Icewind Dale Reviews – Page 8
5/5 rating based on 72 reviews. Read all reviews for Icewind Dale for iPhone.
Icewind Dale is paid iOS app published by Overhaul Games Inc.
Dry and Boring - nothing like Baldur’s Gate
Tom Steele
UPDATE 3: I’ve figured out what is wrong, but I don’t know how to fix it - when the game is set to easy or story mode, on the ipad - it keeps switching between STR 25 and the characters’ natural STR # and also back and forth between invulnerable and not and plane protection and not... This interrupts the characters’ actions and they stop doing whatever it is that they were supposed to be doing. In other words, you cannot play in EASY or STORY MODE on iOS - major bug or something. It is so odd to me how this port is so much poorer than the BG1/2 and Torment ports. UPDATE 2: I’ve finished BG1 and BG2 and Planescape Torment - all three very good games in their own ways. This is a HUGE LETDOWN. It has no protagonist or story line, which is ok - kind of like sitting down to play D&D after school in 1980. BUT, the AI is SO BAD that I spend half my time finding out where some straggler in the party is at, waiting at a door for them to all get there so I can enter into an inn or a store to get something. The tedium is high in this version too. Not nearly as direct or forward moving as BG or BG2 or Planescape Torment - I was excited because I’m under the impression that it is newer and the graphics look a touch better, but how did they take all the LIFE out of the game that was there in BG1/2 and Planescape? Not sure that I’m going to play this through... disappointed - very disappointed. Now I have to go looking for a decent game to compare with BG1/2 and Planescape. :-( UPDATE; I've been playing. It mostly works. Just some graphics that go offscreen and make things difficult. I am unimpressed with this game. I was expecting something like Planescape Torment, but NEWER since it appears that this came out a year or two after Torment, but this feels 5 years older. I'm not getting into it so far... it doesn't have the story or the feel that Torment has - I'm going back to upgrade my review of Torment, yet again. It is starting to look and feel better every day compared to what is available out there. I was so excited when I finished Planescape and hoped that these would be similar in gameplay with different characters and the same engine. While there are similarities, this isn't nearly as good or easy to use or as intuitive. ALSO: ADDING this as well. I have yet to find an easy way to restore hp to my mage who has only 5 hp to begin with, resulting in her dying over and over again. She hasn't leveled up yet, and until she does, one hit usually does her in before anything can happen. I am extremely bored with this game so far... extremely bored. ----------------original review-------------- I'm getting a message that says it isn't compatible. What gives? Now that I have sorted by most recent I see this is a common problem. I just finished Planescape:Torment which I ended up enjoying, so I downloaded (and paid my $10 for) this and was expecting to jump in to a game that would be familiar and that I wouldn't have to relearn the controls and all of that. Instead, I'm not sure if it will even play on my iPadPro... So... why isn't that stated in the game description gang? :-( Feeling taken advantage of here. Not likely to bother with BG or BG2 now unless this is handled fairly and quickly.
Love the game, but it does have at least one significant bug...
fix the Orrick bug, PLEASE
I played though about half the game and restarted it with a new party. I played the game when it first came out. I like it more that BG series.The second time through, there was a bug with Orrick the Gray. His shop stopped updating after chapter two. That means that my Bard and Illusionist/Thief aren't getting new spells outside of what they find. Many of the really important spells are only found in that shop. Playing the game without dispel magic is pretty hard. It is a known bug and there is a fix if you play on a computer. On the iPad, you can't correct the code. I spent hours and hours throughout a two week making my perfect party and now what should be a great game is being ruined because of a stupid bug. Really annoyed. If I can just get through the game, I should be able to get some of these spells in the expansion.