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IWD 1 total-conversion module for NWN 2
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Terpsichore
Arcane
I remember checking this years ago.
Ugly as hell, also terrible engine choice.
Ugly as hell, also terrible engine choice.
hoverdog
dog that is hovering, Wastelands Interactive
Who'd choose Neverwinter's engine over Infinity?
god i hate those conversion projects. I can't think of a more pointless waste of talent.
god i hate those conversion projects. I can't think of a more pointless waste of talent.
FeelTheRads
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Let's turn a game with decent RTwP into unplayable shit. I like this idea. 
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Didn't we already have exactly the same thread about a year ago?
Anyways,
1. Take a game whose major selling points are beautiful visuals and halfway-decent combat system.
2. Rebuild it using an engine that looks like shit and has terrible combat mechanics
Why?
Anyways,
1. Take a game whose major selling points are beautiful visuals and halfway-decent combat system.
2. Rebuild it using an engine that looks like shit and has terrible combat mechanics
Why?
Gord
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The engine is alright, but the (artistic) capability of the authors might be the problem.
Also, while I think NWN2 + expansions was quite good and could potentially produce very good looking scenarios with decent gameplay, nevertheless I feel that the gain over the old Infinity Engine games is too small to really justify a project like this.
Edit: Although I admit that I might be interesting for people who want to try the game without buying/pirating the original. And it's certainly a lot of work they put into it.
Also, while I think NWN2 + expansions was quite good and could potentially produce very good looking scenarios with decent gameplay, nevertheless I feel that the gain over the old Infinity Engine games is too small to really justify a project like this.
Edit: Although I admit that I might be interesting for people who want to try the game without buying/pirating the original. And it's certainly a lot of work they put into it.
Terpsichore
Arcane
BUT THERE'S BLOOM OR HDR OR WHATEVER
I don't understand the point of this kind of thing either; it's probably just to be able to say 'we did it'.
Infinity was occasionally quite beautiful, especially in IWD2. "Converting" an already good game based on it to the horrible Electron engine is doing it a disservice, and a great one at that.
Infinity was occasionally quite beautiful, especially in IWD2. "Converting" an already good game based on it to the horrible Electron engine is doing it a disservice, and a great one at that.
FeelTheRads
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Why doesn't anyone convert MotB or SoZ into the Infinity Engine? Maybe then I could enjoy them.
Was discussed already. Strong contender for the "why the hell would anyone want to play that?" award. I mean, sure, if the people behind it wanted to learn NWN2 modding without coming up with game design of their own, good for them. But actually playing it that way?
What's it with modders wanting to port perfectly fine games into inferior engines?
Rpgsaurus Rex
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do not want
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Next time the hivemind feels like organising donations for a kickstarter, I have an idea: we can write a browser extension that translates text into logograms of some dead language and sell it to the kinds of modders that start projects like this. I bet they'd pay their own bodyweight in gold to get their hands on something that horrifically backwards.
... Seriously, what the hell? I mean, it's too much fucking work to qualify as trolling or plain old vandalism. I'm at a complete loss to understand why anyone would do something so... Elaborately stupid.
... Seriously, what the hell? I mean, it's too much fucking work to qualify as trolling or plain old vandalism. I'm at a complete loss to understand why anyone would do something so... Elaborately stupid.
Ivar the Boner
Arcane
Funny thing is, Icewind Dale is easily the best looking infinity engine game to date so I have completely no idea why anyone would want to port it to engine that is inferior to original in every aspect but graphics (and even that could be subject of a debate). God dammit modders, stop fucking around and start making ToEE modules.
Excidium
P. banal
Maybe the guy is just doing it for his own fun of porting the game to the NWN2 engine.
Weierstraß
Learned
I'll play it when they port it to the Skyrim engine.
Excidium
P. banal
I wish you guys were this bitchy and critical about those kickstarter games. Would certainly make me feel more at home.
IWD in the Dungeon Craft engine... would probably be pretty awesome. 
But … but … why?
Not to mention a vastly surperior character system with far, far more customization and interesting mechanics. Typical Codex to focus on the grafixx, though.
That said, the engine is infinitely (lolololol) worse. IWD is a fun dungeon crawler, and it would only be improved by a better character system, but fuck... NWN2 is nearly unplayable.
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