Neverwinter Nights (AOL/Stormfront, 1991)

This is a brief tour of Neverwinter, including parts of both the city proper and the Wharves (where I fight an orc and incompetently cast a sleep spell on myself).

This game was one of the first graphical online RPGs; its lone server was capable of supporting several hundred simultaneous connections. Playable only through AOL, it was actually a pay-per-hour service for the greater portion of its existence.

The graphics and combat mechanics were obviously heavily influenced by SSI's Gold Box D&D games.

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• neverwinter
• nwn
• mmorpg
• gold
• box
• ssi

[TreatyOfTripoli]

Stormfront? This was made by a RACIST GROUP?

[dungeonhack]

@TreatyOfTripoli Despite the unfortunate name, Stormfront Studios was fairly well regarded in its day; among other things (most notably NWN), it was responsible for Stronghold and the LotR The Two Towers tie-in game. It closed in 2008. There's a Wikipedia entry if you're interested.

[outbreak201]

dont copy that floppy.

[dodgydogman]

You could play this on somethign the size of your thumbnail nowdays.

[ljenkins69]

The music is awesome :P

[saygoodnightmanuel]

now when i look back on games like this one and Alone in the Dark from '91, i find it hard to imagine that you could actually play and enjoy something like this. New technologies render it impossible to enjoy such old games, but back in the day, they were the most awesome thing ever.

[kaosdevice]

I played the buh-jeepers out of this game back in the day. 

[SpermicidalManiac1]

this has nothing to do with a bunch of racist rednecks you goddamn retards

[klssv]

@TreatyOfTripoli And Stormfront Studio was behind this game :-O

Never knew there was a Neverwinter Nights game before the BioWare one :-)