Neverwinter Nights
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Video Game Reviews of Neverwinter Nights
Customer Review: A Good, Fun RPG
Summary: 5 Stars
The Neverwinter Nights game series is one of my all time favorite, if not favorite, games. It's strength lies in it's diversity. This is not just one single player game nor is it just one multiplayer game. It can be about anything you want it to be. The game comes with one story to play through with many side quests. The game is massive, which is good and bad. Sometimes things seem to drag on, but then they pick up again. Overall it is a good story that will take up a lot of your time and keep you entertained.
Once you have completed the main campaign, unlike in most games, things are not over. You still have many choices. Since you get to create your own character and shape it how you want, you can always play through again with a character completely different than the one you just played. One negative to the story the game comes with though is that regardless of your character the story does not change much if at all, only how your character handles things. If you tire of that story you can download countless others that have been created by other creative players or Bioware. These vary in style and quality but there are many good campaigns out there to entertain you, all for free. Though Bioware does have some that you can pay to download, all player created content is free.
Think you have a good idea for a campaign? Think you can do better than Bioware or others? Then go for it! Neverwinter Nights comes with a toolset that has everything you need to create your own stories and worlds.
Tired of playing single player games by yourself? Then just connect to the internet and look through the many campaigns or persistent worlds that other players have created and are playing 24/7, all for free. Chances are you will find some place that feels right to you. Or create your own and have others enter your world and be at your mercy.
Neverwinter Nights is over 4 years old now. This should not put anyone off from buying this game. In fact it is a big plus. It means it is cheaper now than it was when it was new. There is still a good community with plenty of content to find to download. Most if not all the bugs you might have read about have been worked out by now, and work arounds have been made for things that were found limiting originally. Bioware has not left the game alone either as an update was just recently released and they have released new campaigns to download. Being older the graphics may not be top notch for today's standards, but they are still very pleasing with beautiful scenery whether you are walking through a zombie infested city or taking a nice stroll through an autumn woodland.
For what you get with Neverwinter Nights it is well worth the price. If you want to get the most out of the game though you really need to buy all the expansions. Buy Neverwinter Nights alone if you want to just take a test drive but if you want to really get the most out of the game spend the few extra dollars and get the bundled packages that include all the games and be sure to check out the Bioware forums.
Customer Review: FANTASTIC!
Summary: 5 Stars
Let me say first, that when I first bought this game and installed it, played it for an hour or so, I didn't think I liked it, however, I realized that it takes time to get use to the camera angles, the combat system and the overall feel. So, I took a break and went back the next day and really gave it an effort and well, I love it! It's an awesome game...
It has a nice modding community, even comes with its own toolset so you can create your own maps, dungeons, etc.
It has a wonderful auto updater that will download all the latest patches for you among other things, like previews on new games from the ever so wonderful BioWARE corp.
Bioware puts out incredible, addictive and just super excellent games. Virtually BUG free as well. I was a huge fan of the Baldur's Gate games and played those for years. That's why it took me so long to get around to NWN. lol.
Well, Bioware, congrats, because I think you lived up to your name once again with NWN. It's not the same as their Baldur's Gate, but does have some of the same feel and game play.
The storyline is very good and you can interact with TONS of NPC's. Some people don't like it because you can only travel with up to 1 NPC and you really have no access to their inventory to give them stuff or help you carry things, but it's not that big of a deal. Sometimes it is better playing with just your character alone. Yes, sometimes, NPC companions get in the way.
The combat system takes awhile to get use too, but is nicely done. You can target one enemy and your character will attack all enemies in the area, taking out one at a time. This is nice, because you don't have to keep pointing and clicking on each enemy.
The movement has 3 different camera angles to choose from, so you will have to decide which one you like best, or just keep changing from view to view. It's quick and easy.
The character creation is awesome, and although the portraits are not that good, you can go online and download character portrait packs, even Baldur's Gate II pic packs are available. It's nice.
You can choose between various races, sub-races and classes, including sub-classes, just like BGII. You can be Human, Dwarf, Elf, Gnome, Half-Elf, Half-Orc, Halfling or even create a custom race.
The classes are awesome. Barbarian, Bard, Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer and Wizard. Also, remember, you can have sub-classes as well. You could easily spend hours just in the character creation alone.
There are alignments, Deities and a HUGE spell table.
There is so much I could say about this, but I will stop and let you decide. Yes, just buy it and lose yourself, because you will.
I can't say I like NWN as much as their BGII, but it's close, dang close.
HAVE FUN!
Customer Review: Good, but too limited
Summary: 3 Stars
This game does a good, though not perfect job at implementing D&D 3rd edition rules. The main storyline of the game is interesting. The game allows for multiplayer, and also comes with a kit for modding. I quite liked the combat system in this game.
One thing that I really didn't like about this game is that it's very not open ended. There's one set way to do just about everything in this game. If you play an evil or chaotic character there's little chance to actually do things the way a character of that alignment should. This game is very strongly geared towards lawful, or neutral good characters, and it makes me wonder why they even allow you to be any other alignment.
There's very little room for character development, which doesn't bother me in other styles of games, but is something that an RPG like this really needs in my opinion. Also there were parts of the game that really really dragged on way too much.
However I did really like both of the expansions for this game, though they too were very set in stone as far as how things are going to play out.
Customer Review: Great way to hang out with friends.
Summary: 4 Stars
I have played alot of MMORPGs... and alot of single player RPGs. This however is neither and it definately has it's niche.
The best way to play this game is to have a set of friends that all like this kind of game (RPG) and can dedicate 1 night a week or so to play it. If you can throw a "lan party" using some older PCs that can handle this that is ideal... however playing over the internet is still good also.
The reason why it fits this niche very well is that it does some things better than MMORPGs.
1.) low system spec requirement
2.) low time commitment
3.) None of the outside influences
4.) No monthly fee
5.) Familiar rule set
By outside influences that is the biggest issue for many people... you see someone running around in armor off some god and you WANT IT BADLY. Then you start playing more hours so you can get that armor faster... one day you turn around to look for your friends and they aren't there. You basically end up leveling at different rates and can no longer hang out. Playing this game removes ALOT of that temptation/pitfall of MMORPGs.
There are obviously flaws to the game as well... it's dated graphics, slightly awkward interface (although not bad), and the fact that if a machine locks up and they haven't manually saved that 1 person loses hours of work (but you can download a charector editor to artifically fix them if needed)
In the grand scheme of things though there isn't a better cooperative RPG type game for multiple players that is quite this handy. Guildwars is probably close since it also has no monthly fee. I don't think Diablo II falls into these ranks as nicely.
Customer Review: a good rpg
Summary: 5 Stars
thanks amazon readers for bringing life back to this game. i had finished the first chapter and uninstalled it a few months back. i hated the limited camera angle where you could not see beyond few feet. then, i came across a review which said that you could hack the camera angle. thank you thank you, for now i have renewed interest in the game - the 3d camera works well.
the graphics are not that good (and bloatware) compared to knights of the republic which uses less memory and has much better graphics (why can't they develop nwn with kotor graphics engine beats me..)
anyway, the story is good if not great, and character development is fun (i am using a paladin/theif along with linu the cleric). gameplay is good and lasts hours and hours.
a great game for rpg fans!