I have never been an hardcore gamer....I either play a REALLY impressive game, or I don't. I also don't really play anything other than rpgs. The only games I have been really impressed with, were Final Fantasy 7 and 8. The story was nonsense, but the battles and character development were very well done, in my opinion. That was many years ago, since then I tried a lot of other RPGs, my experience with them never lasted more than a couple of hours, even with all the newer Final Fantasy games (which I don't care about).

I also loved some Zelda games for the portable systems, such as Zelda and the Minish Cap. Yeah I know it seems ridiculous, and I definitely don't like kiddy games, but the ones mentioned were good.

In about 10 years the only RPG I somewhat liked, was Dragons Age, but it still felt unpolished in a lot of places. I also played Morrowind, Oblivion and tried Fallout 3 for a few hours. These looked nice but I wasn't impressed at all.

Then I played NWN HoTU, and I loved it, definitely an high quality RPG.

But NWN2 is another thing! It's the first time in years that I am playing an RPG for 5 or 6 consecutive hours and going to sleep at 3 am. I am currently really digging Mysteries of Westgate. I have sorted the camera, which at first was so exasperating it made me abandon the game.

This really is the RPG i have been looking for. Great atmosphere, very nice graphics, great soundtracks, and I love the wiseass replies in the NWN series, it's weird but that's why I never liked Oblivion or Fallout 3, the characters are just too serious and boring.

The balance between the voice acting and the text is PERFECT. There's nothing cheesier than hearing some NPC repeat the same stupid thing over and over. In NWN2 the NPC speak once and then it's text from them on.
I think this blends very well: it's not all text, and it's not always voice acting.

I am still getting to grips with the really vast magic etc system, but I have decided to invest in the time to learn the details.

My search is over.