# Icewind Dale is getting remade! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 1, 2014, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icewind-dale-is-getting-remade/697144 "2014-09-01T13:41:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Boogly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Boogly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boogly)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icewind-dale-is-getting-remade/697144/1 "2014-09-01T13:41:03Z")
> **[Now They're Enhancing Icewind Dale](https://kotaku.com/the-icewind-dale-enhanced-edition-is-coming-1628917828)** > > Now that Trent Oster and his team at Beamdog have finished enhancing Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II, they're moving north up the Sword Coast for an enhanced edition of Icewind Dale, coming later this year to iOS, Android and PC. New spells New classes Up to 6 player multiplayer One of my favorite old school classics is available for pre-order! Beta launch supposedly within a month. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icewind-dale-is-getting-remade/697144/2 "2014-09-01T13:57:06Z")
It gives a tiny glimmer of hope that they’ll eventually get around to enhancing Planescape: Torment. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icewind-dale-is-getting-remade/697144/3 "2014-09-02T02:38:12Z")
I’d still like to see the old Gold Box games remade a la Icewind Dale/Baldur’s Gate… ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icewind-dale-is-getting-remade/697144/4 "2014-09-02T03:41:17Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > It gives a tiny glimmer of hope that they’ll eventually get around to enhancing Planescape: Torment. Yeah, that seems like the obvious place to start to me. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icewind-dale-is-getting-remade/697144/5 "2014-09-02T03:50:51Z")
You might also check into **Obsidian** ’s game now in beta [Pillars of Eternity](https://eternity.obsidian.net/). It’s specifically inspired by the Baldur’s Gate/Icewind Dale story-driven questing games of the 90s. They put it up on Kickstarter and it got $4million in a month … ! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icewind-dale-is-getting-remade/697144/6 "2014-09-02T04:34:18Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > I’d still like to see the old Gold Box games remade a la Icewind Dale/Baldur’s Gate… _Opposite!_ The Infinity Engine was a big step down from the gold box games IMO. I’d rather see the gold box games remade with with a modern UI, and Baldur’s Gate etc. remade as proper turn-based games. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icewind-dale-is-getting-remade/697144/7 "2014-09-02T05:13:40Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > You might also check into **Obsidian** ’s game now in beta [Pillars of Eternity](https://eternity.obsidian.net/). It’s specifically inspired by the Baldur’s Gate/Icewind Dale story-driven questing games of the 90s. > > They put it up on Kickstarter and it got $4million in a month … ! Yeah, they got my money. But I haven’t even finished Divinity: Original Sin yet. And Wasteland 2 is coming out soon. And Tides of Numenera which seems to be getting worked on by a lot of the same people and also claiming to be a spiritual successor to Planscape: Torment. My cup runneth over. I still consider Planescape: Torment the best game of its era. Better than the Baldur’s Gates, better than the Fallouts, better than Icewind Dale and its expansions. But those other games I’ve actually managed to re-play, some multiple times. But the experience of playing Planescape: Torment a second time eludes me. I can’t ever play it for the first time again. But if they upgrade the interface I’ll damned sure try. I’ll have to make due with its successors. > [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#): > > _Opposite!_ > > The Infinity Engine was a big step down from the gold box games IMO. I’d rather see the gold box games remade with with a modern UI, and Baldur’s Gate etc. remade as proper turn-based games. Hell, I’d just like to replay those games with a damned auto-mapper and an automated quest tracking log. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icewind-dale-is-getting-remade/697144/8 "2014-09-02T17:01:10Z")
I never liked the ID games as much as the BDs. Too dungeon-focused. For my money, it unbalanced the gameplay. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icewind-dale-is-getting-remade/697144/9 "2014-09-04T05:08:26Z")
Speaking of the Gold Box games, apparently some of the people from SSI are putting out a new game: > **[SSI-Inspired Seven Dragon Saga Announced - Blue's News Story](https://www.bluesnews.com/s/154645/ssi-inspired-seven-dragon-saga-announced)** > > Tactical Simulations Interactive announces Seven Dragon Saga will be the debut game from this recently launched developer formed by SSI veterans, saying this is in the works for Windows, OS X, and Linux. They back up their ambitions to live up to the...