Neverwinter Nights vs Morrowind

[Soul Reaper]

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well i hope some of nwn hardcore players could spend some time answering my question

for a player who is NOT interested in the multi-player style in rpgs:

wich game will be a beter option, Neverwinter NIghts or
The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind ?

please justify your answers as long as you can

[Krimmy]

I played a little Morrowind but never really got into it, I understand it has an editor as well but I'd have a hard time believing it's as good as the NWN toolset. Morrowind might beat NWN with the single player game it comes with but NWN greatness will be told in all the modules that will be created by the user community out there over the next few years. I didn't buy NWN because of the single player game in came with, I enjoyed it to a certain extent but I had problems with some of the points of the story. It seems the creators of NWN concentrated alot more on the toolset making it as easy to use and flexiable for the mod creators out there than the story they put togther for the single player, it doesn't hold a candle to the story told in BG,SoA and ToB.

With this toolset I firmly believe the community out there can and will come up with something just as good, and I can't wait

[Soul Reaper]

thanks for answering

well....... its a tough desicition

[Nygma]

If wandering around doing quests without much of a story behind them is your thing, definitely get Morrowind. I played for good month and a half and probably got only halfway through the main story, because I was off fetching this item for this person, assassinating this other person, escorting another, eliminating those undead or these monsters, etc.; climbing the ladder of various guilds to become the head honcho.

Morrowind is HUGE, with an interesting world, but the story was fairly weak I thought. NWN's story, while not as good overall as BG or BGII, was better IMHO. Actually, one aspect of NWN's story I thought was better than anything in the Baldur's Gate saga.

To sum, if you like exploring get Morrowind. If you like the feel of the BG series and the AD&D implementation get NWN, which is a bit of a departure from BG, but still closer than MW.

[Xandax]

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Then NwN wouldn't be for you.

Neverwinther Nights is imo as Unreal Tournament and Q3 was to the FPS-games.
Sure they had a singleplayer part - but it was ment for multiplayer.
So is NwN, the possibility of creating modules and DMing modules is what makes NwN exiting, not the single player game.
(imo)

[Kameleon]

Originally posted by Xandax
Neverwinter Nights is imo as Unreal Tournament and Q3 was to the FPS-games.
Sure they had a singleplayer part - but it was ment for multiplayer.

I agree, except the SP part of NWN is far better than that of either of those games...

Also there will be many other SP modules released on the internet - if you will be able to download those then you may get a lot more enjoyment out of the game.

Keep in mind as well that Morrowind system requirements are enormous - even the most ninja of PCs will chug playing it at higher resolutions. NWN on the other hand has much lower reqs, and however Aegis might complain about NWN not running, there are far more people who have run into game-disabling bugs in Morrowind or the game just not running.

[Xyx]

Originally posted by Kameleon
Keep in mind as well that Morrowind system requirements are enormous - even the most ninja of PCs will chug playing it at higher resolutions.

But then again, you can tell why just by looking at the game.

[Kameleon]

Originally posted by Xyx
But then again, you can tell why just by looking at the game.

There is that - Morrowind is gorgeous, NWN is rather shoddy compared. But don't say that too loudly...there are some people on this board who think NWN looks better than Morrowind...*shakes head*

[Trix]

there are some people on this board who think NWN looks better than Morrowind

Guess what.


But seriously, this is how I think they shake up graphically.
(Me = AMD 1.4Ghz, 512Mb, GF3 64Mb)

Morrowind's environments are gorgeous.
The water, mountains, trees, weather effects ... the lot.
However.
Morrowind's animation is ... shocking.
God-awful.
The models look like they have ... ooo ... at most 3 frames of animation ... and they screw up and get stuck in the environment way too often.
The NPCs walk around like they've just dumped in their plate mail.

On the other hand.
NwN's environments look stale and a little dated.
Quincunx AntiAliasing and full shadows do a little to offset this, but particularly the 'natural' environments (caves, woods, forest) just don't look at all convincing.
However.
NwN's animation and spell effects blow the socks off Morrowind's.
(I didn't mention that Morrowind's spell FX are shockingly bad, but they are. Terrible.)
Yes, the models could use a few more polys, but it's not really noticable, especially when zoomed out.

So really, graphically, it's swings and roundabouts I reckon.



So there.

[slowcar]

hmm, i am using an outdated system (kyro2 with an athlon 700) and hated to play morrowind since it only supports geforce and radeon-cards.
(got some workaround, but still shabby)

NWN is a better with my system, i have to play it with 1024 and medium details, but i still like to zoom 'into' the nymphs *g*

i don't think the story of NWN can compare to some god-like game like BG1&2, but it is still nice even if there a some breaks in it.

the graphics are cool, especially in some levels like the fire giant lair in chapter 3.

but i look forward to playing some modules with my friends or even with some strangers (like you :-), thats what NWN is made for.

you think the story sucks? ok buddy, lets play your module.