I am still halfway bgII, and stopped playing. Not really sure i will continu. Perhaps if i finish it I will buy icewind dale, not sure yet.
I dont have the time to play games like i use to have. kids, wife a job… And i really like original sin and looking forward to pillars and torment. If i have to guess i prbably wont have the time
I feel your pain. The only reason I've been getting through them is that I play them during my morning subway commute on my Surface Pro. However, that's an issue. The most recent patch update for BGEE broke it. 1.2 worked fine, but they screwed with the way it handles Intel GPUs again and it broke it. I had to restore the files from one of my system backups to get it playing again. BG2EE runs fine though.
So I'm going to have to be confident that either they have fixed the issues with the 1.3 patch (which their response was basically we don't support the Surface Pro, so not hopeful) or that IWDEE just doesn't have the same issue before I buy it.
A shame, I would have already pre-ordered it.
I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed IWD when it came out. I got BG a bit late so I had finished it (the first time) at end of '99. I played it once more with some mods spring of '00 and then when summer came and I actually had some dead time ( I was working plus in grad school, but only took one class that summer), IWD got released. I jumped on it and absolutely loved it, though the linearness and weak story (particularly ending) was a bit of a let down.
Jumped into BG2 in spring of '01 after I had graduated and also gotten laid off. (Talk about a release of free time!) and played that several times through (and even did the whole saga once too). Yet I never went back to IWD. I guess while it was fun because it was new, with such a weak story, I just wasn't inclined to play it again. After 14 years though, I think it would be fun to run through once more.
I doubt I would get IWD2EE though. My first play through I completely lost track of the story about 1/2 way through and just stopped playing. Meant to go back and continue but didn't. I finally gave it another shot a couple of years ago, with the NPC mod to liven it up some (which helped a TON), and got through it. I don't care for 3rd edition rules, so that was one issue, but the story just didn't stick with me what so ever, though I give them credit for putting a decent epilogue in it. I can't see any reason I'd but that one again.
I think my biggest disappointment on Overhaul is that they put all this effort to make IE ported to iPad and Android (and from what I have heard, they did an excellent job on both), yet they don't make a few minor improvements to the GUI to make it easier on a Windows touchscreen! When I play, I use the stylus, so its basically a mouse. You CAN use just touch, but some things are hard or don't work all the time (like entering in doors and such).