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[Daulmakan]

Interesting. Thanks for the heads-up.

[Archmage Silver]

I fear that it'll be cheap mainstream crap. Frankly, I'd rather see that they left the series alone if they can't do a proper sequel.

With that said, it's interesting to see where this is going.

[Vicen]

If they do what they did to Baldurs Gate (Dark Alliance and whatever other titles they made that were crap) You can count me out...but if they stay true to what it was or somehow improve or only stray a little bit...it could certainly be worth a look...

Edited by Vicen, 22 February 2011 - 12:38 AM.

[Jarno Mikkola]

'Vicen', on 22 February 2011 - 12:38 AM, said:

If they do what they did to Baldurs Gate (Dark Alliance and whatever other titles they made that were crap) You can count me out...but if they stay true to what it was or somehow improve or only stray a little bit...it could certainly be worth a look...

Well, the Icewind Dale was still awesome, but the second was cheesed up with the rule system, as the race level's were totally the worst idea ever... you could play with the normal races but then you lost a few bits and pieces. The second thing is that the rule system is totally unfair in few places, like you get 0XP for killing creatures you have killed before, that you might still face thousands because you are already on levels above the one you get any XP from... for example, the wolf riders in the "Horde Fortress Gate", they were really hard because they were 2 creatures, the goblin with the wolf, and then the goblin... and they always kept being summoned if I hadn't killed their summoner(drums or what ever), and the stealth killing those were hard cause there were traps, etc. few tougher creature behind the bridges, moats and walls. So I ended up killing a whole ... a lot of those creatures for nothing.

[Solar's Harper]

Well the second was a blogfest of enemies put in just for the sake of being there more often than not, and don't get me started at how clunky the game got when there are a lot of enemies on the screen at the same time and your characters want to glitch out for four precious seconds.

Realistically speaking, that many enemies, armed to the teeth more often than not with arrows axes and other nasty tools? No matter how good you were at dodging, eventually you'd at the very least be visiting a hospital bed for several months at a time. Minus a few limbs maybe, weather and all.

At least the damn illithids weren't one-hit kill player that time round... So yeah, if they could at least make it a little more sensible next time, the series might yet have a chance to achieve the spotlight for a few minutes.

I mean it's not like they could make it worse or anything.

Edited by Solar's Harper, 22 February 2011 - 03:05 AM.

[Archmage Silver]

'Solar's Harper', on 22 February 2011 - 01:05 PM, said:

Well the second was a blogfest of enemies put in just for the sake of being there more often than not, and don't get me started at how clunky the game got when there are a lot of enemies on the screen at the same time and your characters want to glitch out for four precious seconds.

That's not directly related to the number of enemies, as the game is stable on most systems. If you experience stuttering in some areas, you should try the Slowdown Fixes mod. It certainly works for me.

'Slowdown Fixes ReadMe' said:

Some people experience horrible slowdowns in some areas of IWD2.
Movement is not smooth, seems to stop every second or so, the rotating globe does not rotate smoothly, making gameplay difficult and annoying.

Not everyone experiences these problems. They could be related to hardware issues, such as CPU, chipset, type of ram, or whatever. My system has a P4 1.7GHz, i850 chipset with RDRAM, and it does experience these problems.

They could also be related to how your party members' inventory is organized, as the problem stems from a scripting function calls PartyHasItem() which scans all member inventories in search of an item. The slowdown occurs if you do not have the item, or if the item is not carried by the 1st member (party leader) and the function has to search longer for it.

'Solar's Harper', on 22 February 2011 - 01:05 PM, said:

I mean it's not like they could make it worse or anything.

Yes they could. I don't think it would even take that much effort to do so. -1 for no IE to begin with.

[Daulmakan]

'Archmage Silver', on 22 February 2011 - 02:09 PM, said:

Yes they could. I don't think it would even take that much effort to do so. -1 for no IE to begin with.

I was wondering about that and figured it was unlikely, sadly. Is the engine thing confirmed yet?

[Miloch]

'Vicen', on 22 February 2011 - 08:38 AM, said:

If they do what they did to Baldurs Gate (Dark Alliance and whatever other titles they made that were crap) You can count me out...

Hey, I'm still waiting for Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance III .

[Vicen]

'Miloch', on 22 February 2011 - 11:47 AM, said:

'Vicen', on 22 February 2011 - 08:38 AM, said:

If they do what they did to Baldurs Gate (Dark Alliance and whatever other titles they made that were crap) You can count me out...

Hey, I'm still waiting for Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance III .

Haha...I suspect that wait will be a LONG time...!

[Archmage Silver]

Fearqus Urquhart Interview @ Joystiq

'Joystiq' said:

So a part of it is, why not go make Icewind Dale 3? You can't spend $20 million on it, but why not go make it?

- Feargus Urquhart

[-JR-]

'Archmage Silver', on 20 February 2011 - 05:44 PM, said:

I fear that it'll be cheap mainstream crap. Frankly, I'd rather see that they left the series alone if they can't do a proper sequel.

With that said, it's interesting to see where this is going.

'Vicen', on 22 February 2011 - 03:38 AM, said:

If they do what they did to Baldurs Gate (Dark Alliance and whatever other titles they made that were crap) You can count me out...but if they stay true to what it was or somehow improve or only stray a little bit...it could certainly be worth a look...

'Archmage Silver', on 22 February 2011 - 12:09 PM, said:

-1 for no IE to begin with.

Hear, hear.

[Destiny]

That would be awesome.

[Western Paladin]

I loved the first two Icewind Dale games. I'd love to see another some day.

[Archmage Silver]

Something Eric Schwarz wrote for GameBanshee: Icewind Dale: The Past, Present, and Future. For the IWD3 rumors, see "Rebirth on the Horizon?" on page 3.