06-21-2004, 04:51 PM
If you ask me, the Official Campaign that shipped with NWN (as well as those with the expansions) were merely vehicles to show off what the toolset could do. For many gamers, the ability to create one's own modules was/is the high point of this game.
I'm still playing NWN, but more in the style of a tabletop game. I've got a group of six or seven guys that I play with, and we're going through things as if it's a game of D&D; one DM, actually rolling a d20 for skills not provided for in NWN, and using Teamspeak while playing so it's all pretty much the same as sitting around a table with a group of guys playing the game. It's been a LOT of fun and all involved have had a chance to go ahead and build areas we'd be heading into next.
I wouldn't go as far as to claim any one game the "greatest of all time", but I have to say NWN ranks fairly high just because of the possibilities it provides. Imagine if Diablo 2 shipped with a toolset that allowed you to create YOUR OWN GAME. I'm not talking about a modification to the current game. I'm talking your own campaign with 5 Acts, your own quests, etc., totalling the same amount of game hours if not more than the original game. Even control over the aesthetics so that the areas you make look nothing like those in the original game. That would be huge, and that's precisely why NWN shines.
Only downside is that every time I get a great idea for an area/trap/enemy/whatever, I know it's going to result in the death of one of our characters. :blink:
I'm still playing NWN, but more in the style of a tabletop game. I've got a group of six or seven guys that I play with, and we're going through things as if it's a game of D&D; one DM, actually rolling a d20 for skills not provided for in NWN, and using Teamspeak while playing so it's all pretty much the same as sitting around a table with a group of guys playing the game. It's been a LOT of fun and all involved have had a chance to go ahead and build areas we'd be heading into next.
I wouldn't go as far as to claim any one game the "greatest of all time", but I have to say NWN ranks fairly high just because of the possibilities it provides. Imagine if Diablo 2 shipped with a toolset that allowed you to create YOUR OWN GAME. I'm not talking about a modification to the current game. I'm talking your own campaign with 5 Acts, your own quests, etc., totalling the same amount of game hours if not more than the original game. Even control over the aesthetics so that the areas you make look nothing like those in the original game. That would be huge, and that's precisely why NWN shines.
Only downside is that every time I get a great idea for an area/trap/enemy/whatever, I know it's going to result in the death of one of our characters. :blink:
See you in Town,
-Z
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