Neverwinter Nights is a series I'm not overly familiar with; I never played the original at all, and even though I did try out 2, I never got very far in since it's running on janky, dated code that makes it unpleasant to play on modern Windows. I was hoping the Enhanced Edition would improve upon this, but tey don't seem to have put a great deal of quality of life improvements in this remaster. It runs at higher resolutions and without weird animation bugs but it still has weirdly long load times, weird collision detection and a somewhat clunky UI (get prompted to save before I load? seriously?). I also had a controller plugged in that would vibrate during the bigger hits and couldn't find any way to disable it in the options. Not to mention several options just seem to not work; I disabled switching characters when I click on them and it still happened.
As for the game itself, it's based on Third Edition Dungeons & Dragons, which is pretty jarring for someone who isn't overly familiar with the tabletop game and previously only played the Baldur's Gate titles. You can freely swap between classes after gaining levels (with some exceptions) and now gain upgrades in the form of Feats and stat upgrades to tweak your character more and more into a niche playstyle. Alchemy, crafting weapons and armor, and thief skills are now also available to any class, and there are so many sub-races that I just started getting choice paralysis before very long because there's so many damn options and no way to know which ones will actually benefit you or not (at least not without playing the game to death and memorizing every one of its maps). Like Icewind Dale most of these seem to be pretty moot since the primary focus is just on endless dungeon crawling and combat, so there's little benefit to picking anything not geared specifically toward that. Crafting armor and weapons and alchemy also seems pretty pointless when you can just buy most anything you need for a pittance; I get that it's there for completeness owing to the more open-ended, roleplaying focus of the table top game, but if it's not going to benefit you in a video game adaption, why include it? The story also just feels very generic overall and the voice acting is honestly pretty crappy for a 2006 game, so... yeah. I got bored of it real quick and just found myself replaying Baldur's Gate 3 again, rather than retreating a 'classic' that's aged like an isotope of hydrogen-5.
Developer: Aspyr Media, Obsidian Entertainment
Publisher: Aspyr Entertainment