🚀 go-pugleaf

On Jul 3, 5:06 pm, "Trimble Bracegirdle" <no-s...@never.spam> wrote:
> There is a thread starting back at 1st June on this if you can find it..
> Was strated bt Wolfing who there said (copied below here)
> @@@@
>
> I got NWN2 years ago when it was released. Played it for a bit and
> abandoned it (couldn't get used to the controls).  A few months ago I
> started again, luckily by then I had new options for party control
> (basically, detach camera from PC) that allowed me to play the game.
> Still, I found myself almost forcing me to keep playing, which I
> eventually did.  Then I continued with Mask of the Betrayer, which I
> liked even less (I just don't like the munchkinism of the epic levels
> in D&D in general), but I kept on playing.  Last Thursday I finished
> it and installed SoZ... AND WHAT A DIFFERENCE!
>  - Make your own party.  It's been so long since I had this feeling,
> spending hours trying to come out with a party configuration I want,
> but even worse, since now each character can have prestige classes (to
> maintain my sanity I restricted myself to 2 classes and 1 prestige
> class). AWESOME
>  - Start the game, I'm not part of any prophesy with a big destiny to
> save the world! I'm just a bunch of adventurers doing their own stuff.
> AWESOME
>  - You die and... you die! AWESOME!
>  - Establish a trading empire... AWESOME!
>  - Try resting 5 minutes after you rested and... you can't!  AWESOME!
>
> I'm really loving this game, originally I thought I wouldn't like it
> because of its open-world approach, but it's ok, I don't explore away
> from the road and I always have stuff to do telling me where to go so
> it's not so open as to make me uncomfortable like in other games.
> I do miss inter-character interactions though, but guess you can't
> have both.

To follow up on this, I loved the game until the very end... which I
couldn't finish. The last fight is so incredibly difficult (to my
lowly lvl 15 or so party) that, after like 20 attempts I just gave
up.  When I checked online for hints on what to do, most said their
group was like level 17-18 (some even had epic level chars there),
which is a problem since this game is 'open-ended', you could be much
less than that if you used your skills to not fight many random
battles outdoors.
Other than that last fight, I maintain my opinion the game is great.
It's just a pity I can't finish it.