[Neverwinter] is coming.

TheLawinator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D_Uzka-2Mz8#!

The world of Faerun comes alive and blah blah blah it's an mmo!

Classes

Guardian Fighter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=B0_wnyPspNE#!

Devoted Cleric

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cVER5rZy-Zs

Trickster Rogue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TGbGltNr8lo

Control Wizard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fekypen93OY#!

Great Weapon Fighter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_PWA1unaRCo

One of the cooler things about this game is the Foundry, a suite of tools for players to create dungeons, encounters, or entire campaigns for other players to use.

Neverwinter's open beta starts on the 30th, and will be a soft launch of the game.

I'll add more details and player names/info when things kick off.

Mind Flayer is the server for cool dudes.

Uriel

I played in a stress test of this.

It seemed fun but I bet it would be better with other people.

UnbrokenEva

I'm tempted, but only for the Foundry

I can easily see myself using that exclusively and never actually playing the game, unless it's to test my modules

Druhim

I'd be interested if it wasn't an mmo.

Scudo

I'm an mmo junkie and I've liked Cryptic's stuff in the past. I also really like Forgotten Realms setting.

yall can hit me up at xxdrizzt69xx in this

B_R

Another franchise nobody cares about anymore gets turned into an MMO

TheLawinator

Dungeons and Dragons? Forgotten Realms? Neverwinter was pretty well liked.

Big Red Tie

i will totes play this

Solar

yeah man I dunno that Forgotten Realms is a franchise no-one cares about

BG2 was kind of a big deal

Scooter

I really liked NWN2, but I really doubt Cryptic's creative chops. The writing in Champions was pretty abysmal, and the bit of this I played in beta seemed incredibly generic MMO.

Arang

NWN1 was pretty great online in itself, probably 100% due to its awesome campaign editor

if the foundry is good and it isn't stupid in any other ways you could very well find some friends, make some dungeons and just ignore whatever the actual game brings to the table

scarlet blvd.

awwwww I was kinda stoked to see what was up with this
but an mmo?
see ya

godmode

I will check tis game out eventually

Doobh

Druhim wrote: »

I'd be interested if it wasn't an mmo.

Which is also how I look at TOR

Scooter

Dubh wrote: »

Druhim wrote: »

I'd be interested if it wasn't an mmo.

Which is also how I look at TOR

TOR is great up until the endgame

Which is pretty much how I feel about all MMOs now that CoH is gone, or the ones that don't suck right from level 1 anyways

BYToady

Their new skill system is laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame.

Shorty

I'll probably give this a shot but who knows when I'll have the time

Orikaeshigitae

i'm in it for the mods. the original NWN had mods that were better-written than anything i've seen since.

interrobang

this is free to play right

Abracadaniel

I am cautiously optimistic about this

it was fun to play at their booth at PAXEast, anyway!

BYToady

Free to play, free to download, you can install it now, but can't play until the 30th unless you've dropped some lettuce on the 60 dollar or 200 dollar tier packages.

BYToady

And they're in "open beta" but you can totally buy things from the real money shop, and they're not going to wipe characters anymore.

Which is about as released as a free to play game can be.

Bucketman

I'm going to give this a shot. Its free and I love Neverwinter as a setting. Though the class options are a little skimpy.

Melding

I will be be playing a helf cleric until a better wizard happens. You are all welcome hsng out with me.

Metzger Meister

i've been telling my boyfriend that he needs to play neverwinter 1 and 2, maybe the mmo will get him interested. he's a huge mmo fiend.

Hunter

Bucketman wrote: »

I'm going to give this a shot. Its free and I love Neverwinter as a setting. Though the class options are a little skimpy.

Seriously. I love playing an archer type and I'm surprised they didn't make some type of arrow slinging class.

Metzger Meister

Hunter wrote: »

Bucketman wrote: »

I'm going to give this a shot. Its free and I love Neverwinter as a setting. Though the class options are a little skimpy.

Seriously. I love playing an archer type and I'm surprised they didn't make some type of arrow slinging class.

I would imagine that'll come with the inevitable expansion.

Also, can I say that I feel like five classes is just a little light?

BYToady

See that's where them saying it is an "open beta" comes in, cause now anyone that wants to stand up for the game can just use the "well it is only in beta phase right now" argument.

Melding

Once the game goes live a new race wil be playable within two month of actiual release and classes are said to coming as quickly

Tox

So, I have a ps2, and my girlfriend and I have been playing games together. We've played through both X-Men Legends, and Marvel Ultimate Alliance (I'm looking for MUA2, that's next on our list).

Once we finish that one, what other games are there that are 2 player co-op and have a good story? I know there's at least one or two D&D themed games.

Obviously ps2 games only...

Sterica

Scooter wrote: »

I really liked NWN2, but I really doubt Cryptic's creative chops. The writing in Champions was pretty abysmal, and the bit of this I played in beta seemed incredibly generic MMO.

I dunno, City of Heroes had decent writing, though I dunno exactly how Cryptic split when they left to work on Champions and Paragon took over CoH.

Scooter

Rorus Raz wrote: »

Scooter wrote: »

I really liked NWN2, but I really doubt Cryptic's creative chops. The writing in Champions was pretty abysmal, and the bit of this I played in beta seemed incredibly generic MMO.

I dunno, City of Heroes had decent writing, though I dunno exactly how Cryptic split when they left to work on Champions and Paragon took over CoH.

Cryptic got none of CoH's writing. The early stuff was Manticore who left before the split.

Depressperado

I played this for a little while and uh,

this game was kind of a huge disappointment for me

it's like, all the worst parts of cryptic's MO, a crappier version of DDO's combat? no fanks

TheLawinator

Yea, they're doing some kinda ranged archer class next. With the way they have classes set up they actually have a lot of room for more. If they have anything close to the number that dnd has that would be great.

Cilla Black

Tox wrote: »

So, I have a ps2, and my girlfriend and I have been playing games together. We've played through both X-Men Legends, and Marvel Ultimate Alliance (I'm looking for MUA2, that's next on our list).

Once we finish that one, what other games are there that are 2 player co-op and have a good story? I know there's at least one or two D&D themed games.

Obviously ps2 games only...

Uh uh

um

oh! I don't know about its story, but apparently Champions of Norrath is a super solid game in a similar style as Legends and MUA.

It's the same company who did Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, which is also supposedly excellent and in a style like Legends etc.

Melding

Archer ranger and scourge warlock are the next two classes.one is said to be due out a month after drow.

TheLawinator

So, what server are we gonna roll on? I think I'm going Mind Flayer, because Illithids and I know some people on there.

Doobh

when are they going to release the Spoony Bard class

BYToady

They better release the guitar hero mechanics with it.

BYToady

I'm sorry. I meant lute hero.

Doobh

BYToady wrote: »

They better release the guitar hero mechanics with it.

I would actually play this game if they had that

and I'm not even a big guitar hero fan