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Couldn't you just fully install it on a hard disk?
Don't remember any copy protection. But I only owned a weird version from a game compilation.

>>3930401
That's a pretty reasonable take to have if one is being objective and not just stating their own favorite game.

>>3930384
I believe he might've, he just wasn't paying attention to what was going on.

>>3930402
I am pretty sure you could've. And that was a fucking godsend and the one reason why I played this game so much, because my CD drive was always acting up.
God, it was a loooooong time ago.

>>3930402
It had the standard copy protection that required the disk while you played.
Besides, HD:s back then were so small most people couldn't do the full install unless they deleted everything else.

>>3923882
Come on anon, think. Use your brain. YOU want more variety in fighters. But imagine if every player that has their own favourite would have the same gripe as you. The game would be stupid in every way. "I want more variety in rogues"/"I want more in mages"/"I want more in clerics". If you do this you would have a minimum of 25 recruit able NPC's littering the story, and each is supposed to have their own lines, and have interactions with at least two or the of the other characters, etc etc. It's ridiculous. This is an old as fuck game anon, you simply cannot expect it to cater to your specific desire.

>>3923882
Go back to pReddit where you belong. This isn’t your blog.

>>3929665
>>bunch of bugs
>Such as?
NTA, but, there has been reports of save corruptions, items not working right, journal entry errors, and the stupid music bug that wouldn't go away until you reload
>>Homebrewed items
There's a kensai (max dmg roll) halberd outside of the gnoll stronghold. There's a +1 mace that stuns with no dc save for one round.
> Such as?
Fucking neera. Nuff said.
>In what way?
They thickened they outlines of everything by like 20x the original, and you can zoom in 10x more and if you do shit get blown up in disproportionate ways. Ui changes that didn't need to happen.

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>>3925174
In my opinion, if you're playing the enhanced edition you should be using this mod: https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Convenient_Enhanced_Edition_NPCs
and remove the new characters.

There are like 25 characters, and the EE adds 4 to bg1.
You can have 6 characters in your party, your own and 5 more.
These new characters are written 14 years later, by different people, and to a different intensity than the original characters.
A new player wouldn't know to ignore them, and they take up space so you miss out on the other 25 original characters you would have instead.
By written to a different intensity, I mean how a character in a SNES rpg may have its characterization through less dialogue than a character in a Playstation RPG.
Like FF6 vs FF9.
If a new person plays FF6, but the popular version of FF6 included 5 new characters who talked over all of the original characters I'd be pretty disappointed, since they haven't experienced the game we played.

There's one more problem with EE, but that's not something I think is as important to address so playing EE is fine if it's easier for you.
EE uses bg2 proficiencies, which are more specific.
For original bg1 you can have a character that is proficient in Large Swords, which covers a wide array of type of swords, 2h swords, katanas, scimitars, bastard swords, long swords, but in EE you might be specialized in Bastard Swords and terrible at using Long Swords.

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>>3930428
Maybe bg2 proficiencies make more sense in bg2 because a fighter type class would end up with more pips than what you know to do with them. However, I very much prefer bg1 proficiencies. Wish they could be ported to bg2.

>>3928496
I hate this little fucking goblin

>>3928241
You say copied from a mod but that mod copied it from Path of Exile which has had that format since...forever.

both the character design and skill design look uninspired, that's a skip for me

>>3926926
Games shouldn't take longer.
More expensive, sure, inflation's a bitch, some of the new technology is more expensive at a baseline, and this work should be paid more than it is. But not take longer. If anything, it should take less time, because the tech exists to make bar-filling activities like file transfers ect take a few minutes instead of overnight, and the existence of group chats means meetings no longer need the 10 minutes on either side for people to move and get situated.

What makes it take longer is a thousand middle men all needing their balls tickled before an idea can move, pointless graphical bloat nobody asked for, and shitcode enforced upon the industry by people selling a worse product as a necessity.
MAYBE spend an extra year if you want to make something graphically impressive. Do not fucking spend 4 months modeling 1200 types of bush, nobody gives a shit.

>>3925646
I can't wait for the game to be butchered because not a single zoomer can read or hold focus long enough to get a character that survives act 3.

Without later retcons I always assumed shady sands was older than the point that vault 15 was abandoned because only that girl at the gates mentions being from it and implies it just happened. If I integrate retcons I guess you could think there had been successive waves of emigration and SS was just a place that had been established by earlier emigrants, a little indian clan that wanted to separate.

>>3928625
>If I integrate retcons
Never do this.

>>3928270
If I watch some Fallout youtube video I always seethe when they mention Fallout 1 or 2 because their B-roll of it always without fail is at 4K resolution, the text is completely illegible, and the playfield is an eye-searing mess of microscopic sprites in an obvious wallpaper pattern that was obscured at the intended resolution

How many butthurt kids come onto /vr/ or /vrpg/ and complain about the old games because their experience was trying to play it at an absurd resolution Steam defaulted to

>>3928741
>You zoomers have copper wiring to reroute your fear of pixels, while I’ve got anti-aliasing of steel.

>>3924777
only sensible explanation ITT:

>>3927638
>Just another asset flip.
There's nothing wrong with reusing assets.
Most Trails games do that, and the second games in an arc are usually fan favorites. (SC, Azure, CSII)
Kai's problem lie elsewhere.

>>3929326
Kai is the best game since Hajimari which was the best game since Ao.

>>3929509
And they're both mediocre.

>>3929509
Reverie fucking sucked. Imagine mismanaging your arc so badly that you have to end it with a kludgy, disjointed campaign with three routes and a gacha gauntlet slapped on top of them.

>>3929509
Reverie having Cold Shit 3's godawful gameplay instantly disqualifies it from being a good game and Kai is a waste of time with a cop-out ending.

>>3925887
based raubritter murderizer

>>3925894
To this day, I've never managed to kill a dragon.
Probably because I played it blind without the manual, but that makes it feel more like an epic journey.

>>3922901
It's mostly from a historical and nostalgic place, ultima continuously reinvented itself, from the early games being trash but influential trash, from 4 & 5 having the first real serious look into a story I can think of. 6 & 7 being the first real simulated worlds with a modicom of fidelity you can claim to go main stream, sure it doesnt have physics like that but objects being manipulated the way they were in those games was groundbreaking. Ultima's first games inspired the jrpg, 6 & 7 are key inspirations for larian's games, much more so than any infinity engine title. The return to britannia does become a neat little start to the series as you go through them has got to be said

>>3922901
>left
Art direction
>right
Directed art

Solar Winds was a lot of fun and I never see anyone talk about it.

I liked Might and Magic Worlds of Xeen I guess.

Consoles kinda had better rpgs in the old days. I mean there's always Ultima but it is clunky to a degree that I don't think modern players would tolerate.

The best use of RPG mechanics in computer games back them was strategy simulators like XCom and Jagged Alliance.

There were a lot of fun cheap dungeon crawlers like Moraffs World and Bobs Virtual Dungeon but they're pretty crude

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>>3928595
SaGa had so much potential.

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>>3928595
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>>3927983
I say D&D 3.x was the only RPG system that managed to pull it off without major clashes. The additional rulebooks always had some content for classes with this theme, and the game itself was wonderfully unbalanced.
There was only one strange thing about it though.
It all coincided with sudden appearance of Asiatic themes in Hollywood blockbusters in the first half of 2000s. Phantom Menace, Mummy III, Pirates of the Caribbean III.
ESG was officially announced in 2006, but shareholders have been clearly a thing in entertainment at that point.

>>3928594
Spaceships are cool, retards who show up without weapons or armor against opponents who have them aren't.

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>>3927983
Yes anonbot, the truth is nobody actually wants a realistic hardcore medieval setting. That's never been the point of the fantasy genre.
More importantly, given that this is a videogame board it's hard to deny they consistently satisfy a distinct gameplay niche. A melee class focused on training barehanded martial skills usually contrasts well with a melee class focused on weapon skills and equipment.

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>>3925363
If you like fat bitches you need to play Shadow Hearts: From the New World.

>>3928706
>Using Fat Hilda over Slim Hilda
for what purpose

>>3925825
why post a shitty AI jeet pic
there's a full series of Fat mods for every female P5 character including npcs and personas this is a lie the guy who made it's a coward and didn't do the twins/lavenza, but it's everyone else

>>3929754
I don't think his purpose is hard to figure out

>>3930201
>Even Johanna is fat
Based

>>3929125
Nah this is similar to the Fire Emblem Engage situation.
Everyone doesn't like the new direction so they feel they have to be specially vocal and annoying as to "tell" Square to go back to the previous formula.
Once OT3 is announced and if it follows on 1&2, they will shut up.
If its like Zero then yeah this game will be dogpiled on even further.

>>3929222
>but there never was any serious commitment to making the games properly non-linear, implementing C&C, or a reactive overworld fitting a game of its kind
I will say that OT0 also stomps the first two games there as well. Yeah, unlocking Ku after beating Hikari's story is neat and you can tell that they started to realize that "Oh, towns are like treasure boxes." due to how path actions worked. You can see it here in Donescu, the latter half of Emberglow, Berecain, etc. The game finally starts using the towns like the carrots they are but then it becomes apparent that they seemingly just forgot to fill in the rest of the world. Yeah, it's cool that I have the King of Riven in my party, why can't I visit his town? Why is his castle still a dungeon? I don't know much about the gacha, but I do know you can visit the tribes that Delitia is from and constantly mentions. Why can't I meet with some tribals? Maybe It's been awhile but I don't think OT1 or OT2 had any areas that felt like they were 'missing', with OT0 trying to tell a much grander tale, it becomes a lot more obvious that stuff either got cut for time or just never got made. Hell is probably the most prime example of that. A whole new overworld for 3ish locations. Yes, seeing Hornburg at its peak was incredibly cool (though no sidequest with Olberic there was heartbreaking, canon or not) but that doesn't excuse the absolute waste that is the rest of that map. I have to wonder, even beyond the gacha parts which counts for a good chunk I'm sure, what all got left on the cutting room floor?

>>3929279
For many people, this isn't a good new direction for OT. And for many, Engage wasn't also a good new direction either. FE at least had enough mechanical variety between the games ao the Engage situation could have felt a bit more like personal taste to some extent. But 0 is too different from 1 and 2 so the backlash is definitely understandable. It feels demoralizing especially if you didn't like both the gameplay and the storytelling style, because it feels like it's trying to be anything but Octopath outside of the mostly bite-sized dungeons.

>>3906918
THIS
Holy fuck does it look like my kind of game but not putting a strategy game on PC is pure stupidity.

>>3929520
Based Vanillaware doesn't want to give PCcucks to have kino.
Go emulate like the bitch you are.

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>>3928985
>stalker
too jank
>game
¿?
>mount and blade
no real exploration
>elden ring
already played
thanks anyways bro
>>3929166
I imagine the cam like at the end of a pole, and im grabbing it from the other end
>>3929175
no
>>3929176

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>>3929177
>I imagine the cam like at the end of a pole, and im grabbing it from the other end
Why don't you imagine using a sensible control scheme?

>play early 3D games on DOS
>most camera controls are inverted by default
>get comfortable with it
>time passes, more normies get into vidya
>non-inverted becomes more standard
>get comfortable with it
>now at a point where I'm so comfortable with both, I'm comfortable with neither
I feel like this is a microcosm of every dichotomy in my life.

>keeps bumping his garbage thread for months then immediately makes it again
Holy shit, what a faggot. Stop giving him recs you tards, he's just going to dismiss whatever you say.

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>>3929178
>sensible control scheme
what do you mean?
>>3929180
are you comfortable or not, what¿?

>>3928834
>uses FF as an example of "choice"
>>>>>>>>>"I haven't played most of them"
OP...

>>3925280
Very simple.
Role-Playing Game is a modification of a tabletop wargame, that changes focus from controlling an army toward controlling a single main unit (with optional support units) by each player, whereas the narrative of the game is changed from justification of currently played battle to the description of adventure of aforementioned main units (player characters). Optional gameplay changes regarding order and synchronization of units' actions can be introduced. Everything else is inherited from tabletop wargame definition.

>>3929321
Bait surely.
You just Intuit this gay fag shit without doing any research into tabletop wargames or RPGs.

>>3928962
by any metric I've seen, Sims is an RPG.
Not only that, but it's a Real-Time with Pause CRPG.

>>3925280
number. go. up.

my case is rested.

>>3929984
>Boombooms unironically go into a pantshitting rage if you want to play your games in a resolution higher than 10x5.
The widescreen mod for BG1 that lets you play at whatever resolution you want is literally almost 20 years old. You kids are really dumb as fuck, sometimes.

>>3930037
How big can the difference between the original and enchaned even be? You retards are just bored and are finding shit to be purists about

>>3930063
Nostalgia and pointless purism is the only thing boomers have left. Culture has moved on from them and the only digital space that still caters to them is Facebook. I see no problem in letting boomers relive their faded youth in perpetuity, but unfortunately they do get very defensive about it and tend to lash out when confronted with reality. Reminds me of when I worked in a home for people with dementia.

>>3930219
>unfortunately they do get very defensive about it and tend to lash out when confronted with reality
lol

>>3930219
>t. 40-something

>>3928832
Still doesn't. If you actually read your links you would know.

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>>3929744
This bitch has me on a LEASH
Lloyd is actually gay

>>3929744
i dont think anyone genuinely likes the filler, padding and asset flipping its just the concession you accept when you get into the series

>>3929744
Just go watch a marvel movie lil gup

>>3930198
Units of yen, lil bro. You're mentally deficient.

>>3926705
its not fun
even faxanadu is better

>>3926705
The combat is fundamentally broken so no, it's not one of the best of anything.

>>3929995
I guess you wanted something worse

>>3926705
this gets mogged extremely hard by Ax battler on the fucking game gear

>>3926705
legend of link, he can visit whores to refill health, but beware the evil whores, they're monsters in disguise.
I'm not joking btw

>>3927588
Still nothing meaningful or relevant to say? Once again, concession accepted.
Please continue to cope, seethe, etc. at your convenience.

>>3927574
I didn't find that or Dredmore funny in the least.
Even Liberal Crime Squad is funnier.

>>3927629
A new, unsurprising failure. Seems like that's just your safe space.

>>3928120
>>3927629

>>3928047
Liberal Crime Squad is actually pretty funny at times.