Is NWN2 a good game?

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Well...I have not purchased it yet and I am facing some sort of choice...between NWN2 and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic...
Is NWN2 a good game? Personally I would have bought it without question but now that it seems to contain a lot of bug and something and something more, I am beginning to doubt if it's really worth spending 50 Euro!
Someone please tell me how you feel about this game overall.
Thanks beforehand!

 

Well, I think it's a good game all and all, still in need of some serious patching. None of the bugs have been game stoppers for me, and I'm probably a little more than 1/2 way through the OC. At times it gets a little tedious to play through, but on the whole I'm finding it enjoyable.

But before you consider purchasing, this game has some significant hardware requirements. If you want to post your specs, I'm sure people will chime in to let you know what kind of experience you're likely in for.

 

Unless you have a state of the art PC already, I'd go for Kotor, hands down. Not only is it a fifth of the price of NWN2 right now, but NWN2 has VERY high system specs. If you have a sub-standard PC, don't even bother until you do. Kotor is an excellent game that you should be ashamed for not already owning, anyway.

I'd wait until all the patches come out for NWN2, at least. Kotor will be more than enough entertainment for you until then.

 

NWN2 is a fun game, but as for replay value... it's about a 0/10. If you could start towards the end of chapter 2, the replay value would be siginificantly higher though . Parts of it are awesome, parts of it, you'll wish you could skip.

 

I think 0/10 is a little harsh, I'd give it a 3 - 4 personally. But, of course, this doesn't take into account the fan-made modules that should start hitting the scene in the near future. Not sure if NWN2 will do as well as original NWN in this respect, but it's something that most other game you purchase don't have going for them.

 

I'd agree that 0/10 is a little harsh, it's not brilliant replay value, but it's not THAT bad... I'd be happy if I could skip to the point where you leave the first town, but I've got tons of different character builds to try... like 9 levels ranger, 1 level bard, and 10 levels Red Dragon Disciple!

 

Its arguably one of the worst "roleplaying" games ever made in my opinion. No real choices, except for the ones you make when leveling up, crappy menu system. Crappy AI on your party members. Horrible voice acting. bellow average story. Way up there on the bug-record with temple of elemental evil. And of course way overpriced. I would recomend [snip] if you really have to play it. Better [snip].....

[And I would recommend that you read our forum rules. -Tal]

[ November 30, 2006, 12:03: Message edited by: Taluntain ]

 

Buy KOTOR. Great game. Buy NWN2 in six months when enough patches and community-made mods will fix its many bugs and flaws. It's flawed but fun but pales in comparison to KOTOR.

 

Thanks for the replies!

Here's the spec of my laptop:
Intel Centrino Duo T2300
1gb ram
ATI mobility radeon X1600

I think it meats the original requirement, but because it's a laptop, it still would have some difficulty running nwn2...no?
And it seems that whenever there's 3d blurring effect,(like the smoke which comes after a Fireball explodes, or like the sky under the HDR lighting effect) my pc gets slowd...is that a problem of my computer or what...? Does someone know something about that?

I think I got to reconsider buying it...[snip]? Sigh...

[As above. -Tal]

[ November 30, 2006, 12:05: Message edited by: Taluntain ]

 

I'm actually enjoying this game. I agree that if your system specs aren't up to par, I would hold off on buying it.

But overall, I'm enjoying the game, enjoying the story, enjoying the crafting, and some of the cooler managerial features found in Chapter II. I think the story is better than the original campaign from NWN, as well. Plus, having a larger party makes it feel like Baldur's Gate.

I'm looking forward to seeing content from the NWN community when it starts filtering out. Personally, if your system can handle it - it's worth the $$.

 

Yeah, the game is way too linear. But other than that, I really like it so far. I have not played KotOR, so I can't compare them. Sorry, I'm not much of a Star Wars fan....

 

I would say that NWN2 is decent, maybe 7/10 overall, but it certainly is much better than the first one. I got extremely annoyed at the "errand boy" quests that you have in Chapter 1. The story also gets worse the closer to the end you get. I would get KOTOR and wait for them to patch up NWN2 and for potential expansion packs.

"Oh noes, a closed gate! What do we, the mighty Heroes, do now?!?"
"Lets run a dozen errand boy quests to get the gate open while gaining lots of exp!!$$$$"
Right...

 

I disagree with most of the posts in this thread. I am enjoying the game. Overall the story is good. I like the NPC's, their personalities, voice acting, etc... I barely meet the minimum specs for the game, and haven't experienced any problems. I am currently in Act II.
As far as replay is concerned I think 0/10 is way too harsh. The game has as much replayability as any IE game. The best experiance is the first time through because you don't know the whole story, where the tough fights are, where the best treasure is etc...

 

There is one simple solution, you adjust the enemies challenge rating dynamically, to reflect the characters current status. Of course, it would also shorten the game somewhat if the example above would be included as optional side quests. There is also a certain limit on how much you can include as optional, but as said above, you can simply use good storytelling.

Maybe I was *slightly* too harsh, since the game has some good things as well, like the NPCs. However, it does not get close to IE games.

Tiax says: "Infinity rules, make way!"

 

Explain to me how this is as replayable as any IE game. BG2 has so many options, 10 years after it came out, I've beaten it with 13 paladins and it hasn't ended or played through the same way yet. Not to mention the many other classes I've uses, probably 30 fighters, 2 rogues a few sorcs, etc.

This game I play through it one time, I'm stuck doing the exact same thing no matter what class/race/alignment I choose. You have options for separate quests maybe and possibly even whether or not to do a few, but the majority of gameplay requires you to do exactly this and that or you can't continue. Besides, I remember trying to fight Firkraag straight out of Irenicus' dungeon and I do recall getting my arse wooped hardcore style. But you know what? I had an autosave...(haha) something very rare in NWN2 .

Options make the game, I'd like to see anyone here tell me in all honesty, they don't like the BG series or Fallout series better than NWN2. (I actually like the graphics from BG2 best of all. The layouts were very very detailed without required high system req's since chains didn't dangle singularily and didn't need to).

The game is definately worth playing and I think eventually I'll be able to play a character to Neverwinter again, but for the time being it just kind've sucks playing through exactly the same thing I just did.