Rumor: Cryptic making Neverwinter Nights MMO for Atari

Loved the player created persistant worlds of the first one, hard to see how a true MMO could match that experience seeing as they were player created and administrated, not to mention free.

Got to hand it to Atari for making a real comeback.

Uhm... Is it NWN1 or NWN2 based?

Because the graphics you use is from NWN1 - and that gives me hopes that they drop the NWN2 abomination.

WHY AREN'T YOU PEOPLE IN BED?!

How exactly can Cryptic be working on 3 MMOs at the same time? I understand that they're spaced out with releases over the next 3 years, but good franchise MMOs take an incredible amount of work to maintain and update. You don't see Blizzard launching 3 MMOs over the course of 3 years, they put their development time into improving the current MMO and maybe prepping a secret secondary MMO for sometime later. Cryptic is a far smaller studio than Blizzard or some of the current MMO developers from what I've read. Does that strike anyone else as somewhat odd that they would be spearheading 3 MMOs in 3 years?

Not every game needs to be turned into an MMO.

No. Just no. Enough with all the MMO's already.

Seriously, this MMO-bullshit needs to stop. I can only take so many of my favourite games being turned into online wankfests for 14-year olds to powerlevel and chase "phat l00t" in.

this decision goes against everything that made NWN so popular. bad call Atari!

so... Dungeons & Dragons Online agan, eh?

Dude, I so want a NeverWinter Nights MMO for Atari...

If, and I repeat, IF they do this right it will be more awesome than words can describe. If they keep the unique mission style that was a hallmark of the entire Neverwinter Nights series and build upon it further like every followon from the original has done. If they keep the classes as varied and as balanced as they have managed to so far. But most of all, if they can prevent the sort of insane overpowering that can happen in most MMOs, WOW included. In D&D 3.5, (The ruleset used by NWN) a group of two or three well built, complementary characters are capable of defeating a foe many times their level. Guilds are all well and good, but when it takes most of a large guild to take down a high level boss, you know something's gone wrong. The basis of the D&D and NWN (1 and 2) system was that if you were 1. lucky and 2. knew your stuff, you could take out a powerful dragon with maybe four level 8-10 characters.

If they can capture that ideal in this as well as they have in the series so far then I will accept Atari as the one true god of video gaming. And if not, well, it should still be a blast to play.