Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition is still amazingly being updated, although not directly by Beamdog with the community now helping out for fun.
  • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    If you’re thinking of trying old-school CRPGs, I can only recommend against this one. Try Baldur’s Gate maybe. I haven’t played much of it, but I have played the entirety of Neverwinter Nights and it is a slog.

    • soli@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      I loved NWN when it came out but it’s appeal was rooted in the multiplayer and custom content. It had an amazing community with great tools to support it. You can still find servers for it but they’re not worth it, it’s the bastion of people who haven’t moved on in 20 years.

      The single player was pretty bland. Shadows of Undrentide is a genuinely fun adventure, and I’ll love Deekin (a kobold companion) forever, but the original campaign is a slapped together proof of concept and Hordes of the Underdark is a mess that’s only really notable for being a high level adventure.

      Some of the premium modules were praised but I’d moved on to persistent world servers then other games long before they were released.

      • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        Yup, I don’t know too much about the community stuff. I know Neverwinter Nights 2 had a pretty robust editor so I guess it makes sense that that started in the first one.

        I actually had no idea Deekin came from NWN1, he was a very memorable side character in the second game though.

        • soli@infosec.pubEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          The editor is truly amazing. It has powerful scripting engine and was easy to use. One of my potentially hot takes is it was so much better than using Morrowind’s construction kit. The game used to be full of custom persistent world servers which were sort of MMO-lite, big communities that were often way more roleplay based and free of the time wasting, money sucking bullshit of actual MMOs. Sadly, one of those ephemeral game moments that cannot be replayed.

          And yeah, Deekin comes in the Shadows of Undrentide expansion and remains a companion through Horde of the Underdark. Honestly, if you like Deekin and haven’t played Undrentide I’d recommend giving it ago. It’s a refreshingly small scale adventure - it’s more like the CRPG equivalent of a short paperback fantasy novel than a grand epic. It also makes the wise decision of not being a continuation of the original campaign.