What game are all the reviewers playing? The Neverwinter Nights 2 I got is an ugly, glitchy, horribly generic piece of junk. Yet GameSpot has it winning a "Best Story of the Year" award, and other sites continue to sing its praises. What the flippin heck is going on?!
The game performs very poorly on even the most robust gaming systems. Mycomputer more than equals the recommended specs, but I had to modify the gamesfiles, use two or three workarounds, and launch the .exe from a separate program to get the game to a playable state. And that is with almost all of the graphics settings set to low or off. As long as a game looks decent, I can overlook graphical flaws. But when I can't even play the game due to low framerate and glitches, it's not worth my time.
Once you unwrap the game from all of its technical problems, you find a generic take on all things D&D that gets old before it even begins. The tutorial is HORRIBLE! They set you up with a starting point that would only logically suit a Human or Elf ranger, any other class or race feels out of place and odd.
Most of the reviews I have read have pointed out the character interaction in NWN 2. From what I have read I have come to the conclusion that one of two things must be true:
1. Either these reviews don't read anything other than video game text, and would accept fan fiction written by a 13 year old as "epic and engrossing."
or
2. Someone has paid these reviewers to write the things that they have about this game.
I found myself wanting to leave all my characters at the inn. The only interaction they had with each other was to whine and complain, as if they were all mentally below ten years old. They were all cliché D&D characters with not one whit of intrigue or charisma. It felt like I had already met these characters, they were all too predictable. Not to mention that they were more a hindrance than a help with the horrible AI.
This game is a joke, far from being a worthy successor to the original Neverwinter Nights. I was stupefied by GameSpots original review score, but now I’m ticked off that they would award this trash with “Best Story of the Year.”