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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angcuru" data-source="post: 1780632" data-attributes="member: 10948">If you're looking for the awesome immersiveness of BG, then you won't find it in NWN.  It's mainly a 'go online and beat the hell out of some monsters with your buddies' game.  As for the single player NWN campaigns, NWN was OK, not horrible, not great, but acceptable considering that Bioware had a very limited timeframe to put it together, since most of the production time was spent designing the toolset which IS the game's basis.  SoU is better than the NWN campaign, but not much better.in these two there is virtually no party interaction, since it's just the PC and his/her NPC hench/sidekick, who will spout out some backstory every level or so, but that's the extent of it.HotU was great.  You can have 2 henches/buddies, there is actually party interaction in this one.  The story is good, there's a lot to do, and it's visually impressive.But overall, none of them can hold a candle to BG, story/satisfaction-wise.  In BG, you had a bunch of friends who had real personality, instead of "I AM SO-AND-SO STEROTYPE CHARACTER!".  Heck you could even romance/fall in love with some of them, .  Especially good if you used the flirt pack.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  I remember this one time, my PC was walking along in the woods with his group, holding Aerie's hand and all that, and then we sit down to camp.  Minsc asks Aerie to make some Preparation H for him, Viconia accuses her of being a wussy little panzy, Jahiera tells her to stop being so innocent, Keldorn  is rambling on to her about how great Torm is, and it's all too much for the poor girl, and she's acting all sad and depressed.  So my PC gives her a hug, and back come the smiles.  It was all so seamless and well-timed, it was like watching a movie!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ummm...back to the point.  Unless you like big online hack-fests, NWN isn't for you.  I stopped playing for a while because it was nigh-impossible to find a group, and I didn't much like farming exp and loot Everquest-style.  But when you get a group of people together in the tavern, those are good times.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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