Atari and Cryptic Head Back to Neverwinter

[Kazinski]

Another Craptic Entertainment fiasco for sure, won't be touching this with a 5 foot pole. I am to this day still glad that Emmerts sold his share of City of Heroes.

 

[ASnogarD]

No thank you, going from Cryptic's Star Trek online.. I fully expect them to sell you the missing classes as DLC, offer you everything from epic items to a pet dragon for a price and basically nickle and dime the living craptic out of you.

 

[ItsAPaul]

Sounds as retarded as the original. I was pissed when I learned there wasn't a party in single player mode, since that means its not a dnd game at all.

 

[lumenadducere]

Arg. While I'm hoping for the best, I don't know if this is going to turn out well, and I'm wary of the increased multiplayer focus. I like me my co-op, but I enjoyed the NWN games for being nice, long, single-player RPGs that I could take my time in and enjoy. And given that Cryptic mostly works on MMOs I'm now concerned that there's going to be additional fees to playing the game.

 

[Shadeovblack]

I am to this day still glad that Emmerts sold his share of City of Heroes.

Praise and Hallelujah!

 

[Jandau]

and even if it's just co-op, I hate co-op...

I weep for the friendless void you live in.

It's not a friendless world, simply one lacking gaming friends. Also, co-op games tend to sacrifice a certain amount of quality to ensure that the game is co-op compliant. Finally, if the game depends heavily on co-op, then playing it single player often means having to rely on retarded AI, since devs have decided that programming AI is a waste of time...

 

[Royas]

Actually, this would work as an MMO. That's pretty much what 4th edition rules are written to be to start with, wouldn't take much adaptation. While I have no interest in 4th edition as a tabletop RPG (actually, that's not strong enough, I hate it), for a computer game it wouldn't be nearly as bad. I guess this will be worthwhile to at least a look in on.

 

[Lord S. Binkleheimer]

Hold up now!
Where are my bards, arcane archers and dragon disciples? D=

 

[Mutak]

Actually, this would work as an MMO. That's pretty much what 4th edition rules are written to be to start with, wouldn't take much adaptation. While I have no interest in 4th edition as a tabletop RPG (actually, that's not strong enough, I hate it), for a computer game it wouldn't be nearly as bad. I guess this will be worthwhile to at least a look in on.

That's pretty much my take on it as well, but Cryptic's trend of putting out half-assed games is what really gives me pause here. Maybe by throwing out the MMO in favor of co-op they will have time to develop a better all-around experience.

 

[Optimystic]

YES! Finally, a 4E CRPG!

For those of you who are not as familiar with 4th edition rules - they were MADE for video games. It's about damn time.

 

[Aeshi]

I really liked the first NWN,didn't buy the second one.Wonder if this will be worth getting?

 

[Xaryn Mar]

Hmmm, doesn't seem like I will buy it. Simply for the reason of it being 4th ed.

 

[Dyp100]

This kinds sound intresting, as long as I can make my Dragonborn Fighter, Barnar, I'll be happy.

 

[LordOrranMargath]

here here, i feel like 4thed is simply a stepping stone to allow more futureistic meathods of play
i have played every ed extensivly and 4th is more of a computer game user manual than an rpg source book
as for this neverwinter co-op game, i will llook at it when it goes live, but not having high hopes, ddo in a new setting? only five classes in a truly customizable character creation process? something just feels like money grap here

 

[Aeshi]

here here, i feel like 4thed is simply a stepping stone to allow more futureistic meathods of play
i have played every ed extensivly and 4th is more of a computer game user manual than an rpg source book
as for this neverwinter co-op game, i will llook at it when it goes live, but not having high hopes, ddo in a new setting? only five classes in a truly customizable character creation process? something just feels like money grap here

You just joined this forum solely so you could Necro a thread that's about a year old?

 

[LordOrranMargath]

lol uhh no, just posted as i read, i rarley look at post dates when i feel like stating an opinion, i just do