JarlFrank
I like Thief THIS much
NWN's systems are so terrible, even the best dungeon design doesn't manage to elevate it beyond "ok". I've played a couple of high quality user-made NWN mods, and even they are just "ok" becuase the underlying mechanics are so bad.
No control over your companions in a D&D 3E game, which isn't a good system for soloing. Combat is extremely slow and therefore tedious. Everything is extremely slow - resting isn't like in the Infinity Engine games where you click a button, screen goes black for half a second, 6 hours have passed. You need to stare at a progress bar for 10 seconds. Lockpicking and trap disarming is the same: look at a progress bar getting filled slowly. This makes any trap-filled dungeons a chore to go through since you'll do a lot of sitting there and waiting for bars to fill. Yawn.
NWN just screwed up all the basics of gameplay, it's almost as if everything is intentionally designed to be as boring and tedious as possible.
And the others games you mentioned are good, no complaints there.
Just don't mention the turd that is NWN in the same sentence. It doesn't belong there.
No control over your companions in a D&D 3E game, which isn't a good system for soloing. Combat is extremely slow and therefore tedious. Everything is extremely slow - resting isn't like in the Infinity Engine games where you click a button, screen goes black for half a second, 6 hours have passed. You need to stare at a progress bar for 10 seconds. Lockpicking and trap disarming is the same: look at a progress bar getting filled slowly. This makes any trap-filled dungeons a chore to go through since you'll do a lot of sitting there and waiting for bars to fill. Yawn.
NWN just screwed up all the basics of gameplay, it's almost as if everything is intentionally designed to be as boring and tedious as possible.
And the others games you mentioned are good, no complaints there.
Just don't mention the turd that is NWN in the same sentence. It doesn't belong there.