Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition

Can't outfit all characters at the start or even after playing many hours. prices for anything are OUTRAGEOUS. you get a few hundred gp tops in a dungeon and One character requires a minimum of a thousand to outfit. can't even BUY a magic weapon, or find one, yet you are sent into battle with several mobs that can only be hit with magic. Also, my magic user constantly charges into battle without weapons or robes and no spells. found no way to stop her. One fighter, outfitted to the max as best I could, kept dying easily. Couldn't afford to raise him, so forced to reload. and I didn't even get through the Shadow vale yet. gave up. want refund

My feelings that developers have an amazing respect for the real game. Therefore they did not dare to change anything on the original. I must say this game still worth it even if the enhanched edition' graphic level nowhere to Pillars of Ethernity for instance. What developers really did they converted ID, updated for today's requirements, and at the same time they preserved the whole ID experience and made more convenient for rpg fans and newbies as well.

Can someone tell to beamdog to NEVER touch any bioware or D&D products any more ? For God sake ! They defile everything they touch.

so, what did beamdog enhance? - UI? nope. they just made the game look like their enhance versions of baldur's gate. nothing has been enhanced here. - combats? nope. AI is as braindead as in the original version. besides, they added new classes and spells that make the game way more unbalanced now. the original game already was easy, now it is way easier. not enhanced. - pathfinding maybe? nope, as broken as it was in the original version. good thing beamdog can't get their hands on icewind dale 2.

Okay, first of all, when this game came out back in the day, I distinctly remember it getting only average reviews, but now, it's suddenly getting nines and tens. What gives? Did the game become better as it aged or something? I hardly think it did. Have you ever wondered what you would get if you had Baldur's Gate and took away all the non-linearity, the interesting characters and quirky companions, the well-designed areas, the balanced combat, the huge variety in enemies and battles, the engaging story and the wondrous feeling of adventure? Well, you would get Icewind Dale. It has none of those things and for a game based solely on combat, it has some very poorly designed battles. You basically fight the same mob of enemies over and over again until you get to the next room where you fight them again. If that wasn't annoying enough, the Infinity Engine truly shows its greatest weakness here as the poor pathfinding turns the game into a nerve grating micromanaging task. It probably wouldn't have mattered back in the day where every game was like that, but it wouldn't fly in today's world. The only reason people are giving such high scores is obviously because of nostalgia instead of the game's own merits.