I never want to be an RPG gatekeeper—I want as many people as possible to find out what makes these games so great. But their inherent crustiness can make my old-head RPG favorites hard to recommend to people who haven't already bought in. I've got a lot of friends I recommend Disco Elysium to, but not very many I tell to play Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.
Thankfully, Aspyr's remaster of one of my favorite crusty RPGs, 2006's Neverwinter Nights 2 from Obsidian, has finally pushed it into the ranks of "games I can credibly recommend to a normal person." No more crashing when you try to change the resolution, no more unreasonably tiny UI past 1080p, just a game that works (and works well) on modern systems—including the Steam Deck.
