Neverwinter Nights

[Arnelos]

As for NWN persistent worlds, my little brother (age 23, not THAT little) has become completely hooked on the Narfell Campaign.

[DrSpike]

Well I am now playing HotU. Hopefully a few of the NWN fans here will play along.

[Skanky Burns]

Ok then, I'll play along.

"Yes, DrSpike sure is playing HotU. He really really is playing it!"

[DrSpike]

Idiot.

[Skanky Burns]

[Ljube]

I've never played NWN. Is it like Diablo II? What's the goal? Can you win the game, or you just play?

[MattH]

It's a 3rd person RPG with a detailed ruleset: specifically a direct copy of those found in one edition of Dungeons and Dragons (I forget which...). It has decent graphics and interesting, if highly scripted, gameplay. One of its highlights is the powerful editor and most players agree that fan created mods are much better than the strictly linear campaign that comes with the game. The supreme goal is to defeat the evil person and save the world (region?). Once you've won, the game is over but can be replayed with as many characters as you like.

Another important part is the multiplayer. It's like playing D&D, but over the net using characters. Just like the pen-and-paper game, you have a dungeon master who leads you on the quests (either the main in-game quest or a custom one) and can add is own dialouge, characters, etc. in real time. From what I hear, a free (there is no monthly fee to pay after you've bought the game) MMORPG experience can be had with persistant online worlds. I'm waiting a list of the good ones .

Man, I sure have way too much free time. That was 2 paragraphs!

[DarkCloud]

Hmm... MattH, what machine do you have in that case?

I have an Emachines T2080 with an AMD Chip and 512 MB memory

[MattH]

The problem is (AFAIK) fixed. My system is:
Athlon XP 2700+ (~2.17GHz)
A7N8X Deluxe motherboard
768 MB DDR2100
Radeon 9600 AIW 128MB
160G Samsung SP

[DarkCloud]

hmm... a better system than mine...
how'd you fix your problem?

my graphic card is also 128 MB and computer is 2000+ GHZ. XP.

[Arnelos]

I don't have HotU... it just doesn't seem to be worth the $30 retail price, given the reviews. I *do* have SoU and have played through its main campaign twice, however.

Does anyone here REALLY have HotU and would care to talk about how good it is and whether it's worth the $30 retail?

[MattH]

As I remember it was a simple driver upgrade / patch. It was a common problem and mentioned in a forum search (bioware, that is) or in their Knowledge Base. I'll try and find it.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Arnelos
I don't have HotU... it just doesn't seem to be worth the $30 retail price, given the reviews. I *do* have SoU and have played through its main campaign twice, however.

Does anyone here REALLY have HotU and would care to talk about how good it is and whether it's worth the $30 retail?

I'm enjoying it so far, though there are tonnes of traps and I have a fighter and a bard.

[Dis]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Well I am now playing HotU. Hopefully a few of the NWN fans here will play along.

I'll play along with my shifter.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Arnelos
I don't have HotU... it just doesn't seem to be worth the $30 retail price, given the reviews. I *do* have SoU and have played through its main campaign twice, however.

Does anyone here REALLY have HotU and would care to talk about how good it is and whether it's worth the $30 retail?

CGW was positive. The only negative they gave was the bugs. Which in their case were severe enough to knock it down to a 3 1/2 star rating.

And I did have some bugs my first run through the game. Some of it may have been my system- which was below minimum specs. Most of the bugs involved the cut scenes.

But now I have a new computer- things run just fine.