a drier baldur's gate 1, but with more combat to make up for it. playing all the infinity engine games together kind of highlights why icewind dale isn't talked as much as its contemporaries (balur's gate and planescape torment).

a perfectly fine video game if you crave more combat in that engine, a good companion piece to the other games, but other than that fairly unremarkable and an easy skip unless you have nostalgia for it or want to see what the whole shebang is about. especially because all the quirks of the engine (terrible pathfinding and finicky inventory management) are here in full force.

a drier baldur's gate 1, but with more combat to make up for it. playing all the infinity engine games together kind of highlights why icewind dale isn't talked as much as its contemporaries (balur's gate and planescape torment). a perfectly fine video game if you crave more combat in that engine, a good companion piece to the other games, but other than that fairly unremarkable and an easy skip unless you have nostalgia for it or want to see what the whole shebang is about. especially because all the quirks of the engine (terrible pathfinding and finicky inventory management) are here in full force.