I've never seen any other game like ddo, the sense of adventure is very present. Each quest has its story and usually contains way more than just the main objective. You are free to do any quests to lvl up and there is so many quest that even after me playing for many years there are still some i have never done. Also you cam create very unique characters, no two characters created will be the same with race trees, enhancement trees, universal trees feats, and the possibility to take levels of a different class than the original one make it so creating any character you please is possible. It sure is a nice change from games where a different player with the same class will do exactly the same thing you do. There is also a lot of difficulty settings, and it provides for a great challenge if you want it. With casual, normal, hard, elite and reaper has actually 10 difficulties from Reaper 1 to reaper 10. It provides a big challenge even for veterans. Even though much of the game is behind a pay wall they have recently started giving out codes for 95ish% of the content for free. Much of the locked content is unlockable by playing and you earn good amout of premium money by playing aswell so you can actually unlock everything for free. The community is also very kind and welcoming.

i remember trying neverwinter years ago and the whole time i was just thinking about how i would much rather be playing ddo

Imho, ddo > nw. Ddo's dungeons have puzzles, traps, platforming, swimming amd verticality. Neverwinter feels likes a flat looter-brawler/looter-shooter set in The Forgotten Realms.

Good and clear video comparison. Sounds like I would like DDO more

Also... DDO is hosting their "Hardcore" season. They have a server that is perma-death, with rewards that are accessible from ones home server. Some "classic D&D players may be interested in such a thing, as it is synergetic with tabletop D&D. These seasons only last a few months before going away.

Nice to see an unbiased comparison and breakdown. The reason the Neverwinter quest seems disjointed is because more than half of the original quest line has been removed. Even though you're forced to reach maximum level before you can do any new content, the leveling up quests are all watered down monotonous railroad experiences that I can only assume dissuade any new players from experiencing the full game.

Great video! The character and build depth in DDO grows so much as you level. The lack of low level options lets you wade into the complexity at your own pace.

DDO is much closer to actual D&D. 🎉

Been playing NW for almost 5 years, it has changed a lot during the years. When i first started playing loads of story, but also grindy campaigns & quests. Which meant it would take 9-12 months to get to do endgame stuff. Now they changed it & no one bothers with the story. It's all about getting your character to level 20 which you can do in 12-36 hours. Joining ques as fast as possible, to get AD, in order to buy higher il gear, in order to do more challenging content. So as much as i really like the combat aspect in NW, truth is there's a lot of ppl with high il gear, knowing f all about story, mechanics, or knowledge of best gear choices for their class etc. I play other games for story/questing experiences, not NW. 10th year anniversary coming up for NW, gonna be hanging around for that & mainly because of friends i've made in the game throughout the years ). Nice video, might give D&D a go )

Dungeons & Dragons universe is notorious for low level characters being very weak, very slow and very squishy. That translates into DDO just the same. You MUST get a DDO character to higher level before it starts to get really fun. It gets exceptional after 20 when your character has access to all their feats/spells/abilities. But DDO does one better by offering forever upgrades to your character every time you get to 20 and CHOOSE to start again at lv 1. The "Resurrection" mechanic was a brilliant addition. You CAN go all the way into Epics and Legendary content. Or you can go through the heroic again, but a wee bit more powerful than the last pass. And that continues... Players always have a choice. So so many cool choices all through the game.

I just gave Neverwinter a good bash last night.. and yeah I've gotta agree with you 100%.. The combat feels good, but there's no challange at all.. no group content at all and I'm level 8.. just following the golden line with no sense of adventure.. I might give D&Do a go.. I want a classic WoW experience with the exploration/slower combat/rewarding progression.. Just very hard to find.

Great video! I hope you continue with DDO, if you appreciate it at the low level free content then im sure you will love some of the newer stuff too. And definitely check out some grouping! The community is very welcoming and friendly

DDO is a hell of a deeper game than Neverwinter. Neverwinter is like an MMO version of an arcade game.

Ddo is my favorite of the two!

The fun part of this, is in (when playing) choosing how you would like to play the game (for example, focusing on one enemy at long range or many enemies at close range), and from here you can already choose the class that best suits you. to the way you play, each class is a different ddo game (even if it's the same game, it feels like many, and you want to try them all), to kill many at once, the best ones are the spell casters.

DDO is more true to the D&D experience, whereas Neverwinter provides a neat themed arcade experience. That is fine - but the immersion in DDO is stronger and the experience way more memorable. Well you can't compare Coq au vin with with a bucket of hot wings now can you. Both have merit 😅

so the take away I'm getting from the video is that D&D Online seems to be more inline with the tabletop game with how exp works and the puzzles and all that stuff, kind of, but also Neverwinter seems to as well with the milestone based experience gain. But D&D Online seems more "fun" as video game. What I'm saying is that I know which game I think is better

so it's basically like Nickelodian and Nick jr. DDO and NWO

DDO hands down is the most diverse game with multiple build options. Been playing since 2010. I gave NW a go a number of years ago but it just didn't give me the experience that I was looking for.

The soundtrack in DDO gets more dramatic in higher levels.

You can press TAB to target something.

Good video sir.

Fair assessment, hope you do find some enjoyable play in ddo. I forgot how fun this game was. I played it shortly, 2weeks or so, after launch in 2004 0r something. I liked it then, and while I wish it was as updated as baulder's gate graphically, I wish balders gate 3, was as team and action orientated as ddo. Just some comments for the algorithm. G9od luck.

im going to try it and give it a go - compare it to Lotro.

Hi. I have more than 10.000 hours logged on both games. I'm active on both. Considering everything - two elements that the player has to consider. -The timezone that you are going to play. In NWO, this implies finding an alliance in the same timezone to run content with you. In DDO, you need to see what server is more active for your timezone. -DDO is mostly based on Eberon (you can go to forgotten realms). This means that it is a bigger game. -NWO is only based on Forgotten Realms with the only exception being Barovia (which DDO also have). -DDO you can change your race and your class via a system of resurrections. -NWO you are stuck with your class. However most classes can be dps/healer, tank/healer, dps/tank or only dps.

I love DDO, i have been subscribed since the launch in 2006, but i don't have any real experience with anything else online, other than MWO, really. It is the only game i still play with any frequency these days. My son, who was a toddler when it came out, joined our group a handful of years ago 😉 The four of us get together a couple of times a week and I run a bit of solo content. Neverwinter hasn't ever really appealed to me and seeing a bit about how it works doesn't make me anymore enthusiastic.

refreshing level of honesty

Tried them both. Still playing DDO. NWN not.

DDO Wayfinder Kikku if you want a good grouping experience.

Been playing both since release and do is definitely the better of the two in every term besides free roam areas

worlds apart: You mean 3.5DDO Rules vs 5.0 rules that NWW is apparently based on. I've never played anything beyond NWN1 & 2 (when Persistence Worlds and Roleplay PWs was a thing online back in the early 2000s) however it's almost impossible to RP on DDO, it's too fast paced for that... that being said, I still play DDO to this day, with the constant worry that eventually, it will end in some manner... :/

How did you level? I was stuck on equipping your horse with no money. I bought coin which never showed up. Its a scam.

DDO has a much better community most of them are either current or previous D&D players

So, did you get back to ddo?

There is no comparison DDO beats every MMO hands down

I tried Neverwinter.. I hated it... it wasn't fun.... .. ... after about a 18 month period I figured I would give it another try... found I had an absolute shit-ton of boxes & points they had just given me... spent a day turning it all in for among other things.. a Bullet mount and ton of crafting stuff... still wasnt fun even after some item raised me to like level 70 or some.. and because I didnt have any gear no matter where I went at my level I got torn to fucking pieces... never looked back.. .. that was about 5 years ago.. .. DDO is the shiznit, never been happier, been playing since 2012

10/10 quality content 🥕🥕🥕🥕

Ive played ddo since launch, and neverwinter for a couole of years when i had a ps4.... Neverwinter looks great, but the mechanics and character building in ddo allow you to more than forgive what it lacks in graphical power. In some of the newer content (from the MOTU onwards), some of the content far outshines some of the older eberon stuff. The underdark looks amazing

I can agree as a veteran Neverwinter player. Its more about the combat. Making builds, go over the stats. Reaching lvl 20 is not the goal. Its just when things starts to open up. You have campaigns with storys and adventures. Also some Nice dungeoun and group content. Its a system to it. Neverwinter is a really exiting game. Problem is you can buy yourself up. But endgame gear you need play to get. But you can enter the new dung today. If wallet is big enough. Thats a bit downside. And upside for some

omg is so cute that you don't have your imbue of fire arrow activated in DDO,

neverwinter best for me

If you are going to play ddo, then you really need to wait to get to level 20 for heroic. Things get a lot more difficult and most long time players won't have time for you.

I have several hundred hours in DDO and Ive played some hours of NW. DDO is the better game but NW has better performance

I just got to level 20 on Neverwinter, was playing both at the same time for a bit but I wanted to get over with the "hit level cap tutorial" You said you don't like MMOs, me neither. The whole Neverwinter experience is exactly why I hate MMOs, I went from trying to read quest text to just spamming 1 and standing still in boring boss easy fights. By Steam reviews Neverwinter is meant to be the better game and It probably is, but man I have enjoyed DDO so much more, I'm only up to like lvl 5 there which is after Korthos. I'll probably continue Neverwinter off and on just to "honestly dislike it" or "prove my judgement that I won't like it no matter how far I get" but DDO despite the bad score it has, it feels way closer to a fun RPG experience (Emphasis on "closer", if it was singleplayer it'd be awful, even tho I play it solo the appeal is ofc the MMO bit) the only thing Neverwinter I like more is that you start in the Forgotten Realms meanwhile in DDO you have to earn a bunch of store currency coins or pay $ to move to FR

Neverwinter doesn't compare to DDO. DDO is fantastic.

Yep. Neverwinter is a WoW-lite clone masquerading as "D&D" (even with its VERRRRRY loosely based 4th edition rules... which is a terrible ruleset to begin with). DDO is older, with outdated UI and graphics... but underneath is the closest you'll get to Dungeons & Dragons experience as a MMORPG as you can get.

I refuse to play NW for the mere fact that ATARI first supported D& D online but then left them high and dry to go to NW/ sour taste in my mouth and will never again support a Atari game

Neverwinter is full P2W...

I don't think this is a good career choice for you.

Both are absolute trash for different reasons.

They both suck in there own ways. Both have really weak dev teams, very poor customer service. I enjoy DDO more, though I don't play much anymore.

In neverwinter, anything below lvl 20 is just tutorial, you need to finish the tutorial before you can judge the game.