I recorded a video on Neverwinter Nights for Retro Select this week. I just fancied revisiting it — or more accurately, giving the Enhanced Edition from a couple of years back a go. And I've been enjoying it a lot — particularly exploring some of the including Premium modules.
I'm currently working my way through one called ShadowGuard, which seems to be an interesting tale of treachery and ancient mysteries, and the nice thing is that it's all nicely self-contained, promising to wrap up in just a few hours.
This is an oft-forgotten thing about Neverwinter Nights; the very nature of it means that it's possible to play and enjoy a full adventure in a matter of hours rather than having to commit every waking moment to it over the long term. This makes it that rare thing: the RPG that is eminently suitable for the busy person. I bet even the most boring of my child-rearing friends could probably be convinced to play through a module or two if it's only a couple of hours' commitment.
Anyway. Neverwinter Nights provides, among other things, a fond reminder of when BioWare were actually good. It's also nice to play a classic D&D game once again — it's been a while, other than my recent Dungeon Hack video. And whatever you might think about D&D as a ruleset, it sure played host to some absolutely cracking video games over the years, for sure.
So yeah. Neverwinter Nights. It's a good. If you don't already own it, you just missed out on a nice sale price over on GOG.com — but even at "full" price it's only fifteen quid, which is an absolute bargain for how much game you get. Give it a shot if you've never tried it for yourself — if nothing else, it plays host to probably Jeremy Soule's finest work of all time.
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