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Originally posted by Anubis@Mar 21 2005, 01:50 PM
I got this game for over a year, and I never played it. (did I miss something?  )
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I think it's a fun game. It's a first-person, single-character RPG, with a very attractive graphical environment. There are plenty of quests and literally hundreds of locations to visit--and you can visit them in a non-linear fashion, completely ignoring the main game plot, if you so choose. You can enchant items, and build your character any way you want.
On the PC, it's also eminently moddable. There are 4000+ mods available: extra quests, new races, new areas, new weapons and armor, character homes, extra RPG depth (new activities that involve you with the world), game tweaks to make the environment more difficult or easier, etc. Unlike NWN, you can run multiple mods simultaneously. The limit is 255. I've currently got 208 going.
The game's main weakness is its dialog system. There are plenty of generic subjects and responses, and 1000+ NPCs have many of them. The economy is broken: it's far too easy to make millions very quickly. The inventory is plain ugly and doesn't use containers (unlike, say, the Baldur's Gate series), and the quest journal system is poor. That said, there *is* a mod that allows you to make books in the game, and another that allows you to add entries to your journal. These help.