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Fallout, Diablo 2, Starcraft, Day of Defeat, World of Warcraft, and Finally Team Fortress 2
Narr:
--- Quote from: Helios05 on 19 Mar 2008, 00:28 ---Okay, Baldur's Gate does win on many a level, but it had it's issues, such as not having personally customizable characters, which ID 2 had. I never noticed that about the armor, but honestly I never relied heavily on my armor too much, and the strategizing you can do made it so that it wasn't such a big issue. Also, you had to play the hard mode to get some of the better stuff, which likely included what you mentioned. I never played the advanced mode because, well, it required you make your characters a certain way with certain classes, and I wasn't crazy about that. But it's storyline was solid, the music was nice, the game didn't give you shitty rolls like crazy, original BG did that to me a lot, and it pissed me off. I also think they visuals could have been somewhat better, but they weren't bad considering how old the game was.
As for Planescape, I have wanted to play it but lack a computer capable of playing it(well, did lack a computer that could, the new one might be able to) but with playing WOW and real D&D games, I never have time to pick it up.
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Well, yeah, IWD2 did have more of the strategy aspect down, but as I said, it's too flakey in terms of end-game. You said it yourself. Unless you made some very uber-specific party, it's not beatable. Also, even on Heart of Winter, there's still little to no itemization of heavy armors. It makes fighters and paladins useless compared to Barbarians. Also, the spell itemization was pretty spotty at times, so sorcerers were a billion times better than mages.
And really, what does personal character customization mean if non of your characters display a personality? Half the fun of Baldur's Gate 2 were the NPCs.
I'm thinking a remake of Icewind Dale 2 inside the NWN2 engine would be pretty awesome. Anyone else agree?
KvP:
--- Quote from: Narr on 19 Mar 2008, 15:13 ---I'm thinking a remake of Icewind Dale 2 inside the NWN2 engine would be pretty awesome. Anyone else agree?
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It'd need professional work. One of the advantages of the Infinity Engine was the stunning pre-rendered environments and art direction. You'd be hard-pressed to replicate something like the Dragon's Eye in the NWN2 toolset.
Spluff:
You'd probably be better off using the Witcher toolset when it gets released, as the NWN2 one isn't too good.
Surgoshan:
--- Quote from: Narr on 18 Mar 2008, 23:59 ---I just started Planescape: Torment up again and I really do think it's the single greatest RPG ever made, flaws and all.
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Me, too! Torment's just awesome.
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