Neverwinter

Dungeons and Dragons Neverwinter is a new MMORPG published by Perfect World. Now, for those of you who see the name Perfect World and assume the worst, fear not - this time, it's actually a pretty solid game.

The premise of the game has you, the player, running through the city of Neverwinter doing various quests for NPC's and gradually unraveling a quest line that grows in proportion of grandeur the farther you get along in the game. You can find the game's opening movie below. Like 99% of all opening movies, it's made to pump you up to play the game for the first time.

why yes boobs rogue, you would probably last longer with some armor

While this may sound like your typical MMORPG fare, there are some key features that help differentiate this game from the most infamous MMORPG of all time - World of Warcraft.And by some, I mean two.

• "Action" based combat - Rather than point and click, you have to click A LOT or hold down the RMB. Not really a feature. More of a unique way of doing combat. Also, the skillbar with 50 plus skills is eliminated. You're limited to Q/E/R for basic skills, 1/2 for ultimate skills, and two equipable passives at all times. Which is kind of funny, because they try to take the number crunching and complexity out of something based on a game that is almost entirely about number crunching and complexity.
• "Foundry Feature" - Remember when halo 3 announced that it had a forge feature that basically allowed you to edit maps and how excited people got over that? The foundry is pretty much the same. It allows you to edit/publish quests and levels of your own for other people to rate and play. Pretty dang exciting. And, a really sneaky way of the people at Perfect World to circumvent the process of hiring level designers and quest scripters.

I started off playing this game as a dwarven great weapon fighter. Basically, that translates into modern English as "4 foot tall wrestler with a giant sword". It doesn't get anymore badass than that. After character creation, you're thrust into the tutorial under the premise that your ship was attacked by a frost dragon and you got shipwrecked. You're lead through the tutorial by a nondescript voice in your head telling you to click on things and do spin attacks. Must have been one hell of a crash.

Fast forward a good fourty minutes or so, and you're off to the main quest line or doing various sidequests for the townsfolk. Typical MMORPG fare. My adventures led me to Al Gore's worst nightmare - An entire area of town centered around the theme that black sludge came out of a lake and made everything not pretty. And, like any place being devastated by a natural disaster, there's looters aplenty. And by looters, I mean NPC's to beat up for experience and money.

 You "Bandits" are about to get spin attacked to death by a midget with a 5 foot sword.

My misadventures in the sludge ridden bunghole of Neverwinter wasn't triggered by me wanting to find the equivalent of a level based on BP's oil spill. Believe it or not, it was actually a part of the main quest line to better the city and rid it of all evil and corruption, which has made its way into the city thanks to the many cataclysmic story devices mentioned in the lore of the game and the introductory movie.Yep. You're basically playing a game where you and all 30,000 of your compatriots are medieval batmen.

After grinding and beating up looters to retrieve stolen goods for townspeople, my adventure led me into a burning shack, for whatever reasons the game might give you. Funny. The shack didn't appear to be burning on the outside. Oh well. It's time to go rescue a kitten or retrieve a crown or save a person or something. 

That's right. This time my spin attack has energy swirls. Fear me.

After my adventure in the flaming shack of horrors, my quest was complete. I gained some money for my troubles and went on my merry way, straight to the log off button. Yes. I played the game for 2+ Hours in one sitting. It was time for me to log off, despite how much fun I was having beating up people for money.

After a long and productive afternoon of mugging muggers, the 4 foot terror relaxes by the campfire as he prepares to call it quits.

All in all, the game was pretty entertaining, especially for a free to play game. Oh. Did I mention this game was free to play? (Hopefully, though, this won't be pay to win)

It's currently in the beta setting, and it may appear buggy, but they're working on it in order to work out all of the kinks.

I encourage you to go try it. It's definitely worth an hour or two of your time.

First Post!

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Why am I making this? 

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