[QUOTE="Iffy350"][QUOTE="Orpheus_1986"]Obsidian can PS:T is a testiment to that and KOTOR2s first few hours are really gripping as story elements, great characterization too. Obsidian just haven't ever had a publisher that doesn't push them to release to early. Nikalai_88
Breaking droids with a blow torch is not "gripping" enough. Taris felt alive and both telos and paragus both felt like a dead waist of time. No atmosphere, telos station didn't fill alive and breathing and a lot of the random npc shared the same text and had the same voice over. I doubt any rumored game mods that complete the story could persuade me to wait 20+ hours of boring gameplay to finally get my hands on a lightsaber.
What the heck is PS:T?
Although Peragus was kind of boring I have never played an rpg with a great begenning. As for the feel of the worlds, in a way I agree, everytime I came to a place in KOTOR II I was immidiatley dissapointed, however by the end of it they felt much more 'alive' than the planets in KOTOR 1 which left you with the same feeling.
Special credit should be given to Obsidian for coming up with original side-quests rather than ripping off other ones from their previous games, like Bioware. Not only that but Obsidian did much better with Atari as a publisher for NWN2 than did Bioware, if you remember they used TSR and Atari as excuses for the lame story. As I said I am looking forward to their SEGA published game.
Honeslty I hope Obsidian doesn't get a hold of any more series like NWN or KOTOR.. They have proven to rush their games out before tehy are even finished.. NWN2 was one of the most linear rpgs I have ever seen, difficulty didn't exist, AI was broken with both Party members and enemies, the story was at best AVERAGE, the game was rushed with numerous repeatable bugs.. It also has one of he worse performance of any games out there..
Honestly go look on Gamespots Vista comparison benchmark.. a 8800 GTX was the only card to get above 30fps at 1000X700 average.. The Mutliplayer is in shambles as well, not to mention the toolset has lost numerous features and has beocme way less user friendly.. In the end I hold no sympathy because BOTH KOTOR 2 (which has bugs that are unpatched to this day that some can not play) and NWN2 were rushed POS's that had average story line, broken game play mechanics as well as other glaring mistakes..
I was really hyped for NWN2, and in the end the game is rediuclously easy regardless of the difficulty.. Get this too, Obsidian tries to make the game harder by the enemies BENDING/BREAKING rules. Honestly I have seen better enemy AI in Baldur's Gate 2, a game far older.. Makes matter worse you ever try to complain this on their forums you will hear just how disillusioned both the devs and mods are in the official forum.
Like complaining about performance.. And they claim its because of their advanced shadow system it should be that performance.. Yeah that makes sense they made a shadow system so complex that it drags systems down to their knees while giving subpar visuals that are no where even in the top 3/4s of better looking games.. IMO Half-Life 2 looks far better and that game is far older not ot mention requires far less hardware. though they are different kinds of engines, the NWN2 engine does NOTHING new what so ever.. So in the end they have a poor engine, a poor single player (which they claimed they focused on the majority of time), with a multiplayer that has numerous oversights not to mention rediculous lag.
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