How many hours have you put into BG2? Do you prefer it to BG1? Thinking about starting a new game...still don't think I've explored 40-50% of the game after playing it so many times all these years
>>4064463I finished the game at 194hours.Both are kinda mid, BG1 has better balance and level design, but BG2 has better characters and story.Both didn't age well, the duology of Fallout is better.Baldur's Gate 2 isn't even the best RPG of its year, not even the 2nd best. Very overrated.
>>4064472Thank you for your service.
>>4064472>Baldur's Gate 2 isn't even the best RPG of its year, not even the 2nd best. Very overrated.Which is it then?
>>4064463>How many hours have you put into BG2?easily over 2,000+ hours spread across 20+ years>Do you prefer it to BG1?only slightlyI prefer the low-level wilderness atmosphere of BG1 compared to high level city adventure BG2if BG2 had a collection of rural maps before the major side quest areas, then it would be better than BG1, hands down
>>4064463BG2 is vaaaaaaastly better than BG1.BG2EE is the definitive version because it addresses all kind of technical issues on modern machines. It's ok if you don't like the companions the Enhanced Edition introduces, they're absolutely completely optional and I don't think they're particularly bad anyway.There are many many mods for BG2EE, and I recommend Spell Revisions at the very least.
Finished both (+DLCs) a couple weeks ago. Vastly prefer BG1 though, for a lot of reasons. Chapter 2 in BG2 is everything wrong with the game, plus the story outside of the last chapter or so is so weak.Drag to play; BG1 mechanically is inferior in a lot of ways, but from start to finish it is a great adventure.
>>4064463When I played it around 2002), we didn't have hour counters, kids.And yeah, BG2 had the romances and high level bling and involving protagonist story, and dual wield, but I feel biggest nostalgia for the old one. Also Beamdog fucked up the "enhanced" edition badly.
>>4064659I feel similarly about it. Having a town map with 6 location and then stuffing all quests into it, so that you basically know that every house = quest (and if not, it's a cut quest), was a bit meh. I still loved it but that was a letdown.For that reason, I can't hate the initial dungeon. At least it's a sprawling area with stuff.
>>4064463>How many hours have you put into BG2?A lot. I've played through the game a bunch of times, including some multi-player campaigns with friends.>Do you prefer it to BG1?I sort of get why some people feel otherwise, but I think BG2 was a big step up from the first game. I played through BG1 once and have never felt like revisiting it. I also liked Icewind Dale more than BG1, for that matter.
>>4064663>BG2EE is the definitive version because it addresses all kind of technical issues on modern machines.You can get the GOG versions working on a modern machine in minutes, in 16:9 aspect ratio resolution of your choice. The EEs add new bugs to the original games because Beamdog is incompetent, they add a bunch of stupid new magic items for no reason, and they add extremely cringe new companions.BG1 in particular suffers from being shoehorned into the BG2 engine, since it was never balanced for kits or weapon styles, and the BG2 engine changes the way many spells and items work.>It's ok if you don't like the companions the Enhanced Edition introduces, they're absolutely completely optional and I don't think they're particularly bad anyway.Disagree.
