jcfiala

I've recently gotten really wrapped up in playing Neverwinter Nights on my PC, which is a bit of a surprise. I'm not much of a computer game player - my reflexes are pretty bad for one, and I tend to forget to play for a week or two and then lose track of where I am in the story. This has happened to me on Final Fantasies seven, eight, and ten, and I expected the same from NWN.

I'd wanted to play it, though, because of the module aspect. Twoflower has done a series of NWN modules that I've been wanting to try, since I enjoy his (fan)fiction so much. (The parenthesis around fan are because his most recent stories have been in the anime style, but have used completely original characters.) I got a copy of it a few months ago, but never got around to playing and my wife started to play.

She kept telling me I should play, and when I found another copy for $25 at a local computer show, I picked it up. (Due to the play disc that you've got to have in your machine to run NWN, you can't have two people playing off of the same copy, and Tammy and I wanted to be able to play together.)

It's really a fun game. For one, it's based off of 3rd edition D&D, which is a system I'm already very familiar with from tabletop gaming. For another, it's got one main plot in each chapter (Chapter 1 is to find four creatures so a cure to a horrible disease can be made), and lots of little subplots to chase after, such as stealing art objects, finding old tombs, or just helping out a courtesian by scaring off a stalker.

But one of the things in this game that I really love is the journal. The game has an automatically updated journal that keeps track of what subplots (and plots) you're involved in, how far you've gotten in each, and what needs to be done next. This helps out a lot - if I happen not to play for a day or two, I've got solid notes on what needs to be done and what I've already done. I wish more games had this.

Anyway, it's a blast, and that's what's taking up a lot of my time right now.