Asheras wrote on Dec 5^th, 2013 at 3:54pm:


I am so glad drizzt died, I just wish it was artemis entreri. Hopefulyl Drizzy comes back in one last trilogy - Saved by Lolth. Drizzt comes back to faerun as lolths chosen, and cleans house.

Asheras wrote on Dec 6^th, 2013 at 10:12am:


I stopped reading the series a while back. When Ent and Jar hit the surface. D is finally dead?

Coles Notes anyone? Or should I just google it?

Luxgolg wrote on Dec 6^th, 2013 at 12:10pm:


Drizzt mopes.

Cattibrie dies. (Most think she went insane due to the spellplague, but it was actually Drizzt's constant emo act that took her sanity)

Drizzt mopes. 

Drizzt bangs elf girl while pining for Cattie Brie.

Drizzt mopes some more.

Drizzt does some swordplay. 

Even more moping by Drizzt.  (Yes, Stonework's minotaur slaying optionals was inspired by Drizzt's eternal moping)

Artemis bangs elf girl.  Both think Drizzt will be pissed.  Drizzt doesn't care and is generally mopey.

Elf girl decides to kill Drizzt and put everyone out of his misery.  He doesn't care and doesn't defend himself.  Artemis does and tries to stop her.  Thankfully it doesn't work.  He spends last moments moping on Kelvin's Cairn.  Which is where all the moping began years ago.

Artemis, elf girl, decently cool monk character, and annoying dwarf cleric wander off.  Nobody mopes. 

EDIT:  Throw in some typical self-psychoanalysis monologues by Drizzt at the beginning of each book section.

Ash summed it up nicely.

Asheras wrote on Dec 6^th, 2013 at 2:14pm:


He is not dead. lol

See The Companions. 

They TR and usher in 5.0

Asheras wrote on Dec 6^th, 2013 at 2:14pm:


So it did get worse(better) as the writing went on...joy

Nurple

Skrilla wrote on Jan 21^st, 2014 at 11:01pm:


Yeah, same here. My guild had been bleeding away players from DDO for a year or two, and when Turdbin announced everybody would lose all of their enhancements and have to learn new enhancements under the new (and probably bug ridden) system, they pretty much threw up their hands and gave up.

And great Turdbin timing, it was just when Neverwinter was The New Shiny. So as much as I hate 4.0, that's where my Real Life friends are gaming, so that's where I go. That's what bugs me so much about MajMal saying DDO is OK because they still have the big spenders. I spent hundreds, and I know of at least 2 other guild mates who spent hundreds, but we're all gone because the small spenders went to NWO.

And it's really revitalized my guild, too. People who left two years ago came to Neverwinter and are playing 3 nights a week (which is big for us, we are all very casual players). We can hop on and run some quests for half an hour. No waiting to form a party, no long run to get to the quest entrance, just hop on and have some fun.

One guild mate was feeling nostalgic over DDO and we logged in one Saturday over Christmas break, the place was a wasteland. And we hit 3 or 4 major game breaking bugs in the hour or two we were on.

So while DDO has better core rules and better customization, they got rid of the thing that is my single most important factor when deciding what to play - my friends 

I tried it for awhile but went back to DDO.
The out of game tools are great, I wish DDO had them. Character and inventory management etc.
The actual game was boring, imo and the graphics were too wow like. Giant people and weapons

Foundry was a good concept, poorly executed. Could've been so much more customization, but it never really drew me in the way the NWN 1 one did.

Problem with the Foundry is you cannot get real gear from it. It is fun if you just want to run a different story type quest, but if there is no chance of payoff in real gear then its only use is getting xp when you are tired of the stories in the quests.

Definately felt like a console game anyway, so that's probably a good move.  First comment in the second article paraphrased: "hope this revitalizes the game"