>>12003560Overrated crap that ruined wrpgs turning them into pseudo dating sims focused solely only le hecking epic funny party members that talk.Just like ff7 ruined jrpgs turning them into movie slops
I'm currently mulling over my custom party before I take the plunge. Just finished an Elf Archer run through BG2: SoA. This is all original, btw. Sitting on several premades I cooked up. I'm thinking a 5-man custom, but we'll see what happens.
>>12003714What mental illness is this
>>12003593Late 90s RPGs are super gay
>1997 Fallout >1998 Baldurs Gate >1999 Planescape Torment>2000 Icewind Dale >2001 Arcanum – Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura>2002 Neverwinter Nights >2003 The Temple of Elemental EvilIt was a good time.
>>12003770It's called enjoying vidya. Something you wouldn't know anything about. Now fuck off.
>>12003593BG1 isn't like that at all though, your companions virtually never speak after joining you unless it's to complain that your reputation is too high/low.One of BG2's writers actually claimed a couple years ago that he was inspired to give BG2's companions way more dialogue after playing FFVII and feeling like the party in that game mogged the companions in BG1.
>>12004178>he was inspired to give BG2's companions way more dialogue after playing FFVII
>>12003593I thought BG1&2 were supposed to be these undisputed masterpieces of pure role-playing, only to be met with a quirk chungus dating sim with pre-written story chapters. I guess BioWare was never good.
>>12004891>BG1>dating simIt had no romance whatsoever, that was introduced in BG2 (you didn't play the game)
>miss>miss>miss>miss>miss>you diedYeah I love missing all my attacks.
>>12003560it sucks monkey fuck
>design a game where at level 1 you miss most of your attacks and die in one hit>first enemy is a super boss wizard that casts a spell so you have even less of a chance of hitting him AND magic missile which WILL hit and WILL killWhat were they fucking thinking??
>>12003593You've never played BG
The spamming retard from /vrpg/ has set up camp here, I see. Soon he'll destroy the entire board.
>>12004923How about you learn to build a proper character? You get overpowered extremely quickly.
>>12003770terminally online contrarianismi’m afraid the only cure is to have sex with a woman
>>12004968WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?
>>12004923skill issue
I never liked bioware rpgs
>>12003560I was filtered. I even figured out how to play Baldur's Gate 1 inside of 2's engine since the whole concept of having to pause, and plan all attacks out was dumb for a PC RPG.In hindsight, I mean I guess it's turn based but it looked too much like Diablo II so it pissed me off that it didn't play like it.I also tried Neverwinter Nights recently like a year ago and thought the story was written so badly in the beginning, I couldn't stand it.I remember being annoyed that you really couldn't ignore the main quest no matter what your related responses to main NPC's wanted.I think Morrowind and similar sandbox games have spoiled me too much. Linear RPGs feel like dumb railroad experiences to me now.Ex: If I want to kill some random NPC in a game, lemme do it, even if it allows me to never beat the main quest. Fuck it, lemme do whatever I want. The true Western RPG way unlike that railroaded JRPG garbage.
>>12005127Me too. Way too overhyped.
>>12005127Bethesda are the only guys that make good wrpgs
>>12004913>that was introduced in BG2Barely.
>>12005263Bethesda made one good game and two ambitious but flawed games.
>>12003560Fallout and Planescape were miles better. The only good thing about BG was the narrator in Polish version.I hated how this game just threw party members at you and expected you to lose them through combat. What if I don't want Khalid to die 5 minutes after meeting him?
>>12005339You've got to admit BG had better combat than both of those though
>>12003560I played the enhanced edition for the increased resolution and I have no regrets. How the fuck did people play this in 640x480?
>>12003593>Overrated crap that ruined wrpgs turning them into pseudo dating sims focused solely only le hecking epic funny party members that talk. You are a poser that never played it, son.
>>12005106Just run past him. Jaheira already has Remove Fear memorized, which despite the name gives immunity to fear, countering his opening spell of Horror.
>>12003560Agree. I paid a nerd to build me a custom PC specifically for playing this game. The ambient sound in stereo hearing birds tweet as I crept around the map was awesome. About two hours in my blunt-wielding STR 18/00 halfling gibbed a wolf and I remember thinking "this may be the best game ever made"
>>12005114How do we combat this menace?
>>12005374back then we didn't have 4k monitors
>>12005381>>12005112The point is the focus shifted from gameplay to>haha le funny quirky baldman with a mouse says funny things xD
>>12005175>I think Morrowind and similar sandbox games have spoiled me too much.I think you're just a fucken retard, mate. Who looks at the BG series and is like, "That's just like Diablo, hur dur."?
>>12005374>increased resolutionI use Nvidia Control Panel.
>>12005339>The only good thing about BG was the narrator in Polish version.It really is the samefagging spamming slav retard
Beamdog is a guilty of a number of different crimes. Here are the major ones.1. The Enhanced Editions are essentially a collection of free mods that had existed for nearly twenty years. Beamdog gathered them all up, slapped "Enhanced Edition" on it and resold it as a new product. There's very very little in the Enhanced Editions that wasn't already out there, and most of it is stuff you don't want (like obnoxious character outlines).2. The games didn't sell so well and the originals were still far outselling them, even twenty years after their release, so Beamdog had EVERY digital distributor stop selling the originals and ONLY sell the Enhanced Edition. If you want to buy a digital copy of the originals now, they're "bundled" into the Enhanced Edition. Now these scumbags can claim sales from people just wanting to buy the originals as their own.3. The infamous 600+ bugs on launch. The game is still riddled with bugs (as even a perfunctory glance over their forums show) but the fact that it took nearly two years for them to get a game that had been working fine for 20 years to reach playability after launch is telling of their wild incompetence.4. This is where we get to the ones that really piss people off. Beamdog couldn't just remaster the game, they had to fuck with the content too. New dialogue for existing NPCs like Jaheira, Viconia, Safana, Kivan, et cetera was written in to make the characters more progressive and leftist friendly. Beamdog shills will argue that "adding content isn't changing content XDDD" but it is when the new content changes the core personalities of the existing characters. This is in addition to adding a slew of their own LGBT (hitherto there were none in Baldur's Gate) NPCs, all flooded with OP attributes and magic items to encourage people to play them despite their cancer.5. Breaking the way stealth functioned in the original games.6. Siege of motherfucking Dragonspear.
>>12005126Oh yeah, it's entirely my fault the dice rolls don't roll in my favor.>>12005116Please teach me then.
>>12005758You never played it. You're describing BG2.
>>12003560it is now play this
>>12006807samefag also OP don't forget you have the tales of the sword coast expansion for baldurs gate to enjoy (I have the big box PC of the two and I wish modern games shipped physical like this still) image from search
>>12005175stop hitting return pls also you have poor taste not the games fault OG baldurs gate IS the programatic implentation of the DnD ruleset, world and game
>>12006051Baldurs gate dark alliance is very diablo on the PS2 but it's amazing for same room too player on the PS2. YOU are of course correct on Baldurs Gate/Tales of teh sword coast.Neverwinter nights is excellent too 2 is peak
