People need to stop updating this thread. Every time I forget about the game, you make me remember it.
I'm sort of debating whether or not I care about the Euro edition, though. Did they censor anything aside from the boobies?
The game-designers have said before that the UK version is uncensored and that it is the definitive version for the North American gamers, basically. And basically, yeah -- I can confirm this; game's patched up to 1.1A, as well. I've seen some cussing, some of the uncensored "collectible cards", and a good deal of head-rolling violence -- and I'm already a few good 3 hours or so into the game.
Language-wise, I'll still very early in the game -- but, I've seen a bunch of swears and whatnot. Sure don't look like it, Que. I've seen things like "Shit!", "balls," and "fuck" already. Yes, the violence is definitely there. Heads can roll and arms can fly, depending on how good you are in combat and what you decide to learn and use for skills.
Combat's awesome, once you get the gist of it. Took a little bit of time to catch on and all, but yeah -- it's pretty sweet. Basically, when you swing, you get a one hit swing, then you get an attempt to combo, if you get the timing right on the combo when it tells you to swing. Keep it going right, you can stun. Stun right, you can finish them off, if they're hurt bad enough. In OTS view, You can double-tap a direction (Left, Right, Forward, Back) to move out the way and do a dodge OR if you're in Iso view, you double-click on the ground to do a dodge. Basically, left button does weapons, right weapon does magic.
For camera views, I find myself using OTS for when the combat's pretty much not loaded w/ enemies (say there's like 2 on screen) and when I'm just running around towns; but I'm often using the Closer Isometric View when there's a good handful of enemies on the screen and trying to keep up w/ it and al.
Yes, Jack was right -- there's loads of cut-scenes, even though they're often not long at all. They really do use them a lot, too. There's definitely no shortage of them, as they use them often to push the main story quest ahead. It gives the game this very cinematic feel -- which goes right along w/ the very cinematic looking combat.
I am running in 800x600 w/ most stuff on Medium, myself. Runs quite well in this res', I might add, too -- around 35-40 frames right now, in the Outskirts of Vizima. in the first area, I could be anywhere from 20-35 frames. Indoors, I can crack around say 40-60 frames. Not bad at all.
Load times are -- eh, they'd be okay, if they didn't always "autosave" after it says it's done w/ the "load". The biggest problem is not the actual loading of the level, as those don't take long too long. It's that right after it loads a level and takes around 20 secs, it then takes another 20 or so secs of time to Autosave, most of the time -- 20 seconds to load, then 20 secs or so to autosave; so, always 40 seconds loads in total for me. Though, I think that if you handled NWN2's load times, you can probably handle these.
I must go play s'more. I'm quite impressed w/ this game, to say the least.
