Quitch (or JC) has a point with the obvious dialogue options, but I find that after a while it is a simple rule of CRPGs that the novelty fades and I just know what lines to pick when and the replayability of PST is rather poor (compared to Fallout). So I left it alone after 5-8 different games. BG is heavilly flawed in that department too as Caswallon pointed out. Most choices are not really conceivable in the Candlekeep setting
Funny nobody acknowledged my complaint about the relative uselessness of having a party for mutual help in BG, if all hinges on the PC. I die game ends.
Domi, Candlekeep was an analogy for the mortuary by the way and I just wanted to urge you to go and see the Sensates at least. Yes, I must admit that eternal love beyond the grave is silly. So no white lady for me.
There is an interesting twist between your chars later in the game.
@ Kish
which is a flaw for a zombie and the Valen/Bodhi romance community.
I beg your pardon?
Some said above that he was a zombie Elvis and it was a cheap joke about ongoing romance endeavours . When it comes to classes or especially alignments which you graciously omitted in your quote I feel that most ranger types play out like fighters and bards would not play out much differently in PST than thief/mages. He could be a cleric I think, I never tried that. Arguing PnP doesn't help, because then I would claim my psion as missing as well. Where are the evil options in BG? Why do I always have to fight?
@Neriana: Glad you are not a zombie, because you are female which my sentence would have meant anyway. This is not about misogyny in games.
I guess the only main point which saved BG for me is that it has been heavily modded which PST hasn't. I would have shelved BG years ago, if the first mod would not have popped up and brought me to TeamBG as an eternal lurker.
Just out of curiosity: What is the basic starting assumption in Morrowind and NWN?
I think it is only fair that some people enjoy some games more than others, I just happen to enjoy a broad variety of approaches and enjoyed the harsh worlds of Fallout and PST and still enjoy playing the BG-story.