Neverwinter E3 Teaser Trailer

[Dannager]

Now that we're in the thick of E3, the first real Neverwinter trailer has been released.

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It actually looks good. Graphically, it looks somewhere between modern day single-player RPGs (Dragon Age, FO:NV) and modern day MMOs. The city even looks like a real city.

Also, that's a legitimately terrifying dragon.

 

[Kzach]

It actually looks good. Graphically, it looks somewhere between modern day single-player RPGs (Dragon Age, FO:NV) and modern day MMOs. The city even looks like a real city.

There are two major problems with this game:

1) Cryptic Studios.

2) Play Asia.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

The website has also been updated, and includes a forum: Neverwinter

 

[Stumblewyk]

Yeah, it certainly does look pretty.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Oh---*speechless*

 

[Dannager]

The website has also been updated, and includes a forum: Neverwinter

Cooooooooooool.

IGN has an interview up with the game's devs. Interesting that they're already looking at adding classes like the artificer and the beastmaster ranger.

 

[Zaukrie]

I'm just going to hope it is fun.

 

[Cergorach]

There are two major problems with this game:

1) Cryptic Studios.

2) Play Asia.

I think you mean:

2) Perfect World

Play Asia is a webstore, Perfect World is a publisher of MMOs (and the Perfect World MMO).

While Cryptic is supposed to suck as a MMO developer, I think that they have some interesting ideas, the Foundry system in Star Trek Online (make your own missions) sound promising. Also the Nemesis system from Champions Online looks like a lot of fun (make your own arch enemy and fight his minions and eventually your nemesis himself). I just don't want to pay anymore for the classic MMO payment model, the properties/games don't look interesting enough for that imho. I spend a lot of money on LotR (Lifetime subscription) and a little on D&D online, both are (now) F2P and I have never really played all that much. I've been a longtime EVE Online player, but haven't paid RL money for it in years (and all my accounts went dormant two weeks ago). Played WoW years ago for less then a month. Did enjoy a few weeks of free Tabula Rasa (I actually liked that game).

What I'm trying to say is that if Neverwinter is another classic MMO style game, I'll pass. I might even pass for a while if its a classic RPG (still have a few CRPGs in my 'to-play' queue). Might be interesting if it went the F2P route (with micro payments of course).

The gaming market is so extremely flooded that you can pick up very good titles for a few bucks. And unless you play an extreme amount of computer games, you will be well supplied with good cheap games for years to come.

The trailer does look good, but that doesn't make it a good game...

 

[Dire Bare]

Wow. Lots of negativity.

Cryptic isn't a Blizzard, by any means, but they do fine. I'm mostly concerned about how the recent sale of Cryptic will affect the game support.

A pretty trailer does not a good game make, but it doesn't make a bad game either. And the in-game graphics look quite nice, and that is important.

Neverwinter won't be a standard MMO like WoW or Cryptic's past games, although it will be an online game. Cryptic/Atari hasn't decided on the pricing structure for the game, and a monthly fee hasn't been ruled out yet. Exactly how different the game will be from a standard MMO is also unclear at this point.

So far, all we've really gotten is teaser info. I'm comfortable holding off my judgement until closer to release when more info will be available.

 

[JohnRTroy]

It looks like, at least from this wrap-up on Gamebanshee, that they are trying to get back to the NWN1 model of DM created content.

Neverwinter Previews and Video Interview

On another point, it's kind of sad to see how D&D has apparently fallen in the eyes of computer game fans. Remember when D&D was the most exciting thing to be used by computer games and a very valuable license. Yet it seems that the CRPGs have actually surpased the role of D&D now and the brand seems a lot weaker in the marketplace. D&D CRPG fans became Bioware or Obsidian fans, for instance.