Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition is now here from Aspyr Media, updating the classic from 2006. It arrives after multiple leaks rated by Valve as Steam Deck Verified, SteamOS Compatible and should work fine on Desktop Linux with the Proton compatibility layer.
Nice to see another oldie revived with a number of enhancements, but will it be enough to pull in some fresh players?
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Highlights:
- Gather Your Party: Assemble a team of your friends across any and all platforms with fully supported crossplay. Together, embark on an epic journey governed by the Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 ruleset.
- Become a Legend: Make your mark on the Realms as you play your way through over 100 hours of immersive gameplay and four unique campaigns, each as expansive as the Bag of Holding.
- Or a Dungeon Master: Bring your pen-and-paper campaign to life! Craft your own solo or multiplayer D&D adventures or explore the creations of others.
- A Relic, Restored: Everything you loved about Neverwinter Nights 2 has been preserved. Enjoy smoother gameplay with refined camera controls, polished mechanics, enhanced textures, and full controller support with a newly designed controller-specific UI.
I'm not really nostalgic for the Neverwinter Nights series, so it's one frankly I'm skipping over entirely.
Are you going to be picking it up? Aspyr are doing a lot of these remasters now, so hopefully it's a good one. If not, hopefully they will get some updates out to solve any lingering issues.
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Linux_Rocks 6 hours ago
Better Neverwinter Nights than Neversummer Days, cause wintertime sucks. 🥶
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R Daneel Olivaw 6 hours ago
this might be the first ever complex rpg I would consider for the Deck. I still to this day can't fathom how people can play stuff like bg3 on a tiny screen with a controller, but it remains one of the top played games. So I must be totally crazy. This games graphics won't stress the deck at all, and as long as the UI is decent with a controller scheme, it could be fun nostalgia.
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Caldathras 6 hours ago
Are you going to be picking it up?I might eventually. I picked up the enhanced edition of the original game already. I have never played NWN 2, so nostalgia doesn't really play a part in the decision. I barely noticed it (I was caught up in the Elder Scrolls games that came out around that time). As you say, though, I will likely wait until they work out all the kinks.
At least, unlike the Oblivion remake, this one will run on my laptop.
Who knows? Maybe they'll relent and release a Native Linux version by the time I'm ready to purchase ...
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tmtvl 5 hours ago
The new graphics are terrible and I've been running the GOG version of the OG on the Deck for months now without any issue (even made my own merged modpack). Unless something of worth gets added (the new UI looks terrible) I don't think I'm gonna pick it up.
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this might be the first ever complex rpg I would consider for the Deck. I still to this day can't fathom how people can play stuff like bg3 on a tiny screen with a controller, but it remains one of the top played games. So I must be totally crazy. This games graphics won't stress the deck at all, and as long as the UI is decent with a controller scheme, it could be fun nostalgia.@R Daneel Olivaw
It's possible that they dock it and use the keyboard and mouse to play it or create key mappings using the trackpads and every button on the Steam Deck like some people do for RTS and FPS games.
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StalePopcorn 4 hours ago
I'm glad Aspyr found their niche. Apple, Activision, et al. made doing macOS ports too damned expensive.
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Valck 3 hours ago
Aaand twenty years. Nostalgia. Right on time. ;p
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AsciiWolf 21 minutes ago
No native port? 
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