I once told a player I was "headin' out" using only my gamepad, but the ordeal took me what felt like half a minute. The effect is that I leveled almost to the level cap without seeing a single player ever say anything in group, general, or looking for group chat. Without an equivalent of the useful communication prompts in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, Neverwinter leaves everything to limited voice chat or text messages. The other major letdown is in a lack of communication. To its credit, Neverwinter's combat is fun enough that I found myself looking forward to attempting the battle again, with a more careful eye on my health.
I can blame at least one death on Neverwinter’s frame rate causing a command to drink a health potion to go unheeded when the world started moving again, my poor Great Weapon Fighter lay dead on the dungeon floor. But in the higher and more detailed zones, like Icespire Peak, the environmental detail and weather effects sometimes slowed my Xbox One’s frame rate to a crawl. Most low-level players will only see the framerates dip consistently in the combat-free streets of Neverwinter itself, where the crowds of players and NPCs sometimes overwhelm the hardware at moments when it can do the least harm. What’s missing here is a reliably stable frame rate. Using these abilities with the Xbox One controller's rumble would make them even more exciting, which is why it's so bizarre to find it missing in action. I'll let my Daily powers build up, and bam, I shoot down to the Forgotten Realms with a slam that sends enemies reeling. I might hit the Y button to activate Restoring Strike, and boom, up goes my greatsword knocking back a dead enemy like Babe Ruth hitting a homer. As a person who usually plays warriors in MMORPGs, I tend to judge them on how satisfying they make it to beat things down with a big hammer or blade, and regardless of Neverwinter's other issues, few MMOs beat it in this regard. I like to smash things, and it obliges with simple controls that make use the seven classes’ diverse abilities. The focus here is on combat in the style of God of War or Darksiders, and Neverwinter usually keeps me so focused on it that I rarely find cause to miss more open surroundings. But on the Xbox One, I find that's not so much a problem.
You eventually get that here at the level cap, but only in the form of slightly less linear instances. Sometimes the path widens considerably, yes, but it's an experience that's not terribly unlike the opening 100 hours of Final Fantasy XIII, where the action unfolds across unrelenting, ill-disguised corridors before at last opening up to wider vistas. The problem is that most of Neverwinter's heavily instanced zones are as linear as that haft, and many consist of little more than long paths as you bounce forward from quest to quest. Neverwinter isn't without its moments of beauty, and only a few hours in, I found myself looking forward to the moment when I could again ride up the haft of Lakkar's Axe, a skyscraper-sized greataxe that forms a bridge across a chasm on Mount Hotenow as though Marvel's Galactus had dropped it while trying to chop down Yggdrasil.
VIGOR XBOX ONE PC
Not much has changed about the core leveling process in the intervening two years, apart from the introduction of two new classes and new races, but interestingly, elements that I formerly found disappointing on the PC version have assume an odd sort of appeal on the Xbox One.
My own enthusiasm surprises me because I've already done this twice before, when I leveled two characters to the level cap of 60 on PC.
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