Comments on: From The Vault: Maugeter NWN Mod Complete

By: Inayity

Inayity — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:21:55 +0000

As far as I am concerned, if you view NWN as just the campaigns that come with the game you’re missing more than 99% of what Neverwinter Nights is capable of. That’s no hyperbole.

Whether its the thousands of user-created modules, incredible content packs like CEP 2.2, game-expanding packs like the PRC (which gives you over 100 fully-fleshed-out Prestige Classes), the Online Experience (which provides every possible spectrum of gameplay- from Fearun to Grayhawk to Modern D20 to hardcore BDSM adult erotic servers) or the NWN Toolset which allows you to make your own worlds, on stories, own servers it’s got something for everyone.

And it retails for $20, no monthly charge or anything else wacky like that.

Best RPG deal. Ever.

By: Zoop

Zoop — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:50:02 +0000

Its better than NWN 2 which happens to be plagued with problems after problems, simply put the game has been broken since its release. Doesn’t work right all saves eventually crash the game, the story has to be the worst piece of crap ever to spark an rpg. I have seen worse rpg’s but this takes the cake, just plain avoid NWN2 and its expansions don’t believe me look at their forum for a list of unresolved problems. The editor for NWN2 is BS Obsidian claims its the same stuff they used to create the game, I doubt that very much its full of holes, memory leaks and incomplete or non working assets.

By: Tangotango

Tangotango — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:06:37 +0000

Really glad to hear that this has been released; I remember playing the demo a million years ago and enjoying it hugely. If I were ever a developer of RPGs I’d probably steal a load of ideas from it, which I guess is a compliment.

By: Jaxtrasi

Jaxtrasi — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:18:01 +0000

Good news! In the version I’m working on at the moment (1.0.2), Joranj, Hat Stand, Whykaytee and Lucian nee Hans have been restored to their former glory. Sort of.

By: Jonathan Strange

Jonathan Strange — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:02:43 +0000

Good timing, I was just finishing up a campaign from another NWN mod and wondering what mod to download and give a try next when I spotted this topic. Already downloaded and installed.

On a related note I’ve been trying to put together my own mod for NWN2 for awhile now but frankly just don’t think I have the patience for it. I’m tempted to simply push it aside for now, not because the NWN2 editor is bad by any means, but simply because I’ve not the patience to create all the areas I’d want to when there are just so many little details involved with the much more complex areas possible with the second games engine. Creating a beautiful outdoor area? Grand, helps set the mood. But it’s also *hard*.

I salute those with more patience than I who actually manage to finish mods once they’ve started them!

By: SofS

SofS — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:31:43 +0000

NWN1 remains mostly associated with good memories for me due to basically one thing: Adam Miller’s modules. The Shadowlords campaign was quite good, the Dreamcatcher campaign was jawdropping the first time through, and Demon probably took that toolkit to its limits in some ways. I’ll have to dig up NWN from somewhere to give this a shot.

By: Jaxtrasi

Jaxtrasi — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:43:47 +0000

The NWN1 OC is an awful single player module.

In multiplayer, bizarrely, it works really well. We found that in multiplayer you don’t have time for plot or cleverness, and what you really need is a module that doesn’t break. I’m proud of Maugeter’s standard of polish, but by comparison the NWN OC is unbreakable. When one of your friends thinks it’s funny to fireball NPCs and another one is doing his best to break the module by using his familiar to push himself through a plot door, you really need something that solid.

So. Not saying it’s that much good use of your time, but if the idea of 4-6 player co-op D&D appeals, you could do a lot worse than NWN’s OC. Everything that makes it bad in single player makes it alright multiplayer. Well, everything except the dragging on a bit, but who ever finished a multiplayer coop game?

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:12:36 +0000

Comparing the NWN2 OC to the NWN1 OC is to do a grave and dramatic disservice to the NWN2 OC. NWN2′s campaign is by no means as good as Mask of the Betrayer’s or many of the better NWN1 fan modules, but I found it quite enjoyable with some nice touches here and there. NWN1′s OC (which, to my shame, I finished) was -awful-. One of the worst RPG campaigns I have ever played. Absolutely mindless writing, no choices of consequence, incredibly dull main plot that was essentially one rendition of find/kill these three or four foozles after another…yeugh.

By: pharm

pharm — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:45:59 +0000

I think that’s what I meant too :)

Hmm. The triple pack is a whole 7 quid on Amazon.

By: caesarbear

caesarbear — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:50:50 +0000

You mean NWN was worth playing? I barely got past the Intro before giving up in disgust. Really didn’t grab me at all.

No, that’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying skip the campaign. Go to the NWVault and get the real point of NWN.

By: pharm

pharm — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:38:45 +0000

caesarbear: You mean NWN was worth playing? I barely got past the Intro before giving up in disgust. Really didn’t grab me at all.

By: caesarbear

caesarbear — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:27:14 +0000

Those who just played the official campaign, completely missed out on NWN. I’ll go copy-paste my nwn primer in the forums, for those who want to learn more.

And no, Dragon Age will not have a module design toolset like NWN. Modifying Dragon Age will be like modding any other RPG, like Oblivion. The NWN games are a completely different kind of toolset, designed so that anyone can build their own unique adventure. Anyone with enough commitment and perseverance that is. Well done Jaxtrasi.