Unfortunately, it seems the game has aged about as badly as my PC gaming phase.
I haven’t spent much noteworthy time with a PC game since these days, as the familiar discomfort resurfaced after my time with Neverwinter Nights. One of us would play the game while the other offered up valuable information from a strategy guide. My rig wasn’t powerful enough to operate the game, but his was, so we spent countless hours of the night in front of the monitor alternating between office chairs. My obtuse perspective on PC gaming was forgotten the moment I played this game during a sleepover with a friend, who had been recommending NWN to me for several months. That was the year I first experienced Neverwinter Nights.īioWare had already experienced success with the D&D formula with Baldur’s Gate, and Neverwinter Nights was an epic follow up with an even more complex world and deeper lore. Even as lifelong friends tried to persuade me to believe a mouse and keyboard were the superior methods of playing RPGs and FPSs, I never wavered from this opinion until 2003. The idea of sitting in an office chair staring at a monitor or having a laptop scorch my legs to medium-well has never been my idea of gaming fun.