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Why should I like Neverwinter Nights 2?

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vivec

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laclongquan said:
"Why should I like Neverwinter Nights 2?"

Well because you can play Baldur Gate Reloaded? It's a new feel compared to the old.

Or Pool Radiance Remastered? Best music and atmostphere.

Or Ice Wind Dale module? Absolutely new feel.
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Is any of that well implemented? Genuinely curious.
 
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People shit on 2 a bit because it has a lot of faults and what it did well in making a better toolset, it did so at the cost of accessibility. For custom classes of course 2 is a bit better for base classes (no need for a 3rd party character creator) and spontaneous spellbooks (unless they finally fixed it in 1), but that's about it. The amount of modders for 1 just can't be beat.
 
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vivec said:
Is any of that well implemented? Genuinely curious.
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Ranged enemies don't fire back in the IWD remake. The BG one is also overrated garbage, but the PoR remaster is ok. The modules I've covered are much better.
 
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You know BG maps that always feel so very large-ish and empty? Well, no more of that. Gameplay feel very fast. The Tower feel particularly deadly.

I dont notice that ranged enemies dont fire back in IWD module. Possibly they fixed it in a patch?
 
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laclongquan said:
I dont notice that ranged enemies dont fire back in IWD module. Possibly they fixed it in a patch?
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Possibly. They just stood there while we mowed them down from long range. I really dislike remakes on principle, though: they are only popular because of the name. Aside from the amount of work that goes into making them (manual labor; how creative), they offer very little over genuinely original campaigns and adventures. And, of course, you're a better off playing the originals rather than a remake on a kludgy engine such as Electron.
 
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The Old Kiwi said:
I couldn't ever get past the first part, myself. I thought NWN was rather better, especially the SoU expansion. If the original code for the sequel game has turned up, I haven't heard that (or was it IWD II that they haven't been able to find?)
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OK, I backtracked, my mistake above. The original code from IWD2 is still missing. I don't think that I've heard one way or the other that NWN2 is on any Beamdog "upcoming" list.
 
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I don't think that I've heard one way or the other that NWN2 is on any Beamdog "upcoming" list.
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NWN2 is an Obsidian game and Beamdog has ex-BioWare devs. Thus, I doubt NWN2 will be on their radar. On the side, my interview with Trent confirmed that KotOR isn't. The only other thing we know is that Gaider is working on a separate project to NWN:EE.
 
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I like how it classifies itself as "online computer product", it sounds so Orwellian.
 
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jarmaro said:
I tried to play it three times,, every time I quit after few hours beceause of how boring this game is. Walking on the map is more tedious than in MMOs, combat is brainless and, above all, dialogs and characters are so infantile they remind me of first Kotor.
Why is this game considered classic and why people like it? What am I missing?
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Because Hitler hated it.

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You should like NWN 2 because it's D&D, RTWP and a CRPG. Those are reasons enough. But beyond that, because you can play modules, like The Shaper of Dreams (Planescape module), the only Planescape module I've seen thus far. Just download good module campaigns that utilize a lot of the advanced features and complexities of the game.
 
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