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neverwinter nights 2

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Neverwinter Nights 2 (DVD-ROM) I'm disappointed in the game because being out so long. Its still full of bugs. Icant get to
chapter 2 because the game crashes during uploading ,and i'cant find a
fix.

Make Sure Your Computer is Up to Par

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was quite a fan of the baldur's gate series and was quite pleased when I saw a lot of the storytelling and control sceme from that series make it's way NW2.

Gameplaywise, pretty good. Controls...eh...camera...bleh..but not bad enough that you can get used to it.

This game is a total resource hog, I have an aging gaming rig, however this game is not doing anything that should require so much bandwidth....They were really lazy with the optimization in my mind....

Overall if your into these kinds of games, have play the BG's and NW1, your going to like this one too....

Oh Yeah!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

What can I say? It's NWN... only bigger and better. My only complaint is the linear world... you can't romp off somewhere you want to go and explore... you have to follow the path set out for you. Other than that, this game is featured proudly among my dozens of favorites.

A step backward

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

NWN2 was released...what, in 2006? Plenty of games through the 90s and early 2000s were achieving things that made it seem that the ultimate RPG was right around the corner. That made it all the more disappointing when this game, with all its hype, failed to deliver. In fact, NWN2 seems to be outdated compared to games we were all playing BEFORE it shipped.

Long load times between zones? Hmmm. Sure was nice when I was playing Dungeonsiege in 2003 with NO load time between zones...in fact...no visible zone boundaries. That was three years before NWN2.

Strong-arm plot tactics where the characters have no options? Where you can't even turn down a henchman? Can't attack friendlies? Can't decide whether you receive a stronghold or not? The developers would have you believe that such strong-arm tactics are the only way to keep the plot on track. Funny...I could SWEAR Baldur's Gate had a plot. It let you do all the above things. How long ago was that? I believe it was last century, right?

Blocky character models with hair clipping the heads? Come ON! I don't even know which old game I should cite for examples of better character models. Maybe all of them. Seriously, this one was unforgivable.

A "moddable" game where adding new content requires hacking data tables? How quaint. Years before NWN2 came out, I was adding new content (new spells, weapons, races, etc.) to other games by whipping up a template, tossing it in a mod folder, and firing up the game. If you are expecting to add new content to NWN2, don't expect it to be as easy as dropping a file in a folder. That was only possible five or six years ago, apparently.

And is there really NO WAY to have anyone except the main PC take the lead in conversations? With all of modern technology at our beck and call, is it really, totally, absolutely, unavoidably, necessary to send the soft, squishy rogue or mage PC to the forefront of every conversation to take the full brunt of the attack when it inevitably turns hostile? Do the laws of physics and computational science really mandate this?

Alas, other games have long since done infinitely better on these counts and many more. The company that finally takes all the good bits from the games of recent years and puts them together - and gives us the game we've been waiting for - will own the world. I have a feeling that, when it happens, it will sadly not have the D&D franchise name associated with it.

Oh I almost forgot - the story line. I see some people liked it, but seriously...a foster child with a mysterious background who turns out to be the chosen one...this doesn't seem a little...familiar?

Waited for patches--Runs very well

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Instead of buying games when they first come out, my gaming group and I wait (sometimes several years) to buy new games to play together. With NWW2, this strategy seems to have paid off well for us. After patching (an hour investment at least), we have played this game co-op over a LAN with little problems. The one time we did struggle to play was due to a conflicting setting that was easy to diagnose and change.

Graphics are beautiful. My computer was built in the winter of 2006, and I play on maxed out settings. I recently went back and played NWN1. The older game is difficult to play now because I am used to being able to adjust my camera in NWN2. If you don't like monkeying with camera angles, then this game probably isn't for you. But if you like a good story, great characters, and interesting dungeon crawls, I highly recommend NWN2.

Best games ever, but

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Dungeons & Dragons role playing computer games are the greatest ever. But unfortunately I found out my video card would not work with the game after I bought it and failed to run it. To bad I will miss out on NWN2.

sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game itself looks awsome from the previews I have seen and I have played the prior released games. But this game is so NOT compatible with my new computer that I would have to pay $[...] more to upgrade a new computer to be able to play. That was a big disappointment itself. Why would anyone make a game that is so uncompatible with computers. It would download, but I could not play the game at all.

Simply Awesome!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

NWN1 brought a lot to the line of Forgotten Realms RPGs, but they really out did themselves this time. NWN2 is amazing! Game play is exactly the same, but with much better graphics, better actors for voices of NPCs and a ton more game play! You really get your money's worth.

The potential was worth the purchase

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played the original Neverwinter Nights from the first week, and it stayed on my hard-drive up till the day NWN2 arrived in the mail. I never played through the original campaign or NWN, but the online play kept me coming back for years. But with NWN2 I am enjoying the campaign very much, and I know that the online REAL roleplaying will make it a very worthwhile purchase as was the last one. Anyone who has ever enjoyed what D&D was all about already knows how good NWN was, and NWN2 is more of the same! My only complaints would be technical, and what it demands from my PC, but knowing the years of gaming it will give me allow me to quickly overlook it.

Neverwinter Nights 2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Not as easy to move char around as in the first game. I miss the 'stone'

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