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So I'm trying out NWN

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Aribeth is so 2002.
 

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That image of Aribeth isn't fanart, I think. It's official.
Nah, if you were a horrible, stupid moron like me you'd know that the official art has Aribeth dual-wielding short swords.

You mean this one? Yeah, but that wasn't the only one. I'm pretty sure I saw that first image somewhere official. Maybe in the game itself?

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There's also this one:
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I admit that I could never get past the first act. The game is so fucking boring, grindy and uninspired that it's painful. I always come back to it every year or two thinking "well, maybe I'll play a bit and see how it goes, it can't be that bad." Just, no. Fuck, this game is awful. There are almost no redeeming qualities except for maybe the low-intelligence dialogue and the interface (which is actually really good).

It's not even the bad quest design that kills it, it's that it's a game that is literally 90% filler. Oh, run around some random corridors with traps and undead every 20 feet for 5 hours, then get to a plot NPC that I couldn't give less of a shit about, then repeat. I could put up with the "kill everything" design if killing things actually had some meaning, but that is literally all you do the entire game, and since everything autoattacks and you have no party, most of combat consists of just waiting for things to fall over while you occasionally press the potion button. I assume the campaign was intended to be played multiplayer but that isn't an excuse for how mind-numbingly awful it is.


NWN OC was :obviously:












...not really
 

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When people say that HotU is "good" they actually mean "compared to the others" - besides a twinked out late game item forger, it's also pretty much shit. I remember how they tried to spun that moron deus ex machina at the end that sells you Asmodeus "true name" as a romantic interest if you didn't get Aribeth and had a female char. Fucking pathetic.

It's pretty much the same as the others, a continuous dungeon deathmarch, slightly improved by not having the 4 mcguffins to gather in the same area - bioware new designers definition of "nonlinearity" - (IIRC). The "cities" look like dungeons too.

There are good mods, but i never installed that shit game again, so i'm out of it.
 
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Martial training and strong mental discipline allow the greatest female paladins of tyr to grip a spare buckler in ways a man cannot

also racofer probably knows this but my other bros might be interested to know that since gnolls are based on hyenas, female gnolls can be just as fearsome as males

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_hyena#Female_genitalia

just one more reason gnolls are so beloved on the traditional games board at 4chan

also NWN campaign sucks and is terrible abortion of 2D to 3D technology transition

seriously I went from BG2 to that and was all "god damn this is hideous"
some really good mods though, but everything other than the toolset is terrible and yes I don't care what you say the original campaign should have been a good example of the toolset's potential rather than an example fullstop.
 

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I could never get into HotU because of the "lol, there goes your equipment" beginning.
 

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It was really tedious and tiresome to be "exposed" to that "revelation" of Aribeth/Bastila/Jennifer Hale becoming a turncoat for Darth Malak/Maugrim.
 

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Download mods from NWN Vault. Best mods will make you not bother with OC. :)
 

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Download mods from NWN Vault. Best mods will make you not bother with OC. :)
Yeah, but...it's still NWN.

You know, the game where you have 45 degree ramps being passed off as "hills". The game where everything is in straight lines and straight angles. And one of the ugliest 3D RPGs ever made.

And one of the worst interfaces ever.

And a D&D game without party combat.

How will mods improve THAT?
 

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And one of the ugliest 3D RPGs ever made.

Heh, I stil remember how it was described in reviews as BESTEST LOOKING RPG YET when it came out (or second bestest, behind Morrowind. Morrowind's visuals aged a lot better though, obviously.).
 

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Come now, how could anyone not walk out of the academy into the moody, plagueriddled city night and not be awed?

0G9T9.jpg


oh hell yes let me admire the visuals intimately
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I thought it was strangely immersive how the game let you torch random plague-corpses in Neverwinter.
 

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Funny, i thought how un-immersive is that corpses disappear 10 seconds after combat in front of you (even ultima fucking 7 did it better ffs).
 

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LOL that shit is fluff, u shd just choose where to go and be transported to the next fight for one of the three reagents, saves on the filler bullshit and pointless immersion.
Get on with times.

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Codex Year of the Donut Serpent in the Staglands Dead State Divinity: Original Sin Project: Eternity Torment: Tides of Numenera Wasteland 2 Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 A Beautifully Desolate Campaign Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Kingmaker Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
Let's keep the AoD hate in the AoD threads (so VD can see it and become annoyed).
 

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