Does Icewind Dale get better ?

[Sreggin Etah I]

I've been playing Icewind dale lately,so far all I've been fighting is copy pasted skeletons and others trash mobs,boring !

I heard that Icewind dale is a combat focused game so i was expecting good challenging encounters...but NO ! just shitty copy pasted mobs after shitty copy pasted mobs !

Does it get better or is just a boring Diablo clone ?

Maybe normal difficulty is too easy ?

 

[Sentinel]

Do you mean "Normal" as in "below Core Rules" or "Normal" as in "Core Rules" difficulty?

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

I've been playing Icewind dale lately,so far all I've been fighting is copy pasted skeletons and others trash mobs,boring !

I heard that Icewind dale is a combat focused game so i was expecting good challenging encounters...but NO ! just shitty copy pasted mobs after shitty copy pasted mobs !

Does it get better or is just a boring Diablo clone ?

Maybe normal difficulty is too easy ?

Yeah, it does get harder. Specifically when you start fighting enemy spellcasters and special enemies.

 

[Sreggin Etah I]

Do you mean "Normal" as in "below Core Rules" or "Normal" as in "Core Rules" difficulty?

i don't know,My ICW version is the gog non-enchanced edition version and there's no mention of "core rules" anywhere.

 

[Sigourn]

Do you mean "Normal" as in "below Core Rules" or "Normal" as in "Core Rules" difficulty?

i don't know,My ICW version is the gog non-enchanced edition version and there's no mention of "core rules" anywhere.

I believe you need to launch the game's setup (which lets you configure graphic and sound options, among other things) and there you will be able to adjust the difficulty slider.

 

[Sentinel]

Do you mean "Normal" as in "below Core Rules" or "Normal" as in "Core Rules" difficulty?

i don't know,My ICW version is the gog non-enchanced edition version and there's no mention of "core rules" anywhere.

yeah Normal is Core Rules on the OG versions.

Where are you at in the game? Dragon's Temple or whatever the fuck it's named is when I started feeling the challenge.

 

[Butter]

Sounds like OP is still in Vale of Shadows. You should play it through Dragon's Eye at least.

 

[Sreggin Etah I]

Do you mean "Normal" as in "below Core Rules" or "Normal" as in "Core Rules" difficulty?

i don't know,My ICW version is the gog non-enchanced edition version and there's no mention of "core rules" anywhere.

yeah Normal is Core Rules on the OG versions.

Where are you at in the game? Dragon's Temple or whatever the fuck it's named is when I started feeling the challenge.

My game is at default difficulty with core rules.

I in the Vale of Shadows.

Maybe i have the wrong definition of good encounter design but fighting the same group of monsters over and over again is fucking boring !

 

[Dorateen]

In a true computer role-playing game that allows full party creation, like Icewind Dale, difficulty is determined by party composition as much as anything. Half of good encounter design is about what you the player bring to the battlefield.

 

[Sigourn]

The Dragon's Eye was a fucking pain in the ass, so yeah, that's where the game starts ramping up difficulty.

 

[Shadenuat]

After late part of Dragon Eye it becomes more interesting

 

[Neanderthal]

Personally I only use a party of four for added challenge, worked for me.

 

[Bester]

I could never enjoy IWD, either, OP. And BGs are my favorite RPGs.

Call it the Sawyer's touch.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Icewind Dale is one of the most overrated pos games ever. It's the DnD version of a Diablo clone: shit barebones story, no exploration, and tons of crappy combat.

 

[Sentinel]

Do you mean "Normal" as in "below Core Rules" or "Normal" as in "Core Rules" difficulty?

i don't know,My ICW version is the gog non-enchanced edition version and there's no mention of "core rules" anywhere.

yeah Normal is Core Rules on the OG versions.

Where are you at in the game? Dragon's Temple or whatever the fuck it's named is when I started feeling the challenge.

My game is at default difficulty with core rules.

I in the Vale of Shadows.

Maybe i have the wrong definition of good encounter design but fighting the same group of monsters over and over again is fucking boring !

Dragon's Eye is the area after Vale of Shadows. Vale of Shadows is more like a tutorial "go easy on the player" area than anything.

 

[oldmanpaco]

I miss the days when a person who joined on Monday and then proceeded to shit on a well liked game was always Drog.

 

[smaug]

Dragons Eye gets hard as fuck, especially when you fight the exploding beetles and phase spiders, so yea it gets more interesting.

 

[anvi]

It gets good yes. But IWD2 is much better.

Downvotes for srsly? Also BG2 is way better than BG1.

 

[111111111]

I've been playing Icewind dale lately,so far all I've been fighting is copy pasted skeletons and others trash mobs,boring !

I heard that Icewind dale is a combat focused game so i was expecting good challenging encounters...but NO ! just shitty copy pasted mobs after shitty copy pasted mobs !

Does it get better or is just a boring Diablo clone ?

Maybe normal difficulty is too easy ?

Ice wind dale is very good for its time. It still has many good qualities but in the new age of vidya it is harder to appreciate what the old games have done.I had a similar time understanding some of the other games that codexers that sang grand eloquent love sonnets on. I read their almost nauseatingly saccharine compliments then immediately download them.

One of them was wizardry series.

I really tried hard to like it. Eventually, I accepted that it was before my time and take codexers opinions with a grain of salt.

aka its shit

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

IWD is a RTwP abomination full of trash combat and Josh's rape fetish inserted in.

 

[Carrion]

The linearity and RTwP killed it for me. I could live with one of the two evils — either a straightforward romp with good combat, or a game with mediocre combat but decent exploration — but not both. Even the RTwP might've been salvageable with better encounter design, but there's just too much trash to wade through.

The game's pretty, though.

 

[smaug]

The linearity and RTwP killed it for me. I could live with one of the two evils — either a straightforward romp with good combat, or a game with mediocre combat but decent exploration — but not both. Even the RTwP might've been salvageable with better encounter design, but there's just too much trash to wade through.

The game's pretty, though.

Soundtrack and Art design alone is worth a playthrough.

 

[Lutte]

The only good things about IWD were the art style and soundtrack. Good production values wasted on IE shovelware.

 

[smaug]

The only good things about IWD were the art style and soundtrack. Good production values wasted on IE shovelware.

Better than BG.

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

Vale of Shadows is the worst part of the game (dat low level 2E AD&D) , and core rules is probably too easy for anyone not named Brian Mitsoda. That said OP is a low-effort troll. 2/5 trolling at best.