Other D&D games on GoG?
Laker_Ranger
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Are The Temple of Elemental Evil (I'm trying to get my neighbor to start a garage band called the same), Planescape (occurs to me that this would be a great name for a prog-rock band), worth downloading off of GOG? I love BG:EE to pieces, and want to keep the magic going after I finish BG2:EE. How about the Icewind Dale games?
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The atmosphere and the combat in IWD is superb and it's nice to take a break from story heavy games such as BG and PS:T.
If you haven't already I'd also recommend Arcanum. It's on GoG as well. Dungeon Siege 1 & 2 are worth looking into (but not 3.) You can find those on Steam.
If you don't mind a lengthy, tedious, somewhat buggy dungeon crawl, you can check out Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor though to be honest, the book was much better than the game =/
Arcanum is good in theory and apparently rewarding if you can get deeply into it, but it's only fair to mention it's very, very ugly and clunky even compared to non-enhanced Baldur's Gate 1, and that can be tough to put up with. No decent automap, either. Lots of people like it, but it can be tough to get over its very noticible flaws.
Temple of Elemental Evil: OUTSTANDING engine. It is turn based yet fun. It is the best interpretation of D&D rules of any game ever made. You basically HAVE to install a mod though, to fully enjoy it. It is called the Circle of Eight modpack with New Content (don't forget the new content part). It is not as good as BGII or Planescape in terms of story, but the actual fighting and spell implementation is the best
Icewind Dale I and II are just like BG except, as Minsc likes to say, "LESS TALK MORE FIGHT". If roleplaying was on one end of the spectrum and combat mechanics on the other, Planescape would be on one end, IWD on the other, with the Baldur's Gate Trilogy being the happy medium.
Also: GREAT names for bands
Temple of Elemental Evil: Thrash Metal
Icewind Dale: Power Metal
Planescape Torment: Progressive Metal
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Temple of Elemental Evil is a great D&D game. It's 95% accurate to 3.5 D&D rules with tons of combat options like coup de grace'ing helpless enemies and doing non-lethal damage. The story's kind of boring though and you may lose intrest before the game's end if you play the kind of character that just raaagh-combats his way through situations instead of taking in all the ludicrous sidequests in the latter part of the game. It's also pretty buggy, but the Circle of Eight modpack solves practicly all of that.
Planescape: Torment has international praise for being a-fucking-mazing. It's mostly deserved, from a certain point of view.
If you like talking, talking, talking and a little wonky combat then it's a great game. It's got incredibly deep NPC's which you can influence to a great level (destroy or reaffirm their belief system, blackmail them into being your servant, unleashing their powers with no regard for the world's safety, etc). It features no fetch quests (that I can remember) unless they serve a greater philosofical goal (for example, a wizard will ask you to do some menial tasks for him, but will afterwards explain the significance to your person of those tasks). It also features Ravel Puzzlewell, my favorite character in any game.
Icewind Dale is like Baldur's Gate, only with less talking, no party interaction (unless modded) and less sidequests but more exotic locations, more combat options and battles that'll make your brain bleed in difficulty. Fire giant army led by a psychotic divinely powered up cleric at level 15? You got it!
Honourable mention goes to Arcanum which, despite being incredibly unbalanced with its game system and filled with annoying little bugs and exploits, is one of the finest, funnest, most engrossing RPG's I know and the only one to my knowledge where you can be either a elven spellmaiden who uses her beauty, charms and spells to sway the masses or a Spec-op goggles wearing, flamethrower toting, magnetic tophat sporting inventor-dwarf. Or a combination of either. No playthrough is the same.
Then, I ate a swordie while drinking Potions of Flying, now I am flying druuuunk!!! ( @Southpaw would you be SOOOOO kind to help meeeeh get doooown???
Also, in PS:T you don'r have to care for lacking AC like in BG1, you have to gain even MORE hit points, because ENEMIES WON'T MISS BECAUSE THEY HAVE AMAZING THAC0 and most of the enemies are complete pushers, they only have some MR and a wimpy AC, but it is a nice game, anyway my FAVORITE and one of the bests I PLAYED!!!!!
Note: the user who wrote this don't has his mindinenopiece, his m-i-n-d i-n o-n-e p-i-e-c-e.
He is searching for his half that was taken away when he lost his mortality.
Seriously, thanks for the thoughtful comments and reviews. Nice people on this site!
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Sarcasm aside Tower of Doom IS available on Steam and on PSN. It may be hack and slash but my buddies and I loved this game in the arcades. It is based around AD&D which is pretty awesome when compared against its peer games. It's even probably the best example of side ways scrolling beat-em-ups.
Edit: Looks like I was wrong IWD2 on gog isn't mac compatible without a wrapper.
much unlike Baldur's Gate, haha!