Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition

I cannot recommend this game in its current state. There are no enhancements and the game keeps crashing at certain loading screens. Currently this game feels like a total scam to buy. Right now you are better of purchasing the GOG version and fine tuning it with community patches.

The original NWN2 was riddled with bugs and performance issues, the Enhanced Edition contains Enhanced bugs and Enhanced performance issues. They even managed to sneak some new ones in. A lot of these bugs could have been caught with some basic testing. The original NWN2 still has some persistent world being used, though they aren't supported yet. Some notorious nwn2 bugs are still there and of course the game crashes. I believe at the very least an Enhanced Edition should be bug free, have enough options to customise the UI and improve upon the original. Steam shouldn't allow broken products like this to be sold. if developers can't do the bare minimum to present a workable bug free product, they shouldn't be allowed to sell it.

If you're looking for this "Enhanced Edition" to be up to the quality of the Neverwinter Nights 1 Enhanced Edition as provided by Beamdog, you will be greatly disappointed. The only true effort put into this version from Aspyr is controller support, and even with such you will still encounter parts where your character might randomly get stuck unless you go into tactical mode and select a location to move to instead of with the stick (similar to needing to sometimes click a location rather than WASD move with Keyboard+Mouse at various parts your character suddenly gets stuck). Bugs from the original release+expansions still exist (including very easily fixable typos on certain prestige classes that will mislead a player on how that class progresses), and brand new bugs not present in the original are introduced. This would be tolerable if there was any kind of communication on plans to update the game, like the prior caretakers (Beamdog with NWN1:EE) used to do. However, Aspyr has b...

I got this since the GOG Complete version hasn't been on sale in years, and it's convenient to have it on Steam. It's been [i]a while[/i] since I played the original, so I can't really say if the "enhancements" are worth it. Maybe wait for a sale if you already own it. Here are some quick notes after beating the main campaign. [h3]Pros[/h3] + Camera controls. I used Exploration Mode with left click and hold set to scroll, and turn speed set to minimum. Basically makes it so left click turns the camera, with the turn speed set on low so it doesn't spin like crazy. Plays perfectly this way. + Controller support, I guess. I didn't use one. + Workshop, cheevos, cloud saves, etc. + Enhancements, like the textures...? Uhh, I'll take your word for it. + Game's alright. Kinda important. [h3]Cons[/h3] - Long loading times. Installing on an NVMe M.2 SSD won't help you here. - Pathfinding. Your companions can and will get stuck a lot. - Rubberbanding wasn't fixed. Doesn't happen too often, bu...

This is simply a money grab, every bug the original game had still exists and they even added some. This is a sad way to make money, but I won't waste money on this company again.

This game is broken beyond measure. At 66 hours in, my friend and I have experienced DOZENS of random crashes to desktop. at one point we ran into a non stop crash to desktop requiring a fix posted on Reddit that needed a console command to fix. the console is LOCKED OUT IN MULTIPLAYER. While it will work in single player, it will occasionally require entering the command twice, because it just won't register the first time, I guess? Loading times. This game is 20 years old, it is installed on an SSD and I have 196 gigs of ram, FUCKING USE IT. My god, how can this be an acceptable amount of loading for a NEW game, let alone an expensive "remaster" of a 20 year old game. Maybe going for that retro feeling of loading this game on a creaking 20 gig drive? The follower AI is just broken, we had a moment in a dungeon where Grobnar would be in the party, but his AI was not latched onto the player character, he was bound to a random NPC that was running through the dungeon. Generally ...

Are you after the authentic Neverwinter Nights 2 experience? Let's see: Four crashes in the first eight hours - check. Softlocking the game by a conversation option - check. Characters getting stuck in everything, randomly teleporting forward; and AI just standing idle - check. The same clunky interface - check. Sound coming from weird directions, often opposite from the source - check. There you have it. Maybe I will finish it for nostalgia's sake. Even though the game is a gem on a conceptual level, I can not, in good conscience, recommend it in its present state. This is the second laziest enhancement I've ever seen. The first one was Ghostbusters where they simply added AA, and called it a remaster. This is barely any better.

This so-called “enhanced” edition was supposed to bring back a beloved classic with all the care and polish it deserves… but the reality is far from that. The developer, Aspyr, promised a refined experience, yet the end result leaves much to be desired. Right from the character creator, you can tell something’s off: voice lines overlap chaotically when you select them, making it feel more like an early alpha than a finished release. Instead of fixing the long-standing issues from the original game, it seems new problems have been introduced that further disrupt the experience. Rather than a carefully crafted remaster, this feels like a rushed port with little attention to detail. It’s a missed opportunity to give this classic the shine it deserves, and it leaves the impression that speed took priority over quality.

[Board meeting in Aspyr Studios.] Moron 1 : So, with the re-release of the Neverwinter Nights enhanced edition, we're seeing there's a real crowd out there for a Neverwinter Nights 2 re-release too. Moron 2 : Did you see what they did? Amazing. They truly enhanced it and revived the multiplayer, working with the community to do so. Moron 1: Whoa whoa, easy there guy, I'm not suggesting we work on it, let's just re-release it AS an "Enhanced edition" *He winks to every person in the room* Moron 3 : Genius! People will think we did something, when truly we just sold them recycled hot garbage! All the morons : Hooray! Neverwinter nights 2! And we'll never have to patch it, cause no one thinks we have any integrity as a company anyway! That's how this game was made. I'm pretty sure.

Waited to post this review hoping for a patch . . . Pros Increased text size makes it easier to read at higher resolutions. It’s Neverwinter Nights 2 — a classic RPG with memorable characters and storytelling. Cons Visually, the “Enhanced Edition” is hard to distinguish from the GOG version. After watching comparison videos, I could see differences, but only when looking very closely. During actual gameplay, they’re practically unnoticeable. Load times are significantly worse than the GOG version. One crash in under 2 hours of play — much more than I ever experienced with the GOG version. Character voice samples in the character creator don’t match the voice selected. No visible developer/publisher communication on Steam forums — no bug reporting guidance, or roadmap, unknown if bugs will be patched. Store page mentions controller support and a new UI for it, but I didn’t try this feature. Feels overpriced for what’s essentially a lightly touched-up re-rele...