Alex Kershaw wrote...
Neverwinter Nights received a 91/100 critic aggregate on metacritic on release, which is the same as Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect, and higher than Jade Empire. You can hardly call that a 'bad' game. Dragon Age II receieved an 82 - by far their lowest score on an RPG.
All that serves to illustrate is how poor of a guide to quality review scores are. Especially review scores for games nearly a decade apart.
I think you'd have to be some kind of crazed screaming DA2-hating fanatic to suggest that NWN's single-player game, which is, for my money, easily the worst thing BioWare have ever released, was "better" than that of DA2. No amount of whining Anders, re-used rooms, or silly teleporting-in enemies could make DA2 as godawful terrible as SP campaign in NWN.
What got NWN high scores was it's potential - the potential of truly epic campaigns being built with it's system. The trouble is, before the expansions, that just never happened, in retrospect, the scores for NWN seem ridiculously high. I mean, they're higher than, for example, Fallout (89/100 aggregate) or Diablo 2 (88/100 aggregate). Really, if NWN was review solely on the actual product, not it's potential, it'd be high-70s at best.
Do you honestly think NWN's single-player campaign was better than bloody Fallout? Because good god, I sure as hell don't. Similarly, if you eliminate niche publications, and only go with publications that were around when NWN came out and still are, DA2 gets a much better score - in the high eighties, last I checked.
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