8th April 2013, 11:07 AM
I've heard Mysteries of Westgate just isn't that good. The main campaign and the first expansion are the only campaigns with teeth, I'm hearing. Fact is, I couldn't really stomach the storyline of the original Neverwinter. I played that game primarily for the custom campaigns others built. I really don't care one bit about a rampant kobold attack on a local village. I think kobolds are about the laziest monsters ever devised actually. I hate them. I don't even want to kill them, I hate them that much. I have NEVER read or played a single story involving kobolds that was in any way interesting. Just about any time a kobold den rears its ugly head in a storyline campaign, the whole story just grinds to a hault until I've put down the last dumb dog man, then I can finally get back to saving the kingdom or whatever.
It doesn't help that every single time someone has tried to get me into D&D on pen and paper, I end up fighting some camp of kobolds for an hour. I just don't CARE! Give me some character development, or something.
It would be another thing if the actual characters in the main campaign were in any way interesting, but they aren't. The main campaigns for Neverwinter Nights 1 are about as dry and "by the numbers" as it can possibly get, as though it was written entirely by check list. Fortunately, Bioware got better. It is also fortunate that Neverwinter 2 was made by Obsidian instead.
It doesn't help that every single time someone has tried to get me into D&D on pen and paper, I end up fighting some camp of kobolds for an hour. I just don't CARE! Give me some character development, or something.
It would be another thing if the actual characters in the main campaign were in any way interesting, but they aren't. The main campaigns for Neverwinter Nights 1 are about as dry and "by the numbers" as it can possibly get, as though it was written entirely by check list. Fortunately, Bioware got better. It is also fortunate that Neverwinter 2 was made by Obsidian instead.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)