No need to explain Corwin. Your review pointed out all the bad things about the game, and i agree with most parts, as does almost everyone else who played the game i think. Unfortunately it does just that. When i read your review i only get the negative side, and for a good review in my oppinion you have to say also what is good, and i dont get much of that from what you wrote. That wouldnt be so bad if the game really didnt have anything to offer, but NWN2 offers alot. It offers so much you could probably spend 2 pages just writting what is good about it.
People buy games based on what they read on sites, and believe me after reading your review i would never buy that game. NWN2 got some really bad reviews out there. I will never forget the review from 1 UP, which got withdrawned and reposted after new edit, because it was so obvious the guy didnt even play the game. Even in Metacritic site, which calculates the averege score from all other sites that are in reviewing buisness, NWN2 scored 84 i think (i dont have issues with this score), while it scored 55 from users which is outrages. Some users gave it a complete 0/10, and i really dont uderstand why. I want arguments for giving a game a bad score, not personal feelings(this is not to you Corwin, but to morons who actualy gave it 0/10). While bugs can certainly lower the alltogether score, it is by no way an excuse to give a game that really has alot to offer a 0/10. I mean i would not give a 0/10 to any game unless its about telletubies
And then i look at the scores Oblivion got, and its from 90 to 100 on almost every site which is apsolutely OUTRAGES!!!! 7.7 from users (i dont have issues with that score too much...cause few points more or less thats how much the game actualy is worth)!!! Did Bethseda pay them to writte lies??? I really find it fascinating that Oblivion suffers from many similar bugs as NWN2 does, but none of the biggest review sites seemed to mention it! While on those same sites, NWN2 gets the "ohhhh my god how many bugs" treatment.
That is why i think some more positive things should be put in the review (and i know you know there are many good things in the game Corwin). If your intention was just to point out the bad things then i think the review is great, because you noticed some things even i didnt notice, and belive me i find even the smallest mistakes because i have been playing games since i was 4 years old on my ZX Spectrum and trust me i played almost every game worth mentioning atleast once.
BTW did you see a bug in NWN2 when you return in West Harbor after 2 months and there are still corpses laying around? In Oblivion after you return to Kvatch after two months the city is stil burning in flames
But also if your intention was to talk about issues and bugs with the game it is hard to call it a review,... i think it should be called something else... Hmm... I hope you see the problem. Review is about reviewing the whole game, not just some aspects of the game... Hmm maybe, a Review on bugs and issues or something...
Anyway i ll finish my post with a note that not every bug hurts the same. I can live with bad AI if you can customize it. I can even live with few pathfinding issues and such, but what really hurts are the bugs you cannot miss no matter how hard you try to look away. Bugs like return to West Harbor... or when a conversation starts with people from the other side of the map. Now those hurt! Fortunately it happens only once.