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Neverwinter Nights Vault has published a GenCon Preview of Neverwinter Nights. They talk about the NWN demo that was shown by BioWare:
Aidan played the part Trent had at E3, providing the patter and direction for each demo. They all did an outstanding job under loud conditions with frequent PA announcements ("Richard Biggs from Babylon 5 is now on the autograph stage!") and very harsh lighting that made the projected image look almost fully washed out even with the gamma cranked all the way up. Aidan is to be particularly commended for his poise and good humor talking effectively through all the noise and having to explain why much of the time the screen image was so faded.
Fortunately Vault regulars have seen how good the game really looks, and I was able to experience this myself directly looking at one of the computer monitors. The art and the graphics are beautifully done--but you know that already.
One fun extra during the Q&A was watching the sorcerer and cleric kill each other repeatedly and make comments (obviously PVP was turned on; this is also why the cones of cold and so on damaged the cleric during the dungeon crawl). Once the cleric said "you're dead," then hit the sorcerer for 10 points of damage and she dropped. They were set to respawn, so a moment later she got up and said "I can run but I can't hide." In the meantime Aidan was answering questions from the audience, which were sometimes "how can I learn to script if I am not a programmer?" You can imagine what I yelled out... ;-) |
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GenCon: NWN Preview
