Duck and Cover

..Let me put it this way, I'm enthusiastic about D&D, I loved the BG and icewind dale series, and I liked NWN somewhat.

But the first ten minutes of NWN2 have been nothing but dissapointment on dissapointment..

The character creation is bland, boring and looks more like a reuse of NWN than I thought possible.
Haircuts are dull, the color choices are few and ugly, and the "head" choices all look alike.

When I chose the voice for my character, I found out that it was all the same ones from NWN! Maybe a few new ones.

The first thing that happened when I started the game, was I noticed the textures looked something like half-life on the lowest settings. And this is on max settings..

Then when the game actually starts, it all comes back to me, it's pretty much all the same as NWN. What's worse is, that the movement is worse than before.
The camera lags behind, and I have a fairly decent machine. So I go readjust the settings and when I restart the game, same lag.

When I get out of the first building, the sky texture is one big bunch of mismatched colours, clearly a complete texture fuck-up.

When I attack a creature, I have to move my character to the creature, and *then* attack, where as in NWN when you clicked a mob, it just went straight to it.

It's not like I mind moving my character around, but the controls are so utterly retarded and fucked up beyond recognisition, that I want to puke every time I have to fight something!

I played for ten minutes.. and I've never seen so bad a game in so short a time.


I'm going to try again in a few days when I'm sure to get the patch, which btw, completely screwed up when I tried to update. (which might explain the texture errors.)

I can't believe how bad it is..

Edit:

By the way, there were two spelling errors/typos in two seperate info-tips during load-screen.. That pretty much sets the standard.

Smiley wrote:By the way, there were two spelling errors/typos in two seperate info-tips during load-screen.. That pretty much sets the standard.

Yeah, something like that is pretty unforgivable. When I turn in a paper, I run spell-check. I would imagine that the intelligent developer would do the same before turning a game over to a publisher.

Who would imagine an Intelligent Designer behind yet another soporific 'new age' RPG ? Would you ? Or you ? Or would They ?

Imagine:

Producer officially announes Neverwinter Nights 3



Followed by Gothic 4, Dark Messiah 2 and Oblivion 2.

after spending far too many hours on this, I can only say it's a wate of time. don't buy this game, and don't download it either.

I'll just go buy FFXII.

I'm going to try it out, hopefully to disclose even more bugs and complain like crazy. But it does have coop right? Maybe we could turn it into a computer larp night?

S4ur0n27 wrote:Can't they test the fucking games?

As far as I can tell Atari pushes everything out the door before it is ready.

S4ur0n27 wrote:Can't they test the fucking games?

That's what they make patches for, that way you don't have to pay beta testers.

I was downloading it for like 4 days and now my download has an error and I found out the torrent was fudged I guess it wasn't worth it anyways.

St. Toxic wrote:I'm going to try it out, hopefully to disclose even more bugs and complain like crazy. But it does have coop right? Maybe we could turn it into a computer larp night?

Yes.

Be sure to check the options... some of it forces the game to pause when someone talks to an npc. Some other option moves the whole party whenever someone zones.

and they all on by default...

Whatever happened to the "No pirating stuff" rule? Clear your posts or ask someone to do it for you. :nazi:

I don't think you fully understand the DAC piracy policy.

Franz Schubert wrote:DAC piracy policy.

I don't think such a thing exists

Dont ask, dont tell

c'mon Toxic, don't be a jew

Piracy is what keeps them wheels churning.

I remember some time when Teat removed some posts about piracy.

Aneurysm wrote:Dont ask, dont tell

That's the one. What you do outside of DAC :patriot: service is your own business. Keep it that way.

EDIT: As for NWN2 -- well, I tried it briefly and I'm uninstalling shortly. The basic cutscene-dialogue-system ala big fucking letters as if I was retarded was enough to kick all the interest out of me. The camera was sluggish, and the game started out in the vein of that time-travelling jRPG whatever it was called. Seemingly I played a 48 year old bard who believed in nothing but taking care of himself, yet I was adopted by some weird looking bug guy and my chief objective was to sell his pelts and win the big contest at the fair. Might have passed for multiplayer, but LAN is out, and if you're like me there's only two ways to play.

I have little time to spare for gaming, and simply NWN2 doesn't seem like a worthwhile investment.

At least I played through the tutorial