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NWN - Hordes of the Underdark in Stores

Posted by michael on from the holiday-game-season-now-underway dept.

morcego writes "BioWare has done it again. Another expansion pack for Neverwinter Nights has been released. This time, it's Hordes of the Underdark, in case you haven't been following. Reviews are already available, including it being rated 4.5/5 on GamesDomain. Atari (the publisher) also have a press release about it."

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  1. Note to Linux users! by Cyph · · Score: 5, Informative

    The expansion CD does not have a native Linux installer yet, and the binaries necessary to play this game on Linux haven't been released yet. Their ETA is "early next week", when they release the 1.60 patch for Windows users to get the games in sync. So if you're going to rush out and buy this expansion, don't expect to be able to play it immediately, as it will not work just yet.

    1. Re:Note to Linux users! by Jeff_at_RAD · · Score: 5, Informative

      What spat with RAD? This is completely untrue.

      I love the Bioware guys - they are one of the best developers we get to work with.

      They have never evaluated Bink for Linux and we have never quoted them a price, so there hasn't been anything to disagree about, even if we wanted to.

      And in any case, one Bink license fee (which is way less than six figures), is nothing compared to the amount of money Bioware spends to create the Linux version of their game in the first place (it's pretty cool that they spend all this time and money actually, since the Linux gamer user base is so tiny - even compared to Mac).

      They just put this expansion pack together very very quickly (for all three platforms at once even!), so they didn't have time to integrate any major new stuff yet.

      ->Jeff
      RAD Game Tools

  2. Mac? by Nermal6693 · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's no official Mac version of SoU, but it's possible to install the latest update for original NWN, then copy the SoU data files into it. I wonder whether this will also work for Underdark?

  3. Re:yes! by smeat · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is a camera hack for NWN, but it has not been updated to the latest versions.


    Nwvault camera hack page.


    smeat!

    --
    "Let's not bicker about who killed who." Monty Python
  4. Re:I know this is offtopic but, by Daemongar · · Score: 5, Informative

    Their quality is from, I think, the timing of their first game. The first quality game from Bioware was BG1 - which had the good fortune of being released when there was backlash against poor quality/rushed cRPG's (Daggerfall, Descent to Undermountain, etc.) The attention to quality/immersiveness set them apart from other standard cRPG fare and gave them a market edge.

    The company, Bioware, was actually comprized of doctors in Canada who really enjoyed gaming. I know this because I used to be a regular poster to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg and when Bioware was in it's infancy Dr. Ray Mazurka (one of the founders) used to post all the time with updates to BG and whatnot. Fun guy ;)

    He doesn't post there much now, but Bioware has already established itself. BTW: I just started NWN a week ago and love the damn thing...