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NWN or DD???
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Gothic Soul
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NWN or DD???
   

I'm planig of buying one of these two games and I can play only single player because of my poor connections. Which of this two offers a better single player???
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Post Mon Dec 02, 2002 9:09 pm
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If you ask me NWN is better.
Post Mon Dec 02, 2002 9:16 pm
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NWN is quite a crap singleplayer game, imo. I'm very grateful to my cousin for buying the game, so i could try it out at his place, instead of buying it myself and finding out i'd wasted 50$
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Post Mon Dec 02, 2002 9:25 pm
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IMHO single player in NWN is good (not great). Technically Divine Divinity is better balanced for single player, but is quite hack'n'slash. You choose...

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Post Mon Dec 02, 2002 9:52 pm
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Joey Nipps
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Neither game is spectacular either in story, NPC interactions or replay value. It likely depends upon what you like best. If you really, really love AD&D rulesets then go with NWN. Neither game (as a single player) shakes any foundations nor do either get your blood boiling and begging for more. They are mediocre in a vast field of mediocrity. However, if you MUST play an rpg (as many of us here must) then they will be better than nothing.
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Post Mon Dec 02, 2002 10:10 pm
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Damned with faint praise. Do you like the idea of downloading additional modules, some of which are quite good? Is so, although NWN SP is quite average, there's a lot of potential value in the community modules.

On it's own SP merits, I think DD was quite a good game and well worth trying if you like 2D ISO games.
Post Tue Dec 03, 2002 12:35 am
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Gothic Soul
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Now I'm getting more confused If I make it a poll it would be:
NWN 1 vote
DD 0 Votes
Both 2 votes
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Post Tue Dec 03, 2002 4:34 am
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Joey Nipps
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quote:
Originally posted by Gothic Soul
Now I'm getting more confused If I make it a poll it would be:
NWN 1 vote
DD 0 Votes
Both 2 votes


I played both. I am basically happy I bought both and played them. They are very different - they cannot be fairly compared, no more than one can fairly compare Gothic and Baldur's Gate. The graphics in NWN are much better than DD - if that is your thing, go for that. Buy one - don't worry.
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Post Tue Dec 03, 2002 4:39 am
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I would go for DD cause NWN is INSANELY easy on the beggining, I wasn't even able to play for more than 10 hours cause I was bored to tears.

IMO DD is a great game.
Post Tue Dec 03, 2002 4:46 am
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NWN is constantly being added to, and updated. Like thousands of additional sp modules to get. You can see a few of my Pro-NWN rants in the NWN section, so you know where I stand.
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Post Tue Dec 03, 2002 5:04 am
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Jaz
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I never finished NWN because I was bored to death, and multiplayer doesn't mean anything to me in a game. Now I didn't play Divine Divinity (at first I thought you meant Deathtrap Dungeon!) but from all I heard I guess I'd like it better - there's forum populace in it, and the humor is said to be somewhat darkish. Besides, I'm for supporting smaller studios. So make that a vote for DD.
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Post Tue Dec 03, 2002 10:51 am
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Gothic Soul
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Now I'm thinking more of Divine Divinity Or Maybe I can go with Archangel.
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Post Tue Dec 03, 2002 11:06 pm
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Danicek
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Buy Divine Divinity. It is good RPG (now I can finaly enjoy it) and I somehow like to support small developers.
Post Sat Dec 07, 2002 1:07 am
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corwin
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I've played and finished both. For an all round SP experience, I MUCH prefer DD. It has great humour, and good story and varied combat. Think Ultima 7 or 8 ish. There's a heap of varied quests and you can play as you like. However, that being said, also consider Arx Fatalis (an unofficial Ultima Underworld3) or wait for Gothic2.
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Post Sat Dec 07, 2002 1:15 am
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I really recommend DD but I have a question, have you played Arx yet?
Post Sat Dec 07, 2002 7:39 am
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