While being a DnD nerd I loved playing through EoB originally, even when it was released, while it was graphically nicer than the Dungeon Master it was imitating, engine-wise it was far inferior compared to Dungeon Master. Heck, you couldn't even lure a monster unto a switch-triggered trapdoor and make it descent and take falling damage and kill it off later - the crude EoB engine just didn't allow it. Lucky us, someone modded EoB into RTC (Return to Chaos, a windows port of Dungeon Master / Chaos Strikes Back) so you can enjoy all the eye-candy of EoB within the far superior engine of DM/CSB.

I can't presently remember if they had Hordes of the Underdark on there either.

I am looking forward to this, I don't know how many of you played the novella's they had out. If you are an RPG gamer there will be frustrating elements, but as an adventure gamer, well, there are frustrating elements, but still really good. I expect this to be similar and am excited about it.

I never played it, but I no longer feel like the base game must have been shit to make this happen. When Star Trek Online made a console version of their game, I wondered how? They just designed a new UI for the console. The PC version, I have 5 rows of abilities I spam constantly lol, I don't know how the console version works.I never played this game, I think this is the one where you couldn't design your character, and I just gave it a pass, but good luck to the devs, just make sure you don't nerf the PC version at the same time (ahem, Marvel Heroes Online).

seen a lot of people complaining it's impossible, but I'm pretty sure it'll be fine

The imbeciles from pcgamer don't know Mask of the Betrayer

Personally I find the difficulty spikes annoying. I really liked the game, but it throws me away everytime I have to go on yet another boring journey so I could finish a wall. Feels like a chore at times. Besides that the game is super fun.

I imagine it's mainly fleshing out the feel of the game and I suspect to add a layer of immersion uncommon in other games of the genre. Cool for those that love that level of detail.

In Kingmaker the food supply really doesn't matter since you can always hunt while you camp. Granted it's a useless element and it's not clear what it's there for, unless may be it becomes important on higher difficulties.

This was a game that had my attention...until discovering it took an approach similar to what Owlcat did with their Pathfinder titles, which is to say spending a significant amount of design on the minutae (like food/water supplies and other such boring ass elements).Great for those that like that kind of thing, but I have to imagine that's a pretty small subset of players (in my entire life playing D&D, I recall only one group that enjoyed spending any amount of time on that level of minutae).