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Neverwinter Nights is Gold
Urthpaw writes "Neverwinter Nights, the D&D based RPG from BioWare (Makers of Baldur's Gate among other titles), for Windows, MacOS and Linux has Gone gold. The game allows players to make their own "modules", or adventures, and DM them for up to 64 friends. Server-linking features allow the assembly of distributed MMORPGs."
- The endless character recaps by everyone there before, during, and after the game e.g. "Baldac has a 16 charisma and an 18 wisdom with a +2 mace of boring"
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- The stench of geek BO, combined with smelly feet in the summer...ahhh...nothing like a rank basement to really bring out the geek aroma.
- The challenge of trying to
a) figure out WHAT kind of food to get
b) trying to find someone there who has money to PAY for the pizza (usually goes to the guy making $9/hour (e.g. "the rich guy") instead of minimum wage part time like everyone else.
- Trying to herd everyone into the room so that the game can start/continue
oh yes, I'll miss that.
"For a successful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled." -Feynman
So yeah, I think there's some pretty sizable reasons right there.
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
Another few months when the patch comes out and we can all play the most anticipated video game in AD&D history. This is one that I have been looking forward to for years!
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --E. W. Dijkstra
In fact, it might not even _have_ a registration card! Instead, buy it from a known Linux vendor, like Tux Games so that other game companies will get the message that Linux really is a platform worth developing for!
Joy. The worst thing that has happend to gaming is the internet. It used to be that companies would rarely ship a game if it was not bug free. Now, they don't care what shape the game is in, as long as it meets Marketing's street date. They just release a patch.
And to be honest, I didn't even mind when I just had to download a small file to get the game going. Now, the patches are longer, and more frequent. The worst offender that I have purchased was World War 2 On-line. The "patch" was 70 megs, and the game was still unplayable.
I'm really very sick of the whole process now. The game vendors don't seem to have much of a problem asking folks to spend $40 to enter a beta program. My solution is that I won't purchase a game until I hear seriously good word from regular folks. Pity more folks don't take the same attitude; it might increase the quality of that first release.
eric
The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of tyrants. - Albert Camus
This is a surprise. The Linux version was supposed to ship IN THE BOX.
I knew the moment Bioware announced that there would be no Linux tools for NWN that they were playing the penguin community. I pointed the story to my wife and said, "They'll never release a Linux version of this game." She said, "Yeah, but look at the free publicity they're getting from slashdot and linuxgames. Not to mention the pre-orders."
Screw Bioware. I'm not buying this game.
It'd be nice if we could start some sort of mass movement to not put up Linux servers until the Linux client is out. The lack of tools is bad enough - if they want servers, they need to deliver clients.
In fact, if it did that for every game, we might see more Linux ports done in-house. Just a thought.
-Erwos
Plausible conjecture should not be misrepresented as proof positive.
Why? How about being able to play a properly DM'd game even when my local buddies are all otherwise occupied? In my underwear? At any hour? How about, when I care to DM myself, being able to avoid of the tedium of character creation and rolling dice and the minutia of hundreds of rules?
I stopped playing tabletop dungeons because I hated that tedium. Showing up at as friend's house for a game that was supposed to start at noon and no one had even finished rolling their fucking characters by 3pm. No thank you.
All of the benefits and none of the body odor and spilled cheese dip and delays or interruptions.
I honestly can't think of a single DISadvantage.
Neopets - the best free game on the Int
Solution: Buy the game for him as a present :)
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Either (A) Ask some little favor from him related to moving - "I just know those nasty movers are going to kill all my plants" or "break my fine glassware" or "scratch my antique whatchamacallit" - and tell him you'd appreciate him taking care of it so much you'll buy the game for him as "reward". Specifically, you'll run out to buy it while he's unpacking his computer in the basement so that he can play it "right away". Just don't forget the deal when he unpacks the plants/glassware/antique first and his computer second while everthing else sits in boxes
or (B) Buy it and "conviently" arrange for to to wind up at your new house.
or (C) Buy it mail order, shipped to your new address.
I'd really suggest (A), and give him a big smile and peck on the cheek when he agrees to help with your "problem".
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Apparently an announcment on the mac version is forthcoming today. There are rumors both on Bioware's message boards and at Inside Mac Games.
Patience, Grasshopper.