Recommend Me Some Old Games
- Thread starter UniversalWolf
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^ A correction to that if I may, I'd say it's perfectly safe to skip the original campaign of NWN since it's fairly boring.
D.D. is cool for the writing and inventory management, but gameplay might not be for everyone (I was okay with it, but hear many people don't like it).
D.D. is cool for the writing and inventory management, but gameplay might not be for everyone (I was okay with it, but hear many people don't like it).
Black Feather
Mildly Dipped
Ausdoerrt said:
Yes the main campaign was crap but the addons are quite cool. Hordes of the Underdark even awesome if you like the Drow/Underdark/Planescape setting.
Black Feather said:
It always amazes me how inept studios can be with a game design or story, and how the average dude in the street, with a little time and passion, can out do them. Imagine how quickly those game would have died if they weren't designed to be modded - Morrowind and NWN are perfect examples of this.
They said that to me too many times already, that the SoU is awesome. I played only the original campaign back when it was out. But that's why I pointed out to Diamond version, most up to date and has all the classes available as well as expansions for a fairly miserable price, compared to DLC of many games today.
I got NWN a few years back as a present with the expansions, played through the original campaign, found most of the plotting and voice acting horrendously bad but the gameplay OK since I was very interested in D&D3 at the time. Then I immediately created a new character to start the first expansion and went through the opening battle and basic exposition. But there was something, not sure what, that made me leave it there and never go back.
RogerMaxson37
It Wandered In From the Wastes
UniversalWolf said:
Stood the test of time, been around for years, and still have an active cult of devotees?
Although if that's a little too old, then I can recommend some games:
JRPG - Chrono Trigger
RTS - Starcraft
TBS - Medieval: Total War, the Old Civilisation games
valcik
So Old I'm Losing Radiation Signs
Yes, it's a great game. Still there is not a single player mode included, only a hot-seat multiplayer sessions are available.RogerMaxson37 said:Stood the test of time, been around for years, and still have an active cult of devotees?
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UniversalWolf
eaten by a grue.
Hmm...you guys are trying to get me started on a NWN rant again. I won't do it! I won't!Per said:
Suffice it to say there are a handful of user-made modules I think are brilliant, but I can't bring myself to replay them because the ugly, clunky, intolerable experience of interacting with NWN makes me want to ram a piston rod through my skull.
Already have that one. Checkers too.RogerMaxson37 said:
PainlessDocM
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
valcik said:Yes, it's a great game. Still there is not a single player mode included, only a hot-seat multiplayer sessions are available.
You could buy one of those fancy mechanical Turks (leprechaun not included) or invest some dollars in one of those new IBM personal computer thingies.
Black Feather
Mildly Dipped
My problem with nwn was that it was just plain ugly, the creatures and races only loosely resembled their PnP counterparts (whereas the NWN2 team beautifully modelled their creatures after the monster handbook)
And i really have to say it, Bioware is just an expert in creating Characters that don't fit the lore/canon of the Forgotten Realms. Studying Sorcerers, elven Druids with Human Gods, and so on...
And i really have to say it, Bioware is just an expert in creating Characters that don't fit the lore/canon of the Forgotten Realms. Studying Sorcerers, elven Druids with Human Gods, and so on...
NWN was only loosely based on DnD, but made sense overall, so I didn't have a huge problem with that. I can always play TOEE if I need my fill of DnD RAW (the only CRPG that really stuck to it afaik).
NWN2 may have looked better graphically and was a tad more true to DnD, but the story wasn't really as good, and the overall quality of the product was inferior. Say what you want about NWN1, but it was a solid game, while NWN2 was a buggy mess with huge balance issues. NWN2 OC was definitely superior to NWN1 OC, but was still embarrassingly bad overall, especially the ending. MoTB was enjoyable, but I can say safely that I've had more fun with NWN1 SoTU/HoUD. NWN2 SoZ was pretty much useless for all purposes but new modding options.
NWN2 may have looked better graphically and was a tad more true to DnD, but the story wasn't really as good, and the overall quality of the product was inferior. Say what you want about NWN1, but it was a solid game, while NWN2 was a buggy mess with huge balance issues. NWN2 OC was definitely superior to NWN1 OC, but was still embarrassingly bad overall, especially the ending. MoTB was enjoyable, but I can say safely that I've had more fun with NWN1 SoTU/HoUD. NWN2 SoZ was pretty much useless for all purposes but new modding options.
Alphadrop
A right proper chap.
What about Mysteries of Westagate... the NWN 2 expansion everyone forgets about.
valcik
So Old I'm Losing Radiation Signs
PainlessDocM said:
There is another tip: Heroes of Might and Magic III (not sure if there is an active modding community related)
Black Feather
Mildly Dipped
Ausdoerrt said:
Yeah, MotB was one of those rare gems... everything after couldn't compare to it.