Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition

About This GameNeverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition adds all-new enhanced features to the content of Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition.Slink through the shadows as a deadly half-elven rogue, wield fearsome magics as a powerful gnomish sorcerer, vanquish your foes as an armor-clad dwarven paladin. Whatever hero you create, incredible adventures await.Discover magic, wonder, and danger at every turn on your own or with friends in these classic Dungeons & Dragons adventures.

Enhanced Features:. Improved Display: Your portrait, combat bar, inventory, and other UI elements adjust in size based on your chosen resolution including 1080p and 4k. Advanced Graphics Options: Pixel shaders and post-processing effects make for crisper, cleaner visuals. Enable contrast, vibrance, and depth of field options as preferred. Community Endorsed: Original developers have teamed with key members of the Neverwinter Nights community to curate important fan-requested improvements to support players, storytellers, and modders. Backwards Compatibility: Works with save games, modules, and mods from the original Neverwinter Nights.

Neverwinter Nights was a formative game in my childhood. It, Baldur's Gate, and to a lesser extent the Temple.

A galaxy of community created content awaits. Restored Multiplayer: A completely rebuilt multiplayer system makes it easy to find online persistent worlds and game with friends. More Modder Opportunities: Toolset quality-of-life improvements, shaders, filters, texture maps, and a new material systems allow creators to make amazing looking models and modules.All the content of Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition: The original Neverwinter Nights campaign: Find yourself at the center of intrigue, betrayal, and dark magic in Neverwinter Nights.

Journey through dangerous cities, monster filled dungeons and deep into uncharted wilderness in search of the cure for a cursed plague ravaging the city of Neverwinter.Two expansion packs:. Shadows of Undrentide: Another adventure begins in Shadows of Undrentide! © 2018 Beamdog. © 2018 Hasbro, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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The main complaints that I see about this game in the forums/discussion etc seems to be people don't know what's enhanced, the graphics look the same and the DLC is paid for content that comes with the GoG version (it doesn’t).The game has been enhanced to work with modern systems. Fast load times, no graphical issues tabbing out, backwards compatibility with saves/modules, reworked multiplayer (it works out of the box) and an updated toolset. I’ve never had the game run this good and it’s easy to play multiplayer with friends (no networking hoops to jump through). I seemed to have some issues with the GoG version, but some people have issues with EE, but that's the nature of PC's.Beamdog never advertised this as a graphical remaster (please correct me if they did). There’s added postprocessing, shaders, 4k support and higher AA options with UI scaling and a couple other QoL features. I can’t write it as a negative that the textures and models aren’t being completely reworked because they never advertised it as that.

It is, however, coming down the road for free. Seems like a win for the consumer with continued, free support.The NWN: Diamond version sold on GoG includes the base game, the 2 expansions and the 3 premium modules: kingmaker, shadow guard and witches wake. If you look at what’s included in NWN EE it’s the same content. Infinite Dungeons, Wyverns of Cormyr and Pirates of sword coast were never included with diamond. If you already own them, they are compatible and Beamdog has made them available for a reasonable $3 each. As far as I know, this is the only legal way to get this content and the premium content was sold from bioware before.

Seems like another win for the consumer.Now granted, I haven't followed the development of EE terribly closely. I might have some of my info incorrect but nothing seemed that hard to find with even a little bit of research. A lot of the hate seems misdirected, uneducated or people just screaming 'herp derp $10 more than GoG just go play that' for whatever reason. Was there this much hate with the other EE content BD has put out? Depends on your perspective. Technically that's all true, they didn't claim this would be a graphic overhaul or have any new classes or anything.But if you're a customer you might not care about what they promised. It's about what you want out of the game.

If you just wanted to revisit a prettier Hordes and have some new classes to play you're SoL and probably pretty mad at what looks like, to you, a completely un-enhanced edition.They're not wrong to feel annoyed there's nothing for them here. People seem to think this is just the Diamond edition which it isn'tHowever Beamdog pricing the game at this much and selling the premium dlc separately is a bit dubious.If for instance they added the premium dlc and ontop of that added one of their own creation (they could've made a polished 1-2 hr adventure module in a week considering they're ex Bioware alumni) that probably would've made it much more justifiable.I have no doubt that the price is reasonable given how much Beamdog spent on developing this version, but that value doesn't always translate to the consumer.

Beamdog were really clear what the EE was and what it wasn't. I guess it comes down to your personal definition of what constitutes 'enhanced'. Escape velocity override pc. If your expectations revolved around a complete visual overhaul of the game, despite what Beamdog said from the beginning, then you've essentially set yourself up for disappointment. There's reality, and then there's the bizarre phantasm that only exists in your head. They're not the same thing, obviously.Some people will continue to blame Beamdog regardless, because it makes them feel better and they thrive on manufactured outrage.

At no point did Beamdog claim they were transforming NWN into Skyrim, and making all your wet dreams of graphical fidelity come true. I fully agree that peoples' expectations are all out of whack.Who cares about graphics? I'm much more concerned about under-the-hood changes tbqh, like the inevitable unhardcoding of classes and spells, so that modders can add all the classes of the PRC without requiring the truckloads of workarounds that the original game did; or how about the netcoding changes that may actually make small groups of friends able to play LAN-style NWN modules with Steamworks-based invites and etc without mucking with port forwarding or Evolve/Hamachi/Tunngle/etc?That to me is the key feature. I honestly don't care if the game looks super pretty, so long as everything is functional and we get the under-the-hood enhancements that were impossible with the original version short of really hacky solutions. I'm enjoying the game don't get me wrong, but I am a little surprised that even though I have a fast computer (I think) the game is still running choppy.

So there is a little disappointment but if I focus on the nostalgia and have fun playing the game ie trying out strategies and options and exploring it is very fun. Just surprised that my computer that can run Skyrim etc close to power as modern consoles the game looks choppy.

and I don't even have the graphics settings switched on very high. That's just all is that it's fun but a little disappointing. Doesn't get 5 stars but easily gets 3. so much that it may not be running the right graphics card it makes me think even? I should look into that.

This version of the game works better than the gog normal version (at least for me).Now having said that I have never been a great fan of Beamdog - namely because they went on lbgtq adenda for several of their remakes (BG1,BG2,Siege of Dragonspear). This of course backfired in their face as most of the hard core dungeon and dragon fans looked at this as a insult. Had this agenda not backfired in their face you would have it in NWN EE even now.What they learned the hard way was don't force your personal agendas in classic games and don't try to fix things that don't need to be fixed. However, I will say that the Icewind Dale EE was great and the addition content was great (This was before they decided to hit everyone with their agenda)Now as far a NWN EE goes - no it is not worth the price they want you to pay for it - however if you want a version of the game without having to deal with possible issues and not playing on a lab top/note book - NWN EE is your ticket.Now the one thing I wish they would have updated in this game was the ability to change out your Henchmen's gear in the orignal Campaign as you can do in the DLC's. I don't think anyone would have complained about that upgrade/fix.P.S. I am having no issues running this game on my system at all and I don't even have a high end system (I have a medium rig for games).Windows 7 64 bit8GB ram3.2 quad processor i5960 GTX 4GBSD Hard drive.