1UP writes: "Neverwinter Nights 2 was a labor of love for me -- I'm passionate about Dungeons & Dragons, but it took a lot of work to make it through the game. After waiting for the developers at Obsidian to fix the bugs, I slogged through it, wishing that they had deloused its mediocre story as well: It lacked the epic hook of many D&D games, and it was tedious at times (remember the "medieval human resources manager" nonsense of Crossroads Keep?). Its first expansion, Mask of the Betrayer, entranced me from the start: An epic storyline of primeval forces, it was the best D&D game since Baldur's Gate 2.
Storm of Zehir, the series' upcoming expansion, appears to be designed to give players more freedom, bringing a more sandbox style of play that the developers believe harkens back to old-school RPGs (I'm not just talking about the Baldur's Gate or Icewind Dale series but the beloved Gold Box games of yore as well)."
GamersGate are having a massive weekend sale offering 66% off Neverwinter Nights titles.
NWN2 has been patched to 1.23, which has finally added a multiplayer file auto-downloader, and many other in-game fixes.
Find the patch notes here:
http://nwn2patch.obsidian.net/files/beta/patch_Notes_v123_beta2.rtf
Great day for the NWN2 mod Community.
Hopefully people will make the transition from NWN1 who didnt join us before!
Very true... I just have a problem with those huge polygons from the first now that I play nwn2 =P
NWN1 was still a great game! I put a lot of hours into it back in the day.
I've had a copy of Neverwinter Nights 2 signed by Obsidian dev team for a couple months now. /brag
I haven't played it, though. Maybe I'll try it out this weekend.
GameBanshee writes: "From reading the forums here, I know that there are some people out there who hate Obsidian Entertainment with a passion, and who for some reason think that Knights of the Republic 2 and Neverwinter Nights 2 are an affront to western civilization. I'm not one of those people. I'd much rather champion a developer who tries new and interesting things but sometimes fails, rather than simply going along with a developer who clones ideas and succeeds. But something just seems to be wrong with Obsidian. They usually come up with good ideas, but can they actually develop games? Can they finish a project on time and without a plethora of bugs? Recent evidence suggests that the answer to these questions is "no," and Storm of Zehir, their latest expansion pack for Neverwinter Nights 2, is at best a black eye for them."
