Neverwinter Nights 2: More like Neverwinter nightmares

I remember playing this back when it was new, although all I can truly recall about that experience is it being a real pain in the arse to run and not having a good time with it. Thankfully my personal tech’s and personality’s moved on a long way since 2006, so I thought it was about time I revisited a fully patched up (official patches only) Neverwinter Nights 2 with a better PC and fresh eyes. Or not. Within seconds I’m staring in disbelief at the dialogue before me, wondering if perhaps I was right the first time around and should have left the damned game alone. The wince-worthy lines in question are delivered by my character’s foster father, Daeghun, and I know he’s their foster father even at this introductory point because referring to the player as his foster daughter/son is one of the very first sentences to come out of his mouth. Now, I understand that this setup is a great way of writing/voicing/modelling/animating one reusable parent for every player regardless of the…