So a couple days ago I picked up a used copy of Icewind Dale (with original manual and quick-reference flier). My first thoughts: "What am I doing?". The transition to AD&D, even having played Baldur's Gate for hours, from Neverwinter Nights? Painful, at best. However, after some graphics tweaks (on my XP rig, I needed to set up Open GL rendering mode to not get a ton of black boxes around text that go down maybe a few inches (or ~600 pixels? It's been a while, and I don't really have a ruler in by my computer).
Anyways, I'm a huge fan of the graphics of Icewind Dale. The artwork is spectacular, which you don't get with a lot of new 3d games (though, I guess that is less and less now, but NWN doesn't begin to match IWD), and the attention to detail is stunning. With a horribly cheating solo wizard, the difficulty isn't so bad (though, he does have vanilla spell levels, so that 1 spell/8 hours does kinda mean he winds up hitting stuff an awful lot). The main concern I have with the game is that I won't be able to pay attention all the way through (when IWD2 was on Gametap, I started it up and got about 5 minutes in before leaving for a break).
However, it's an enjoyable experience, and 8 dollars for a game and a nice heavy manual? I'll take it.
Anyways, I'm a huge fan of the graphics of Icewind Dale. The artwork is spectacular, which you don't get with a lot of new 3d games (though, I guess that is less and less now, but NWN doesn't begin to match IWD), and the attention to detail is stunning. With a horribly cheating solo wizard, the difficulty isn't so bad (though, he does have vanilla spell levels, so that 1 spell/8 hours does kinda mean he winds up hitting stuff an awful lot). The main concern I have with the game is that I won't be able to pay attention all the way through (when IWD2 was on Gametap, I started it up and got about 5 minutes in before leaving for a break).
However, it's an enjoyable experience, and 8 dollars for a game and a nice heavy manual? I'll take it.