Nox™

Always had a soft spot for Nox since it's release. Unfortunately overshadowed by D2, which ultimately caused it's demise. Multiplayer online was amazing and super fast paced. Although Nox isn't a long game, it hits all the spots required in my mind for a quality, individualized playthrough based on the faction you choose; barbarian, rogue, wizard. Like I said before, it is not a long game. The game can be completed in full, on all 3 factions, in 1 day. I come back every once in a while to run through 1 of the 3 factions storylines and am always left with my 10 year old selve's sense of nostalgia. Great voice acting, good music, great and often amusing sound effects. Some funny encounters throughout the game too. Cutscenes are very well done for a game released in 2000. RIP Westwood Studios.

I think it was 2001. Love of my life left me because i was playing nox all the time. Oh she was really hot but after 4 hours she dumped me i was playing nox again. Im married now have 2 kids, and i still play nox sometimes. its that good ;)

This game was westwood's answer to Diablo 3's release date being pushed back several times. The idea was to wait for diablo 3 to come out, wait until everyone was over it and release NOX. Unfortunately westwood was running out of funds and had EA nipping at their heels, so they were forced to release the game early and with little advertisement. This was also the age of everquest, so the only way you would have known about NOX was to walk into a store and pick the game because the box looked cool, or you played a demo put out by PCaccelerator ... Which is what I did, the demo blew my mind even though it was only a multiplayer showcase of only one class with only a few abilities. The actual game was fantastic, I get bored of games easy, but I've played through each character at least 3 times, there was also a sort of rough expansion for the game which I believe was released before it was finished, but it came with some of the shelf copies. Sadly, once EA took over westwood, the game died after a short, obscure life, and EA refuses to support the game in any way. I've been hoping against hope that someday, someone would remake NOX, I would kickstart the crap out of it.

I'm sure Nox itself is a great game and was eager to try it after watching Grim Beard's review but I've tried a bunch of compatibility settings and can't get the freaking game past the opening cinematic without crashing, and sometimes it crashes before the opening cinematic has even finished. I get the same "blinking" issue other people are reporting so this is a common problem.

It was not the game I played the most, nor the game I remember the best. But it was the first to truly enchant me. Though Hack & Slash games were never my big thing, Nox I could (and can still) play for hours. There's something about it, even to this day, and I can not put my finger on what it is, but it's there.