One of the best RPG's I have played in a while. I only wish that the game was finished, otherwise it would be an amazing 10/10.
Minor nitpicks for my playthrough only involve the combat and a few broken sequences regarding certain NPC's needing to do something or a quest needing to be progressed, but I decided to play with the bloodlines patch installed for my playthrough of the game. The dialogue paths and the way characters are written in this game presents a benchmark in storytelling for the western market that we're still trying to catch up to after all of these years, but still come up short to live up to the hopes of this game. I don't think there was a single person in my playthrough that I thought wasn't memorable, from the beginning of the game and onwards. Even after writing this, I'm temped to start a second or third playthrough just from remembering all of the shenanigans you can cause as other factions, including new pieces of dialogue depending on how deprave-looking your character is. Man, this really is a must play.
Minor nitpicks for my playthrough only involve the combat and a few broken sequences regarding certain NPC's needing to do something or a quest needing to be progressed, but I decided to play with the bloodlines patch installed for my playthrough of the game. The dialogue paths and the way characters are written in this game presents a benchmark in storytelling for the western market that we're still trying to catch up to after all of these years, but still come up short to live up to the hopes of this game. I don't think there was a single person in my playthrough that I thought wasn't memorable, from the beginning of the game and onwards. Even after writing this, I'm temped to start a second or third playthrough just from remembering all of the shenanigans you can cause as other factions, including new pieces of dialogue depending on how deprave-looking your character is. Man, this really is a must play.