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The game is definitely more "laid back" than others, and I've found that not everyone appeals to it. Interestingly enough, though, the BG2 crowd that have taken it up have found it to be an enjoyable alternative. It is quite a bit less frenetic than other games.
The points you bring up, Launcelot, are valid ones. They didn't irritate me as much as they did you, but the interface problems were significant, especially the irritating questgiver talk. A lot of the clunky interface problems were due to the fact that the game had been set up for multiplayer and then had the engine on it "yanked" by "Ackivision" at the last moment, with all stuff still hanging. Having to get a quest for each individual character rather than for the whole party is more of a MP thing. It didn't make much sense in a single player game.
Cet was a big disappointment, but I had enjoyed the game so much to that point that I didn't really care about that. I agree that the final boss should have put up FAR more of a fight than that. Elyssia, I agree, was by far a better mid-level "boss" with her hordes of invisible serpent priests and those devastating spells.
I've never experienced the selection problems, so that may have been an issue between the game and your particular hardware. I would say that the game is more finicky on hardware than a Windows HCL!
However, I never thought the game was "unfinished." The story line carried through all the way. Granted, there were areas they could have "fleshed out" more and certainly could have tweaked the interface, but I did not play through the game and feel a sense of something having been left out.
Do check out some of the other forums here. We're a friendly lot. I moderate the Wiz8 forum, should that game ever be released (oh please, oh please!!)
Cheers,
Sazerac
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