Following up the GameSpot Review

Rob took a second and made some comments on the recent gamespot review, check it out below:

Yup, Gamespot has a slick 5-page NWN preview up with a few new screenshots to boot. A fair amount of new information, too, and, for the most part, it’s very accurate. One clarification to make, however:

The article suggests that writing conversations for your NPCs is handled through scripting. Ugh, that would be a nightmare! Luckily, the rocket scientists up in the Tools lab have put together an extremely slick Conversation Editor that’s making all of us writer-types just salivate. They went through a number of iterations, putting the prototype through all manner of focus testing and the result is very powerful (more powerful than the one we used for BG2, for instance) and very easy to use, as well (no more one-day training sessions for new designers — yippee!). You can still script within the Conversation Editor, of course, but thank goodness we’re not making you edit conversations in scripting. =)

Cheers,
Rob Bartel