Do you remember the day you got NWN?

[Legacy_Sona_]

               So reinstalling NWN the other day, digging through my CD keys and thinking to myself; Damn. I've had this game a long time. Since June 20th 2002, two days after the game released.

I remember the day pretty well because I was super excited when my father brought home them game (oh so cleverly hidden in his coat to be revealed as a birthday gift- I was turning 15.) I still have the box, along with all the manuals and maps (the cloth one!) along with the birthday card. But I was mostly excited because my small group of online roleplaying friends were all getting the game and OH BOY did we have so many plans for the games we were going to play together!~ Also it was my birthday and there was vanilla cake with chocolate sour cream frosting.

And play NWN we did. Countless worlds and campaigns and building projects. I remember how the only one of us with DSL burned copies of the first release of the CEP so we could add that and marvel over how much it added for us to build with.

Good times.

So how about you guys? Do you remember when you got NWN?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_SuperFly_2000]

               In Europe it was a little less hyped I think unfortunately.

Anyway...at the time I was totally into multiplayer gaming...mostly shooters...as there werent any fantasy MP games I knew of.

A relative to my friend showed us something that we didn't grasp really. I think it was quite advanced to understand at the time that thoose others running around where playing at the same server. Anyway...when I grasped that I was totally running to the store and buying my copy of Deluxe NWN which had all the expansions....so I guess I was a year or two late into starting but did play a lot yes and I am still playing and have been building and hosting servers on and off for 3 years.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Shadooow]

               Oh yea, I came into NWN from Diablo 2 in the year of its release, I already saw a teaser for NWN when playing BG II (or IWD 2/PT some of those have NWN intro teaser inside). And when I saw that teaser I though WOW thats amazing. Then there was first PW in my country and my friend from Diablo started to play there so I came with him into my first NWN experience. Those were really great times and after few years I become a builder. There was PRC that made this game for me as it would be new again.

Shame these days are now lost for me, but so far didn't saw better game that would have NWN features.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par ShaDoOoW, 12 avril 2011 - 11:49 .
                     
                  

            

[Baaleos]

               I remember I got NWN before I had a computer capable of playing it.

I had bought NWN and Vampire the Masquerade bloodlines together, and I took them both home, and it was about a month or two before I had a machine/rig capable of playing them.

Since then, I got a job, and now have a gaming rig that wont need upgraded for at least 6 years. Lol

AMD Phenom QuadCore Black Edition Processor  4x 3.2ghz
4GB Ram (Max possible = 16gb)
and the graphics card is Geeforce 240gtx  (although I plan on upgrading it)

Now I never worry about games not running.
If I find a game that cannot run in the next 2 years, I will actually cry.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Luspr]

               

Baaleos wrote...
I remember I got NWN before I had a computer capable of playing it.

Same here '>

So it went on the shelf and I had a game of BG instead...
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Rothgar49]

               I remember all the way back to seeing the advertisements in BG2ToB - Ah memories.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Dark Defiance]

               Ah yes. I have my friend to blame for almost 10 years of sitting in the toolset. :-)

He told me about the game and I was originally against it, being my preception of RPGs was that most were turn based. So when he told me it was realtime and D&D based I had to take a look. I poked around reading the reviews and what not and seeing the toolset and what it can do sold me. I bought it the week or so after release, whipped up a Dwarven Fighter and have done so for the longest. Its a fantastic game with or without the toolset, but it's I feel the toolset did so much for this game. The community simply made it great.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_SuperFly_2000]

               Yeah the smooth thing about NWN is that it is both turn based and realtime....or lets say that the turns have a timelimit. That is a very nifty way of getting the best from both worlds which I really hope Cryptic heeds....
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_galelabriel]

               I'm one of the ones who recieved the game before I could actually run it as well. One of my older brothers purchased it for me but I couldnt run it until several months later. That was torture!
               
               

               
            

[Baaleos]

               When I eventually did get into the game, I was running it in Software Acceleration mode, and the animation was soooo choppy.


I mean, litterally a case of casting Chain Lightning, and then getting 6 frames per second.

Old e-Machines pc, 128mb ram, and no graphics card worth mentioning. (VGA)
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Ticladesign]

               Yes, I remember it. Picked it up after reading the game had a toolset, and was easy to get into (because I had no D&D experience at all) Installed it and it never was removed from my PC again.

Also remember the old Main menu music, loved that one:


Clicking Multiplayer, found out the whole business with Haks, but coming from the Half Life modding scene (Day of defeat in it's beta period) that was no problem. A world of Rp and RPG gaming opened up to me, as the only thing I played before was predomanantly RTS games and Shooters. Some Diabolo2, but not much.

Someone in a Persistent world guided me through my first steps in the toolset, and that was the moment I knew i'd be with this game for a very, very long time.

The game and it's rules was a bit overwhelming at first, but liked that. Even back then, there werent so many games out there that went so deep, with so many different options on area design, character concepts and the like.

Best RPG game ever.

I so wished something like this would come from Bioware again.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Ticladesign, 13 avril 2011 - 08:15 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Bannor Bloodfist]

               I got involved about 6 months or so after initial release.  I bought it after watching a show on Tech TV (now renamed to some other cable channel) where they showed the toolset in use on a series of large flat screens that was something like 8 feet wide (new tech at the time).  But that toolset was what grabbed my attention, the ability to create my own world for others to play in.

Of course, I was a little disappointed in the original tilesets that were available, and started hunting for mods/haks to expand the options... thus leading me to join the original CTP guild on the old Bioware forums.

I needed a few extra tilesets for the "story" I wanted to tell.. got lost in the details of not finding said tilesets, and wanting to modify/create/fix what was out there... the rest is in CTP history now.

Still don't have everything I originally wanted, although a large part of those tileset desires have been fulfilled by various authors over the years.

The creature expansions created by the general CC Community has pretty much covered everything that I need.  The placeables / items etc, have far exceeded those needs.  In fact, I could probably start the mod now, and likely by using what tilesets are already out there, even finish creating it... However, my attention has been totally single focused on tilesets, and will likely remain so for a few more years yet.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Dark Defiance]

               

Ticladesign wrote...
Also remember the old Main menu music, loved that one:

That as well as a few more for NWN are on my iPod. Awesome.


To the rest who mentioned not be able to run it when it first came out, I feel your pain 9 years later...

I'm building a new rig and trying not to build something that is too advanced so I can run NWN. :-)
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Beerfish]

               I know I got it about the day it was out as I had been following it for years before.  I wasn't sure if they could pull off the toolset part of it but they did brilliantly.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_ChaosInTwilight]

               +1 to the  "Bought it way before I could play it" crowd. I've since bought it probably 5 more time, 3 as gifts, one for when my disc's eventually do break, and once as I lost SoU, and re-bought it all...

That said, I remember watching the video included on BG2 I think it was, where they were still using the-bg style characters..

Good times.  As to main menu music, It dried up after X many years but... I dig the 'Kara-Turian Nights' remix.

Edit: Youtube preview/sample
               
               

               

                     Modifié par ChaosInTwilight, 15 avril 2011 - 03:29 .