Neverwinter: Three Men and a Dungeon Crawl
During this week's E3 convention, Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios pulled out all the stops to show off Neverwinter. We got our hands on the game and have a terrific first-hand report about how Neverwinter is shaping up. Read on!
During PAX East this year, we found ourselves completely blown away by Cryptic’s Neverwinter. I don’t think I’m being a jerk when I say no one really expected the game to be something that had us all here at the site salivating for more. But it did. During the course of our interview at Boston’s game convention, we all turned to each other at one point and pretty much decided then and there that we would make it our Game of Show. Now E3 comes along and the well-kept secret that Cryptic’s next MMO is actually one of the best looking titles on the horizon is starting to be unleashed. Garrett, a few others, and myself sat down to play through a portion of one of the game’s many dungeon-delves. I personally picked up the Trickster Rogue, and enjoyed every stabbity-stabbing minute of the experience.
Read more of Garrett Fuller's and Bill Murphy's Neverwinter: Three Men and a Dungeon Crawl.
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I want to try this game. :3
I saw the gameplay at E3, the combat looked really fun.
Its nothing like Neverwinter Nights though, which is a shame.
Purely good combat does not satisfy me, then again if its F2P...
I'll play the free content with some mates but it would have to be incredibly and insanely great to ever get me to give one nickle of my money to the sorry management at Cryptic. I truely feel sorry for the guys who work there. Its a lot like Goonswarm, once you start there, no one else wants you. Just ask the last two lead designers...
Let's face it the D&D ruleset does not lend itself well to MMO's. Since that is the basic design of this game, I don't think they can make it a hit no matter what else they do. I wish them well, but they have to be really brilliant with their design to surmount that major handicap.
Eh?
...have you played 4e?
It's like someone took the old ruleset and said "lets make it play more like world of warcraft".
I'm very much so looking forward to this game. I've been playing the D&D computer games since the days of Baldur's Gate, so hopefully this will continue the good trend.
I'm sure this has been mentioned or maybe not, but will this game have any relation to Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2 story wise? If so, I'm playing through them again. lol.
I believe it's set some years after NWN2, so I doubt it'll follow them storywise. However i'm sure it'll contain enough of the Neverwinter lore which should be good enough....Hopefully The Foundry will have good tools for user created content......because Neverwinter's very concept since introduced was providing players the ability to create their own storylines..
Well the druid class is gone and so am i.. =P
Not sure how it will stack up against the old guy on the bloc, though, will it lure people away from DDO with is new shiney looks and more true FR connection. Or will it be another Cryptic shot in the dark and hope to hit that we saw with champions and star trek.
Believe it or not, that's why i am now kinda looking foward to this game. 4e was a great board game/ great mmo game and makes for a decent ruleset for an MMO. I like to think that 4e was research for this game.
i agree with the people above who comment that ed4 is more like a MMO than a pencil and paper RPG. as far as pencil and paper goes, i cant stand ed4 but as a computer game i am looking forward to the game. It will fly a lot better as MMO than ed3.5 did with DDO.