On 6/29/2019 at 3:37 PM, daven said:

Surely they could just make new games in the Forgotten Realms. Instead of BG3, NWN3, Icewind Dale 3 etc, why not Waterdeep?

That's what we need! ...and Eye of the Beholder remaster! 
* Kidding 🤭 , though while in premise this is not bad—in practice, in today's gaming era, under the modern player/dev mentality... it would be painfully wretched.  Like a Fallout 4 derived from Fallout (1) ; not even close to being a Legend of Grimrock clone— which itself is an EoB / DM clone.

Edited May 9, 20214 yr by Gizmo

Hello people and dear DnD mates

Sorry to bring this topic up again, it may have been upped a bit too much over the years. Somehow, an evidence there is demand.

But I saw on Nexus mods an advertising for Nvidia RTX Remix. I was amazed what is planned with that project and I was wondering two things : Is there anyone else thinking this could 100% fit for an Enhanced Edition of Neverwinter Nights 2 ? Anyone know if it would actually work with NWN2 or would the technology used be different ? Would it even work with our beloved Toolset ? (actually, that were three thingies).

I strongly believe yes in the questions above. I have applied for RTX Remix program and will be actively working on improving what can be improved as soon as I am approved for beta tests (or have to wait for official release).

Somehow, I doubt an official NWN2:EE would ever be published, and I fear I have doubts for a Neverwinter Nights 3 either. And .... Baldur's Gate 3 is already so awesome and planned for being out in just a couple months.

So, as a big fan of NWN 1 & 2, all I can do with my simple resources is working on mods and hopefully publish something that can be used by players one day

Editor FreshLook on the Vault has been doing some interesting work to enhance the game appearance:

https://forum.neverwintervault.org/t/project-fl/409

This would work with the existing game engine, adding ambient occlusion, ground fog, fixes to transparency, water depth, improved shadows, and multiple light sources for grass. Unfortunately, I think this is a long way from release.

Well, it looks as if we're finally getting Neverwinter Nights 2 Enhanced Edition. 

Sadly, the people making it are Aspyr rather Beamdog, though Aspyr did the Mac port of the original game. I'd be a surprised if any of those staff from 2006 are still with the company now though! It's been almost twenty years after all. 

Still, very grateful that this game, which has always had a special place in my heart, is going to get some more attention. 

It would be wonderful if this could help bring about NWN3.

On 2/13/2025 at 8:39 PM, elwisty said:

"Sadly, the people making it are Aspyr rather Beamdog, though Aspyr did the Mac port of the original game. I'd be a surprised if any of those staff from 2006 are still with the company now though! It's been almost twenty years after all"

This ..doesn't have to be a terrible thing? I loved what Beamdog did with Baldur's Gate 1+2 (plus making a complete new expansion with Dragonspear), but NWN1 EE was ..extremely underwhelming to me. (the 12 year older NWN2 had better graphics than the Nwn EE. I had really hope they would do -something- with the graphic or character models, rather than leaving them (almost) unchanged from 2002. I hope Aspyr will do a bit more with Nwn2 
 

 

I'm still going backwards and forwards over whether to get the Enhanced Edition. It is one of my favourite games – the skew-whiff take on a traditional pulp fantasy story has been delighting me for years. But that's because of the writing and characters.

Graphically it was...better than NWN1? It was just at the end of that that uncanny valley era when game devs all thought they had to do 3D, and it all looked a bit ****e.

But 3D graphics of any standard have never done it for me, so the tinkering Aspyr have put the textures through isn't going to affect my experience one way or another. (Now if they'd rebuilt it as an isometric game in the style of PoE2, I'd have had it on pre-order before they announced it.) 

Dunno, I might bite the bullet and get Avowed instead.