I copy the title of the top review because it is the honest truth: You have an epic LOTR-kind of OC and it is actually refreshing to see such a maniquean presentation. The voice acting is not great, but it adds so much character it´s just ridiculous. It´s very likely you will end up feeling actual sympathy for quite a few companions. After that, you have basically a PS:T sort of experience in the MoTB expansion. Do yourself a favor and don´t go looking for anything about it before playing it. It really is one of the best RPG experiences in the market. Finally, Storm of Zehir and MoW are two good, but not that great, expansions. They are completely worth it, anyway, and both have very good things going for them. SoZ is more of an Icewind Dale experience. MoW is more of a medieval Bladerruner sort of game. Overall, this pack is just a steal. You will play for thousands of hours, throught the next decade. That´s what I did after playing this, hehe. It got me into D&D: BG, BG2, IWD, etc. all I played after playing this one. So thanks Obsidian.

Neverwinter will always be in my heart, as the toolset it provided really set it apart from the rest. The Solo adventure was a bit lacking, but the opportunities offered by the toolset were so mindblowingly gigantic that it didn't matter. I learned code using the game and making modules, I played solo mods, online servers, DnD tabletop like games, etc.. So when the second game was announced, I was both very enthusiat and feared it wouldn't be able to follow the steps of its ancestor. And I was both very happy with the end result and disappointed. I nearly didn't touch the toolset. I'm not real sure if it's because I just did too much modding on the first opus, and couldn't make my mind adaptating to this one, but the fact remains. So I won't really comment on the toolset, apart that it felt lacking to me as far as I remember. But then, I played the solo adventures. And each part is great, and made me fell in love with the genre again. Storm of Zehor, while it's probably the least like by everyone feels to me like the true successor of both NwN and Baldur's gate, for a lot of strange reason. Mostly the atmosphere and ambiance, the musics and feeling. It's really hard to tell, but SoZ is really something else !

I can't believe we've not had a proper enhanced edition of this game after all this time. It set the bar on so many levels and really is a gem in obsidians crown! I've lost countless hours to this game and continue to do so, that the expansions are amazing additions on top!

The basic campaign is actively bad to the point where it's hard to tell if its trying to be a parody or not. Mask of the Betrayer is somewhat more polished but if you replay it it becomes painfully apparent how little your choices actually matter. Storm of Zehir on the other hand is nothing but quality swashbuckling fun that I'd give 5 stars to on its own.

I played NWN2 when it came out, and had good but foggy memories of it (mainly remember playing a good Warlock in Mask of the Betrayer). So when the most recent sale came up, I decided to revisit - also because i've started playing D&D IRL again. The game is less 'practical' to play than its predecessor or the Baldur's Gate games - everyone rushes at the enemy at the same time and the AI isn't always super clever. But it's a fun, sprawling story with some very good story twists and turns, and pleasant NPC party members to converse with (no rivals to Minsc and Boo's throne, though). So, I've invested over twenty hours, and I get hit with a bug where I can't use the cursor to make the party move anymore. No help for it anywhere. And it has corrupted all my saves. A game killer. Apparently, after all this time, it still hasn't been possible to remove all the bugs from the game. I had other bugs as well, but those were easy enough to work around. So, all in all, game itself is very fun and a pretty good translation of D&D 3.5e. And you may get lucky and avoid the nasty bugs. But be forewarned: they are in there and they are plentiful.