You really should. The game was a respectable affair. But I've said this so many times - any game that tells you to PAUSE the game during combat, has already shown that it is the worst combat system ever seen in an RPG before and taking 5 minutes each turn to select spells like 'Large Bastardiser + 4' takes any believability away from the world.
It was Rat Keeng who managed to somehow graft FOBOS and BG together - 'I'm glad I'm wearing Thong of Protection + 5'
And the bloody creatures in Baldur's Gate 2! I mean, 
Dragons, Bigger Dragons, Red Big Dragons, Big Silver Dragons, Big Silver Dragons that can engage in conversation.
AND GENIES! Everything single thing mentioned in any fairytale or fantasy fan-fiction has been snapped up for a world that could not possibly hope to exist. Awful.
And I don't want to rescue whiny little Imoen! I tell you why! - the attitude between group chars and the player is kept at a constant always - and Imoen's never says anything in the opening stages to make me think otherwise. I put it to you, that Fallout delivers likeable or despicably likeable characters and never tries to rescue them, which is bloody fantastic.
BEGGARS! BEGGARS ON THE STREETS! Not what I was looking for in what claims to be some 'heroic fantasy'. Beggars. How the hell can there be beggars? Have they been outside!? You can't go anywhere without getting your arse kicked. Surely this man should have a sword, surely this man would have been called up. Surely not it seems. And then NOBLEMAN, rich freaks, prostitutes. Any hope of this fantasy game being escapist, have long gone.
It's also bloody annoying how little completing a quest does for the heart. It does nothing. Doing a good thing! I FEEL NOTHING! WHY the HELL do I feel LOCKED inside an INTERFACE! I'll tell you why! BECAUSE THE INTERFACE IS AN UNWIELDY BASTARD THAT DOMINATES NEAR 50% OF THE SCREEN. AM In a Helicopter or something?
And another thing - sadarse attempts at bloody humour result in embarassment. Notably a fight at the Copper Coronet between an AmericanSitcomStereotypeOfLoudCrudeRudeWife and AmericanSitcomStereotyprOfQuietWeakHusband. The husband is thinking of running away with another woman and when we talk to his wife we are greeted by the latter stereotype shouting 'WHERE IS HE! I KNOW HE'S IN SOMEWHERE!' This game is a mish-mash of overdone and done-before and therefore bad material, and deserves the slap in the face it should have got both critically and commercially!
Baldur's Gate 2 sucks.
Baldur's Gate sucks less.
EDIT: WAIT I'M ON FIRE HERE!
About the creatures! Why does everything single seemingly unique creature that might seem creative come in pairs of 10 to the power of 23. Too many creatures to fight against in a combat-heavy game with a shit combat system.
FURTHER EDIT: WAIT I'M FLAMMABLE!
Why, do I invest six bloody stars in Long Sword if combat involves watching two bastards blindly flailing swords with the expertise of a poodle with a dagger tied in it's waggling tounge. Fights can go on for about 5 minutes, and you might only hit the object beside you 4 times. Sad. Pathetic. Laughable.
[ September 26, 2003: Message edited by: rad-x ]
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As I gaze up at the night sky in my own fair time, I look back down and see the devastation. This post-nuclear world. It's terrible. But at least we got Nuka-Cola, warm and flat, the drink of the post-apocalyptic civiliztion. Generation Next!
posted September 25, 2003 22:23
I couldn't resist! 
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