The more I play the more disappointed I get

Originally Posted by RivianWitch
I think you have totally the wrong end of the stick with a few things there.
Firstly, the quest you are referring to there, "Blue Eyes" is completely a side quest which you don't have to do at all. Secondly, the "good" ending there, comes not because of sleeping with the vampires, but with not killing them. You can actually still get a "good" ending with that quest, without actually sleeping with the vampires, as long as you choose the blue-eyed girl's side against her brother.
The worst ending is killing the vampires and letting the brother take the girl.

All that the game is trying to say there, is that what makes someone a monster, is not what he/she looks like on the outside but what he she is by nature, which is a strong theme in the books, and is also echoed when you have to decide whether to kill Vincent or not (a point you might not even have reached yet, seeing as you are still so early in the game). In fact, you are still so early in the game, that you have not really started seeing the consequences of your choices yet. I really can't see how you can make such sweeping statements about a game you have not played yet.

Let me use an earlier choice in the game as an example: the choice between whether you let Abigail live or not. This has NOTHING to do with whether you sleep with her or not. You can sleep with her and let her die, or not sleep with her and choose to have the mob kill her, or vice versa; - the one choice does not influence the other choice, so I totally disagree with your statement that the "sleeping with the woman choice" is ever the right or wrong choice.
The consequences do not come from whether you sleep with them or not - that aspect is totally irrelevant to the rest of the game, but from whether you choose to let people/"monsters" live or die.

The only "sex"/romance choice that has any bearing later on in the game, is whether you choose Triss or Shani, and that does not influence the outcome of the game, it only influences which one will act as your companion.

Originally Posted by Alrik Fassbauer
Where does the name come from, then ?

Originally Posted by wolfing
Not all cRPGs are like that though, the RPGs that are usually considered the best are the ones in which you can actually assume the role of a specific character, and the game allows you to make decisions close to what you would have done in a PnP (pen and paper) situation.

Originally Posted by Dasale
It's quite fake because choices are too limited and don't let place for role playing, and that's quite different with a good P&P human master.

Originally Posted by RivianWitch
I have exact control over even the weapons my party members are going to use with every turn, who they are going to attack, using which spell/weapon/special ability. How more tactical can it get? The only single thing I cannot change or control in mid-combat, is the armour they wear; - otherwise I can control their every single movement.

Originally Posted by RivianWitch
Oh, and do you truly think that the AI is good in NWN2?

Originally Posted by vanedor
Anyways, you play a role. Sure, it's not PnP but unless it's an action rpg, you still usually have moral/strategic decisions to take and you are able to put yourself in the skin of someone else, be it an elven maid or an evil necromancer.

Originally Posted by Dasale
You should play a real TB game like Temple of Elemental Evil, each step and action point is or can be carefully balanced.

I didn't wrote Drakensang wasn't tactical, but less than a true TB because you don't have a precise control on movements and in fact it's even hard to predict.

For example you attack a monster from one side but the PC decide to go to the other side and then attract something you didn't want.

Originally Posted by Damian Mahadevan
I didnt mean that i had to get the sex cards, rather that the path you take in trying to get the sex cards gives the best ending. Even if you choose not to get them. Is there even one ending where you get the better ending where you dont try to favour the girl?

Originally Posted by Alrik Fassbauer
Personally, i wasn't that happy with the turn-based approach in Drakensang. After a few tries I gave up, because it simply didn't satisfy me. Plus, it was so much different to me (matter of taste ?) than the old ROA games (and TOEE as well, by the way).

Therefore I only played real-time, with using the pause only to give the cvharacters potions or change weapons or spells or so.

Originally Posted by RivianWitch
I played Temple of Elemental Evil for a tiny bit a longish time ago, but I think I got distracted by other games, and never really got into the game enough to really do much combat. Once I've tired of Drakensang I'll re-install TOEE and have a look, to understand exactly what you prefer.

Originally Posted by RivianWitch
I suppose if you want it to be as precise as exactly which bodypart (a la Fallout 3 ) , and from which angle you want to attack, then Drakensang isn't quite that precise….. But most of the TB games I've played (granted, not all that many) aren't quite that precise either.

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Originally Posted by RivianWitch
Hm, so I think what you are saying, is that the movement seems to be too random, especially from the enemies side? .

Originally Posted by Turjan
Up to now, my biggest complain about the combat system is that the AI always gangs up on your weakest character first and does so by running through your melee fighters. Through! Those are the moments where I could kick the game.