This is easily Bioware's best game that I've played. There's jank, it's old, it is paced in an insane way, but this game is also some of the best cRPG style gameplay I've experienced. Every sidequest in Chapter 2 (which is 60% of the game minimum) was as good as the best quests in games like New Vegas or KOTOR 2. Absolutely killing it to release a game with this level of quality by 2000.
The biggest negatives are you can feel the cut-for-time edges, pre-fight party buffing becomes a huge chore, and that 2nd Edition D&D is an insane person system.
Note: I used the Tweaks Anthology to speed up out-of-combat movement and casting by 50%, but if I had known how much time I'd spend buffing before walking into the next room I'd have done 100%.
The biggest negatives are you can feel the cut-for-time edges, pre-fight party buffing becomes a huge chore, and that 2nd Edition D&D is an insane person system.
Note: I used the Tweaks Anthology to speed up out-of-combat movement and casting by 50%, but if I had known how much time I'd spend buffing before walking into the next room I'd have done 100%.