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6/22/2025, 11:47:02 AM
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so i just played about 40 hours of neverwinter nights. i had heard the base campaign was bad and multipler is the real point but i wanted to see for myself. i just started act 3 and decided to stop.
it really is quite bland.
encounters are thoughtless compared to baldur's gate (just spawning 15 of the same mob, instead of nicely balanced mixtures of melee/range/caster/stealthies).
the fact that 90% of every container is locked and/or trapped, means that you spend a ridiculous amount of time waiting for your henchman to unlock/disarm stuff, unless you play a rogue yourself. you can't justify choosing any henchman besides tomi the rogue for the same reason. he has terrible ai and will regularly ignore your orders and instead run off to fight zombies halfway across the map.
loot is all samey, there's a few generic types of item and you just pick the best ones for your class and then upgrade them over time from +1, +2, etc.
dungeons are overly long and filled with masses of the same enemy mob and 400 locked chests that contain 15 gold pieces and vendor trash. by the time i quit i had 400,000 gold, with nothing to spend it on.
the actual combat is fun enough, satisfying to mostly carry the game, but i'd be curious to see how a mage-type would handle the thousands of trash enemies the game throws at you without constantly running out of memorised spells.
main story is fine, side quests are generic, writing is passable, but this is really a dungeon crawler more than anything.
i love the graphics/aesthetic, although the interface is heinous both visually and functionally.
overall my experience was a 6.5/10, mostly frustrating with some occasional moments of greatness, mostly attributed to the little vignette side areas like charwood in act 2.
starting at 3 and walking into the town and seeing the exact same tileset as act 2 just sucked out all desire to continue. i'm gonna switch to pillars of eternity i think, i never beat it when it came out.
so i just played about 40 hours of neverwinter nights. i had heard the base campaign was bad and multipler is the real point but i wanted to see for myself. i just started act 3 and decided to stop.
it really is quite bland.
encounters are thoughtless compared to baldur's gate (just spawning 15 of the same mob, instead of nicely balanced mixtures of melee/range/caster/stealthies).
the fact that 90% of every container is locked and/or trapped, means that you spend a ridiculous amount of time waiting for your henchman to unlock/disarm stuff, unless you play a rogue yourself. you can't justify choosing any henchman besides tomi the rogue for the same reason. he has terrible ai and will regularly ignore your orders and instead run off to fight zombies halfway across the map.
loot is all samey, there's a few generic types of item and you just pick the best ones for your class and then upgrade them over time from +1, +2, etc.
dungeons are overly long and filled with masses of the same enemy mob and 400 locked chests that contain 15 gold pieces and vendor trash. by the time i quit i had 400,000 gold, with nothing to spend it on.
the actual combat is fun enough, satisfying to mostly carry the game, but i'd be curious to see how a mage-type would handle the thousands of trash enemies the game throws at you without constantly running out of memorised spells.
main story is fine, side quests are generic, writing is passable, but this is really a dungeon crawler more than anything.
i love the graphics/aesthetic, although the interface is heinous both visually and functionally.
overall my experience was a 6.5/10, mostly frustrating with some occasional moments of greatness, mostly attributed to the little vignette side areas like charwood in act 2.
starting at 3 and walking into the town and seeing the exact same tileset as act 2 just sucked out all desire to continue. i'm gonna switch to pillars of eternity i think, i never beat it when it came out.
6/21/2025, 2:41:40 PM
almost up to luskan in act 2 in neverwinter nights. game is very comfy
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