This isn't even a waste of money, this is actively insulting. I tend to like beamdog's work, but their modules and add-ons for neverwinter nights? Spotty. And 3 bucks for ten portraits? This is just insulting, you can literally download thousands of them for free right now.
Let me start off by saying, I love pathfinder. The pnp game is how I play d&d, has been for years. I finally picked this game up, all sorts of excited, and hell yeah. They nailed the setting, the feel, it's got the new classes like alchemist (no witch tho, boo.) everything about this just screams "this is the best CRPG I will ever play". So what happened? The devs. There's so much wrong here that it must be intentional. Pull the switch to raise and lower the swords statues are holding, as a puzzle? has any gamer ever actually liked those? But I'm willing to look past the awful 2001 puzzle design. I'm willing to look past the forced time limit (wasn't that the first thing we modded out of fallout 1?). I'm willing to look past literally being at a point right now where an npc said "just sit around and wait for x to happen so we can proceed" during said timed quest, which... What the hell? But then, something happened that instantly knocked off 2 stars, because it's intentional and the devs did it on purpose. You come across a body, make a knowledge nature check. I have a bit, none of the npcs freaking do, so it tells me nothing but "these people are dead". a bit away there's a campsite, cool. I'm out of supplies and you have to sleep EVERY FIVE MINUTES in this game, and I've been sleeping near dead bodies all game. So I avail myself of the free camp. To be woken up by a freaking demilich. With an ac in the high 30s. who isn't harmed by cure spells for some reason. I'm level 3. You know what's immersion breaking and just awful game design? "you didn't see the thing we gave you very little hint about, because you failed a check with a 6 in that skill. Instant death, nothing you can do, use all of your health potions and you'll still die. Just reload." And what really angers me? knowledge nature? It's death by undead. that's KNOWLEDGE RELIGION. Guess what I did have a lot of? Troll game developers lose stars. And the game is terribly optimized on mac.
