#Neverwinter nights 2 mods#

It's at its worst when you're trying to make the party actively run away. But the problem with this is that if you give the computer any control over AI, it's only fine up to a point, in a low-level conflict when you're in an area where precise control is required, your companions are more likely to go running off and deal with a distant foe rather than staying close and working like a party. Agreeably, you have all manner of options you can turn on or off, which alter NPC in precise ways - shall they use their equipment unprompted and so on. The latter's a far more pressing problem in terms of play. The biggest aggravations come from the perennial bugbears of pathfinding and NPCs' artificial intelligence. It doesn't have the mass of bugs that ruined Knights of the Old Republic 2 for many people rather it has areas where some mix of design and technology conspired to render it less than it should be. It's a big game, however you care to define it. For someone whose bookshelves aren't wobbling under the weight of Monster Manuals, it's dizzying too, but in terms of look at all this stuff. What prestige class do you want to be? And on and on and on.

For a Dungeons & Dragons fan the absolute mass of rules crammed into the game is somewhat dizzying. It does all this without significantly losing any of the better points of the original Neverwinter Nights. One of the biggest strengths of Neverwinter Nights 2 is simply the quality of its writing. Smart deconstruction of the fantasy world - enormously funny and enormously cute. Why a monk? Because they're just glorified pub-brawlers, aren't they. The twist is that he's a dwarf who's obsessed with becoming a monk. It's familiar from every classical RPG you've ever played. The tone's set from the first character you meet - a brawling dwarf who enjoys starting fights. Something prismatic, I dare say.Дespite the fact it's dealing with a far more mainstream/clichГ©d fantasy world, Obsidian has managed to craft a memorable supporting cast of NPCs.

Rather than a constrained small environment, it includes a Baldur's-Gate-esque world-map that allows you to travel from locale to locale. Rather than the loneliness of your slightly idiotic henchmen, you're gifted a small party of idiosyncratic partners you get to control directly, equip and generally get familiar with. You know - the Fallout/Baldur's Gate/Planescape Torment/Knight of the Old Republic strain. However, with this new spirit of rigour, it's lucky that Obsidian - whom pals Bioware chose to develop Neverwinter Nights 2 while they go off and do The Things Of The Future - have just made a great fantasy role-playing game.ДЇar more than Neverwinter Nights, this is something that slides easily into this particular lineage of the RPG canon. but only for what it allowed you to play rather than anything in the box. Yes, eventually it was worth buying Neverwinter Nights. Most people with the original didn't do this, as otherwise its fairly rubbishy campaign would have lowered its marks hugely. As great as the tools may be, you don't mark for something that doesn't exist.

#Neverwinter nights 2 mods#

Do you review it just as any old videogame - that is, the adventure in the box - or do you measure the power of the creation tool included into the box, and think about all the mods that'll result from it? Much like reviewing its prequel, Neverwinter Nights 2 offers you a challenge.