Comments on: Neverwinter Nights Released

By: msimms

msimms — Mon, 23 Jun 2003 05:37:30 +0000

Just for everyones information, Tux Games NWN ships with an aproximation of cinematic support. All cinematics play natively from mpeg format, via a second executable, nwnmovies, that our installer creates. This program examines your savefiles, and plays the appropriate cinematic for you. It isnt as nice as having them ingame, but it DOES work and it does make it a lot nicer than trying to play them through a player in wine.
No messing around working out which movies to play, no messing with emulators, just run it and it shows you the right one.

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Mon, 23 Jun 2003 03:33:45 +0000

here’s the version 1.30 update for the linux client. it’s largish, it’s actually just a tarball of all of the changed files, but, here you go:
http://nwdownloads.bioware.com/neverwinternights/linux/130/linuxclientupdate129to130.tar.gz
(untar inside the nwn directory where you installed the game, with tar -xvf )

ashridah

By: bdove

bdove — Sun, 22 Jun 2003 06:26:28 +0000

Finaly :)

Hope tuxgames ships my copy fast :)

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Sat, 21 Jun 2003 12:24:45 +0000

Why not just convince the other party to port the Bink Player over to linux, then we’d have movies, a new codec for porting games and life would be good.

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Sat, 21 Jun 2003 11:02:26 +0000

Does anyone have an md5sum for the 1.2 gig resource files. I’ve downloaded it twice of fileshack, both times it has been corrupt. Thanks

/Line72

By: RayNET11

RayNET11 — Fri, 20 Jun 2003 13:06:39 +0000

I’m still very busy with Majesty but when I get done I will certainly check out NW..

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Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:45:02 +0000

Am I the only one who wonders why TuxGames is selling a world-building guide that’s useless for Linux, at least without WINE?

-Erwos

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Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:39:50 +0000

Bioware screwed up among otherthings. Yes, this is true, but by not buying the game and bitching about various things from price to whether you like it then you are doing a great disservice to the Linux gamming community. There are no simple market economics etc.. because the deck is stacked against us. Every user counts and one decision not to buy will contribute to wheter or not a large developer like Bioware will ever release for Linux again. Suck it up! You want gaming on Linux, then you have to sacrifice!

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Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:25:16 +0000

Either I’m reading it wrong, didn’t they say they would ship a Linux CDrom??

So it seems as usuall Bioware have once agin gone back on their word!!!

I would buy this from tuxgames, but seen the company cannot seem to deliver as promised (Bioware), I probally won’t buy a game, I wasn’t impressed anyway with the demo version.

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Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:35:43 +0000

They put this up for orders over a year ago, counting on getting tons of orders and hoping to make a good profit. My friends on M$ were pushing me to get the product during the early linux beta so I ended up grabbing it from a local gamestop instead. Sadly by that time you could get a full copy of the game for $25, a far cry from the $50 tux games is charging.