Demnogonis Saastuttaja
Magister
This game is ingenious. In what other game I'd make a Barbarian with maxed STR, CON and 12 dex (Heavy Armour feat since the feats are p. crap) and minimum everything else, skill points go just to Tumble (+1 ac every now and then) and Spellcraft (+1 to spell saves every now and then) and the rest don't matter so why not Discipline, even while it doesn't usually work and some item that prevents knockdown is probably better? I can't believe how much the skills suck in this game. At first I was playing a rogue, dumb as I was to not think of that this game doesn't have a party and 90% of the enemies are undead... Well at least I got skills that do... what? Just fuck it.
You don't need such things as lockpick because you can bash everything with Power Attack and there's no downside to doing that. You don't need dialogue skills because mostly you just get something like +50 gp. Need no lore because you'll be so damn rich you can just identify with money. You don't need Heal since you get 1000 potions anyway and can rest so often. Just the skills that give some combat ability, that is Tumble and Spellcraft. There are no alternate ways to finish any of the quests, it's all just kill kill kill... So best have the best combat character you can make. Also what's with the retarded idea that you get less XP if you summon your wizard familiar or some such? Bioware sure seems to love these oddly retarded systems.
One thing I will give credit for is dumb dialogue for having int 8. It's sort of funny that the conversations go along the lines "Oh my god what a moron, you're so stupid" "You maybe smart, but you die now". Why the hell would some wimp insult some massive killer like that? Heh. I like that you can stab people mid-dialogue. That's what RPG's are about.
Why the fuck are there so many chests and barrels with random loot? Oh my lord. Why not have 50 chests around the streets, sure couldn't have the loot in one chest, better have a barrel with bracers of armor +1 (there's a whore begging for gold. Why isn't she looting the barrels for the 1000 gp items?). It's such a fucking chore.
The engine isn't nearly as bad as I remembered, it's much more pleasant to play than NWN2. Though the radial menus are an invention of the Devil. But otherwise it seems pretty crisp. But then... Why is this 3d? It doesn't use it for any game purpose. It's just basically a 2D game with polygons and the problem that comes from having a rotating camera, I.E. that you can't always see what you need to see and that it's hard to tell where's north (at least for me) and thus, hard to tell where you are going. Doesn't help that everything looks the same.
So anyway. I beat it and all I can say is, have a fucking party and if you're going to have skills, use them for fucking something. Oh and for the love of god, let the player control the only fucking party member you get, it's not funny how the dumb bitch runs in the middle of a bunch of skeletons, then casts some stupid spell FOR FUCKS SAKE TURN THEM YOU'RE A CLERIC and gets 7 attack of opportunities in the face, then, near death, casts a healing spell on herself and dies to the AOO's. You don't have a party. You get one hireling with you, who is completely useless.
I bought this game when it was released, and quit it very quickly, because the weird 3D style and the lack of party were just too much. I hadn't even played either BG a lot then, after all there were a lot of better games to play. These days... I just want to play some fantasy adventure style game and I'm not fucking touching that DA shit and what not we get. A good thing we started a PnP Eberron campaign, so I get my fantasy fill from a not completely retarded source. Bah. And there are people who complain EA ruined Bioware. Yeah I don't think so, the ruin was there all along.
/rant
You don't need such things as lockpick because you can bash everything with Power Attack and there's no downside to doing that. You don't need dialogue skills because mostly you just get something like +50 gp. Need no lore because you'll be so damn rich you can just identify with money. You don't need Heal since you get 1000 potions anyway and can rest so often. Just the skills that give some combat ability, that is Tumble and Spellcraft. There are no alternate ways to finish any of the quests, it's all just kill kill kill... So best have the best combat character you can make. Also what's with the retarded idea that you get less XP if you summon your wizard familiar or some such? Bioware sure seems to love these oddly retarded systems.
One thing I will give credit for is dumb dialogue for having int 8. It's sort of funny that the conversations go along the lines "Oh my god what a moron, you're so stupid" "You maybe smart, but you die now". Why the hell would some wimp insult some massive killer like that? Heh. I like that you can stab people mid-dialogue. That's what RPG's are about.
Why the fuck are there so many chests and barrels with random loot? Oh my lord. Why not have 50 chests around the streets, sure couldn't have the loot in one chest, better have a barrel with bracers of armor +1 (there's a whore begging for gold. Why isn't she looting the barrels for the 1000 gp items?). It's such a fucking chore.
The engine isn't nearly as bad as I remembered, it's much more pleasant to play than NWN2. Though the radial menus are an invention of the Devil. But otherwise it seems pretty crisp. But then... Why is this 3d? It doesn't use it for any game purpose. It's just basically a 2D game with polygons and the problem that comes from having a rotating camera, I.E. that you can't always see what you need to see and that it's hard to tell where's north (at least for me) and thus, hard to tell where you are going. Doesn't help that everything looks the same.
So anyway. I beat it and all I can say is, have a fucking party and if you're going to have skills, use them for fucking something. Oh and for the love of god, let the player control the only fucking party member you get, it's not funny how the dumb bitch runs in the middle of a bunch of skeletons, then casts some stupid spell FOR FUCKS SAKE TURN THEM YOU'RE A CLERIC and gets 7 attack of opportunities in the face, then, near death, casts a healing spell on herself and dies to the AOO's. You don't have a party. You get one hireling with you, who is completely useless.
I bought this game when it was released, and quit it very quickly, because the weird 3D style and the lack of party were just too much. I hadn't even played either BG a lot then, after all there were a lot of better games to play. These days... I just want to play some fantasy adventure style game and I'm not fucking touching that DA shit and what not we get. A good thing we started a PnP Eberron campaign, so I get my fantasy fill from a not completely retarded source. Bah. And there are people who complain EA ruined Bioware. Yeah I don't think so, the ruin was there all along.
/rant