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The Ready Room => General => Topic started by: alius on January 28, 2004, 08:55:21 PM

Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: alius on January 28, 2004, 08:55:21 PM: I just picked up Hordes of the Underdark but I never finished either the first campaign or SoU. Anyone else here play it? I'm just wondering if anyone is interested in playing all the way through from at least SoU, I'll be the Druid.

alius
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: Uranium - 235 on January 28, 2004, 09:56:01 PM: Hated NWN, thought it was crap. It looked and played like a PS2 game, the campaign sucked (I never actually finished it, it was so bad... 'solve the mystery of the plague'. Screw that, unless you give me a REASON to solve it (AKA Sarevok kills your foster father, you wake in a mysterious jail with experiments being performed on you in BG1 and BG2), it's just lowgrade cliche. In BG1 and BG2 I WANTED to finish the story. In NWN I was apalled that they actually thought they could sucker me with such a weak plot, realistically I'd rather have just left the damn city.

Plus I hated the third edition rules. Let's give everyone some form of another class's skills! Yeah!
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: Grimm on January 28, 2004, 10:31:30 PM: I had some fun with Neverwinter at a friend's house. I'm usually rather entertained by games that have some good online stuff, so I was goin along RPing for a while.
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: alius on January 28, 2004, 10:35:11 PM: Yeah uranium, what I played of SoU was much better then the original. But I still enjoy it, to each his own.
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: Dark on January 28, 2004, 11:25:08 PM: i've played all three campaigns and by far i liked HotU the best
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: Niteowl on January 28, 2004, 11:37:20 PM: i only have NWN, non expansion. i really enjoy it. if anyone is up for that, we can set a time/date? maybe one of the custom modules? the Penultima series is a funny one i quite enjoy.
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: alius on January 29, 2004, 02:36:03 PM: Quote
i only have NWN, non expansion. i really enjoy it. if anyone is up for that, we can set a time/date? maybe one of the custom modules? the Penultima series is a funny one i quite enjoy.
Any chance you would like to pick up SoU or HOTU and join me in a game if we can get a few others?
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: Niteowl on January 29, 2004, 02:46:25 PM: errr.. it's quite pricey now no? hrm.. not sure.
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: alius on January 29, 2004, 03:19:51 PM: I picked up HOTU for 30 and SoU is probably less.
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: Sydney Carton on January 29, 2004, 03:48:50 PM: I'm sorta the new guy here, although I was a reg a couple months back (TK-421 in game), but I have HotU and I'd play through the campaigns or some mods if you got a bunch of guys together. I'll do anything, although I prefer Ranger or Rogue. I'm a D&D newb, so I don't have the skills to figure out much besides pure combat, hehe.
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: Sydney Carton on January 29, 2004, 04:38:17 PM: Also, I dunno if you guys are into this stuff, but there's a pretty nice permanent world set up called Exaria. If you go to exaria.net, there's a whole slew of subraces, special mods, etc. It's pretty heavy on the RP and takes a long time to level though, so if you're not into it it's probably not worth getting into.
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: alius on January 29, 2004, 05:33:23 PM: I would definitely be up for it, you have SoU as well I hope?

(Just gotta get a few more...which I may be able to.)
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: OttoDestruct on January 29, 2004, 05:41:53 PM: Im up for it, I got gold edition NWN so I got OC and SOU.
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: Isamil on January 29, 2004, 05:56:02 PM: I uninstalled NWN, but I would be willing to play through some custom mods, like Penultima(which ruled)
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: alius on January 29, 2004, 06:24:15 PM: What about SoU Isamil? Infinately better then the original.
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: Isamil on January 29, 2004, 07:08:25 PM: Don't have it. And I never even finished the original campaign....
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: alius on January 30, 2004, 10:17:59 PM: Well I finally got the cds, how does tommorow sound?

(Scratch that forgot I have plans, how about Sunday?)
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: Smoke Nova on February 02, 2004, 02:14:44 AM: If you've updated to the latest patch, SoU/HotU is not required if your playing with SoU/HotU players. If I remember correctly.

All the feats/classes/skills exist, just aren't usable. Doesn't take much to add new feats and such.

I have all three, not sure if my campus firewall will let me play to a location off-campus.
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: OttoDestruct on March 01, 2004, 02:31:12 PM: Still interested in playing? I don't have HotU but I would like to play. I've played through SoU singleplayer three times now, its fun but short, and the last boss is a joke.
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: Niteowl on March 02, 2004, 09:34:18 AM: first off, WHAT are playing. second, when?

i would like to play friday evening. what? well... not sure. some custom module?

lvl6 sorceror here.
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: BobTheJanitor on March 02, 2004, 11:16:32 AM: I've just got the basic, original NWN. I've had trouble trying to play games with people who have later expansions installed, so I may not be able to join in now that I think of it.
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: Sydney Carton on March 02, 2004, 10:17:44 PM: You can play with anyone with any other expansion, as long as everyone's patched up and you're not playing a module built with the new expansions' toolsets. So you can play any module built prior to SoU, the only difference will be that everyone else will have access to prestige classes and such that you won't. Of course, the caveat is that you'll be hard pressed to find a newer module built without at least SoU, if not HotU, but there are decent older modules. I can't imagine wanting to play through the original scenario, though, hehe.

One other option for everyone are PWs, which are sort of like Medium-MORPGs. The problem with that is that nearly every one of them require both expansions at this point.
Title: Neverwinter Nights
Post by: Cold-NiTe on March 07, 2004, 11:28:27 PM: At my neighboring Best Buy they had the complete set, expansions and all for $40, it may have been some kind of sale though.

But I am gonna wait and get BF Vietnam anyway.