[James]

diablo was a hack and slash, baldurs gate was an epic. the series had fantastic stories, and was entirely narrative driven to its betterment. id hardly refer to the d&d ruleset as butchery, they have years of balancing and tweaking behind them, and so are, I believe one of the best sets going.

[Tanukitsune]

D&D PC games should have the sound of rolling dice and the voice of a dungeon master with asma!
I might name one of my kids Godzilla Gamera de los Rodanes! Or Fenchurch or Random if its a girl!
Speaking of naming babies after characters/developers:

Originally Posted by Moosferatu

Oh, I see what you are saying. My sentences read wrong. I wasn't saying the BG2 used 3rd edition rules. I was first asking him if he has ever played BG2, because he claimed it was a hack 'n slash. I was then addressing the supposed butchery of the D&D rules, by refering to NWN, with no relation to BG2.

Oh, I was going to "correct" you too.

Anyway, yes, I've played all of Bioware's "RPGs" up to this point -- KotOR will have been the last, hopefully.

As for rule butchery, I do feel that Troika's Temple of Elemental Evil, although technically 3.5e (not to mention a buggy mess), is far more authentic.

[Zack]

Originally Posted by amishler

Has anyone watched the premiere trailer for Jade Empire? It's 3 minutes of bee-yootiful! Sure it's all cinematic and won't reflect the in-game graphics, but you still get a good idea of the atmosphere that the game will have. And the music! Oh, the music!

Bioware has the trailer in low- and high-quality formats for Windows Media, Quicktime and DivX/AVI, ranging from 11-42 MB. I highly recommend the high-quality version in the format of your choosing if you've got the bandwidth.

I agree, amishler. That was a beautiful trailer, and it looked to me like it was going to be the Introductory movie sequence to the game. The music was great too, very chinese-like. Speaking of Chinese, one of the characters in the screenshots looks almost like Lucy Liu, or Zhang Ziyi, the girl from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

By the way, is Bioware really a good company? I'm still not sure if I want to try other Role-playing Games (except Deus Ex: Invisible War), but maybe this game will be fun. That is, if it comes for the PC.