If you can play Final Fantasy 14 great with a controller you can certainly play NWN. You just need a good UI. So many PC games have poor/lazy ones and rely on archaic non-gaming devices like typewriters to handle all their inputs.

I don't know if they did a good job with the UI here or not.

Played it when it came out, all 3 campaigns, and tried the main campaign with all the fixes a few years ago, but got stuck during the defense of the main hub when the boss didnt spawn. What a shame. Curious how this is gonna work out.

I never played FF14, but from what little I've seen of it it's absolutely nothing like Dragon Age Origins and seems a pretty bizarre comparison (single character vs multiple characters, tactical combat moving those cahracters around, using the environment vs standard MMO "stand and spam skills" combat).

Relying on a mouse and keyboard isn't lazy, they're just easily the best tools for many games.

Requirements are pretty steep compared with other remaster works of Aspyr, but if it solves modern system bottlenecks, some bugs, horrible camera problems and controls, weird performance UI scaling for new resolutions, possibility to add new modules ingame and some problems here and there, it will be a worthy remaster.

Although they should have included a new "official" module campaign to make the package even more tasty for old players

I also considered the original version size of the game was bigger than other games of the era. A possibility is that the great amount of hard disk space needed if because of the upscaled HD textures, and all languages bundled into the game.

NWN 1EE on XBox is lovely to play with the controller and over-the-shoulder view. It is so much more immersive, and I wish they'd have brought it to PC so I could play custom modules in that mode. BG3 is great to play with a controller.

There's no reason NWN2 would have to be spoiled by adding controller support, if it is tastefully done.

Not officially anymore, but they allowed community members to take over the updates, and I think some Beamdog employees still work with them in their free time, as fans.

Being very sceptical of the EE at first, in hindsight I agree, Beamdog did well on this. But maybe it would have been fairer to label the EE as "Early Access / In Development", considering it was a work in progress with frequent updates for years. And it's a shame that some of these updates took ages to arrive on GOG.

I just wished they had also found a way to give us more quickslots, the lack of which is my main pet peeve with NWN (not sure if they tried, and to what extent).

That's because several Bioware devs of the original NWN are now part of Beamdog, but none of the Beamdog founders and employees had anything to do with Obsidian's NWN2. Beamdog officials had already said that if anyone was to do NWN2 EE, it would not be them, because they had no ties with the original.

I'm waiting for this discount for years as well. But with the planned release of NWN2:EE, I don't think there is hope for a discount on NWN2:Complete anymore.

Then maybe don't talk about what you don't understand? It does not have to have the same combat to have more complex inputs.

OK guess I you can't be told anything. Stay ignorant then.

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Wait wat, it's a perfectly fair comparison between two RPGs with skills and positioning, really the only difference with DAO is the party (which isn't that complex, you just switch the playable character) and that you can pause the game

I don't even use controllers that much, but a comfortable control scheme is perfectly viable for most games, it just requires effort and know-how on the devs' part

"RPG" is a super broad term. You can't really throw an MMO and an old-school single player party based game into the ring and say what works for one will work just as well for the other.

Sure, you can play most games with either a controller or a keyboard and mouse if the devs account for it. But for many games one or the other will be preferable. A controller is better for fighting games like Mortal Kombat for example. A mouse is just faster and easier for things like fast, precise aiming in FPSes (I played FPSes on a console, they do work, but not nearly as well) or controlling multiple units. You can give commands to a whole team in the time it will take you to move one character with a controller. I'm pretty sure there Hell, even something like managing a usual RPG inventory, while yes, perfectly doable with a controller, is way faster and more comfortable with a mouse.

Even for a single player action RPG like Assassin's Creed Odyssey, which works pretty well with a controller (aiming a bow aside), using it enforced some annoying limitations, like how you can't have all the skills you've unlocked "on hand" the way you could with a keyboard, which makes levelling up a pretty boring affair after you've maxed out the skills you want to keep on hand.

There are parties in FF14 too. Much larger parties than DAO. You may not control the other players in your party (they are real people) but you do need to target them to apply healing and other actions fairly regularly as a tank or healer job. Much less often as a DPS.

Interesting, but at the moment, not changes enough to purchase this version, not extra content or what. Probably will only purchase if they release expansions in the future only available for the EE.

NWN 1 EE I only purchased because was the only way to get all the premium modules in a legal way, because they're unavailable to purchase in any other case.