The Big "How Is It?" Thread

Are there any cool new animations for speciall attacks (like the Duelist's Flourish)?

 

Got the chance to play it yesterday, although I didn't buy it. I echo the comments of catbert, it's dreadful, every aspect of it, I can't believe some of the reviews it recieved, that 5/10 review Chev mentioned sounds about right.

 

I agree with you BTA -- great game so far. I've just finished the tutorial -- which was very well done I think.

Character creation was a huge step up from NWN1 -- and while the graphics aren't on par with Oblivion (not much is), it's still quite a bit better than NWN1. I think the interface is seamless -- and thank god the radial menu is gone.

Cat -- I've got a dual core 3.7 Ghz, 1g RAM and a GeForce 6800XT and am experiencing no problems whatsoever (and didn't with Oblivion either). And the fact that there was a patch immediately upon shipment isn't that usual these days -- it's virtually impossible to ship bug-free, unless a company wants to live with a severely extended development period -- they don't and neither does the public.

 

Hmm, there seem to be some very divergent opinions on the game here! I will be interested to see how this discussion pans out.

 

Ok, played it for about 30 mins or so. Had great fun creating my character, that's pretty nifty.

But, gripe number 1 (so far) - the camera movement speed is painfully slow. I've cranked it up to its max level, but it's still annoying me how slow it takes to move the camera around. The guy runs a little bit too slow as well, but I've not looked to fix that yet, so I'm hoping there's an option to speed up movement speed. I hope it's not an annoying slow game all round, I get the feeling it might be...

 

I feel exactly the same. At first I thought it was my system not being heavy enough, but no, it's that camera...I'll get used to it to a certain extent, but it's really very terrible. :s

 

Well I've been playing for about 2 hours now without really realizing it. That's a good sign I suppose!

Decent game so far. The dialogue is a lot better than the first one.

 

Sorry for the stupid question, but how do you get there? I've been playing a bit more and it's just too slow to be playable in a pleasant way.

 

Now we can get to the real question that can only be answered now that real people are playing it for real: what exact graphics card to do you really need in order to play the game at an enjoyable level of perfomance?

 

A very very very good one, I can tell you that.

I meet the minimum requirements, and even with a 3.2 GHz CPU, the game is simply too slow.

Turning off all the nifty effects doesn't do that much good.

But thanks for your reply, Catbert.

Bugger, 50 euro down the drain, I feel quite ripped off.

[ November 07, 2006, 01:31: Message edited by: Uytuun ]

 

Before the game becomes playable, it's going to cost half its current price, I think. It just sucks, the requirements, from what I've seen while doing the news - there just doesn't seem to be any justification. Just hope they're ever going to optimise it. From what I've heard, it just eats up whatever power you have (e.g. taking 970 megs out of a gig of ram).

 

Funnily enough, either I have just got used to the camera speed or it's fixed itself. I can play with it no problem now, and I've pretty much gotten used to how it all works.

Bu I tell you what, the award for the most annoying voice in a game ever goes to.... Neeshka! It cuts through me like a knife...

 

I still don't have the patch, but I tweaked the performance and its actually quite good. The Warlock is a cool class, but I think he will get boring after a while as he is not as diverse as a Cleric or Mage would be.

 

If you just run the update thing then it'll patch it up automatically mate. It takes like 5 mins, well worth doing.

 

Well, I'm playing the game on a distinctly mid range 1 gig RAM/3ghz p4/geforce 6800 pc and as far as Im concerned it runs fine. I have the texture details on high and the shadows turned off. True its not fast, but everything runs smoothly where it needs to and the game is entirely playable. Perhaps I have lower standards than some of you folks, but as long as the game is playable I'm generally happy. Not too keen on the inclusion of ceilings/rafters and the like, though. They get in the way.

The party control isnt great, I'll agree. I like to play quite tactically, micromanaging each party member individually (and you certainly need to at certain points) but I also like my npcs to be endowed with sufficient common sense to defend themselves when attacked. I have found that not using puppet mode but turning most of the AI settings down or off completely helps. Its still not perfect, but it'll do for now.

Excellent game so far, nonetheless.