Am I the only one who boycotted this game?

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I've finished BG2 four times now and never get bored with it. In fact, I'm itching to have another go at it even as I type this. Whereas I was bored with NWN before I'd even finished it the first time and I've never really felt tempted to have another go.

And of course we don't have lives outside the PC. I was born with mine attached to my left hip.

 

Actually I like the singleplayer campaign, but the multiplayer is boring.

 

I like the game. Finished single player a while ago. The only party you can make is with you and your henchman. Thats a little bad. Its a small party. Exept that the game is great

 

I am just getting tired of updating the damn thing every time i turned around.I only had to install 1 patch for the BG2 series. And when i went online ot play you had to have the exact version to paly enaough already of the damn updates.

 

I really liked the game. Imo it was fun, the game has a nice story and cool spells( one of the most important aspects of a game for a mage-loving-boy like me ) .But I agree with Kris, that the henchmen system was terrible.

 

I recently bought this game. It's a bit late, but what can you do? I picked it up and figured I'd give it a go considering it was relatively cheap since coming out. I've played through the Single Player and actually enjoyed it. I think the problem that a lot of people have is that the game is a bit too much like D&D tabletop. They are used to the somewhat simpler version involved in Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale. I liked both of those series' as well, but this one has really stuck on me. I think the biggest boon for a D&D PC game is that it should have the ability to customize, and you can definitely do that with the editor. In addition, there are a lot of people who were very upset about the 20 level cap and all of that. Well, for most tabletop games, you'll be meeting dragons and the like as early as 10th level and sometimes into 17 or later. It's just not likely that a game (a true D&D tabletop game) will go over 20 levels. It's possible of course, but most games are played well at or below 20 levels. For NWN's level system, the only downside is the level-up setting toward the beginning of the game. It's not likely that killing a few monsters and then talking to some guy in a room will put you to your next level. Regardless of all of that, as far as the level cap is concerned, think about this: Elminster, easily one of the most powerful humans on the face of Faerun is a total level of 35. Ftr1/Rog2/Clr3/Wiz20/Acm5/Epic4. Also, he's been around a long time and is very closely tied with Mystra. Now ... if you think your characters should reach level 30 or 40 in the amount of time it would take to play NWN or any other D&D game or campaign, you've got some problems.

Oh, and for those of you mentioning Pool of Radiance, I have this to say: you're pretty much right. The problems with POR were too numerous to count. 1: no story, just hack-and-slash (get Diablo II for that. It's actually quite good) it cut out an entire standard race of beings and a class including that classes specialty settings. There were other problems, but you can't get too upset, they were simply riding on the shirt-tails of D&D games that had done well recently. I think they removed the wizard class because it would have been too difficult to create scrolls and have the programmers they were paying $100 an hour to write a program that randomly inserted them in various level-specific areas in the game. Gee. That would have been hard.

Anyway, enjoy playing NWN if you like it. If you don't, then don't play it. It's a cool game, worth the money, and if you have D&D friends, play this online with them in a campaign of your choosing.