What did you think? How was the final battle?
Dungeon Siege 2 is the kind of game where it just gets better and better as it moves along -- it's about 40 hours long; and yes, it feels too long b/c the game doesn't really get off the ground until sometime later on. It's kind of unfortunate that it kind of has this "ho-hum" slow start -- which is probably the reason I played it for a few weeks, quit for a few months, then played it some more, quit for a bit, played it some more for a short time, quit, repeat cycle until I finally and really got into it the last month and just couldn't put it down. Act 2 and on is once it really gets itself going, storyline wise and strategy-wise since you'll have more spells and attacks and whatnot at your disposal -- and since the story really begins to accumulate to something.
There is a decent amount of side quests, too -- especially when compared to the originally. That's worth noting. and some NPC's have a side quest of their own -- that will reveal mroe about this character's background and whatnot.
The battles just get more epic, strategic, and war-like, as it moves along. That stuff's quite addictive, actually.
The boss battles in DS2 were awesome -- most of them are long and quite tough, to say the least. The battle w/ the oversized tree, the 2nd 1/2 of the battle w/ the dragon Talon, the battle w/ the one high-level mage, the epic battle w/ the three grand wizards, and the last long battle w/ Valdis were awesome.
Unfortunately, while some of the voice-acting is good, some of it is awful. Also, there is the nasty bug w/ the dragon battle Talon where he disappears in the first half of the battle w/ him if you save in the process of fighting him and come back to fight him (and you need a 3rd party patch to get it to work, which skips that part of the battle!) and the quests are quite linear (not multiple paths to doing quests).
And, the ending does leave itself wide open for the expansion.....
I started the expansion, Broken World, last night. More options in dialogue, even if they usually result in the same end resulting pathway. This expansion is much darker than DS2 dared, just right off the tip of the bat -- since pretty much the world hates you (for the most part) and doesn't want you playing "hero" again b/c of what occured from DS2: Original Campaign. Personally, I already like the way this is going, myself....Let's hope it keeps it up....
