I do have one complaint about the character creator: The lighting. I can’t tell what color my character’s eyes are, and the teeth look more brown than they actually are.
I’ve been waiting for a nice meaty RPG like this for a while. NWN 1 and 2 were a disappointment to me. The marketing campaign has apparently been rather juvenile but I’ve managed to avoid it.
The stock campaign of NWN 2 is indeed crap, however the Masks of the Betrayer add-on is very good. Reminded me a bit of Planescape for the epicness and other-wordliness of the story and setting. Spirit bears and hagspawns and spirit eating, oh my.
To be honest I didn’t get very far in to the NWN 2 original campaign. I found the camera controls extremely frustrating.
There was a 2 day press event a while back during which journalists got to do some hands on with DA:O. Apparently the embargo has been lifted and previews covering those 10+ hours of gaming are starting to hit websites. Might be a good time to hit up your favorite gaming website and see if they got anything.
I got stuck. I had a mage character, but was unable to finish the campaign when you had to fight off a bunch of ghouls by yourself in the king’s chambers.
I remember that. One of the toughest parts of the game regardless of your class really, the vampires where super hard. I got around it by using invisibility and lots of mirror images + daylight spellls.
Check out this quote for those of you playing it on a PC:
The preview article:
http://www.gamingtrend.com/Articles/articles.php?artID=503
My problem is that I couldn’t un-memorize the current spells to equip them. I had all purely offensive spells going on and another party member was carrying all the magic wands and whatnot.
I almost made it through a few times and I tried it about 30 times, but I just couldn’t make it through.
I liked the game other than that, though.
I had a similar problem in Hordes of the Underdark (NWN I). I was a sneak thief, yet one of the big boss battles was me against this super drow lady. Thankfully, I had a few levels in shadowdancer. Between hide in plain sight and about 3 dozen traps, I cheesed my way through the fight. Too many RPGs assume everyone will make the perfect combat machine, and all those who do make the perfect combat machine then complain about ‘how easy’ the game is.
Thinking about it, that isn’t much different than the method I used to beat Melissan in Throne of Bhaal. But she cheesed the battle just as much, so it was even.
Earlier in the game, when you had that weird deathmatch, you could have one of your fighter characters do the duel for you (I did).
It’s okay, though. I liked the game anyways.
It’s available for pre-order on Steam now.
OMG, 300 MB for a tool? I know it got 3D graphics and all that, but I was expecting a bare-bone utility and some graphical stuff for the skill tree. Which is really all I need (but of course for marketing reasons…and well other have different needs). They could have done it simply.
It’s up on Steam, and but I have no idea why Stream sells game much more expensively than retail (what’s the point?). Anyway, that’s not the point, the thing is the digital pre-order exclusively online, or will there be a collector’s edition in retail too?
I can’t seem to download the creator at all. This game is hot. Here hoping that it wouldn’t bomb.
I’m very much looking forward to it. The only question is whether I’m going to get the retail or the digital download. I don’t live in the US, so it’s not a light decision. If I order it retail it’ll take weeks to get here but the game will definitely run. If I order it from D2D or Steam it may not run.
Why wouldn’t it run?
Just did the digital deluxe pre-order through Steam – $54.99 is a good deal for the additional content – $10 cheaper than Stardock.
Not looking forward to it. Have been unable to take the game seriously as concept since their trailer and the Hawaii Five-0 mock up.
There’s too much pretension here. Maybe I’ll go back and enjoy it in a couple of years when the hype has died down. Assuming it’s any good anyway.
I am on your camp, but there isn’t much RPG content for the PC which aren’t Oblivion-clones (Gothic 3, Two Worlds, Risen etc.). And they got “Captain Janeway” as a narrator and was making a big fuss out of it on Gamespot.
I cast my pre-order today at a local retail shop. But I am not rabidly mad for it. Perhaps because it came with a scenario creator; let’s hope that doesn’t sucks.
So you’re basing your opinion on a single trailer? Talk about judging a book by it’s cover.
Look, like it or not, this is the generation of the consoles, where the unwashed masses are paying the bills for companies like EA, Microsoft, Sony, et al.
They need to market to these people in order to make a profit on modern games like DA, which cost millions of dollars to produce. And all these people understand is action and blood and sex.
The rest of us, both on console and PC need to ignore the crappy marketing and do what we do best. Think and gather information for ourselves. All it takes is doing search on you tube for gameplay videos, or visiting the website and checking out the FAQ to realize just what type of game this is.
I guarantee you that if Baldur’s gate was ebign released today it would feature a trailer with a half-naked Imoen and Sarevok tearing people apart.
This game is a rarity. Reviewers are talking about 100+ hours of gaming if you tackle all quests, visit all areas (and even then you’ll be missing out on another 5 origin stories, and god knows how much other content that is based on your decision in game), and they all seem to agree that the story and decision making is an improvement to what bio has done in the past.
This, at a time when the younger generation prefer 6 hour games and juvenile plot themes. We need to support more games like DA or we’re going to be stuck with Wii sports resorts and Halo 3’s for the foreseeable future (and I’m not saying those games are bad always, just that we need variety, and those type of games ONLY would suck).
The details vary by service but they generally do an IP check to find out what region a customer is in and may not let them buy/download/authenticate/whatever the game unless they’re in the proper region. Steam in particular is stringent in this regard.
Ahh, I didn’t know that. Where are you that you can’t purchase a local digital copy? Or do you want the original English laguage version?