HotU. My first experience (newly started game)

[Larry_OHF]

I am finally getting around to playing NWN and its expansions. I am now ready to enter level 2 of Undermountain. I was able to open both possible doorways down to the second level, but have not decided which one I will enter yet.

I am playing a Ranger/Rogue/Shadow Dancer and the amount of Secret Doors in level one astounds me! I have entered more secret doors than mundane doors in the past two days!

What was your opinion of HotU compared to the previous two games when you played them? For me, it is better than the previous two because I get to go straight to solving the mysteries of Underdark and worming my way around down there in a very hostile enviroment. The other two games had too much non-critical time or quests that I wish were over too quickly. I love snooping about in Halastar's lair...and maybe that is Ziroc's fault because his mod is so fun to delve into.

Also...the beginning of the entrance of Undermountain has a goblin who approaches you and if you talk Durnan into taking him in, you'll heavily regret it. This little freak would whine and complain during the time that I was trying to read what items that sexy cleric of Sune was identifying for me, and it got to be too much, so I ended up killing him to shut him up. Was he important for anything? [img]smile.gif[/img]

[PurpleXVI]

Well, HotU isn't a particularly good campaign, but it's still miles above the stock NWN campaign or that other, utterly forgettable, expansion. I can't even remember it's damn name.

[robertthebard]

All the charm of NWN's for me comes from MP games. I never did finish Shadows solo, me and one of my regular gaming buddies at the time wrapped up the save game he had running.

I did play through Hordes, looking for cool scripts and such. It was required of me at the time, as the builder where I DM wouldn't play it, so wouldn't know about the cooler stuff. I found it to be ok, and I still use chapter 1 to strip chars from Z's mod, when I'm going to use them in other campaigns...Personally though, I wouldn't play through it again. Not like I hated it or anything, but online play is the only way to go.

[Larry_OHF]

True enough, but I HAVE to finish these expansions now that I have some time on my hands. Its a personal thing.

[SpiritWarrior]

Oddly, I thought SoU was tons better than HoTU. It was small, compact, but good. Nice original D&D story in there. For HoTu, it seemed they listened to the kiddies more gave 'em evil choices etc. I imagine for them it was fun but that's not real D&D.

[robertthebard]

I still believe the main point to Hordes was content. Epic levels, scripting, crafting, etc.

[SpiritWarrior]

It was. It added quite a bit. Story was very commercialized though. I felt like I was playing a console version.

[robertthebard]

Considering the MP aspects of the original, and Shadows, you're not far from wrong, since Hordes was primarily a SP campaign.

[Dreamer128]

Originally posted by robertthebard: Considering the MP aspects of the original, and Shadows, you're not far from wrong, since Hordes was primarily a SP campaign.

Primarily? I believe multiplayer is completely impossible in HOTU.

[Harkoliar]

HOTU is the best [img]smile.gif[/img] . I really enjoyed that but SOU is good to start simply because of (spoil) Deekin