GameSpy writes: "Neverwinter Nights 2 has always really been two products. There's the single-player adventure which most people play when they open the box, and then there's the Neverwinter tools, a very powerful collection of mod tools that dedicated world builders have used to create all sorts of great adventures to be released for free on the Internet. In both the original release and the game's first expansion pack, The Mask of the Betrayer, both sides were well-served. The same can't be said for Storm of Zehir. The latest expansion offers some pretty terrific tools that modders will be able to use to make some great new adventures, but the official adventure included in the box is pitifully generic."
Pros:
+Interesting party conversations
+Overland map
+Some good art design
+Great new monster models
Cons:
-Boringly generic adventure
-Dull dungeons
-Random encounters need to be tuned
-Pointless death system
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."
