Hello everyone. Here is my situation. I played the Baldur's Gate series back when it came out, Torment and all the other classic games, then Neverwinter Nights I and II. On a Russian forum dedicated to such things, me and a few other people worked on a mod for NWN I. It never came out, but in the process I learned a good deal about writing dialogues and simple scripting. This was around 2008.
Now I have some ideas for what I think would be an interesting mod, and I might even manage to make it all by myself. I could try. But even when I left that board, not too many people were already playing NWN I, few were enthusiastic about II. The older games had become something like the Wild West. Now I'm thinking of coming back to modding, but does anyone but die-hard fans still play the IE line? Other games - Oblivion, Fallout 3, The Witcher, Mount & Blade - for various gameplay reasons don't seem appropriate for an adventure with plenty of conversation and description.
I hate combat, and I'm thinking of writing a pretty, fun little thing. I don't need the D&D setting, Bhaal or balance, just a simple engine - and this is the simplest one I know.
So, do many people still play the IE and Aurora-based moddable games? Outside of those you meet at these forums. Or is it a remote hobby for old-timers? I mean, I'm 33 myself... I don't want or expect my mod to take the world by storm, but I don't care to put this much writing effort into something only two dozen people would play either.
Edited by temnix, 31 January 2014 - 04:18 PM.