If it's so good, how come nobody's porting it to a playable engine? A lot of useless projects out there to port "BG2 to DA engine" (ugh, WHY?), or Fallout 2 to FNV (ugh WHY, do the opposite).
SJWs came at the same time as the video games market expanded. There's not necessarily a correlation you're talking about.
You act like rebuilding an RPG campaign were a trivial matter. It's true that MotB is more of a cult classic, possibly due to it being an expansion or maybe due to the original NWN2 failing to capture as dedicated a fanbase, but the lack of a port isn't a reflection of quality. Licensing aside, consider what other game platforms could accommodate MotB, how much effort would be involved and what advantages and disadvantages they would yield. The Infinity Engine, for instance, is notoriously challenging to develop on. And Dragon Age? All that work just to trade off the ruleset for slightly better visuals and controls?
Why would anyone do that? So you can experience MotB with older graphics and less companion control?
Excuses. Read the guide in my signature and get to work.
Bioware did this to so they could own the IP, rather than share the profits.
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No, I know that, I meant it's not worthwhile for fans to port MotB to the DA platform.
There are aspects of NWN2's camera and character controls that bear legitimate criticism, items that were due more polish and iteration, but they tend to get overstated. It's why I wrote that guide, it's possible to mitigate some of them to the point the game handles tolerably, and there's some genuinely good content on NWN2 that doesn't have to feel like a hassle to experience.
Not the single reason, no. The Electron Toolset is more powerful across the board but, as such, requires more labour for pretty much all of its content, not just exterior spaces. To make matters worse, it's poorly structured and much less ergonomic than its predecessor, and also particularly brittle, there's bits of it that just don't function anymore.
You're unironically posting that the "Codex" is "obsessed with pronouns" after several versions of a talk from an extremely Cancerous looking "Convention" have been posted in this thread sporting a variety of ugly mugs, that has them splattered across the screen for every participant during every moment of the entire duration of the videos? And aside from that someone apparently found the middle part of the background image below so important, they had to prominently embed it on the left half taking away 50% of the screen space from the talking heads. And you're acting like there's nothing strange or weird about any of that at all, it is the most normal thing in the world, just curious happenstance with obviously no meaning behind it, and anyone pointing this out is apparently being "edgy"? All of this only points to the people behind it obviously just deeply caring about narrative games and nothing else.
MotB is pretty good and one of the main reasons why is because of the Planescape-like lore and world building behind it, but personally I liked Neverwinter Nights 2 well enough too. I see them in the context of being top-down Forgotten Realms CRPGs released in 2006/07, 6-7 years after Baldur's Gate II came out with a bit of a dearth of new similar CRPG titles to take up the mantle (aside from a few console ports like KOTOR 1+2 or Jade Empire) and lots of cancelled projects, 3 years after Black Isle Studios went defunct having released shit like Lionheart or Dark Alliance I/II trying to chase that console audience and with Troika's closure inbetween. Storm of Zehir was also utter shit though.
NWN2's camera and controls *are* horrible. Let's not rewrite history here.
Not showing anything because I don't have it installed, but the last time I played a non-evil playthrough I had an issue where Okku the bear would always block part of the camera when playing in third-person mode. And that was only the most dire issue.
What could've possibly possessed you to play NWN2 in Character mode?! Here I am, thinking you're all whining that you can't play NWN2 as comfortably as the Infinity Engine, when what you lot want is Skyrim. Much RPG, very Codex.
What I want is Dragon Age, thank you very much.
Work(s)ed for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Seems to also work well enough from what I can see from first look at Random uTubers:
Only came out 3/2 years later after NWN2/MotB, so its influence was obviously Infinity Engine and not Dragon Age.
For the record, while I agree and I've made the case that NWN2's controls can be dealt with, if I were to make an Enhanced Edition I'd start with these:
He was working on Wrath of the righteous and Dying Light 2 for the last few years, some woman that use pronouns on her twitter bio accused him of rape because he dated her and didnt want to continue the relationship, so he was unceremoniously fired from Dying Light 2 and wasnt fired from Wrath of the righteous because it is a low profile niche project but he became persona non grata for those kinds of pronoun pod people and unfortunately, if the pod people dont like you, you have no employment on bigger projects on the gaming industry, so , no, dont expect any big projects from Avellone, even if he wants, that is what I was saying. Nothing of productive come from pod pronoun people that Avellone surrounded himself with, it isnt an obcession or conspiracy theory, just noticing a trend, just look the kind of "games" types like Zoe Quinn does.
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It didn't even make the top 20 in the 2019 Codex vote, so not really.
rpgs with bad combat don't belong in the top 50
