Bought the game a while ago and got to the second town that's being harassed by lizardfolk. It crashed and all the saves were corrupted. Tried several things but eventually just uninstalled it. A few months ago I reinstalled it. It started crashing around or not long after the scripted death just after the tutorial. Tried some fixes, and gave up. Had an itch to play it again last night. All the NPC animations constantly stuttered. Didn't even let the game crash, and uninstalled it. Going to try reinstalling it for the third time now. Based on my previous experience with this game from this platform I expect some random crash at some other random time. It ran better, with no fan patches, on my mac in 2007.

I'm writing this review after playing only the original campaign, hopefully MotB will make me change it. But I hoped I would enjoy this game more. I didn't like many of the changes from NWN1. Not only I was forced to have a party (partially by toughness of certain parts), but often I had to take a character with me that I didn't like at all and would kick him out if allowed. The influence system makes it worse. It often made me to take unwanted characters and say things I wouldn't say, just to gain the most inf. OK, reality, but took liberty from the game. Story felt cliched and sometimes confusing, funny at times probably not intended. It reminded me of stories such as KOTOR, only being worse. NWN1 had a simple, but great story which worked for me. I also didn't like strategy elements added to the game, like managing the keep. Particularly, it wasn't explained well enough in the game. Even after patching, I encountered several bugs, some game breaking forcing me to reload. No Time Stop?! Make the game harder in a different way than taking the best spell I was looking forward to from the game! Ok, I was overpowered in NWN1, but enjoyed it. In NWN2 I felt crippled, even when the ending was easy (haha just recalled killing a certain character bragging with power with Finger of Death in a couple of seconds after starting a fight). Not very interesting locations, mostly. NWN1 wins again. It was still a good game, but it lacked the magic of NWN1 where I couldn't stop playing.

Bugs and I got problems with file corruptions. I cant even play the OC that my game crashes or save files gets corrupted. 20$ wasted

So, in a word, Character. The game is filled with it, and the game world is populated by them. There is so much here that would have come off hum-drum if it weren’t for the fact that the game supplies you with many truly entertaining and varied conversations and quips from the it's impressive cast. And it isn't just party members. Any one who talks feels real and purposeful. Your bar keep is a minor character, but his conversations are hilarious. But the main characters shine as bright as a canary diamond. Kelgar might be the most Dwrafy Dwarf I’ve ever seen, and yet is not stereotypical either. He carves out his own niche that is wholly dwarf but undeniably, well, Kelgar. Best of all, he is dynamic in that as you work with him, he changes over the course of the game in both heart and mind. I could go into detail about how the strategic combat is challenging but entirely fair through out the game. I could talk at length about how truly epic and powerful you feel just from interaction with the world in the mask of the betrayer expansion. I could go on for about ever on just how great this game is, but that would be a disservice to anyone who reads this, because you need to stop reading this and go play it immediately.

The control schemes in this game are horrible.