Double Take on Upcoming Neverwinter Title
Emily King August 24, 2010 - 9:32 am
There’s few names in games that will make me sweat, have spots of light appear in front of my eyes, and overall make me feel like I need to run and lay down at the same time. The name “Neverwinter” has a vast field of meaning for me, mostly associated with the sensations of pain and anguish. But it’s fine, I’ll calm down enough to tell you some news before I go and take some quiet time in a darkened room.
This week, Atari and Cryptic Studios have announced that a new Neverwinter game will be released on PC next year. It will be a new version of Neverwinter Nights, but just called Neverwinter. In Neverwinter, you choose to become one of five classic D&D classes and team up with friends or computer-controlled allies to form five-person co-op groups. Atari and Cryptic are also saying that you’ll be able to create your own storylines and quests via a content generation system, tentatively codenamed Forge.
There’s going to be trucks loads of stuff released alongside the game in the final quarter of next year. From a book trilogy, to a good ol’ tabletop roleplaying game. Yay…
And to explain to you why I treat the name Neverwinter with such trepidation: the one and only time I tried to install it, it destroyed my saved game files for every game, made it near impossible to re-install said games, I had on my PC in act of spontaneous sabotage that I doubt you’d be able to recreate. The only method left to me for setting my system to rights was using a boot disc…
