Neverwinter Nights Diamond
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Video Game Reviews of Neverwinter Nights Diamond
Customer Review: Pretty good game
Summary: 3 Stars
I've enjoyed NWN. I've only played as one character so far, but there's a lot of replayability there. However, I've been frustrated by the bad multiplayer interface, especially since I bought the game to play multiplayer.Customer Review: Great game, lousy release quality
Summary: 4 Stars
Let me get this out of the way: I've had a lot of fun playing NWN since its release in 2002 (ish?), so if u want to delve into DnD action I can tell you this game is excelent.
Why 4 stars and not 5? I have the original boxed NWN plus the two expansions, and bought 3 Diamond licenses (like this one) to play over LAN with my nephews. Problem is, the activation keys on (all? most?) of the Diamond packs are busted, you have to e-mail tech support and they'll ask u to send a digital photo of the defective cd keys, only then they will mail new keys that work and let you install the game. It kinda kills the "shrinkwrap" experience for me.
Customer Review: My favorite type of game.
Summary: 5 Stars
Make sure to get the two expansions & all of the modules offered by BioWare, because you'll want to keep going.
I played this shortly after Baldur's Gate II, another favorite. BG & NK are both set in the Dungeons & Dragons world, so some of the names of places are the same. I expect that will happen again when I finaly get to play Icewind Dale or anything with "Wizards of the Coast" slapped on the side of the box. Even though the graphics are very different, sometimes I confuse what I did in Baldur's Gate II with what I did in NWK1.
PROS: Just play it & the pros will flood out all the cons listed below. Every level of every mod has special things to offer. The best pro of all is the lack of crashing & glitching. You've got your highly branched-out skill tree, a wide variety of classes, a variety of text options that effect both the story & your alliance, lots of unique loot, huge dragons, lots of henchmen & love interests who will talk to you & to eachother, unexpected plot twists, & the list goes on. In Hordes of the Underdark alone, you have the magic maze, the hall of mirrors, a backwards society of underground angels, a trip to the 8th layer of hell, & a smithy who can do the most awesome upgrades to your weapons. For an almost-decade-old game, the graphics are very good (provided you don't zoom in on the NPCs). Best of all, there are multiple possible outcomes based on the chices you make, so the game has a lot of replay value. The best thing ever though is the Premium Mods, which are very lengthy & have a lot to add & offer. For instance, Pirates of the Sword Coat offers zombie-pirates & adventures both on & under the sea. Kingmaker has a weapon that talks to you & upgrades itself when you level, plus you get to be a running mate in an ellection. I haven't even played all of them yet, but they're long enough to consume every waking hour of your weekends.
CONS: The user-created mods that are still downloadable for this game are saddening. I wanted to change the way the body textures looked because they look too similar to the ones in Dungeon Siege 1. The NPC portraits & actual skins were 90% contradictory in appearance. I also wanted to do something about all the hoakey female voices; almost every woman talks like Storm from X-Men. Sadly, applying user mods to this game are absolute brain surgery compared to any other game I've ever added mods to. Couldn't even get most of the player portraits to show up & some claim that using the player-created portraits causes crashing. It's hard-to-impossible to get a same-sex relation from the love interest NPCs (which I usually force upon only my male characters), the variety of voices your character can have are not really ones you'd want, & there is little customization available for the characters (not that it matters once you get a helmet on). The think I hated the most was that sorceresses can't carry swords (Slayers was heavily inspired by D&D & their sorceresses could cary big swords). & lastly, the lack of variety in enviromnets, probably even moreso than in Baldur's Gate II & Morrowind.
Customer Review: Neverwinter Nights
Summary: 5 Stars
Neverwinter Nights: Diamond Compilation Pack (DVD-ROM)
I really like the game and plan to purchase the expansions that were not included in the diamond collection.
Customer Review: What a collection! A highly recommended CRPG experience
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a big fan of the Forgotten Realms fantasy setting and have been playing CRPG's for quite some time now. This is without a doubt one of the best RPG collections out there, providing multitudes of gaming options! and I do mean options. There is a seemingly limitless supply of adventure throughout this bundle, and I have yet to finish all of it! The bundle includes:
* Neverwinter Nights
* Shadows of Undrentide expansion pack
* Hordes of the Underdark expansion pack
* Game modules from the developers of NWN
* All patches and updates + toolset
I have played the original NWN and the expansion packs, and can say that they got progressively better with each. My main complaint about the original NWN was the lack of ability to control and have full access to your companions inventory. They corrected this in the expansion packs. So far my personal favorite and most recommended title in the package is the "Hordes of the Underdark" expansion pack. Its an incredible multi-faceted adventure spanning the underdark and Cania, the 8th level of hell.
The graphics and visual effects in the games are great, and even today provide some impressive eye candy. The games feature plenty of dialogue between NPC's, characters, and people of the Realms to assist in providing a true, in-depth RPG experience. Basically it boils down to this; If you enjoy CRPG's, and would like a fun, intuitive and challenging set of them to choose from, this set is for you. At <$20 it is unbeatable, as is easily worth more for the hundreds of gaming hours the package provides.