Who knows if the New game Beamdog is working on is it... But lets say it isn't, Just wondering why You guys at Beamdog have Not done a IWD2 Enhanced Edition?? is it a Not possible because of the Code? or other reasons? I was just curious.
"Icewind Dale II implemented the 3rd Edition rules and has a completely different UI scheme. We're really not sure how deep those changes run," Oster explained. "The move to 3rd Edition rules would invalidate all the character classes and require a pretty thorough rework of the entire game to bring in the features from our Infinity Plus Engine. At minimum, nightmares abound."
IWDEE was easily doable because it didn't stray too far from the BG1 codebase, and they started from the IWD-in-BG2 mod written by DavidW and CamDawg. IWD2 is, unfortunately, a different beast altogether.
Chances are there is no IWD2:EE because it hasn't been worked on (for all we know). I however find it very unlikely that Beamdog won't ever release an enhanced edition of IWD2. Given the fact that they already purchased the rights of that franchise. It may take them a good deal of time, true. But it is not an unrealistic or impossible task for them to deal with.
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and they probably won't spend that sort of ressources for a product that has subpar sales
IWDEE was easily doable because it didn't stray too far from the BG1 codebase, and they started from the IWD-in-BG2 mod written by DavidW and CamDawg. IWD2 is, unfortunately, a different beast altogether.
But as the saying goes; only time will tell.
7/10 across the board? IWD & BG.