Icewind Dale 2 Complete

icewind dale 1 and 2 are very amazing games and have great graphics and storyline and its replay value is great because i love to try out new parties and i still even appreciate it in 2010 when there are alot more advanced games out

(Français en dessous) Thirst, I loved Baldur's gate, 1 and 2, and icewind dale 1. But I can't play this. I am mainly talking about interface and playability here. All seems counterintuitive in this game. I can't believe it is a sequel. Why can't the developpers keep the same layout? The graphism is hawful, even with mods... The armors, weapons, etc. design don't compare to the first Icewind Dale. Same for the maps and the rest. Don't believe the comments saying it is amazing, it is not true. Perhaps wait for an enhanced version, I don't know, but I doubt it... You can't let the game on standby with Alt-tab and check another application (email for example) with the game still open. It bugs. The journal is a mess (no quests per se, just a basic ugly text...). You have to clic several times to access a specific spell. You can't easily access to a character specifics (armour class, proficencies in weapons, etc.) This list could go on and on, but I think you have the general idea. En Français : J'ai adoré jouer à baldur's gate 1 et 2, et au premier icewind dale. Mais ça, non. Je parle surtout de l'interface et de la jouabilité. Tout est lourd et anti-ergonomique, comparé à des versions précédentes, incroyable ! Le graphisme est hideux, même avec tous les différents mods possibles pour améliorer la définition. Les armes, les armures, bref tout l'inventaire est ignoblement conçu et laid. Pareil pour les cartes et le jeu en général. Ne croyez pas les commentaires disant que c'est superbe (ni même les screenshots qui sont très sûrement retouchés, ça ne fait aucun doute), c'est faux. Peut-être qu'une version enhanced serait préférable, je ne sais pas et j'en doute... Vous ne pouvez pas laisser le jeu ouvert et passer à d'autres application avec alt-tab, ça bug. Le journal est merdique (pas de liste des quêtes, simplement du texte de base...) On doit cliquer plusieurs fois pour lancer un sort spécifique, pénible. C'est la galère pour accéder aux caractéristiques des persos, classe d'armure, efficacité pour tel ou tel type d'arme, etc. Je pourrais continuer longtemps, mais je pense avoir donné l'idée générale.

I found that BG2 had a lot more focus in its gameplay, and it was just an overall more interesting game. LD2 especially has such a limited plot focus, and the areas you visit are very standard (like the first ID). There are a lot of snowy areas and tombs. Needless to say I would wait to see if they can get BG2 up on here before picking up this game. Choose the better one first. At the very least if you haven't played BG1 you should do that one first. They aren't related plotwise, but BG1 has a much more compelling storyline.

As much as I would love to have delved into a proper third-edition D&D game, I can't actually play this game at all. It either loads in an odd corner of the screen when I set it into fullscreen, or the windowed version is so tiny that it's painful to read-- and if I try to shift my window, it makes the mouse stop working. Sadly I feel like I wasted my money and cannot recommend this to anyone.

As an avid role-player from right around the time shortly after the game was discovered (not invented...who knows when that really happened), I find all the Baldur's Gate Games as well as Icewind Dale 1 to be very pleasurable and entetertaining games. But this game was an attempt by someone not from TSR at taking over the reins as well as the gaming system, and trying to fix something that was never broken to begin with. The only possible reason for doing so would be to try to create more revenue from an old source....like beating a dead horse in a way, or trying to extract blood from a stone in another. In my humble (and rather old) opinion, the game stinks!