I only recently played NWN1 in 2024, so I can't offer a nostalgic perspective or how different this is to the complete edition. What I will say is I love this game. The feat system is great for providing different play styles within the same class, it feels like the bridge between NWN1 and D&D Online. The first campaign feels way better than NWN1 first campaign, though the companions are missing that special spice that makes them feel like actual companions instead of a story component. The other campaigns might be better, but I haven't gotten to them yet... I've been enjoying making several different builds in the first one. The controller support has taken me by suprise. It plays incredibly well. Getting to sertain menus takes some learning but over all pretty smooth. Over all I give it a recommendation, especially if you've never played, but wanted to give it a shot.
Haven't played the whole thing as of yet but I'm having a lot of fun in the early game. Lots of opportunities to use intelligence or wit to avoid situations. Combat feels a little more approchable than BG1 which I consider a big plus. As long as the game stays consistent I'm gonna have a really fun time figuring out an interesting story.
I started off 10/10 on this the game has a lot of machanics but explains them in a reasonable way. Then all of a sudden instead of me building a base with a few new machanics they started giving me prebuilt bases which on paper doesn't seem bad, until the voices says, "Your guard post is under attack" but since it isn't manned by anyone there is no fight happening so it won't let me zoom over and see it so now I'm super confused as to where this guard house is. Then it gives me a map where I guess I'm expected to kill giants with imps and a few goblins? I'm so confused what happened with the design team where they went from, what if we encourage these skill set to what if we just shafted the player and expected them to keep playing. I get upping the challenge as I go but going from, start with nothing, NOW start with everything, NOW start with nothing and enemies are running to your base right now AND they are 10x stronger than your units are at level 1. Like calm down game give me a minute please. Or a pause button lol
