POLL: Does the performance justify the requirements and resource consumption?

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The question is, does the performance (quality or speed potential or any combination of both - basically whatever you get from the game) justify the kind of steep requirements the game has and the amount of resources it eats up?

I'll honestly say I haven't played yet, so I shouldn't vote -- even though I'm quite sure I'm going to vote nay when the time comes.

So, without further ado, state your opinion and cast your vote. Thank you for participating.

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Poll Results: Does the performance justify the resources? (15 votes.)

Does the performance justify the requirements and resource consumption? (Choose 1)
* By far! (Strong yes) - 7% (1)
* Probably (Weak yes) - 0% (0)
* Not really (Weak no) - 33% (5)
* No way! (Strong no) - 40% (6)
* Just the results, please - 20% (3)

 

looking at the requirements for the game to rn, compared to the graphic i would give it a weak no. it is a nice game, but it dosn't look that good (graphic wise) and compared to how little world of warcraft require and how good that actually looks, i would say obsidian/bioware has focused to much on silly details without actually getting the graphics so good as to justifiy the heavy requirements.

 

I agree with Equester, the graphics aren't up to par.

I find a strange my pc can handle a game like WoW, but my brother's can barely handle NWN2 and his pc is far better than mine.

Granted, I wouldn't be complaining if the graphics were any better, but in all honesty, they're bland... There might be a lot of details and cool spell effects, but overal, it feels bland...

 

Never played WoW so i cant comment on the comparison but to me the graphics look 'adequate'. Theyre not the best on the market but then again theres nothing really wrong with them and the graphics of an RPG dont bother me as much as they would on a first person shooter say. I prefer the 2d isometric graphics of previous D&D games, the environments looked stunning and it saved all the bother of the camera angle issue/fault and had fairly low system requirements. So no i would say that in comparison to previous D&D games the performance of NWN2 doesnt justify the system demands.

 

In the game's current state, the performance is so poor even on high-end systems that it's hard to justify from the standpoint only of graphics vs. system requirements.

I don't see how consuming system resources is relevant to anyone unless they're rendering out videos or putting together some huge photoshop presentation with NWN2 running in the background. The game has a tendency to occupy your undivided attention.

 

My main issue is that when I set my grahpics to max or minimum I get the exact same slow laggy performance. Something is clearly wrong with that, and it can't be my computer, (since the problem doesn't exist with any one of the 50 games I have installed).

Bio-ware is known to me the same way Blizzard is, they put a lot of effort into their games and they always come out great. It's unfortunately they turned to Obsidian who I only hear of as a destroyer of good products.

 

So what you're all saying is that it is really not worth the effort and expense to get a new PC to play this game?

 

Well I would not fork out on a new pc just to play this game. Ive been thinking of upgrading for other games like Total War: Medieval 2, Battlefield 2142, Age of Empires 3 and SW: Empire at War. So for me an upgrade is quite essential but it seems that your perfectly happy with your current system apart from the fact it wont play NWN2, I guess it depends on how much you want this game! You could just wait a year or 2 until the system requirements for NWN2 are fairly mediocre and save yourself a bundle.

 

Not really Harbourboy, the story and gameplay is good, really good.

It's just the performance that sucks, I trust it will be fixed in patches. A lot of it has to do with memory leaks and other stuff that demand a lot of resources from your pc.

On the other hand, the requirements are too high for the graphic quality.

Like I said before, I find that WoW has better graphics.
They may not be prettier (NWN2 wins by far) but at least there's more animations and the graphics are functional. NWN2 is not functional, it's confusing.

I'm sorry about comparing this to WoW, since NWN2 has the potential to be far superior, but I've been playing too much WoW the past months. So that's the only thing I can compare it to now.

 

Who cares? Bloody hell. If you can put the disc in and the game plays, what does it matter. Nobody in their right mind will buy a new machine just for the sake of one game anyway (Harbs, if your comp is old and shiity then you're probably due a new one anyway). I just don't see the problem to be honest. Oh no! Playing this game uses all my system resources!... big deal, I don't run anything else while playing anyway .

Mountain and molehill spriungs to mind

 

What else do you want? The graphics are awesome and the game runs fine. If it's running very poorly on your system, then it's obviously your setup or your PC as mine works fine, as does nearly everyone elses.

You're pretty hard to please

 

Let's be honest with each other mate, the majority of those things you listed are minor, petty things and don't hinder the gameplay really. The only thing I agree with is the recycling of the sounds and voices. I don't want to the reminded of this games horrible predecessor at all. But come on, most sequels recycle sounds from the previous version. BG2 did it more than any I know.

This game has it where it counts, like decent dialogue, cut scenes to keep you interested and a decent storyline. As opposed to NWN which had a shocking storyline, appalling dialogue and not much else at all to keep you interested. One word to describe NWN = Boring! Whereas this game is good fun and quite addictive.

 

I think the artwork and character models could've used improvement. The little "petty" things can easily ruin what would be a good game. We don't want to play 2-bit stick figure games, we want to play beautiful interactive and powerful games.

And yes, that list has some minor things in it. But they add up and all together makes me more and more angry that Obsidian didn't put any real effort into NWN a series that's turned out amazing. The original NWN was amazing, and the Xpac's even moreso, but while NWN2 improves on gameplay and story... it's way behind on everything that let NWN1 succeed as much as it did.

 

I agree with Catbert, though I do enjoy NWN 2 much more than the original. I think it was mentioned a while ago that lots of promised features were dropped due to the timeframe. That means that it may be included in a furture expansion pack, which we have to pay for.

 

It's more of a single-player game than NWN (which was made hugely popular with it's online community). I think that's refreshing in this day and age to be honest.

You're going a bit OTT in the slagging off of the graphics and character models as well... did you expect this game to smash all boundaries and be the most eye-watering game ever? It's just as good as any otheers out at the minute really, pretty 'standard'. Not brilliant, not ****. Also, graphics do not maketh the game. How many times have you replayed the BG series?