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I really enjoyed the first one, but then, I love all of Bioware's games. I've had the second one for like 6 months now and I haven't even opened it. I just haven't had the time to play lately, and for some reason, I'm just not that excited about it, though I know I'll like it once I get into it.

I've played... *thinks* All the Neverwinter Nights games, Jade Empire, both Kotors, Mass Effect 1, Dragon Age: Origins, both Baldur's Gates, both Icewind Dales, and... I think that's all. So, up until last year or so, I'd played most of their games, but I've fallen off lately.

Hard to decide which is my favorite. Either Kotor 2 or Neverwinter Nights 2, I'd say.

I can never remember the whole situation between Black Isle and Bioware with the old D&D games. I'm pretty sure half of Bioware's team used to be Black Isle, so I tend to lump them together.

Did you ever play Planescape: Torment? Another one I'm not sure which team designed, but it's supposed to be the best of the old Dungeons & Dragons games. I've wanted to play it for a long time, but I just got a hold of it and got it running recently. I haven't really gotten a chance to check it out yet.

Oh, yes, I know, it has glowing reviews, which is why I want to play it. :p

It's supposed to have one of the best video game stories ever written.

That was one thing I loved about Dragon Age. The inter-party-member conversations were just brilliant.

I never actually finished Origins, as my PS3 died right when I was getting to the end of it, and the save files are locked for some reason.

I knew that about the ending, though, don't worry. :p

Nope, I'm too internet-addicted to avoid spoilers on anything. :p

Anyway, you thread's off-topic. Sorry.

You mentioned that Mass Effect 2 is better than the first?

Cool. I'll have to start playing it.

And, maybe you should change it "Bioware Games". :p

I looked up the Bioware, Black Isle thing but I can't remember it. I think Black Isle was a distibuter, like how Lions Gate Cinema distributed movies while they were actually made my Miramax. The distributor gets the credit often because they are the ones providing the game/movie to the public.

I've played the two Baldur's Gates and Icewind Dale. Alas, viruses killed the computers I was playing on and lost both of my ID and BG1 saves, which I'm still sore about, and now my ID disk won't work anymore.

I played BG2 multiplayer with my friend and brother. It was great. We each had two characters, one of which was an import so we had three children of Bhaal running around, though only my brother's was considered the main character. Was fun. It made exploring stuff really easy when we quit sticking together all the time. We did have a small problem though, with my brother always wanting to explore all the rooms (he was a sorcerer) all the time and not waiting for myself (healer tank) and my friend (healer tank) to get there. In the graveyard are we would see him run into a building and then come running back out with however many giant spectre ghosts after him. Got a little annoying at times. He and my friend would also occasionally spell each other, trying to trick each other into thinking something was going on (like raising a skeleton from the ground behind one another).

We had one amusing incident. While in a room with piles of mummies we kept getting level drained, which wouldn't be that big a deal if the cleric (my friend) wasn't also drained the levels he needed to cast the spell to fix it. After attempting repeadly we only fared our best yet but still had the same issue with the cleric. We were about to reload when things when something like this:

Friend: dammit! I'm level drained again.
Brother: I got a cure for level drain. FIREBALL! *roasts cleric*
Friend: aaah! I'll get you..
Me: no wait! That works! I can raise dead! If we kill him than it will get rid of his level drain and I can raise him back to normal again!
Guys: really?
Me: yeah! Kill him!
Brother: whooooo!
Friend: dammit! Dont' steal my stuff!

Fun fun :D

Quiet... it never ceases to amaze me how you've somehow managed to miss out on the panoply of amazing PC RPGs that Bioware has put out over the last decade.

You totally missed 3rd Edition's limelight in the videogame world. :p

On that note, I do believe a 4E Neverwiner Nights is in the works, possibly an MMO, but I have no interest in it, regardless. 3.5 for life!

I like them a lot. Good times. :)

Suzerain, you ought to know by now that I'm horrendously cheap and can amuse myself for eons with only one game (ie haven't finished Morrowind Yet). Having not finished BG or ID, I haven't found a reason to go onto the expansions or sequels, for the most part. I was also still playing ID when NWN came out, so none of that for me. I still haven't tried Dragon Age because I just haven't been inclined to. I suppose you can call me on that one. ;)

Hmm... I'd let you borrow them, but the postage might be a pit pricey. :p

And I think you'd really enjoy NVN if you got a chance to play it. It's kind of fantastic. The epic expansion for NWN 2 has a very BG2 atmosphere to the story, which is awesome.

Actually... I could swear you told me you started playing Dragon Age a while ago, Quiet. Did I dream that?

I probably meant to start. My brother has a copy he was going to loan me, or I said that I was going to check it out at some point. Of course, "some point" is rarely anytime soon, in my experience.

Well I will post when I get to it. I'm curious about what manner of world and game altering moral decisions I'm going to have to make. ;)

No, I pretty distinctly remember you telling me you'd gotten to some point I'd mentioned to you when I was playing the game.

Which means I must have dreamed that, which is incredibly bizarre. :p

Edit: What an incredibly vague sentence.

You sure that was Dragon Age?

Dweller; I used to do that in school when writing papers I didn't want to write. If I didn't like this political party what would I think? Made it a lot easier. :)

I don't know, I can't think of what else it would have been. I really recall you telling me that you'd got to the part I told you about with the possessed child that's just a hellishly ambiguous moral dilemma. I must have imagined it, though.

I recall that conversation, and was one of the game changing morally rediculous choices I was referring too, but I hadn't played Dragon Age yet. I know there was a game that fit what you are talking about but it just wasn't Dragon Age.

Hmm, okay. That makes more sense than me just imagining the entire conversation. :p