NWN 2 - Storm of Zehir

[Felch]

Anybody seen this yet?

It's got some pretty interesting new bits. You build a four character party, characters start out at level 4. There's a slot for a "cohort" and you can get a second cohort with the leadership feat, bringing your party up to six members.

They've got an overworld map, where non-combat skills become a bit more important. For example, Survival helps you move faster, Listen helps you detect wandering encounters, etc.

There's also a primitive trading system, tied into the quest and the item creation system.

It's not the greatest game ever, but it's been a nice little break from the Capital Wasteland.

[Unspeakable Horror]

Yes, it be goode, the overland encounters are kind of hard at first but I have the feeling they will be much easier to handle later.

[Boris Godunov]

Is this an official expansion, or a user-made thing, or what?

I never did get around to finishing Mask of the Betrayer...

[Dis]

mask of the betrayer was pretty good. with wow xp out I will be hard pressed to find time for this. maybe next year.

[LDiCesare]

I didn't like MotB because I felt
1) it was too high level.
2) the feeding mechanism put a time cosntraint on the game which I hated (actually, I should write hated in bold capital case size 48 to convey a slight sense of how much I disliked it).

Now reading reviews, I think I could like:
1)lower level characters
2)party-based tactics
But the boring loading screens and weak (leaky?) engine are back, with a pitiful camera again. Worse, the storyline seems worth nothing.
I'd really like to hear from anyone who got their hands on this here.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by LDiCesare
2) the feeding mechanism put a time cosntraint on the game which I hated (actually, I should write hated in bold capital case size 48 to convey a slight sense of how much I disliked it).

That was what turned me off ot MotB as well. Thanks for reminding me so I didn't waste time going back to it.

[DaShi]

I believe they removed the feeding in a patch. I haven't gotten that far into the first campaign yet, since I really only play it for mp these days.

[Felch]

Originally posted by LDiCesare
Worse, the storyline seems worth nothing.
I'd really like to hear from anyone who got their hands on this here.

It's not PS: Torment, but it's not claiming to be. It's an old school dungeon crawl, with a story that's sufficient to move things along.

[Stuie]

My biggest problem with Storm is the fact that all the dungeons are really small. We're talking one or two rooms. The one major exception is the final battle.

I had a good enough time playing through this, but I missed the NPC interaction more than I thought I would. Now I'm looking forward to what modders do with the new stuff in the expansion.