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So apparently they are making an EE...

Not sure what to think, other than the fact I've yet to finish the game at all. This might be an opportunity. There is gameplay footage already and quite frankly it doesn't look that good to me.

If they are giving it the "Beamdog treatment" of just modernizing it a little but offering little advantages, I'm not sure. I might just replay the original.

 

Unfortunately no Linux-native version. I’m running the original in Wine and that works-ish, a few slowdowns here and there, nothing overly annoying.

 

The original works fine on my Win10 computer once you install the patch to get rid of the copy protection (if the patch is still available), but the computer's almost 7 years old now. I'm biased having gotten started with computer gaming on an Apple IIGS, so most modern games look good to me, but I do think it looks fine graphically and that a remake wouldn't add much. Unlike say "Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura" or the famous Wizardry or Bard's Tale remakes. Then again Exile has been remade twice.
The early Might and Magic or Ultima games could go for a remake, so could Magic Candle. What about remaking "Betrayal at Condor", "Dark Heart of Uukrul", "Demon's Winter", "Gemstone Healer", "Dragon Wars", Questron series, Knights of Legend, the Gold Box games, Hera, Phantasie, Wind Walker, Wizard's Crown, Alternate Reality: The City, the Gold Box adjacent Buck Rogers games, Prince of Destruction, Temple of Apshai Trilogy, Car Wars/AutoDuel, or Realmz?
All better candidates for remakes on modern hardware than NWN2.
If you haven't heard of those games, they are abandonware for the Apple II or Macintosh and easily found on Asimov or Macintosh Garden. Most are Apple II, I think only Prince of Destruction, Realmz, Betrayal at Condor, the later Gold Box, Ultima or Might & Magic games (and some of the spinoffs of some of those series are only on PC like the Savage Frontier Gold Box games) and the Buck Rogers games are NOT available in Apple II versions, but the Mac ports are USUALLY better (unless they are B&W only on the Mac) graphics.

Seriously, why is it that remaking early RPGs is so rare? They if anything could really benefit from modern graphics and sound. Even bringing them up to merely VGA or even SNES/RPGMaker or even Apple IIGS/Amiga standards could be a great improvement. Look at the Apple IIe version of Bard's Tale III vs the IIGS version of Bard's Tale I or II (from what I've found considered the best version before the remake) and you'll see what I mean.
Then again, we did get a Bard's Tale, Wizardry, and Wasteland remake.

 

Based on the file sizes, it's likely the textures and GUI will have been upscaled for modern resolutions and the soundtrack remastered. Steam also indicates there will be cross-platform play.

What I'm more interested in is whether or not they will fix some of the long-standing bugs and unnerf the goddamn warlock.