I personally don't care much about different thing,as long as the writing is good,i am happy. It told good story,let you experience your own washed up deadbeat cop life story and let you become a chad if you wanted to,or become a homeless drunk.
Buy it for support of Disco Commies and then pirate the pre-director's cut version. The monocled choice.
life and suffering of sir brante is better.
Harry does give a fuck.
Truth to be told - this is the problem with all (or almost all) narrative-driven games: your choices are either illusory or very limited. And how many great RPGs are there that are not narrative-driven? Even heavily combat-oriented dungeon crawlers (such as Icewind Dale or Baldur's Gate) are strictly tied to their narrative and you don't really have any say in what locations are available to you or what choices you have.
I think it's great, because it provides you with character-subjective feedback. After all, your are heavily influenced by your body. If you have an inclination towards drinking (because you have a high stat responsible for addictions), then it stands to reason you will be tempted (or forced) to drink booze when you find it. Take that away and suddenly you have to find a reason (both narrative- and gameplay-wise) for your character to want to use and abuse potentially harmful, addictive substances.
True. It wasn't my intention to suggest that, which is why I called them "heavily combat-oriented dungeon crawlers". I mentioned them to point out that even such games are, as you put it yourself; "very beholden to the plot for the most part", even though "The C&C of BG and ID were never a selling point of the series".
Indeed. Keeping only the end and leaving the means to the player is how this should be done. That way the player can try and figure out how to accomplish his objective, without being forced into very specific, pre-determined routes. "Bring me item X" is the most basic example that comes to mind. The NPC shouldn't care about how you came by it, unless your reputation took a very serious hit in the process (you were seen committing a very serious crime. One that your task giver isn't willing to overlook. A murder, for example).
No wonder people think the MOT stats are underdeveloped
Savoir Faire's supposed to be the ultra lib one right? And it's almost dead last in there.
