[lonnarin]

Ooooh, nice water textures and skyboxes! Will the new format be swimming-capable? Any jumping to get over rocky terrain? This seriously looks better than Morrowind!

One of the things that tick me off about NWN is how ridiculously it handles terrain. Like you'll take an entire party up a sheer rockface around 10,000 meters high, only to have to turn back when the evil wizard's tower is protected by a *gasp* 3 foot tall, invincible, unpassable shrubbery. One thing I think none of these MMORPG engines have tried is freestyle climbing. In Gothic 3, you can kind of try to bunny hop yourself up a mountain with limited success, but most of the time in these games you're limited to sticking to the roads and flatlands, and just being able to gaze upon the mountain from afar. I can't wait to get out of the NWN tilesets where every single placetable is impenetrable, and all the water more than 3 inches deep is fatal as hot lava. It's sort of like the Mario complex where he's running around in surface levels and one misplaces jump into the water kills him, yet the next level he somehow manages to hold his breath and swim underwater indefinately.