeir]

Xiahou: Yes, Premium modules still need an active line.

Zenitecus: There are hardly any modules out for NWN2 yet. Those which are, are too short for my liking still.

As for the OC, it had its moments, but its not really replayable due to its linearity. The first playthrough is usually quite fun until the last act, where fighting those lizards just got tedious - same as in SoU.