bryanmaloney: Sweet.
Jesus.
On.
A.
Stick.

They actually had the gigantic clanking brass balls to PUBLISH that load of maggot-laden dog feces that was used as an "ending" on the original campaign. Did somebody pull in his brother-in-law who one time expressed a passing interest in thinking about doing voiceovers 20 years before in order to "narrate" that thing? And the "story" of the ending? There is not enough whiskey in the world for it to make sense to me. SOMEbody thought it was a good idea to actually put their NAME on that?

I am so very glad I bought NWN2 at the last big D&D blowout sale, along with a whole bunch of other stuff that I'd passed on over the years, so it came out to $5.00/game. Had I paid a penny more, the ending of that campaign would have made it a rip-off.

bryanmaloney: Did somebody pull in his brother-in-law who one time expressed a passing interest in thinking about doing voiceovers 20 years before in order to "narrate" that thing?

Gaunathor: That's actually the same voice-actor who did Sir Nevalle. He was sick that day, according to some posts by the devs on the old NWN2-forum, but they couldn't postpone the recording.

In any case, as Coelocanth said, MotB is much better (though I have my own share of problems with it), and more than makes up for the letdown of an ending.

bryanmaloney: I've done better than that while sick. That excuse has the stink of "come up with something so we don't get lynched" about it. The guy sounds like a bored student reading from the most boring history book ever written in the most boring class taught to the most bored students subject to the most boring professor in the Department of Boring at Boring State University, in Boring, Iowa (Boring Campus).

bryanmaloney: They actually had the gigantic clanking brass balls to PUBLISH that load of maggot-laden dog feces that was used as an "ending" on the original campaign. Did somebody pull in his brother-in-law who one time expressed a passing interest in thinking about doing voiceovers 20 years before in order to "narrate" that thing? And the "story" of the ending? There is not enough whiskey in the world for it to make sense to me. SOMEbody thought it was a good idea to actually put their NAME on that?

Darvin: The NWN2 OC had some great stuff in there. The story arc surrounding the trial was excellently done, and if this had been a stand-alone module it would have received immense praise. Instead, it gets dragged down by the inane filler that is most of chapter 2 and the slow descent into utter trash that is the game's final act. The ending is particularly bad, essentially a "rocks fall, everyone dies" ending with poor narration to add insult to injury.

Aside from the ending, most of NWN2's content is actually quite good when taken individually. Old Owl's Well is a competent "go out and slay some orcs" adventure, but the problem is that you're forced to divert away from a more interesting main plotline to pursue it. If it were a stand-alone module it'd work great. A lot of NWN2's weaker moments have this same vibe; they'd have worked well if they'd been cut off into their own stand-alone adventure rather than shoe-horned into a plot where they serve to detract rather than add to the experience.

bryanmaloney: I've done better than that while sick. That excuse has the stink of "come up with something so we don't get lynched" about it. The guy sounds like a bored student reading from the most boring history book ever written in the most boring class taught to the most bored students subject to the most boring professor in the Department of Boring at Boring State University, in Boring, Iowa (Boring Campus).