Neverwinter tempts your lust for glory with its first teaser trailer

@Yellowdancer

Nope, the player created content tools are still fully intact.

@Yellowdancer Trailers aren't necessarily suppose to show the strength of the game, it's suppose to be advertising to get people to play the game. I'm guessing this is only the first, a taste, a "hey look at us we're still alive"-trailer. Unfortunately if they wait to craft a perfect trailer they also lose a lot of time (since making perfect trailer takes time) that they could have been eliciting interest.

@Malagarr

STO and CO aren't browser based games.

This one is...

@(Unverified)
I dont think it is. Also, I saw this trailer on IGN 4 MONTHS AGO.

@(Unverified)

This isn't browser based and the website still lists content creation tools as a main feature.

It should also be noted that the content creation tools in STO were originally developed for NW and ported back to those games.

@Malagarr

Still no player-created content tools in CO I'm afraid.

Although I recognized a lot of animations from that game in the video above.

On a completely unrelated note, why do female undead always have ample bosoms? Do they charm their breasts to be resistant to decay while the rest rots away, or is silicon a part of D&D these days?

~V

@Strangeland. Thats it exactly. Unless this has the features that make D&D/Neverwinter what it is, then it will just be another fantasy MMO among a sea of fantasy MMOs. Hopefully they will honour the IP fans and not just churn out the same shit and hope for a quick buck from the people that will buy it just for the "Neverwinter" name.

@Tyrion10

Yes. If you put Cryptic on anything at this point I will likely avoid it like the plague. They simply do not have a clue on how to make a good game let alone a good MMO.

Good to see they were so original that they used the "battle on a bridge" moment that every fantasy cut scene/movie/show/game has used to death. And of course then they went extra cliche with the dragon.

But naturally I don't expect Cryptic to be original. I expect them to ruin IPs and make horrible games. They did not disappoint.

@SnarlingWolf
Not entirely true. They know how to make a good game for 8 years ago. CoH still stands as a successful game despite the many limitations imposed on its growth by the core engine. In fact, since Cryptic left the game it's pretty remarkable what Paragon has done within the engine's limitations.

The problem is that in the time since CoH came out, Emmert and Cryptic have learned very little. CO was basically just CoH with a new skin. In fact if anything they went backwards. When CoH was in the early development phases they used a completely free-form power advancement system. The problem was that a lot of people were gimping themselves and a few were overpowered. So they created the archetypes. Then with CO, what did they do? Returned to a very free-form system that ultimately had enough problems they had to introduce preset builds.

This is basically the story of anything Cryptic does. Jack Emmert doesn't try to innovate and in fact often strangles any attempts by the people around him to do so. He has a vision for the ideal MMO that he keeps trying to realize and he refuses to listen to anyone who doesn't agree with that vision. Never mind that the vision is basically a decade old by this point and player expectations have changed dramatically during the interim. He still has the "Field of Dreams Syndrome" where he thinks that if he can build his perfect MMO players will flock to it and like it.

Put another way, he's trying to build a better mousetrap in a world populated with rats.

@Critical Mass

+1

@Critical Mass Yeah, the nerve of those people, including a dragon! You'd think it was part of the title.

Like those guys at Trion who put all those damn Rifts in their game.