The Beamdog & Owlcat RPG Humble Bundle has some killer games in it

Perhaps the best bundle in a while.The 9 EUR tier is cool, but these are steam only, i think i prefer getting them there.

Btw. how are Icewind dale and Neverwinter nights?

Quoting: dvdBtw. how are Icewind dale and Neverwinter nights?

Icewind Dales what Baldur's Gate would be like if you took away most of the story and replaced it with combat.


Neverwinter Nights is mostly about the module editor and multiplayer with a gm. The default modules are mostly classified as weak except the 2nd (? – I'm writing from memory) expansion.

Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: dvdBtw. how are Icewind dale and Neverwinter nights?

Icewind Dales what Baldur's Gate would be like if you took away most of the story and replaced it with combat.

I oddly enjoyed Icewind Dale. I don't know if it was just that the combat encounters were bit more fun than in Planescape Torment. Despite that it's still old fashioned RPG in it's core, so if you don't have any experience in the genre from that time period, it might take a while to adjust.

Quoting: AnzaI oddly enjoyed Icewind Dale.

Why not?

It's not bad, but different. What I failed to mention is that you have to create a complete party in IWD. A huge part of the less story aspect is that there are no predefined companions in the game world that can join the party.

Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: AnzaI oddly enjoyed Icewind Dale.

Why not?

It's not bad, but different. What I failed to mention is that you have to create a complete party in IWD. A huge part of the less story aspect is that there are no predefined companions in the game world that can join the party.

I wasn't trying to imply that it's bad. The D&D games in the bundle just happen to be old and they are based on the old D&D ruleset (which they follow quite closely).

As for the Icewind Dales story, I remember being positively surprised. It's not nearly as deep as Planescape Torments story (I have mostly forgotten what happened in Baldurs Gate games), but it still has some interesting characters and at least one twist that I didn't expect.

Spoiler, click me

At one point I though that I did something wrong as everybody turned against me, but after reloading save, I figured out that the conflict was unavoidable.

All of these games are available on GOG. Too bad Humble didn't make the bundle available with the choice of either GOG keys or Steam keys.

Edit: Changed wording for clarity.


Last edited by Caldathras on 18 August 2024 at 4:28 pm UTC