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Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 days ago
This will probably make me finally get around to playing it. I had a lot of fun with NWN back in the day, but that was more the multiplayer custom servers. The single player campaign was pretty mediocre.
I never actually played the sequel, but I remember hearing very good things about the Mask of the Betrayer expansion to NWN2. Hope it lives up to the reputation.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
The base campaign… it is better than NWN’s base campaign but not by much. And it is peak Obsidian “We ran out of money about 70% in”.
But yeah. Mask of the Betrayer is legitimately amazing. It isn’t Planescape level (no matter what people claimed) but it is easily on par with BG2 and you can see a LOT of Pillars DNA in there.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 days ago
That’s good to know. Are the expansions independent or do you have to get through the base game first? Would you recommend just doing Mask of the Betrayer and calling it a day there?
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
MOTB directly follows the ending of Core… to the point it actually made things awkward for Obsidian because of how they frantically ended Core. Same player character
(Matt Rorie’s) Storm of Zehir is a standalone game set some time after Core/Mask and includes some of the same characters.
Mysteries of Westgate is a standalone from Ossian but, people say you are much better off starting off with a stronger character. My memory is crap so I’ll assume that is true.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 days ago
Thank you! I guess the question is, is sitting through 100 hours of mediocre main campaign worth it to get to Mask? My guess is probably yes, but that knowledge will likely end up de-prioritizing the game on my backlog.
Thanks a lot for the rundown! Are the other two expansions any good?