Originally posted by: skace
Originally posted by: apoppin
EDIT: Do i even 'care' if the NH gets all the Ancertor Stones -- or not? does it matter at all?
At the end of the game, you get little paragraphs on the tasks you completed. I believe one of the tasks is helping the barbarians of Nordmar reconquer their land and I think the Ancestor Stone quest is key to this. Not sure though.
The Xardas ending is awesome, not the actual ending itself, but the tasks he asks of you.
NWN2 is next for me also.
Oh and Imp, I never did liberate the towns. I kept telling myself at the end of the game I would liberate all the towns, but then, the way the ending played out, it almost made sense not to liberate them. I had helped all sides, but in the end they would need to help themselves.
OMG, i just finished Gothic3's Beliar Quest and i must say i am 100% disappointed with it.
:Q
it is like a great Story with garbage for an ending
especially after you suffer thru all of this game's quirks and crappy performance
[did i mention BROKEN QUESTS?] ... i think the devs were ordered to release it by Q4 ... finished or not [at least it wasn't the abortion that was NWN2 1.0-1.2xx] ... i feel sorry for Mem and the early buyers of this game.
i finished at level 69 and it felt like a stupid walk thru in Godmode ... the only time i died - in hours ... was when my rig crashed :|
the Enemy NPCs don't level with you [like some of Oblivions] ... so after the novelty of your first sword strike and the wolf goes flying - wears off ... it gets damn boring ... even killing Rhobar the King or Xardas was like shooting fish in a barrel ... ZERO challenge [on Medium] - even surrounded by a Mob, fighting alone.
and no, you don't need to bother with the Ancestor Stones ... the barbarians reconquer the land, anyway ...
in fact, you needn't bother with most of the SQs to get the Ending ... they are just to advance the story and build your skills
i have to do a console command to get the 12th Fire Chalice ... i HAD to look at the map and forum to see there is a known bug with #12 and Kurt's FC ... and then i also saw that you can't do the Einos Quest as there are only 11 Paladins to return the chalices to ... has anyone got that one?
...i assume the Einos Ending will be identical to the Beliar one ... we see Beliar is NOT evil ... just the God of Chaos.
i guess all that is left for me is the Xardas Ending .... [i already read his plan and know what to expect thru the portal] ...
i think i will set it to "hard' [i just thought of it it
]and see if here is any difference ... after level 65 or so with 2 handed Swordfighting [strength 300] and the 'Good ol' Fireball' [which is now a mostly a one-hit kill (or 2) with maxed Ancient Magic] it just become a walkthru the market with a grocery list swatting flies ...
Overall, i like Oblivion ... way better.