Icewind dale or neverwinter
DragonKing
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I finally got some extra funds that I'm trying to not spend on the hole in my pocket called art supplies. So I decided to come back to the forgotten realms but should I get icewind dale or neverwinter? Which is better by your opinion, what are the pros and cons of both?
Got those who don't remember me,
I mostly main mages, wild mages, and sorcerers.
I mostly tend I go 4 men deep unless the game as an extensive communication and commentary system between the npc characters that makes them a little more than just meatshields.
I like dragons!
That should be all.
Got those who don't remember me,
I mostly main mages, wild mages, and sorcerers.
I mostly tend I go 4 men deep unless the game as an extensive communication and commentary system between the npc characters that makes them a little more than just meatshields.
I like dragons!
That should be all.
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Neverwinter Nights is... well, a different kind of game. It's great if you want to play multiplayer on servers or custom-created single player modules, and there are a lot of high quality of those available on the Neverwinter Vault to download for free. The official campaigns, well, just to say, I didn't like them at all. The premium modules might be better but I've not yet played them all to comment enough. However, in my opinion, NWN is not the kind of game I personally like. (Maybe I'll have to give it another try someday to see if I enjoy it somehow?)
So, if you would ask me, I'd say Icewind Dale all the way!
I'm not talking about never winter night a and no I'm not talking about it,I played that when it first released in beta and hated it. Only reason I would go back is probably to buy the dragon born race they brought in a few years ago.
Ok I just realized where over messed up, I always get the names of the two games mixed up.im not talking about the mmo, as I said before I played that when it first released. I'm talking about neverwinter nights the single player PC game. @BelgarathMTH
@Rik_Kirtaniya how different is the game play? What edition. Do they use for it?
Congrats on the funds and the 29. Birthday. Both games are a treat, so good choices.
For NPC’s and dragons I would go for NWN.
The NPC’s are fun and have nice quests in most chapters. Banters are not that frequent - but compaired to zero npc’s in IWD, NWN is a clear winner.
Dragonwise NWN is another clear winner. There a loads of dragons in NWN and a double dragon fight!!!
NWN uses the 3. edition times, whilst IWD uses 2. Edition times. The 3ed rules are really something else compaired to 2ed rules. I am not saying they are bad, but really something else. You should google the 3ed rules and decide if you can cope with the changes. If you can cope with 3ed rules - pick NWN and be glad that you can look forward to play IWD another time.
Ask in https://forums.beamdog.com/categories/neverwinter-nights, and it will be the opposite.
The games are very different, it's impossible to choose.
As for NWN,I do like it and 3rd edition offers different options for class and combat mechanics, but in the original campaign you can only choose one henchman at a time and there isnt that much interaction with them. I would add that NWN isn't and will never be BG's sucessor because its essencenis quite different.
If you like to be creative, it's toolset is far easier to work with than modding the Infinity Engine, and can be a tool for you to craft your own stories.
The campaign is eh. The Hordes of the Underdark is pretty fun though, as well as the premium modules, and they are worth a try.
Icewind Dale is more action based than Baldur's Gate. If you liked that part of the game more, then Icewind Dale might be more appealing, and I do love the series, especially Icewind Dale 2. But for me personally my choice would be NWN.
If you are use to IE games, then IWD. Great dungeon crawler, good story, make and control your own party kinda deal. It's quality gaming.
NWN gets you quantity. The original campaign was subpar. The two expansions were better, but nothing really that memorable (Deekin notwithstanding) . One or two "henchmen" max for your party (unless you MP) that you do not get full control over. 3e rules, which may or may not be to your liking. That said, there is a plethora of fan created content and multiplayer servers that will stretch your limited funds to the max if you take advantage of them.
That said, if you wait till about Easter (starting April 21) they will probably be on sale on gog and steam and you can probably get both for the price of one. Don't quote me on this though, it is more speculation but you waited this long to play the games, what's an extra month.
There just isn't enough time in the world.
Anyway, Icewind Dale, I feel, is more about strategy. It has a pretty ok story, but it plays out mostly the same regardless of the party you build. The fun comes in having complete control up to six custom characters in a game designed to be played that way. You can come up with so many cool strategies for making it through that story.
Where Icewind Dale sports a variety of character combinations, NWN has a flexible variety of class combinations, but you mostly have just one character. You can get up to a party of four, kinda. You get one summon at a time, one henchman, and one familiar if you take a class that grants one. You can give them orders in dialogue that adjusts their AI, and you can possess your familiar in leau (sp?) of controlling your main character temporarily. But mostly, they do their own thing like another mentioned earlier. However, you'll never find a fighter/bard/red dragon disciple in ID.
If you like crafting a unique, strategic party, I'd go with ID. If you like crafting a unique single character, I'd say NWN.
Edit: I guess I was thinking of 3.5 Master of Many Forms, which just gets the feat without the wisdom requirement.
Here is a question, which one has more useful invocation magic?
I think we have a wi...
...stop playing with my emotions! @ElysianEchoes
Apologies, @DragonKing
That dragon eye you drew is pretty cool! *Nervous chuckle*
They are both on sale @ GoG. NwN Digital Deluxe for 33% off (or non Deluxe) and IWD:EE for 50%
Oh a snap, if it stays at 10 all the way to Wednesday, I'm going to get that for 10 USD.unfortunately the indecisiveness led to me buying art supplies.
I'd probably just draw my own character portraits, I tend to find there games never really have portraits that reflect my MC. But the games graphics aren't hay large of an issue for me as long as the world is expansive. I'm not expecting to be sacred 2 big but still id like to play around and explore also.
Also I'm doing a 4 person party.
1 wild mage chaotic evil
1sorceress chaotic evil
1 fighter cleric neutral evil
1 assassin neutral evil
This will actually be my first time playing this series, so lets do this.
What are you talking about? IWD2 has never been on mobile. What is currently missing is IWD:EE (and BGII:EE) on Google Play, but that is a bit unrelated to the thread's subject.