NWN 2

[Valen]

This just in....

NWN 2 is on the way .. ;D

Check it out.. nwvault.ign.com/index2.shtml

[JoScMa]

Interesting, however BioWare is not develping it, so I will have no idea how this sequel will be.

[Makzimia]

Actually, for all intents and purposes, if you read between the lines.. bioware by default, is very much involved in it , nice to have two HUGE irons in the fire at one time for them.

[JoScMa]

Well, I kinda figured that they will still have some involvement.

[Atlantis]

Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah (dances). I guess Dragon Age IS now out of the question to "next PC game to get".

[Aboxorox]

I think NWN2 two will be next on the PC games to buy because it will come out faster. I am looking forward to Dragon Age more than NWN2. Dragon Age will have less restrictions as to what you can put into it and what you can get out of it. Dragon Age is in the begining stages of work but NWN2 although newly anounced has one big Benfit.

It will have the toolset. Dragon Age will have to start from sratch but NWN2 will have the same old toolset, and tilesets.

Dragon Age sounds more promising even with its downsides. I am looking at NWN2 as a scam to get money. The more Expansions NWN makes the smaller the community gets. With NWN2 people will be rejoining the community with the promise of new NWN. What I am seeing is a new expansion. NWN2 will have the same tilesets (possibly edited) and no big great benefits to it. Dragon Age will have a z-axis, I doubt they will put it into NWN2.

I am seeing NWN with all its restrictions, drawbacks, and I am seeing Dragon Age with less restrictions, drawbacks, and more detail. This makes my desicion, Dragon Age is where I go when it comes. NWN is great but with each new game made they get better and better. NWN2 I'm seeing is the same game with a different name. It will reunite the community.

People who lost interest in NWN will come bk at the sight of NWN2. People will see $20 for an item on the informerials and say its too much but when they see $19.99 they see the 19 and not the 20 subconiously telling them to buy it even though it is the same price. People will not come back for an Expansion but will for a sequal.

Will I buy NWN2, definately!
When Dragon Age comes out will I buy it, most definetely!
When I buy Dragon Age will I put NWN on the shelf, unfortunately yes.

NWN is a great game and I love to play it, but at the sight of a game almost like NWN just better I will go for that game. If Dragon Age did not have a toolset would I buy it, probrolly not.

NWN2 is in my future, until DA comes out.

DA is years away, NWN2 could be a year at most because the hard part was made already

I am not meaning to put down a great game or the makers of NWN2 but it is the way I see it. This game is great but I'm always looking for something better and until now was not sucessful. I am looking foward to NWN2 but it is almost invisible in DA's shadow.

-Aboxorox

[W(ie-ei)rdness]

Hopefully both games will enable the prestige classes that are difficult to govern, such as arcane devotees, archmages and other extremely fun classes to play to give some more flair and color to the class system. There isn't really much to say, other than possibly having an "import" feature from a NWN mod into the newer version, making the transition much more popular...

Regardless, I wanna' archmage and shadow weave magic!

[Atlantis]

I really, really doubt they'll just slap the old tool set to the sequel. I think they'll at least improved on it, like the stuff they didn't put in from NWN 1 (cloaks, Z-axis, ... psionics "crosses fingers"). The only reason i'll go get NWN 2 is that I perfer working with the DnD system, especially it'll be built on the 3.5 rules (well it should).


Edit: PLEASE PLEASE PUT IN PSIONICS!!!

[Zhoreb]

It will be a heavily modified toolset. But i'm looking forward to *any* new RPG as long as it isn't Diablo style, or action RPG like those on the XBox.
So there will be Dragon Age AND NWN2. All the better. ;D And there will be at least one other game with the NWN engine and toolset; The witcher.

[Atlantis]

Ummm, from what Ive read, Dragon Age is an action RPG. I might be wrong though :\.

[Phoenix]

[glow=red,2,300]WOOHOO.[/glow]

Dragon age, while nice looking, is NOT DnD.

For that reason alone, I put it into a different class of RPGs, ones I'm not likely to play... There are few exceptions, but I really like the setting for DnD, and I don't want to 'relearn' a new backround, characters, spells, skills, feats, etc. just to play a new RPG...

Dragon Age had me sad, now there is hope. ;D

[Aboxorox]

I don't like that they are putting in a new system either, dont get me wrong. They re s dumb as dumb gets for doing this. Dungeon Siege was cool but definetlly would have been muh better with a D&D setting. Bioware made a huge and utterly stupid mistake there because as I see on every forum they are losing half the community.

But I am not going to judge a game by its system. I am judging a game by what I see are its pro's and con's. I just see more Pro's in DA than NWN2.

And yes they are editing the toolset but as far as I see it will be a tileset system. If the tileset is not as limited at it is in NWN, i.e. a group of possible tiles, but rather something you could edit a bit more, like Dungeon Siege's tileset it would be good. Also NWN made stuff specifially for their game setting, if they make more of what the community needs so there is not so much need for hak packs, I might stick with it.

Maybe it is a bit too new to really choose, but as it goes now there are more pro's on Dragon Ages side.

[MitzaVolchenko]

*yawns*
Am I the only one not even remotely excited about this?

[Naraldur]

MitzaVolchenko said:

*yawns*
Am I the only one not even remotely excited about this?

No.

[serpitus]

I am with Mitz and Naraldur. The grass is(n't) always greener on the other side. If the toolset is better for the creators to use and provides more of the stuff the community wants then WOOHOO for them. Not a developer and I have always been able to get what I want from what is available. So, my opionion... bleh