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One Step Closer to NWN for Linux
Apostata writes "It's been a long, long road for those of us awaiting the oft-delayed Linux Client of BioWare's NeverWinter Nights, but finally there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. BioWare has put up a Linux Client page which will specifically inform eager beavers on how things are progressing, and it now states a Fall 2002 release." God if only it were true- I could
slaughter the villagers and read my email without rebooting. Gotta make
sure I don't get that backwards.
"God if only it were true- I could slaughter the villagers and read my email without rebooting. Gotta make sure I don't get that backwards."
This from the guy who always tells us that he can't preview quicktime files! Just reboot taco! Reboot and feel the power of the Darkside!
Go over to MacSoft's webpage. They're the guys working on the Mac port.
http://www.wizworks.com/macsoft
Neverwinter is listed as a Summer/Fall 2002 (so probably Fall.. =) including the Toolset! I'm actually going to buy a seperate Mac copy just for the toolset, as it'll be easier for me to find time to work on mods on my iBook (hopefully TiBook by then) than having to sit at my desktop Win/Linux box.
The single player isn't that great, but the multiplayer, and the ability to make your own single player is what NWN is all about. The Bioware included single player adventure is basically a dog and pony show, showing off all the little gizmos you can set up with the toolset. Not much more than that.
I could slaughter the villagers and read my email without rebooting. Gotta make sure I don't get that backwards.
Yeah, it would suck to reboot and read your email without slaughtering innocent villagers.
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The story's not nearly compelling enough to cover for any flaws in the gameplay (as in BG2), and the gameplay's not nearly addictive enough to cover for any deficits in the story (as in IWD). Without that compensating effect, the end product ends up feeling a little tepid. Still fun, but not memorably so.
I wish I could say I just have some irrational bias against NWN, but -- well let's put it this way: The look on my face when I picked up the box at EB was that of a boy who's just decided to sneak the world's cutest stray puppy home from the park. And the look on my face after about 8 hours of playing was that of the same boy, finding out that the puppy just took care of some business in Mom's basket of clean laundry.
"Let's hear it for the Northern hemisphere, the most happenin' hemisphere in the world!..." -simpsons
It might be a lesson for you Americans...
BTW, Bioware is a Canadian company.
why run from Vincenzo?
... 'cause then you'd be... um.... reading your villagers and um.... slaughtering your e-mail... yeah... that makes sense.....
Clearly the intent of the game is to be a kind of nexus where people build worlds and come to.
It's not meant to be a play-once-and-throw-away game, so they didn't put all their eggs in the campaign it shipped with.
Otherwise put: please show me the world builder that accompagnied BG2.
Highlights:
- Entire official AD&D third edition rules support.
- Gorgeous 3d graphics on par with anything else out there. In this alone, it outshines bg2.
- Ships with a fun single player story line.
- The ability to link servers toghether (yes, you and your friend can combine a world toghether on your servers)
- Many different character classes and races.
- Variable story line. WC3, for example, is extremely linear (multiplayer is what makes that game).
- A hugely improved and innovated multiplayer interface and design. It works very well.
- and more... read the box
A con or two:
- gamespy is not, in my experience, well organized for bringing like minded players toghether. This is especially significant for AD&D.
- There doesn't seem to be a way to maintain state between modules. Which means npc characters kind of forget stuff that happened before.
Do not spread "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0" over the internet, thank you.
I don't really like NWN either why do so many people insist that punctuation should be used when writing punctuation is for books and medical publications why doesn't everyone recognize that retarded slashdot posters will never use it since all they can do is giggle like little school girls when they hear the word period
sic transit gloria mundi
Well it appears that the facts prove you wrong.
Only dead fish swim with the stream...