Hello there.
Been playin this awesome game since Friday, now I'm level 13 with 20 hours.
Really liked the game, despicte the bugs (and as far as I know, the devs are well aware of every one of them), the performance (can blame my 8800GTS for having just 320mb though) and drive crashes (also my old 182.50 driver, which I use for pre-2006 games compatibility. Will update tonight to the 186.18, other games can wait :P)
In fact, I have some questions:
1) Why can't I kill each and every npc in the villages? I know I will be breaking quests, but hey, what better way to fill yourself with potions than killing the man who sells it and take his inventory right? I may sound a jackass, but if the game gives me meany dialogs, I want to act mean too!
I don't know, make important characters stronger than you (like, Richard being a lvl.40 or so), not so important as hard to beat (say, lvl.15 warriors guarding the town - hey, if trolls didn't enter the town so far, they must be strong, right?) and useless/funny/etc as lower, easy to beat ones (say, those gossip girls at the Mill's back, aren't more than level 1...), and main plot characters as invincible. This way, you don't break the Main Quest, but you can lose a lot of XP/gold in the future by killing those NPCs earlier, so you have been warned.
Is it possible to do it (a checkbox "turn NPC non-immortal")? Or the loss of some scripted events, even secundary ones, will break the game entirely? I remember killing everyone at a little town in DD with my mad Mage. Never saw that much loot in my life until Titan Quest (XD)
2) Is it true that, in dragon form, the ground enemies... disappear? o_O" If so, is this something that can be changed somewhat in the future? I mean, what's the point of being a dragon if I can't toast goblins until sunset...
3)
If I kill that Dragon at Maxos Tower and become a dragon, or if I kill that necromancer in the bandit camp, I can still go back to Broken Valley and finish other quests? Which one of those will make me go just forward in the story? I want to finish everythin before moving on, but I want to become a dragon soon, I was promised in the previews to become a dragon in a dozen hours...
4) What is the maximum level my character can be and how much gamehours can I expect, at max, if I do all the sidequests but don't have the slightiest idea where to go (I mean, I KNOW I have to kill a bandit, the problem is finding it!)
5) I just explored 60-70% of the fist map (Broken Valley) within 20h. How much more areas like this can I expect? A lot? Few?
Sorry for the trouble and back to Rivellon! I will return when my couriers informs me of new messages, but you can always find me in the tower! Razi the Dragon flying out!