Slashdot Mirror
Shadows of Undrentide Interview
GameSpy has a new Q&A up with Trent Oster and Darcy Pajak, the producer/project director and assistant producer of Shadows of Undrentide, the upcoming expansion to Neverwinter Nights. The new features of SoU, which we first mentioned a while back are touched on, including a more engrossing plot, prestige classes, new tilesets (snow! finally!), new feats, henchman inventory control, and more.
That is some nasty page-widening HTML.
Can we say "browser testing"?
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
I can't believe I am still playing as much Neverwinter Nights as I am. Between some great user mods and a pretty good multiplayer experience I haven't bought an RPG since. The additions SoU make are pretty well-timed for me....
What a great job Bioware has done these last few years. NWN has given me a lot of bang for my buck but I still think the Baldur's Gate series was more enjoyable overall. In a day and age where most $50 games take 20 hours to finish, these games have given me years of enjoyment.
Yep, with SoU (and technically with the normal 1.30 patch for regular NWN) we're going to get persistent data storage. Just the thing for an online world to be more and more MUDlike, or for a single player campaign to store data inbetween modules -- lord knows I could've used that with Penultima, instead of the cheap inventory hacks I did...
NWN has been growing and maturing ever since release. If anybody gave up on it because of the fairly weak single player campaign it shipped with, you may want another look -- a 'game' like this lives or dies by its community, and the community's living quite well. Even if all you want is singleplayer, that's provided for by the community... and SoU looks like it'll have a good SP experience too.
(Yes, the Linux and Max clients aren't fully prepared yet, and no, they didn't ship with the box. But the game is still one of the most complete community development driven RPG experiences you will ever find.)