8th April 2013, 2:44 PM
MotB happens after the original story, and you play as the same character (note: the second expansion, Storm of Zehir, is set in a different place with a new group of characters, not the same one again)... but the story is different, the location is different, the companions are different, etc. Your character is one of the only things tying the two games together.
But yeah, I got NWN2 as one of the earlier games I got after getting a new computer in early '07, so I got it sometime that year I believe, and I was moderately disappointed. The story wasn't good, the game ran poorly (seriously, that game requires a crazy powerful machine to run mediocrely), I disliked the free-moving 3d camera (static stuff like the Infinity Engine games is just better for this kind of game), I was disappointed that you only get four members in your party instead of 6 as you get in the IE games, etc. And as for the story most of it's just mediocre, though I hated how the burning-home-village section early in the game was handled; that was my first clue that this story wasn't exactly going to be great. It continued living up to that as I got farther, unfortunately. It's not all bad, sure, but... it's Obsidian! I expected better.
It was a good enough game to be worth getting, and was the best PC RPG I'd played since IWD2, but it wasn't anywhere near as good as any of the Infinity Engine titles.
On a related note, NWN2 vs. Dragon Age 1... I'm not sure. Both have their issues, but DA1 might be more fun... and the camera is a little better. MotB, though, really is good.
But yeah, I got NWN2 as one of the earlier games I got after getting a new computer in early '07, so I got it sometime that year I believe, and I was moderately disappointed. The story wasn't good, the game ran poorly (seriously, that game requires a crazy powerful machine to run mediocrely), I disliked the free-moving 3d camera (static stuff like the Infinity Engine games is just better for this kind of game), I was disappointed that you only get four members in your party instead of 6 as you get in the IE games, etc. And as for the story most of it's just mediocre, though I hated how the burning-home-village section early in the game was handled; that was my first clue that this story wasn't exactly going to be great. It continued living up to that as I got farther, unfortunately. It's not all bad, sure, but... it's Obsidian! I expected better.
It was a good enough game to be worth getting, and was the best PC RPG I'd played since IWD2, but it wasn't anywhere near as good as any of the Infinity Engine titles.
On a related note, NWN2 vs. Dragon Age 1... I'm not sure. Both have their issues, but DA1 might be more fun... and the camera is a little better. MotB, though, really is good.