The magic system in this game is still the coolest ever put in an RPG

        • blue_lives_murder [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          yeah idk that my computer can run it and didn't have the space to try regardless. it's fun, feels like a bigger Fable set in a more interesting world

          also holy shit it's bad. I hadn't realized but jesus. like i remembered from playing it the first time that Bob Salvatore as writing director was pretty clear and painful, and I remember thinking the game was unnecessarily horny in its portrayal of women but maybe no worse than WoW, etc. but i also remember thinking at the time that Curt Schilling's (lol) deranged ideology wasn't be reflected in the game. Which may be more an indictment on the quality of available anglophone high fantasy content just a decade or so ago. But again holy shit.

          cw racism

          the thieves guild are called Travelers and the first one you meet talks about their people like euros imagine roma people talk like ('don't leave anything not nailed down around me haha') are you fucking kidding me
          if you play as a dark elf or whatever bob renamed them to, after you get the codec of whatever and the two guardian characters meet each other & the woman leaves, the dude basically says 'i don't trust black folks, besides the good ones like you of course'