Was IWD2 good?, And why (not)? Options

[Baronius]

Tell the reason of your choice, if possible

I did not like IWD2. Played it twice but I think IWD1 is much better. Okay okay the music was as beautiful as in IWD1, and yeah the 3E was applied too, and new graphics and some other things... but altogether it's far not as good as any other IE game.

I think that the battles weren't good. Most of the bigger battles were long, and unpleasant. All characters had lots of Hit Points (HP). They weren't much harder than in other IE games, but they weren't interesting. I admit that I actually liked IWD2 when playing it first time, but it's not a game I would play more than two times.
My good friend -- the web designer of the Black Wyrm's Lair, by the way -- decided not to finish the game just before Severed Hand! He uninstalled the game.

What do you think? What did you like? And what are the things that you did not?

[Rabain]

IWD1 i think was by far the better of the two IWD's.

IWD1 i would even put on the same level as BG1 - as a whole. It's a different game so it's not fair to compare them but i think IWD1 had an atmosphere that i have rarely seen duplicated in any of the IE series.

The music, the monsters, the area's all combined to give a feeling to each area (my favourite is the Valley of the Dead or whatever, where the Yeti's are and that Kresselak guy).

BG1 also had some of this atmosphere but after the romances, banters and interjections of BG2 its hard to go back to BG1 (TuTu is reviving this, thankfully)

Point: IWD1 made you feel.

EDIT: I better put something here that is actually on topic. IWD2 generally sucked, i had more fun making the characters than actually playing the game. And like your friend Baronius i gave up at the Severed Hand! IWD2 exists on my hard drive now only to be looted for areas, items, bams and spells!

This post has been edited by Rabain: Sep 21 2004, 06:11 PM