Maybe it's the old person in me that makes me feel this way, but I hate when people complain about the graphics of old games. Seriously. I feel like it is just twisting the knife in the side of the people who worked hard on this game back in the late 90's and early 2000's. You know, back in that time before smart phones when this was the most popular cell phone on the market when I was just entering college. That's right kiddies... fear the monochrome madness. I remember burning days playing games on that screen. DAYS! I had more fun playing snakes on that phone than I ever did playing Skyrim.
NWN was never very appealing to look at. Even in 2002 it wasn't the best looking game on the market. It wasn't the worst, but it wasn't near the best either. But that's not what NWN was about. It was about player control. Modules. Persistent Worlds. Being able to be expanded on unlike any other game at that time, and since. The few projects I've seen out there trying to be NWN-like are failing to live up AFAIK. Custom Content has this game very far.
Personally I hate the way graphics are becoming the most important part of a video game product. It makes teams grow into MASSIVE sizes, and takes up SOOOO much development time just getting the graphics to look so bloody amazing that squirrels run into your TV, that content takes a back seat. You see it in recent RPG's all the time. Less options, more linear, choices matter less. I hope they stop trying to make games so pretty and start making better games!
(Hush Poet!)
