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[Kossith123]

*For the title, this goes for either game you found out about first.

 

So when I was a kid (this was 10 years ago), I was around 9 years old. When I had some money, no doubt from xmas/birthday (close together), I would go to town and find a game.

 

NwN1 was on the shelf, and I was looking for a fantasy game, which is the genre I love.

 

NwN1's back case showed magic, and an amazing art piece of a dragon lol I was automatically hooked.

 

Along with this, I bought Monster Hunter 2 (for ps2) and of course nwn1 was for pc.

 

When I got home, I installed NwN1 and started the campaign. I was really disappointed in it, due to it being a crap load of conversations and no action. And when there was action, it was slightly boring imo. So I just jumped on to Monster Hunter 2 lol

 

Was probable a few months later I tried it again, but I saw a lotr server on the multiplayer, and fell in love with it.

 

I loved exploring the places I knew of, for example, Bree, and I learnt more about the game.

 

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So my question to you guys is, how did you find out about Neverwinter Nights 1? (or 2, if that's the game you found out first).

[kamal_]

It was advertised in Baldurs Gate 1, by an npc met walking along the main road near the beginning of the game (road south of Friendly Arm Inn). I forget his exact conversation lines but they gave him a shifting bright color pallette to make him stand out more.

[Luminus]

NwN1 was the first PC RPG I ever played fortunately or not. But I didn't have a choice, since I got a PC in highschool.

I would say about 10 or 9 years ago I got a PC and my cousin was much more into PC games and RPGs but we both started with consoles and he basically gave me the big push with video games.
He's also some years older than me.

So I got a PC and I was still figuring stuff out. Then my cousin told me that he was playing NwN1 and how it's the best RPG ever. I was curious about it and he gave it to me.

I didn't even have a graphics card back then. I was playing it on the Fast settings and it was still choppy.
I had no idea what I was doing, I think I rolled a Human Cleric but had no idea how to play him or what the stats should be so he was default in everything.

I also think I got my first graphics card just to play Hordes of the Underdark and the difference was huge.
It took me like three months to figure out how the rules work and get a good hang of them.
I had no idea about DnD and it was my first DnD game as well. So imagine the truckloads of stuff I had to learn from scratch.

Then I got into the modules and NwN2 as well as the Infinity Engine games and PnP DnD, so the rest is history.

[PJ156]

I saw the advert in the back of the BGII walk through book but did not buy it till after I played IWD I and II.

 

When I did get it I saw the intro video and was in awe. Then I played the game and I wasn't so much.

 

I did think it was really cool though and played it twice through before going into the tools to try it out for myself. That did not go so well but by then NWN2 was starting to be pre reviewed in the magazines.

 

I waited on it and I have not looked back. The only other games to keep me away consistently from these two titles was the early total war games and Caesar III. That is still true today.

 

PJ

[Dann-J]

It was advertised in Baldurs Gate 1, by an npc met walking along the main road near the beginning of the game (road south of Friendly Arm Inn). I forget his exact conversation lines but they gave him a shifting bright color pallette to make him stand out more.

 

That was when I first heard about it as well. I believe he said something about being on his way to Neverwinter, which he predicted would be a popular place in the near future.

 

I started playing D&D based games via the Baldur's Gate series, which lead me to the Icewind Dale games, and eventually to NWN. I remember how amazing NWN seemed with its 3D models and movable camera! Of course these days NWN models just look plain awful when you compare them to more recent games, but it was quite impressive for its time.

 

I felt the same about NWN2 when I first played it. The models and animations were much better than NWN, characters' lips actually moved during conversations, and you really noticed the subtle details created by normal maps (like the veins on the side of Khelgar's head during cutscene close-ups). Then along came The Witcher, and NWN2 suddenly looked crap by comparison.

[Tchos]

I can't remember where I first heard of it.  I already knew about it before I encountered that NPC that my mate Kamal mentions, who spoke of the nights in Neverwinter.  Unfortunately I was tired of lone-hero type games, and so I abandoned NWN1 quickly after trying it, and didn't even look at NWN2 until after playing Dragon Age: Origins, Drakensang: The Dark Eye, Arcanum, Baldur's Gate 1, and Icewind Dale 1.  Then, in 2011, at the end of my last module for Dragon Age: Origins, I chanced upon a video on Youtube that showed that NWN2 has the same kind of fully-controllable party as in most of those other games I mentioned.  So I seized upon NWN2, and have been enjoying it ever since.

[kevL]

fed up with EverQuest, it became overpopulated by campers & farmers, when a couple of friends that I played with suggested NwN. It was getting rave reviews so I jumped on it, expecting those who'd suggested it would come along; we'd all played DnD since the late-seventies. hoped to play multiplayer with them But things fell through so I learned to script and went oh wow.

high fantasy sends a shiver down my spine

I never bought any expansions to the first game because there was so much to do with just the OC. Then after hearing about NwN2 but not having a computer that could run it, I walked into a video store one day and there it was on the used shelf ....


ofc i left out a huge amount of details here,

[rjshae]

It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I bought in on NWN fairly early with the understanding that it was the evolutionary successor to the IE series, which in turn had superseded the old goldbox games. Right off the bat I didn't like the way it handled party management or the camera controls. But it was a decent enough game for its time, and I finished it up through SoU. I lost interest part way into HotU, which is probably a shame since that seems to be the best of the lot.

[darkling lithely]

I'd never been much of a gamer, but when I was a kid I played basic & expert D&D and 1st edition AD&D.  A friend had Pool of Radiance for Commodore 64, and I enjoyed that.  For years I thought it would be cool if I could play a true to the rules D&D adventure on a computer, but I never sought it out.  Then about 9 years ago I was in B--t B-y and happened upon NWN while looking for anti-virus software.  I bought the game and was hooked.

 

Sadly, it is hard to find the time to ever play anymore, but I still visit the forums occasionally.

[metatheurgist]

I was a rabid consumer of D&D RPGs, all the way back to the Gold Box days.

[Jfoxtail]

Heard the hype through Baldur's Gate Series like most here. Ironically never played the IWD series till recently when I bought my "third copy" of NWN1 / "second copy" of NWN2 thru D&D complete.

 

What really made it for me was NWN1 ; co-op play with my D&D university buddies scattered across the Nation. Bought it, advised them to buy it, played it. Rotated some DM campaigns based on PnP community mods. We drifted apart again over time. Played Neverwinter Nights connections. Played a few PWs. Played hundreds of single player mods.

 

Got involved in promoting some under appreciated community mods which frankly were fabulous artistic endeavors. I cannot say enough about the community authors (both games).

 

At one time my NWN folder fully used up an 8 Gig memory stick (back up). CEP, CTP, Q, community mods, back up override folders (OMB Henchmen, TonyK AI, the kid with the bit map bump), duplicate community mods where I fiddled with the Me66 Henchmen scripts and added generic hench men to PnP community mods, etc etc

 

Ironically bought the NWN2 game off the shelf but my desktop at the time couldn't handle it. Graphics were too much for the vid card. It was also very buggy at launch. Drifted away into real life.

 

Picked it up again a couple few years back with the complete collection. New box handled it fabulously. Downloaded a bunch of community mods and re-instated my old NWN folder from back up.

 

Now I dabble in both games as I have free time replaying the 'best of the best mods' with different role play builds. The OCs are fine in both games but the community authors really make these games incredible. There is so many ways to play these same campaigns over depending upon alignment, character class, and even the companions you choose, how you treat them (in both games).

[GCoyote]

As above, I first encountered PnP D&D in the late '70 kept at it through the 2d Ed. rules. I'd played the Gold Box series and Troika's version of "The Temple of Elemental Evil". Then real life got too busy for gaming. I was in a big box store and just saw the NWN Diamond Edition on the shelves. I played all of the OEM games at least a couple of times and a few community modules as well before real life once again intervened. Based on experience, I didn't get NWN2 until the Gold edition so the bug finders could do their work.  (thank you gentlemen  ). [Lesson I picked up from an old Army pilot, 'never fly the A-model, that's what test pilots get paid for'.]

 

Like others, I prefer party based play and NWN2 gave me just what I was looking for. 

[Naeryna]

My brother hear it from his friend and install the game on shared computer. I usually wanted to read and play what he is reading and playing, but I don't think that's true anymore.