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neverwinter nights 1991: did anyone play this mmo?
badgerbadger
Member Posts: 148
Neverwinter Nights
Publisher: America On-Line
Developer: SSI
Platforms: PC
Years before anybody had even heard of a "Massively Multiplayer Online Game," (MMOG) an active fan community clustered in a medieval city in the Forgotten Realms and battled fantastic monsters. The name of the game was Neverwinter Nights, and if that sounds familiar, yes, this was the online community game that gave its name to the current series produced by BioWare, Atari, and Obsidian Entertainment. The original Neverwinter Nights, though, was no where near as advanced. The game was only available on AOL and used the same engine and basic gameplay as the Gold Box series. The difference, however, was that with hundreds of loyal players all adventuring in the same city between 1991 and 1997 when AOL pulled the plug, politics, guilds, and alliances quickly formed a social community that was far more important than the actual game. In fact, one of the very first fan-led initiatives during the development of BioWare's Neverwinter Nights was to re-create the city of Neverwinter exactly as it was in the AOL game.
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It was more like a MUD, gosh, I was just born then
I know a lot of people on here played that, I've heard them talk about it. I probably would have played it if I had ever heard of it back then. I was definitely playing pen and paper then, and playing gemstone3 on AOL. I woulda jumped all over that.
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It was kinda messy. The internet connection was terribly limited at that time and the servers were everything but stable. It costed like 4-5$ per HOUR! and EyE of beholder series + pool of radiance + curse of azure bonds etc.. were actually much better titles at that time on market.
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OMG i used to own pool of radiance like 10 years ago.. but i couldn't get past this annoying ghost bit.. that was a good game
i really enjoyed the "gold Box" games (even though the game that won SSI the first contract to make TSR's D&d license computer games -Wizard's Crown - was IMO a better game).
I have fond memories to this day of a group of my friends huddled around Pool of Radiance taking a turn at joystick or keyboard to take our turn.
Unfortunately for me; I at that time owned a C64; so my party was never able to complete "pools of darkness" - the final goldbox game of The FR series.
Isn't pools of Radiance the one that use to crash everyone's comp?
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Isn't pools of Radiance the one that use to crash everyone's comp?
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Pool of Radiance released back in 1987 not the one released in 2000.
REALITY CHECK
It never crashed mine...
I actually played the later games in the series (Azure Bonds; Curse of the Silver Blades) a good bit more than the first.
Very enjoyable for their time.
ps: somewhat instructively on the nature of forums; the two then-remaining active modders actually gave me solid answers and advice - the forum members WITHOUT modding skills; gave me hell...
Ah. Think I was playing the C64 still back then, my dad's "laptop" was the only pc we had then..ya know, the one the size of a large suitcase with a 6 inch monochrome screen built in..and was like...eighty percent IBM compatable? hehe.
Might have been '88 or so when I helped him built the 8088, with the XT and AT following sometime after that..dunno..those were DOS 3.1 days...
Durn...you guys are OLD!!!
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D- as i mentioned; I played it on C64 myself; and by the time I had a PC the last chapter game was out of print.
hey if you played on C64; you're old too!
Hell i remember playing "Tunnels of DOOM" on the dreaded TI-99/4a for hours on end...
The ruins of myth drannor game i had forgotten all about - all i remeber about it is that it MADE your characrter decisions - was it feats? - FOR you. Lost me right there.
I guess this is nostalgia night.
In hopes of returning to the thread: I was wondering how the guild and people- politics of that era differed from todays; if at all.
LOL, I had a TI-994A too! Of course..I was like 5 then.
I'm not THAT old..just because my first video game was an * chasing a # doesn't mean anything!
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I still play the gold box series to this day. Nothing will ever beat those games.
For awhile, AOL stopped charging fees for this game and you could play it for as much time as you had in your normal account. It was sweet. I don't think I ever made it that far in the original NWN, but it was definitely pretty fun.
I used to play this quite a bit. I also played another similiar game on Imagine (sort of like AOL).
funny how nobody brings these games up when talking about MMO's. Its always King Garriot who gets credit for this sort of thing.
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a robot foot stomping on a human face -- forever."
I wasn't on AOL, but I do TSN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_of_Yserbius
Isn't pools of Radiance the one that use to crash everyone's comp?
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Pool of Radiance released back in 1987 not the one released in 2000.
Correct however for the version in 2000 they eventualy released a patch to correct the issues that caused the crashes!
I played that. You were charged per-hour and my parent's paid the price (followed by me getting grounded). All in all, it was a great game though...great community, great fun. I remember only 8 people were allowed in any given square, so there would be a queue waiting to get to the dragon spawns and fight the dragon and other big monsters. It was great because you would chat up a storm in between fights, and EVERYONE was friendly. That's probably one of my biggest dissapointments with all following MMOs...chumps, antisocials, and griefers.
I didn't buy my first computer until 1992. When a co-worker talked me into it, I had just sold my car I raced at the drag strip a 1965 Chevelle malibu SS, for a 1989 Mazda B2000 pick up because I couldn't afford to fix the car anymore, I had about $3k left over so had a local company build me custom computer for lan gaming. It kicked the crud out of everything anyone else had around me, and I was becomming a god at the LAN parties.
Then I got into the internet late 1992 when the same co-worker told me about beta testing Meridian 59, that;s when my addiction started.....
I should have kept the Malibu SS......<sigh>
Not so nice guy!