Originally Posted by avahZ Darkwood
Originally Posted by Warlocke
Originally Posted by Sozz
Larian doesn't have anything on NWN.

Really? I just don’t understand other people’s tastes. Not that there is anything wrong with other people’s opinions or anything. We are all entitled to them. But NWN? Really?

I can distinctly recall how utterly disappointed I was with that game. I loved the BG series so much, so I understandably had high expectations for NWN. The module creator was cool, but I still to this day am dumbfounded by how bad everything else was. Story, characters, map design, the abundance of dry fetch quests, the lack of a party… all so bad.

Unless you mean the expansions. I heard that those were better, but I never played them, so I don’t know. The base game left such a terrible impression that I had no interest in checking them out.

But I actually hate everything BioWare has done not called Baldur’s Gate, while everybody else loves KotoR, Mass Effect and Dragon Age, so what do I know? 🤷🏻‍♂️

It was the lack of a party and a deep story that killed me on NWN. Never even played NWN 2 because of it. IWD was ok but the dead pan party without any interactions/story elements was a let down for me. Planescape Torment was by far my favorite (after BG1/2 of course).

Planescape is the rare game that manages to be both janky and perfect. It’s one of the only games that will run of my Surface, so I have a playthrough I’m slowly making my way through now in fits and starts. I’ve still never played anther game that weird and wonderful.


Originally Posted by Wormerine
Originally Posted by avahZ Darkwood
It was the lack of a party and a deep story that killed me on NWN. Never even played NWN 2 because of it.
That's a shame, as NWN2 is nothing like NWN1 - D&D "build your own campaign" toolbox swapped for proper campaign with all halmark Obsidian ambition and jank (though base campaign is very by the numbers considering the studio). It's expansion, Mask of Betrayed could be particularly of interest to you as it channels some Torment vibes.

In controls rather horribly. Really poor UI, and not great 3d camera.

Yeah, that camera is something else. Three different modes and all of them bad. Game is otherwise a marked improvement over the first.