PAX East 2012 - Neverwinter Developer Preview

[Morrus]

Cryptic Studios talks about Neverwinter, the upcoming MMO based on Dungeons & Dragons. The game is slated for launch late 2012. It's a persistent world MMO, seemingly 4th-edition based to a large extent, and designed for both parties and solo play. The game will also ship with "The Foundry", a toolset for creating user-generated content.

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[TarionzCousin]

It looks interesting to me, but I didn't hear or see anything novel. Besides combat and NPC interaction, they mention guilds, PvP, crafting, and pets.

At the end they tell you the website to follow their progress, sign up for the open beta test, and learn more: http://www.playneverwinter.com/

 

[variant]

Looks interesting. I wonder if it will be able to drag me away from Guild Wars 2.

 

[Leatherhead]

If it has a character builder like the one they use in Champions Online, I would have to use it as a character picture maker.

 

[Cergorach]

Honestly? A bit meh!

If they said the game was called godquest, I would have believed them. I don't see anything exciting, it looks like Action RPG/MMO #79. If it's F2P, I might give it a whirl just because it's supposed to be based on NWN, but a 100 years after the spellplaque makes the setting so damn alien and unrelated to the FR setting I knew, it isn't even funny. The only thing that is even remotely interesting is the "Foundry", but it honestly sounds like a NWN toolset light. Which in itself wouldn't be that bad, the NWN toolset is a complicated bunch of tools, making it simpler for folks to start making content would be great, the problem is that they are also restricted by it. I'll see and wait, I'm so uninspired by it that I'm not even going to sign up for a beta, I'll take a look when it's complete.

It's not as if I don't have enough computer game content to last me a while... Diablo 3 has me excited, Guild Wars 2 has me interested, heck even the Neverwinter mod for NWN2 has me interested. Still need to play Dragon Age, and another 200 games or so ;-)

 

[Shemeska]

They lost me at 'Post Spellplague', but even without that, by the time they release this I'll have Diablo 3 and possibly Heart of the Swarm and DA3 to play.