NWN3 Confirmed, Uses 4.0 Ruleset and Setting

[TheImpossibleDream]

NWN 2 would have been a great game if:

- It had not been released at a time when to run it required a really high end machine despite all the animations being aweful and the spells looking like something from tron.

- Had it's own music and soundsets rather than recycling most of it cheaply.

- it didn't butcher the UI.

On the subject at hand. They will never remake anything like nwn 1. Simply because people are too dumb to fully grasp a game like nwn these days. Simple games sell. Games that require thought to win outside of the strategy market do not. RPG's these days are all about flashy animations and retarded emo's after all.

[GoblinSapper]

There have been no new details since I posted this, I think... I'll fill you in if there are.

[Paradox]

Hmph.. I'll stick to NWN1, thank you very much.

[purplexenno]

4th vs the others

Well anyway, why is 4.0 so bad? I have no D&D experience beyond NWN so i wouldn't know, somebody care to explain?

I've been playing D&D since 1978 (yeah that dates me). I no longer play any of the "AD&D" rulesets, there to constricting. As to 4th edition, it's more like dungeons the gathering. I've always said that WOTC is a CCG company and as once they start writing the rules for D&D it was going to turn into a mix of the two, and lo and behold it has (i would also argue that 4th edition isn't D&D but AD&D, the difference is in the layers of rules. AD&D has more limits than plain D&D, look at an old box set (red,blue,black ect) and you will see what i mean. D&D leaves the rules up to the DM not the publishing house.) Of all the "AD&D" rule sets, i like 3.x best, but i still only play from the box sets, my campaigns start out red box and a few years later if the players are lucky the get to start the silver box (immortal) set. I own both the original NWN and it's expansions and NWN2 and it's expansions, and while NWN didn't have the graphics that NWN2 has it was a better game. As to NWN2 it was ok, and MOTB was ok as well but the third expansion sucked.

[purplexenno]

You do know first halo came out at same time with neverwinter nights?

um... actually no, the original NWN computer game was a part of aol network games back in the early 90's or so. it was fun but was way before halo. The bioware NWN was the second game with that name.

[AnkhOfYmph]

Nerd fight winnar!!!  :P

[TheMacPanther]

As to NWN2 it was ok, and MOTB was ok as well but the third expansion sucked.

Storm of Zehir caravan lords of doom.

[Drakill Tannan]

NWN 2 should really just be a graphical update of NWN 1, with new classes, PrcS spells and a 3.5 ruleset. Would've been cheaper and wouldn't have disapointed.

[Wafflecone_Hiatus]

No news on this game, though- it's state may be in question with Atari selling cryptic, the studio that was to work on it.

[VanillaPudding]

It's good if cryptic is removed, as they would be the ones making it an MMO style.

[Drakill Tannan]

Honestly, the only RPG i'm hoping for is Diablo III, unless you count Mass effect 3.

[Paha]

Atari ditched cryptic, meaning that cryptic still more or less is working on it but the funding is frozen because they are going through some economical changes.

[Optimistic]

I INVOKE THE DARK ARTS OF THREAD NECROMANCY
 
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/11/30/tall-tales-from-neverwinters-taverns/#more-84210
 
New trailer video. Is more or less naff. RPS sums it up adequatly.
 

It might just be me, but the tone of this first Neverwinter MMO trailer seems like it’s about to break into being a send-up at any moment. I was sat waiting for the punchline that never comes. Anyway, it’s basically illustrating that the game’s dungeons will be heavy on the story elements, which seems to make sense, given the Dungeons & Dragonsness of it all. Also appropriate: a dragon. The game – which was recently reworked as a free-to-play MMO – will appear next year.

[Mort]

I skimmed briefly through their forum to get a glimpse of the Foundry.. Some stuff they say is really interesting while other things are more frightening.

Either way, I`ll give it a try when it comes out... or read a review of features for their toolset.

[Canzah]

I like this thread.