This game is superb

Reiborn

playing IWD 1 for the first time (in EE of course).

I always heard it's poor man dungeon crawler and that the story is lacking but it's actually got a very enjoyable narrative.
The story so far is pretty good (just started chapter 1) and the npcs are lively with their unique lines and those exploration missions like in the first village with the "Dreamy fisherman".

Gameplay wise the EE version works great and without any bugs at all. many features added compared to the original version.

Right now I made a group consisting of:
Paladin\Cavalier - Two Hander
Priest of Tempus (works well with the plot) - Hammer and shield
Dwarven Defender - shield and axe
Dragon Disciple caster with sling
Shadowdancer with shortbow
Bard\skald with longbow

as it happens my melee guys (mostly the dwarf) charge first while the paladin and the priest block the passage and then while the skald and the priest boost the team and de-boost the enemies my theif and mage range damaging and kill stuff very quickly.

so far very enjoyable, well done.

Archaos

The Icewind Dale games are supposed to be less on story and more on creating a PnP-like experience.

In PnP, usually you don't play "chosen ones" that are there to discover their destinies.
In PnP, you play a group of average heroes (or anti-heroes/villains) that go on cool and fun adventures together.
Fighting cool monsters, finding cool items and enjoying the journey more than the destination.

It's why you create a party of your own instead of having a main protagonist with a backstory.
And really, DnD itself was originally and generally is, a dungeon-crawler.
It's "Dungeons and Dragons", after all.
And like PnP, the narration (provided by the DM), is more important than the actual story.

Son_of_Imoen

Just today I was wondering what the Enhanced Edition will be like, but I'm still getting a party through the original IWD and have only just arrived at Dragon's Eye.

With BG:EE out, playing Tutu feels clumsy, but with IWD I thus far haven't many complaints with the game interface. My main reason for disliking my BG Tutu campaigns now that we've got BG:EE, is the lack of icons showing the current action a character will be taking, but in IWD, it's less important to know if a certain spell already got cast or is still cued, as debuffing mages plays a less important role.

Reiborn

first of all most of bioware games you did start as no one, except jade empire where you were master lee top pupil but even in BG1 you start as an orphan adopted by a scribe and in need to run for your life.

About IWD EE, I highly recommend it over TuTu mod. even though those modes are amazing as hell in next few hours you can get IW D EE for free.

this is a website called kinguin.net: http://www.kinguin.net/black-friday-deals
that's their black friday page, you can purchase any game you wanted for 20 euro then you get 5 euro back + few cents back as you purchase keys.
then from here you can get IWD EE for 6 $ minus the sicoundt it's like 50 cent.
http://www.kinguin.net/category/16464/icewind-dale-enhanced-edition-gog-cd-key/

I bought for GOG Pillars of eternity for 7 $: http://www.kinguin.net/product/199277/pillars-of-eternity-hero-edition-gog-cd-key/
PoE Expansion Pass for 10%: http://www.kinguin.net/category/20018/pillars-of-eternity-the-white-march-expansion-pass-gog-cd-key/
and some other game I wanted called endless space.
then used on new deal all the discounts I got to get IWD EE for 30 cents.

Note you can switch currency at the top.
make sure there is no limitation for a key you purchase to specific countries.
as this is bit like eBay for cd keys you can pay the website 91 cents per item to get insurance in case you were scammed which never happened to me.

and just for novelty BG1 EE: http://www.kinguin.net/category/20883/baldur-s-gate-enhanced-edition-gog-cd-key/
BG2 EE: http://www.kinguin.net/category/17125/baldur-s-gate-ii-enhanced-edition-gog-cd-key/

marcellus

After tipping my waitress, I spent $16 on a salad and a diet soda for lunch today. Dozens of hours of gameplay, years of replay value and a venue for obsessive party crafting for $10 on my tablet? Sold forever. They did such a good job. I guess if mods are viable for the PC, so be it, but playing on my Nexus 9 is perfect.

Now if only I could kill Yxunomei...

Reiborn

if I'm correct in my current game I'm getting close to meet this Yxunomei person... so far the mobs along the path are truly painful to handle and require strategy and planning for each group... can't "wait" to meet this boss.

Tad_Has_A_Cold_Olive

Yuxonomei is hard but doable. I've found that you can beat her if you rig some traps in the room before you get to her (Thieves, Mages, Clerics, and Druids all have different ways that they can do this).

Nimran

I, too, enjoy this game quite a bit! Both solo and party runs are great fun. Haven't quite finished it yet, but that's a common problem for me. I still haven't finished BG.