GREATREDSPIRIT'S PROFILE

If the choices of interactive NPCs resulted in any sort of consequences, then sure. KotOR and NWN had mostly meager results in a minor alignment shift. In NWN2, your interaction with your party members influences who would do what at the endgame, a much more significant consequence. In Fallout you could, through NPC interaction (and sufficient skill levels), defeat a boss without having to fight him.

If the options don't have any consequences ("NPC: Please save the world! You: Choice A: Yes. Choice B: Yes *scowl*"), then no, interactive NPCs are just wasted effort that could be better spent elsewhere for better results.



Aside: And neutrality is a very important option. Interactive NPCs have an annoying tendancy to be "I am a Saint and I give all my money to starving orphans on fire" or "I EAT BABIES" which just hurts. Don't use extremes without a middleground.


*edit*
I think KotOR2 had exposition in the dialogue choices of your character, which is nice too. Really, I think Obsidian did choices better than Bioware, but I can't say for certain as I never beat KotoR1/NWN1)

Sony? Buid reliable products? Hogwash.
My PS2 was the first console that I ever had to perform maintainance on, and later on it it went up and died (although that was mostly my fault, but I only opened the thing again because it wouldn't work with my Sony component cables)


When I first got my Wii, its GPU was damaged or something, I kept getting black artifacts all over the place. When I called in about it, Nintendo was a lot better than this story and told me what I had to do to send it back for free (well, it could've costed money if I didn't have spare boxes and foamies lying around) and they just replaced my Wii in a week or so.

Civ 2 was awesome. That was one of the best PC games from my childhood, especially booting up the WW2 scenario and steamrolling Europe as Stalin. The new ones weren't half as interesting (No zones of control? What the hell? I'm not a fan of how combat is displayed either) and I only really play the game with a Civ fanatic buddy of mine nowadays.

In Kentona's definition of Arcade games, then I'd say...

Probably just Asteroids. The rest were games I'd play for about 5 minutes before losing interest. Asteroids was best at keeping my attention, if for anything just to blow shit up.


I also completely forgot about the D&D arcade game. I only saw it once or twice in actual machine form so I never got the complete experience until much later. The best of its genre that I've played.

Ahahaha, oh no...

Is that Simulation RPG Maker 95?