What are you playing right now?

Only game I ever played like that, but played it hard. Enjoyed the character building and the findable/buyable/makeable type shit to wear. Never really finished the game, though; at least not with one of my characters. I don't think I got a character above level 67 or so.

 

for NWN or BG?

i sorta played a bit with some BG mods, but it was a total hack job that didn't work out too well.


for NWN, i played with some early mods and even tried to make my own, but the toolset was pretty weak, i thought. the mods really hilight just how canned the game is, in my opinion. i bought the first expansion for NWN and it sucked completely. nothing new and it was buggy. you could break adventures by doing something unexpected -- like if you run into the first room during the big fight, you can get there and interrupt things and fuck up the script and the guy never dies or says anything to you.

some day, i'll write my own RPG game.

 

Ha ha. I started with Baldur's Gate 2 also and then played IceWind Dale with a friend (we each controlled 3 characters). I like the feel of those games, as close to pen-and-paper as you can get, in my opinion. Neverwinter Nights did not feel like a traditional role-playing game in that way, it may have been the switch to 3rd edition rules or something, though.

IceWind Dale I also played through with an evil party, so that kinda added a lot to the fun.

 

I have never been able to play an evil character.

 

good lord, level 67 and you didn't finish? man, you musta got into the items stuff pretty seriously!

as "simple" as the game is, they did a great job of making it feel special. subtle things like item names are important. "blade of stars" is better than "sword +2". and the items were the best part, really. you'd go around kicking open everything you could hoping you'd find something new and unusual. you'd play "just a little longer" cuz you could feel that rare item coming up soon but the only thing coming up was the sun. very well done game. the expansion was good, too.

 

yeah, i always feel like i'm missing something if i play evil characters.

i put that on the people designing the game, tho. i hate when the "correct" path is the one that requires you to be good and offer to assist people. NWN was good at this, at least. they made the quests generic enough that you could go get item A for the good guy to help him, or get it for the bad guy for cash. same quest, just a different set of circumstances that led to it and a different reward when you finished it.

 

Always played straight from the expansion.

Not to say I did or didn't 'finish' the game, the third phase of the game killing Baal (?). I meant leveling the character to 99. I wanted to really prop the characters up there. But once I got to level 67, I lost interest in that character and kept building the others. I think between myself and my old roommate who got me into the game, we've got probably 100 unique or higher level set items stashed away on stash characters. I think he ended up, before we started playing different games, had a level 75 barbarian with unique armor and swords.

It's totally fucking geeky and that's why I usually didn't discuss it too much because I know some really whacked out people who played Diablo 2.

 

oh i gotya. was this online or just lan? i did a little battlenet stuff, but anonymous network play was just not that interesting.

dude, you're on an internet bulletin board and you're worried about somebody thinking you're geeky?

 

Just over LAN. We usually didn't play at the same time that much, just traded things back and forth we could use and so on. Never played against a real player, never touched battlenet since Starcraft.

I'm talking about people who are geeky in that "I cultivate characters to sell on EBay" or "I hang out at Renaissance Festival everyday and play Dungeons and Dragons at night, and my wedding's gonna be/already was medieval witchcraft" type shit.

 

i know a guy that has "one ring to rule them all" engraved on his wedding ring.