A Mask of the Betrayer Let's Play

[burrie]

Just noticed that the letsplayarchive.com has added a very elaborate Mask of the Betrayer playthrough to their database. May be worth a read through if you aren't planning on playing the game or want to reread what the fuss was all about.

http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/MotB/

The author also did a pretty verbose "Let's play" for Neverwinter Nights 2

http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/NWN2/

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Play the game instead of reading that shit.

 

[Ulminati]

I was a bit dissapointed by the ending. Given the build up, you should've been allowed to

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bring down the wall of the faithless as wosshername the cleric wanted.

So far as I'm aware, it's something to do wth the WOTC license not allowing them to make a game that in any way alters the timeline of the IP without express permission. It still seems stupid though, given that in 4E released shortly after

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the wall is gone anyhow.

MotB would've been a nice way to establish how it happened. Ah well, a lost oppertunity.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Particularly as WotC/Atari, whatever, have said NWN games are not canon.

 

[DriacKin]

It's pretty clear they had more freedom with the evil ending - which was as good of an ending as I've ever seen in a story-driven video game.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

I was a bit dissapointed by the ending. Given the build up, you should've been allowed to

Spoiler

bring down the wall of the faithless as wosshername the cleric wanted.

So far as I'm aware, it's something to do wth the WOTC license not allowing them to make a game that in any way alters the timeline of the IP without express permission. It still seems stupid though, given that in 4E released shortly after

Spoiler

the wall is gone anyhow.

MotB would've been a nice way to establish how it happened. Ah well, a lost oppertunity.

I actually thought of that myself. Seemed a bit odd, but oh well.

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It's not even like it was a bad plot point that you can't do it, it's just the way it played out; it wasn't so much a "there will always be powers greater than you" kind of thing, it was just a sudden cockblock with no buildup and no real satisfying resolution. Even if you could have chosen to make a suicidal attempt anyway, it might've been somewhat satisfying. And I find it hard to believe that nobody, in centuries of planning, anticipated the fucking god of the very city you're attacking to pop up and lay the smack down. I fucking expected it to happen.

Ah well. Still a good game. Ought to replay it with an evil character sometime.

 

[Konjad]

Evil path is better and makes more sense in MotB than a good one... and One of manz is superior to any other NPC you can join! (okay, Khaelyn is awesome too).

And dialogues between One of Many, player and Khaelyn, when One of Many makes player mock Khaelyn or make her blind fanatic... <3 Damn, that's one of the few games where I felt being evil is better than being good (others are ToEE and Fallout ofc)

Can't say the same about original NWN2 evil path, where being evil is being psychopatic murderer, like in Bioware games.

 

[Ulminati]

Bioware games are not so much about the choice between "good" and "evil" as the difference between "dumb" and "jackass"

 

[Malakal]

Well quite frankly being a psuchopath IS evil, chaotic evil kind of. Unfortunately we lack the possibility to be a lawful evil mastermind kind of guy... In MoTB too we get the classic chaotic evil lol god pwning ending.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

I've always wanted a game where you can play a real "magnificent bastard" type of villain. Hell, even a manipulative, Count of Monte Cristo-esque hero; even in games that do the evil path relatively well, like MotB, you still find yourself following a breadcrumb trail and forced into thug work/ambushes/direct confrontation. It gets lampshaded often enough, with the villains lamenting that their brilliantly-laid plans were beaten by a group of meddling adventurers and possibly the good king guiding their actions.

 

[Deleted Member 10432]

Mask of the Turd moar liek. R00fles!

 

[CrimHead]

Mask of the Turd moar liek. R00fles!

Dude that was p. fucking clever you should post more often

 

[ironyuri]

Mask of the Turd moar liek. R00fles!

4.5/10

Turd of the Betrayer would have worked much better. It implies that the Betrayer is shitting on you in his betrayal.

 

[OnePostPerDay]

Play the game instead of reading that shit.

why? the gameplay's pretty bad, too much overpowered spells and epic lootz

 

[Volrath]

Spoilers obviously:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsUwihtGDM0

Teh awesum.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Play the game instead of reading that shit.

why? the gameplay's pretty bad, too much overpowered spells and epic lootz

You know people have said the same about me? Shut the fuck up.