Review Dungeon Siege 2 happy dance at GameSpy

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: Dungeon Siege 2

<A href="http://www.gamespy.com">GameSpy</a> has written a pretty positive <A href="http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/dungeon-siege-ii/644618p1.html">review</a> of <A href="http://www.gaspowered.com/ds2">Dungeon Siege 2</a>. The final score is the <b>4/5 stars</b> with the cons being mediocre multiplayer and the voice acting. Anyway, teh funneh:
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<blockquote>Action-RPGs rely on two key elements: lots of monsters and lots of loot. The storylines tend to be simple, and actual role-playing elements tend to be limited to some minor interactions with NPCs and gaining levels. Fortunately, Gas Powered Games struck a good balance between the action and the role-playing of <i>Dungeon Siege II</i>. It's no <i>Neverwinter Nights</i>, but you can find lots of side quests alongside the primary storyline, and some of the quests require you to solve puzzles or riddles to complete them.</blockquote>
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I'm not sure what they mean about it not being a <A href="http://nwn.bioware.com">Neverwinter Nights</a>. I'm sure that this game has more side quests than NWN. It'd be hard to make the case that NWN had better side quests when they were fairly pitiful. It probably would have been better to mention <A href="http://www.lucasarts.com/products/swkotor/">Knights of the Old Republic</a> if they wanted to name drop <A href="http://www.bioware.com">BioWare</a>. Then again, that game didn't use <A href="http://www.gamespy.com">GameSpy</A> technology, did it?
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[Whipporowill]

Pretty funny claiming the multiplayer is mediocre when it uses their own software to store the characters online...

 

[Second Chance]

NWN uses Gamespy too, and with the amount of PWs out there, surely Gamespy wouldn't want to diss NWN in any way.

DS2 might have more subquests than vanilla NWN, but NWN is modable in a way that no other RPG is up to date (with possible exception of Morrowind, but in a totally different way). With NWN's mods, you can have limitless subquests.

Anyway, DS2 is crap.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

DS2 might have more subquests than vanilla NWN, but NWN is modable in a way that no other RPG is up to date (with possible exception of Morrowind, but in a totally different way). With NWN's mods, you can have limitless subquests.

Actually, the original Dungeon Siege is more modable than NWN. With Dungeon Siege, you could create new classes with a different levelling scheme and skill trees.