Neverwinter Nights 2

[Voodoo]

Anybody interested in playing through this game coop? I believe it allows for up to four players...

http://www.co-optimus.com/game/213/pc/neverwinter-nights-2.html

I've never played the NWN 2 campaign so I thought this would be a fun way to do so.

[violent]

I've never gotten the game to play correctly but I may be interested, depending on schedule.

[BigJonno]

I'd be totally up for that, but my copy of NWN2 went walkabout years ago.

[biosc1]

I would love to, but my schedule is way to atrocious to play anything meaningful.

[drobvice]

I keep meaning to fire it up after I bought it cheap awhile back. Unfortunately, I just picked Oblivion back up.

[Narradisall]

I tried to get into it again recently, and got to Neverwinter then quit.

God I forgot how boring early level DnD could be, esp for a Wizard.

[BigJonno]

Neverwinter is where the game gets good. Every time I tried to replay the game I couldn't get that far.

[LordDon]

Gods this sounds tempting. I need a clone.

[OldeWolf]

I'm up to it if I still have my copy.

[drobvice]

How is Neverwinter 2 compared to the first? I played a good bit of the campaign in the first one and some online server stuff. I seem to remember some negative reviews when 2 came out but that could have been launch bugginess or something. Can't remember.

[BigJonno]

It had random issues running on a lot of computers, the camera was bloody awful and the first few hours are very generic, by-the-book fantasy RPG. However, I thought it was a pretty damn good game. The story was interesting, there are a few nice branches in the plot and you get to run a castle.

This Kieron Gillen review (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/r_nwn2_pc) is worth a look.

[Narradisall]

Stop making it sound fun. I don't want to reload it, drag myself through that god awful first 6-8 hours or so again. I can never get into the Blacklight distric or whatever before I want to slit my wrists out of boredum.

I need to not roll a mage, thats the problem. Since it shoves you at the front in every cut scene where you spend the boss fight running around in circles to keep them off you.

[Narradisall]

Plus sheesh, I couldn't find the intro characters more dull. The Tiefling was amusing, but the dwarf and druid could get bent.

[BigJonno]

Plus sheesh, I couldn't find the intro characters more dull. The Tiefling was amusing, but the dwarf and druid could get bent.

The dwarf is awesome! The idea of a drunken dwarf brawler who wants to become a monk because they're so good at fighting is brilliant. His character arc is really good.

[Narradisall]

His story did sound interesting, but I've only ever got as far as finding the monestry before my brain melted out of boredum.

I imagine he is awesome once you get him to being a Dwarven monk, but it's getting there....

[Voodoo]

We played on this past Wednesday and, honestly, I have to say that the game is a slight notch above terrible (at least for me). We may be better suited doing D&D adventures through DDO instead... This is IMHO though...

[LordDon]

Or you could patch up NWN 1 with the graphic improvements.

NWShader to enhance NWN's old graphics.
http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Other.Detail&id=1443

NWNCQ to further enhance NWN's graphics.
http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Hakpaks.Detail&id=7848
- Available also as a modular option http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Hakpaks.Detail&id=8013

[Panthera]

The base NWN2 campaign is about as terrible as the base NWN campaign. Okay, maybe not that bad. I did get through NWN2, I never made it out of Neverwinter in the first.

Expansions and modules are the way to go.

[Voodoo]

I didn't like that (it appeared anyways) that only 1 of us had control over the party members. It also treated the other person in MP as just a 'come-along' instead of being a equal member of the party.