The world would rejoice if they could bring the ugly character graphics to the 21st century. That alone killed my joy of that game when it first came out.
The original Aurora engine classic. I never actually played the original campaigns but I had much fun building adventures for my players and then bringing the world alive as a DM. NWN updated and revamped would be a welcome sight. Though rather unlikely, at least for now. Let Beamdog concentrate on what they're doing now and decide what to do next when they're done with it.
NWN is still raking in money from what I know - a lot of people apparently still play multi-player. I'm not 100% sure it would be possible to take the rights for this one. Ah, I miss this game also. Had my own persistent world at one point. 'Dealelands' based off the Forgotten Realms area.
I'd think, what with them having fixed up the Infinity Engine already, Beamdog would want to concentrate on Icewind Dale and Torment first. Besides, I was never really taken with the first Neverwinter Nights.
The world would rejoice if they could bring the ugly character graphics to the 21st century. That alone killed my joy of that game when it first came out.
How ironic that NWN2 has actually made them worse!
I remember when I first started playing Bioware's D&D games. I think by that time NWN was at least a couple years old, so the graphics of the games were all fairly dated by then. I actually had no problem adjusting to IE graphics, and thought the games looked fairly nice, but I remember starting up NWN and thinking it looked like crap, despite being several years newer. 3D graphics just don't age as well it seems.
The Neverwinter Nights I remember was on AOL, and came out shortly after the Gold Box games. In fact, I am sure that I can find Ads for it in my old Dragon Magazines.
Unfortunately for me, I have a Macbook Pro with a retina display and Windows 7 Bootcamped on a 46Gb partition, and NWN doesn't display properly... Something is wrong with how the display is handled. NWN comes up in a tiny square in the middle of the screen and is practically unreadable. I was able to create a character and get into game (which DID display much better) but was also pretty much unreadable. Nothing I did with the settings, either in game or with the display settings, worked.
I was hoping to be able to run it on the Win7 side and play multiplayer LAN with my wife and son again (we used to play it together a long time ago).
I've also been considering a good old paper campaign using teamspeak or Skype.
That's pretty odd......normally when something like that happens, it's because the laptop screen doesn't support scaling and your screen size is different then what the game supports, but there's resolution options to easily match almost any native resolution, standard or wide screen.
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NWN updated and revamped would be a welcome sight. Though rather unlikely, at least for now. Let Beamdog concentrate on what they're doing now and decide what to do next when they're done with it.
Ah, I miss this game also. Had my own persistent world at one point. 'Dealelands' based off the Forgotten Realms area.
Good times.
I was hoping to be able to run it on the Win7 side and play multiplayer LAN with my wife and son again (we used to play it together a long time ago).
I've also been considering a good old paper campaign using teamspeak or Skype.