Ooooooooooh, this is just lovely.

More crack.... just what I needed, more ways to waste time staring at tiny little pixels.

Jeff bought me Neverwinter Nights for midwinter spending holiday.

So far:

The graphics are really great. (Well, aside from the shirts that are constantly open to my character's navel, but you know, I think I've expressed that particular dissatisfaction before. Computer gaming companies will continue to cater to 14-year-old hormonal boys and nevermind at all the fact that it's mildly offensive and continues to foster bad gender relations. Hell, it's no wonder that half the country is anorexic and the other half is too fat. We either care way too much that society expects us to look like Barbie, or we've given up trying to conform and we eat the food that Commercialism provides us. Ah well, a rant for another day, I'll shut up now. Back to the game.)

Gameplay is pretty good. A little confusing at first, but aren't all interfaces when you first start out? It takes a while to get the hang of things, but once you do, it's really neat. I particularly like the swooping camera effects, where you rotate the world around you. (altho this is the worst part for me, for adjusting to the system, since the map does not rotate with you).

The combat system works exactly like AD&DIII rules excepting that you don't have to roll any dice. Which means any difficulties you may have had with the tabletop version of the game, you'll have with this game, but I thought (for a gaming system) that it was pretty good. All gaming systems have problems with their mechanics, but at least in a computer version, you don't have to remember what the rules are, since the computer does all the calculations for you.

At the moment, I'm still a little disappointed with the fighter-heavy lean of the equipment. I've probably "found" about 20 magical swords and/or suits of armor, but caster class stuff like rings, necklaces and robes are very rare. Although you do find a lot of spell-scrolls and magic wands, and I think only casters can use them, but I usually don't, since in actual combat I'm too busy to flip through my inventory going "Hmmmmm... did I have a scroll of fireball in here?"

On the other hand, I've barely done anything in the last three days but play, so...

Yeah, I like it. Hook that IV up right here, I don't need to leave my chair.