By handing over content creation to the players, Neverwinter could breathe new life into a stale MMORPG market.
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Games available starting in October include Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, SpyHunter, Doom II, Duke Nuken: Mobile Mayhem and Neverwinter Nights.
Anyways, Forbes contributor Daniel Tack has an excellent run-down of the Foundry system in Neverwinter, and it really does sounds terrific.
FORBES: The DIY MMORPG: How The Neverwinter Foundry System Could Change Online RPGs
Mobility is important in Neverwinter, removing oneself from the path of danger is essential for surviving alpha strikes or escaping the heat of combat to heal.
Users can create quest chains, dialogue, movement, and objectives, using what are essentially the same tools that the developers themselves use to create content in Neverwinter.
After meeting up with my adventuring team and summoning our companions (each player in Neverwinter can have a pet) my party queued up for the Cloak Tower dungeon.
The basic idea is that it is an accessible toolset aimed at letting people create their own quests and inject them directly into the existing persistent world of Neverwinter.
The two former doctors founded Bioware in 1995, and developed iconic titles like Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and most recently, Star Wars: The Old Republic (an MMO).
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When I last wrote about Neverwinter, the upcoming MMORPG from Cryptic Studios and Perfect World Entertainment, it was basically my way of bemoaning the plight of the single-player RPG.
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This includes MMORPGs like the recently soft-launched MMO, Neverwinter, from Cryptic Studios, as well as non-MMO competitive games such as indie mech title Hawken and upcoming Crytek shooter, Warface.
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Neverwinter will hit virtual shelves sometime in 2013.
FORBES: The DIY MMORPG: How The Neverwinter Foundry System Could Change Online RPGs
With games like Inquisitor also coming out next month, and my plans to blog some other classics like Neverwinter Nights and Planescape Torment, we should be in for some good old fashioned retro fun in the coming months at this blog.
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