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EverythingXen
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Joined: 01 Feb 2002
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By playing 9 parties until it can be assertained that only the start point is different and the majority of everything else is the same.
Ultimately, I can't play the game 9 or more times to write a review. However, I will play as much of it as possible with as many parties as possible. There will be two at the least... good and evil... that I will play through until the end.
I will. as always, mention what paths I decided to take for the review and mention that I couldn't play all paths and that like anything else your mileage may vary. I know it's not possible to be everything. For all I know it may well be impossible to beat the game with five evil gnome fighters with minimum strength and con. In fact, it should be. I will cover as many bases as possible and see how things go.
I might miss some side-quests as well, depending on how things go. I guarantee the first time through Baldur's Gate II I didn't find all the artifact pieces for Cromwell to forge for me, nor did I rescue every childs lost cat or many of the other fed ex quests... but it wasn't detractive to the game experience, graphics, gameplay, or storyline to miss them so I would have felt ok about writing a review on it.
For better or for worse, I will follow a game through the complete main storyline before writing a review. What Myrthos was referring to are to people who play a game just long enough to create characters, get in a fight, die horribly, and then write a half page review on how imbalanced the game is, etc. Or the ones that play until the first crash to desktop and then write the game is the buggiest game in history... a total piece of crap not worth anyones time. Without trying to get around the CTD.
I read one review on Morrowind where the guy basically said, 'Admittedly, I didn't leave the first town, but I'm certain the rest of the game is like this... lifeless NPCs, pointless dialogue, ugly character models'. He was right and I agreed with him but I didn't respect his review or consider it seriously before purchasing Morrowind because of the words "I didn't leave the first town".
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