Subscribe to Amazon Prime? Well you can get a free copy of Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition thanks to their partnership with GOG.
A good time to pick it up too considering Beamdog are many years later still upgrading the game. Just recently it had an update adding in a new cartoon shader and lots of optimizations. It's still going strong! It has a Native Linux version available, that Beamdog have supported well too.
How to claim it? Go to Prime Gaming, login with your Amazon account and you'll see it in the list. You'll also need a GOG account as well of course. You have until July 19th to claim it. Since you'll be getting a copy on GOG, you don't need to keep your Prime subscription active - it's yours to keep.
If you also want an easy way to install GOG games on Linux, check out Heroic or Lutris. Both work great on desktop Linux and Steam Deck and just make setting up games from GOG much simpler overall.
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hardpenguin Jun 18, 2023
I played it just recently and this game has not aged well 😅
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Avehicle7887 Jun 18, 2023
I played it just recently and this game has not aged well 😅
Might be the nostalgic in me, but for me this game has a certain charm and keeps me going back to it from time to time.
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I wasn't too into NWN even when it was new (I'm a heretic that thinks 2 was better in about every way) but I really do like seeing it get love to this day. Not many games can claim that. Can't argue with "free" either!
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inst that one of the first games to have linux support?
It was one of the oldies for sure (and one of if not my first), but IIRC support really languished until Beamdog took over.
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inst that one of the first games to have linux support?
One of the first well-known games to have native Linux support would probably be Doom 1/2. The open source release is in fact based on Linux Doom's code, as DOS Doom featured proprietary DMX sound code that couldn't be open sourced. This means that source ports running on DOS (and then Windows) effectively went full circle and had to reimplement the platform layer :)
Last edited by Calinou on 18 June 2023 at 8:56 pm UTC
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I played it just recently and this game has not aged well 😅Yeah, the same thing with my try. Controls, mechanics etc. Just terrible. Baldurs Gate 1 & 2 for example aged much better. Seriously.
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inst that one of the first games to have linux support?
One of the first well-known games to have native Linux support would probably be Doom 1/2. The open source release is in fact based on Linux Doom's code, as DOS Doom featured proprietary DMX sound code that couldn't be open sourced. This means that source ports running on DOS (and then Windows) effectively went full circle and had to reimplement the platform layer :)
i mean, one of those games that had support prior to steamOS being a thing...
and game engines start supporting it, and so on.
anyway you reminded me of mugem...
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TheRiddick Jun 18, 2023
I'm sure with some mods it could look a tad better. But often these old games are quite janky.
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Thanks for the heads up I pretty much sit on my Prime free trials until a game I want comes up on prime gaming. Needless to say I've claimed it.
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inst that one of the first games to have linux support?
The original had Linux support in 2003 after it was released. It was the prolly the first commercial Linux game I played.
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I'm a heretic that thinks 2 was better in about every way
I agree with the spirit of the statement. I wouldn't however agree with "in about every way". NWN2 simply had abysmal performance on the best GPUs of the day. One of the worst games I've ever played in this respect. Only Guild 2 was more terrible.
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slaapliedje Jun 19, 2023
I still maintain the Pie menus of Neverwinter Nights were genius. So much nicer than the more typical menus with break outs to other menus... Especially once you get really used to it, and can navigate based on muscle memory. Problem with the game though is getting it to be usable with a game pad. They did port it to Switch, PS4, etc. But the controls on it are kind of trash. They haven't bothered with doing the same on the computer release of course. Though I think with the steam controller / deck it could have some awesome potential if there was some work put into it.I played it just recently and this game has not aged well 😅Yeah, the same thing with my try. Controls, mechanics etc. Just terrible. Baldurs Gate 1 & 2 for example aged much better. Seriously.
inst that one of the first games to have linux support?UT99 and Doom, and... well many others had Linux support before. I think the first commercial game I bought that had a separate Linux release (UT99 had a Linux installer you could get separately if I recalled, UT2004 had it on the disk) was Civilization: Call to Power, which came out in 1999.
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hardpenguin Jun 19, 2023
My thoughts exactly... I thought that third-party campaigns will make it more bearable but nope.I played it just recently and this game has not aged well 😅Yeah, the same thing with my try. Controls, mechanics etc. Just terrible. Baldurs Gate 1 & 2 for example aged much better. Seriously.
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[...] you don't need to keep your Prime subscription active [...]AFAIK you never need to do that. All the games you ever claimed can still be played after unsubscribing from Prime. Just don't delete your amazon account, you still need it to log in to the downloader.
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My thoughts exactly... I thought that third-party campaigns will make it more bearable but nope.I played it just recently and this game has not aged well 😅Yeah, the same thing with my try. Controls, mechanics etc. Just terrible. Baldurs Gate 1 & 2 for example aged much better. Seriously.
We are 4 with exactly the same feeling. I can't believe that NWN was released only one year after ToB.
I've tried to do a run of 3rd party campaign NWN:EE with a friend after finishing BG2 but nope, we just moved to 3rd party campaign on Solasta.
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Maybe doesn't hold up that well but still a great game.
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