Neverwinter Nights

Neverwinter Nights is a third-person role-playing video game developed by Bioware and published by Infogrames, released in 2002. Set in the Forgotten Realms campaign of Dungeons and Dragons and following the third edition rules of that series, the game takes place in the city of Neverwinter, which is beset by a plague known as the Wailing Death, and a player-character who must find four monsters Waterdhavian creatures in order to find a cure. The game was also given three expansion packs, Shadows of Undrentide, Hordes of the Underdark, and Kingmaker.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Very similar gameplay to Baldur's Gate, which was by the same studio, incorporating the gameplay elements of Dungeons and Dragons in a way that'll make sense to people whether or not they play the board game.
 * 2) Incredible graphics for it's time that have aged pretty well to this day, the Enhanced edition also updates the graphics, but only a little bit to make it feel much like the original.
 * 3) A free-moving camera with different settings that you can move in any direction you want, and it'll show you through buildings and other obstacles to avoid making movement tedious or difficult.
 * 4) Pretty good voice acting for it's time.
 * 5) Your character talks during battle and has many different lines depending on what kind of voice you picked, which includes sadistic, foolish, stealthy, and so on.
 * 6) While you do pick a class in the character creation, you can change it at any time when leveling up your character if you want to try a different play style.
 * 7) Loads of customization options to allow you to make just about whatever kind of character you want. You can even pick whatever D&D alignment your character has (Lawful good to Chaotic Evil).
 * 8) Interesting storyline throughout, with plenty of interesting concepts and richly detailed lore in the world.
 * 9) You can interact with just about every character in the game, some will give you side quests, be a party member for a price, or offer helpful information.
 * 10) Though your choices don't really impact the story, they do affect your D&D alignment, and your decisions in certain side quests have a particular impact.
 * 11) Excellent sound design that sounds quite real and also has people from around your area giving their own two-cents on the current situations.
 * 12) Over 100+ hours of gameplay in total, with 60 hours in the main game itself, plus 40 more with all the expansion packs.
 * 13) Should you choose to play multiplayer, you can have 64 PLAYERS on a single server!
 * 14) There's almost never not anything to do in the game, due to it's insane amount of content overall.
 * 15) Lots of different player-creation engines outside of the campaigns that allow you to pretty much forge your own story and create your own world within the game.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The story is often considered inferior to the aforementioned Baldur's Gate. While not bad by any means, it is often secondary to the gameplay.
 * 2) Some difficulty spikes.
 * 3) The characters are often pretty forgettable and don't have much personality. Again, the story is mostly secondary and not all that important.
 * 4) The combat system might not be to everyone's taste, as it often relies on probability and a twenty-sided die that you don't throw, and you could miss a lot of attacks. It's also worth noting that it's not like Final Fantasy where you take turns attacking each other, but rather like Knights of the Old Republic, where it plays out in real time without a whole lot of interaction from the player.
 * 5) The text boxes are ridiculously small, which is especially a problem when playing on Switch in handheld due to how small the console's screen is, and it's even worse on the Lite model and can make the game almost unplayable on that version depending on your eyesight.