Well, I think games like Oblivion are just a giant sandbox. I liked Morrowind because it looked great and had very interesting content.. but Oblivion looked nowhere near as good as Morrowind (talking about the scenery, not the graphics). Even though I've never played Wizardry games, I never felt I'd like it, because of its focus on magic and it being first-person. In every game I play I try to go without magic, or as close to that as possible. And I need third person, I'm always annoyed by first-person games. I went third-person in Morrowind, even though that was not hard, what with the crosshair being in your main char's plexus and all. Being a combat-oriented character and having no worthwhile combat system (check out Drakensang's btw, THAT is a good RPG combat system), nor being able to see the character I'm controlling, would turn me off of a game. That is not to say it's not a good game, just that it wouldn't be my taste.
As for NWN2... what exactly did you like about that game? I'm a big fan of NWN, the original game is still one of my favorite games ever... And I think NWN2 was the most disappointing game ever. It suffered from the same engine problems as The Witcher, its graphics were awful, pathfinding was dreadful, the physics were silly, the conversation skills problem hadn't been addressed and was actually even made worse because it was a real party-based RPG, the AI was horrible, the voice acting was bleh, and the story was worse than the original one, etc. etc. The only thing I liked about NWN2 was the character creation system, save for the graphical problems with that. I would've preferred cartoony graphics over that. When Drakensang came out, it felt like what NWN2 should've been, because it had a solution for most of the big problems that NWN2 had, and there were loads. The only thing NWN2 did better was its character creation. That was it.
btw, my favorite RPG ever is Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
Last edited by swordscythe; 15/07/09 10:19 AM.
