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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tyler Do'Urden" data-source="post: 340858" data-attributes="member: 4601">Neverwinter Nights was disappointment of the year, IMHO.  (Some would say that Attack of the Clones deserves the award, but AotC actually exceeded my expectations- which were quite low after Episode I.  I hope that NWN remains disappointment of the year- the only other big thing on the horizon being TTT <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )You can't have a whole party of NPC's to join you, nor can you change the way your NPC's are equipped.  Granted, NWN did a very good job of implementing the combat and skill system, and many of the spells- but it wasn't the experience I was looking for.  And, until they get some major patches out, the game is WAY too buggy to run persistent worlds with.  Every computer I've seen it on (including a very high end 2.6 Ghz Athalon machine with 640 MB of RAM and a 128 MB GeForce 4 video card) has had trouble with in-game bugs- it's obvious that the software needed more correction.  I was a bit wary when it went through beta so quickly.  And, unless strictly enforced, most big servers and persistent worlds will just end up looking like miniature versions of EverQuest or Battle.net.  I'll skip it.  This was NOT the game I was waiting for.  Come to think of it, the game I'm waiting for is probably at least 25 years away- so I think it's time for me to hang up the computer gaming hobby for awhile.  Between my writing, college classes, RPG's, working at the radio station, and meditation, I don't have time for them anyway.For the immediate future, NWN is no threat to 3e/d20/whateveryawannacallit.(On the other front, however, I took a look at the EverQuest d20 RPG last night.  I was pleasantly suprised- after the worthless D&D adaptations of Diablo and Diablo II, EQ actually looks like a fantastic product.  If I wasn't already busy with my new swashbuckling campaign, I'd consider picking it up.)</blockquote>

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