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EverythingXen
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Joined: 01 Feb 2002
Posts: 4342
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If you go from Gothic to Icewind Dale expecting some sort of RPG you'll be heartbroken. IWD is a dungeon hack. You don't interact with others so much as find creative ways to hack them to bits. Story elements are tossed in.
Better of playing BG2 or (especially) Planescape: Torment if you want a story heavy environment.
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Mon Mar 18, 2002 2:04 pm |
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stealth
Protector of the Realm
Joined: 23 Mar 2002
Posts: 261
Location: Valhalla |
Icewind Dale was IMHO the weakest of the IE games. Mostly because the story was way too linear but I still think it was rather good.
I don't really think IWD2 will be a spectacular game but less will also suffice. I'm definitely going to get this one.
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Sat Mar 23, 2002 6:10 pm |
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mtkafka
Village Dweller
Joined: 15 Jul 2001
Posts: 24
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Icewind Dale 2 using the 3ed DnD rules is more than enough for me to try it out. Actually, in some instances I prefer IWD out of ANY of the infinity games because its a tight dungeon crawl. I like that!
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Sat Mar 23, 2002 9:48 pm |
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raspewtin
Village Dweller
Joined: 31 Dec 2001
Posts: 19
Location: California, USA |
they sure picked a bad time to put it out though. it cannot hope to compete against games like morrowind, dungeon siege, neverwinter nights. i would have made an add on for the ps2 game dark alliance as black isle if i were them and released another pc rpg in september or so, or cut the expenses on iwd2 in half and released it at 20-25 bucks (this has worked great for serious sam developers). they would have done a lot better. but then if interplay knew how to maximize revenue, they would be making more revenue, and we would have fallout 3 by now.
[ This Message was edited by: raspewtin on 2002-03-24 10:19 ] |
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Sun Mar 24, 2002 4:18 pm |
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Max Killen
Exalted Potentate
Joined: 04 Dec 2001
Posts: 1112
Location: Why not Minot? |
To me, Icewind Dale should not be considered a role-playing. When did hack and slash fall under RPG. Icewind Dale did not have a story or plot, just hack and slash. I guess Serious Sam is RPG then. I grew bored with Icewind Dale very quickly so I will not buy the second installment
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Sun Mar 24, 2002 4:51 pm |
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Danicek
The Old One
Joined: 15 Dec 2001
Posts: 5922
Location: Czech Republic |
Max I can not agree.
I am FPS player (or maybe better to say "I was"). And IceWind Dale had huge, perfect story in comparation to them.
IceWind Dale is RPG. There are many types of RPG games. I think that also Diablo I and II was RPG. Very action based RPG, but still RPG. This is my opinion  .
[ This Message was edited by: Danicek on 2002-03-24 12:55 ] |
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Sun Mar 24, 2002 6:54 pm |
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