Game News Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Released

[sstacks]

Is it that obvious???

 

[jdmatson]

Is it that obvious???

I got suspicious when you pretended that playing with people on phones was a good idea. I can see the in-game chat now.

Lord Winterbottom: Hail, traveler. What might thy name be?
Tyballs: Ignore the RP fag. Wanna kill kobolds with us?
Grundel: sure where can I buy helping stop
Grundel: helping pots
Grundel: *helping
Grundel: funky autocorrect

Wait, does the in-game chat support emojis now? They're gonna need that if they want the mobile market.

 

[i.Razor]

I really thought it was just a joke when they announced it. Or coverup for something real (like announcment in PST time - PlaneScape Torment Mod or something). But here we go. I just don't even.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

10 new portraits for just 3 bucks.

There are thousands of better quality portraits for free and there are also free tools that let you make one easily.

What tools? Don't say they are tools than can make BG style portrait out of average photos.

 

[markec]

10 new portraits for just 3 bucks.

There are thousands of better quality portraits for free and there are also free tools that let you make one easily.

What tools? Don't say they are tools than can make BG style portrait out of average photos.

There were several tools on the old vault, some were better some worse. I found this on the new one, don't know how good it is.

https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn1/other/tool/portrait-conversion-tool-v162?qt-recent=0

 

[OSK]

The only good thing I can see here is Linux support. Of course, that was doable all the time using Wine, but hey. At least it is something.

Bioware released a native Linux client back in 2003.

 

[thesheeep]

The only good thing I can see here is Linux support. Of course, that was doable all the time using Wine, but hey. At least it is something.

Bioware released a native Linux client back in 2003.

Aaaand there goes the little bit of respect I had for this

 

[jdmatson]

The only good thing I can see here is Linux support. Of course, that was doable all the time using Wine, but hey. At least it is something.

Bioware released a native Linux client back in 2003.

Aaaand there goes the little bit of respect I had for this

Yeah, right now it's pretty underwhelming and definitely not worth $20. But if they keep working on it and it goes on sale it might eventually be worth picking up.

 

[Goral]

I respected Beamdog for what they did with Siege of Dragonspear because at least they tried to make something of their own, instead of trading on past glories.

What? They've made a mod for Baldur's Gate and you're saying they've tried to make something of their own? lol

 

[Tolias]

This release is absolutely loltastic. ZERO new content. I mean for fuck's sake, at least slap some new prestige classes in there.

Steam reviews are blasting the game for introducing new bugs(!) and in some cases actually making graphic effects worse.

The "mod tools" thing I really can't comment on.

But what takes the cake is this quote from March 23rd in https://techraptor.net/content/beamdog-trent-oster-neverwinter-nights-enhanced-edition

"Our upcoming launch on Steam is really the tip of the iceberg in terms of new features, content, and support for the game. In some ways we view [NWN: EE] as more of a platform than a game and the potential of that platform is huge."

which translates to:

"Give us money NOW! And you'll get TONS of shit in the future."

Presumably, they will gift each buyer with a complimentary bottle of snake oil (shipping for just 19.99$)

 

[thesheeep]

According to the number of Steam reviews on this, I'd wager it is quite the success:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/704450/Neverwinter_Nights_Enhanced_Edition/

Spoiler

Exactly 0 reviews 4 days after release

Edit: Nvm, probably just some Steam hickup. Now there are reviews.

 

[Bocian]

Interesting, last time I've checked there were about ~170 reviews (50+ negative).

 

[thesheeep]

Now I checked the link again and there are 180.
Probably just some Steam bug. Nothing to see, move along.

I'm not too surprised that the game still has 71% percent. Most people are fairly stupid and easily forgive or don't even detect low-effort products.
The positive reviews just state that this is a good game - so again they're mostly making a living off other people's work. A few also mention the workshop support.

What a weird thing...

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Now I checked the link again and there are 180.

There're actually 277 reviews on this thing, even though the review counter only accepts reviews from users who bought it on Steam. 219 positive and 58 negative.

 

[ushas]

The only good thing I can see here is Linux support. Of course, that was doable all the time using Wine, but hey. At least it is something.

Bioware released a native Linux client back in 2003.

Aaaand there goes the little bit of respect I had for this

Yup, I remember running it natively. At the time it was quite rare. But afterwards the linux support was dropped for nwn2. As for the toolset - was able to run it too. In case it's win only then it ought to be functional under wine.

 

[existential_vacuum]

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