Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 9:00 am
it just didn't seem to fit that all of a sudden he has this "human" side (yes, I appreciate that this is an ironic statement)... some of the other NPCs seem to be more fleshed out by their surprising revelations or by seeing a different side of them, but with Jan, perhaps because the QUANTITY of the "usual" side of him is so large, it doesn't seem to help.
For me, that adds to the impact of the side quest though as it is such a constrast to the usual jabber. Shame the story wasn't resolved in the game as Jan's last comment suggest it might be.
Although that brings up another issue, if the Hidden isn't Alhoon (whom we might have destroyed by that point of the game), who is he, and why is there such a concentration of liches and mind flayer lords in Athkatla?
Agree with you there, there seem to be vast numbers of encounters within the game that make no real sense, more a case of 'ho-hum we're being attacked again'. BG1 handled that better IMO as reasons were given for various monsters being where they were and why they wanted your guts. Cosmetic really I suppose as the result is the same (fight!)...but why are there so many groups of Yuan-Ti wandering around? Why does Aran have two corridors full of orcs when you attack the guild?