Gaming Forums => General Gaming => Topic started by: KnowsNothing on April 30, 2003, 12:36:26 PM
Title: neverwinter nights
Post by: KnowsNothing on April 30, 2003, 12:36:26 PM
ok, in my Morrowind thread, Nevrwinter nights was mentioned. i've heard and read about Morrowind, and from that i can tell you either love it or you hate it. Can you guys tell me what NN has to offer?
Title: RE: neverwinter nights
Post by: Smithy on May 05, 2003, 11:21:48 AM
NWN is based off the Dungeon & Dragons playing rules. It's a diagonal view game like Diablo. Everything is quick turn based, so its not exactly a hack and slash game. What I mean by quick turn based is every attack, spell casted, or move is queued up on a list and it will do each one of those after the next one is completed. Because of the D&D rules healing just requires you to sit down and rest to gain back all your life. This only takes several seconds. This is the same for spell casters. You are allowed to memorize a certain ammount of spells for each spell level. Once that spell is casted you cannot cast it again until you rest. The magic system is not based on mana. So as a caster you will be sitting ALOT.
Multiplayer is alot of fun if you play with some friends. Downside again though is if you are a pure caster based class you will find yourself resting alot or just following along casting a spell every now and then. If anyone in your group is fighting anywhere in the current zone you cannot rest and you must wait until they stop fighting or they leave the zone. There are 4 major maps that are all part of the story when you play multiplayer. Although you cannot go backwards to previous maps once you advance to the next. The Dungeon Master part of the game can be very fun if you have someone who is good at it. Basically someone acts as the controller of the game and they can spawn monsters/npcs/rocks/trees/items etc. The Dungeon Master can create a custom story which others can play live.
The story for this game is not bad. Theres alot of modding being done to the game. There are already custom maps you can download and play. Custom maps, items, npcs, etc. are very easy to create. You can create your own custom map and items and multiplayer host it without people needing to download it. All in all I thought this was a fun game except for the pure magic casters classes.
