Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer Interview

Assistant producer Nathan Davis took the time to answer several of Joystiq’s questions about Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer during this year’s Penny Arcade Expo. There’s not a whole lot of sugar-coating going on here:

Q: Now this is a design choice, but another issue that some longterm Baldur’s Gate/NWN fans had with Neverwinter Nights 2 was the fact that you moved away from attractive high quality 2D portraits for your characters and instead got a zoomed-in look at their 3D model’s head instead. And honestly, it looked like crap.

A: Haha, well we’ve actually made it now so that players can customize their portraits with their own pictures and also increased the quality of the provided portraits for your NPC teammates. That’s one of those things – we get a lot of feedback from the community and we respond to that.