5 minutes into the expansion and already "Game Over" due to bugs.
I spoke to a few townspeople and picked up some quests. Then I saw a strange icon on my minimap and ran towards it. It's a guy that lets you reset the skill points on your characters for some gold. SWEET I thought, because I only really focused on two warriors, a fire mage, and a healer/pet mage during the campaign so I just sort of spent the other characters points on 'whatever'. Now I could fix their skills and have a well-rounded party for when I jumped over to multiplayer.
I kicked my main guys out of the party to make room for the other characters to take them--three at a time--to this 'reset' guy. I went to the Inn and saw all of my characters. This girl named Deru was first on the list of characters, but I didn't want her... I wanted to reset a guy named Vix first. I highlighted Vix and clicked "Add" to add him to my party and out pops Deru. I thought I had made a mistake, so I opened the Inn list again and EVERY SINGLE ONE of my characters were gone except for the initial 3 I had in my party when I imported from the first campaign. I thought what am I doing wrong? So I went to the forums and learned of the infamous "Inn Bug". Apparently, when you save your game repeatedly in the original DS2 your saved game can become corrupt. Then when you import your characters unto DS2:BW this "Inn Bug" happens. Also, maybe this is rumor, Gas Powered Games knew about the bug when they released the game. The know why it happens but not how to fix it and I even read something on the forums about how they can't fix it because of something with Microsoft having to fix the problem because they don't have the ability or permission to patch the appropriate files.
TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE.
I figured well maybe I can still enjoy the multiplayer from the first DS2. But I didn't like my other party members and if I was going to spend a ton of time on DS2 multiplayer I wanted my rounded party... but I didn't have access to the "reset" guy because he was in DS2:BW which I couldn't use because of the Inn Bug. Final Answer: If I want my rounded party I have to start all over again from scratch and create them... but then I questioned the replayability of DS2.
I gave up and quit the game. I don't have much desire to continue playing. I can't believe a game company would release a broken expansion, let alone not be able to fix it when they know the problem. People on the forums were complaining about, "Paying $30 to be a beta-tester." I agree.
Supreme Commander is the "hype game" out there. It looks pretty cool but it might just be flash or hype. I noticed that it was created by Gas Powered Games. That alone might deter me from buying it. I'll check out the demo first, but I am almost completely turned off and question future games released by this company.