What am I in for

a pretty good CRPG

normie litmus test

>>387824172
Very slow start but in the end a really enjoyable experience with well crafted world and companions. A pretty good intro to BG2.

>>387824172
Lots of death. Mainly yours, though unless you play something weak your character should have a kill count well into the hundreds by the end.

>>387824172
At least play on Core rules and get your shit kicked in.

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>still no bg1 version

sad

Equip every character with a slingshot/bow and always keep ammo stacked.

Be sure to play Icewind Dale 1 & 2 as well they are all pretty comfy.

>>387828272
>wanting generic asian waifu pictures in a western setting

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>>387828567

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>>387828791
>playing the EE

>>387828348
>Equip every character with a slingshot/bow and always keep ammo stacked.
That sounds kinda boring though

A shit game. Just skip it and play 2.

>>387824172
Better of the Baldur's Gate games. Yes, BG2 and ToB has heaps more content but low level DnD trumps it all

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>>387824664

Better than BG2

>>387824172
A big, skippable intro to the best ride of your life (BG2)

>>387829076
good luck geting through the first few levels of bg1 without a firing squat mate

It depends on if your playing the enhanced edition or not, which if you are I suggest refunding if possible and find a better game.

>>387829145
I think the mid levels are the best, so basicly the first 50% of BG2

Low level is just too bland and high level make fighter classes obsolete en mages demi-gods

>>387828984
>>387829426
What's wrong with EE?

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>>387829425

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>>387829393
>implying BG1 isn't best

You can't even wonder around in forests finding dryads and artists ODing on potions of speed in BG2.

>>387829671
Nothing now.

>>387829964
Yes? O, omnipresent authority figure?

>>387829671
Nothing, the newly added NPC are shit. but you don't have to take them with you.

>>387824172
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsdA5cAhtSc

>>387829671
See >>387828791
That is a black lesbian vampire who don't need no man. There is also a gender transforming ring that is unidentified when you find it and if you put it on the effects can't be reversed until you do a quest way later. That is the kind of stupid SJW shit added to EE.

>>387832338
There was a gender transforming belt in the original game.

>>387831585
*turns into an animal*
*does less damage while having weaker defenses and losing the ability to cast spells*
Wild Shape was a mistake. Turning into a jelly with the Cloak of the Sewers is actually useful, though.

>>387832338
>sex changing belts not being classic D&D schlock
This is your brain on /pol/ kids.

>>387832338
You are trying too hard

>>387831585
If the romance still active if you leave jaheira in animal form? That will be like... damn.

>>387832338
Man fuck off. There was a girdle of masculinity/femininity in the original game. Magic shit can be cursed that's why you don't wear it until you identify it.

>>387824172
i didnt lreally ike it. it is an ok d&d based crpg, but there are better out there. i even enjoyed core nwn 2 more, despite it retarded resting system. however, i like the game for providing me with sense of particxipating in an old-school adventure and building a team

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar4WZyYnUjs
I wish I can replay this game for the first time.

>>387832589
dunno about 2e but in 3.5 wild shape is pretty good, turns out turning into a huge bear/octopus and grappling shit to death is a viable strategy

>>387834698
>trying on all kinds of armor on all my party members just to check the sprite changes
>bulding a 18dex 12str paladin trying to improve my hit chance and attack speed

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>>387824172
>real time with pause combat

>>387835232
>my fingers are so fat and my reaction times so slow that I need turns and the enemy being complete frozen to actually do something

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>>387835604
I'm sure you play hardcore games for big boys like Dark Souls.

>>387835725
Still crying about the lack of a pause button in Dark Souls?

>>387835604
Nice projection mate :^)

>>387835151
>>trying on all kinds of armor on all my party members just to check the sprite changes

my nigga

>>387835985
Too close?

You are Darth Revan

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>>387834698
The BG series oddly enough isn't one of the games where I feel that way. If anything I appreciate it more on replays than I did the first time, I think because so much of what makes it good is gameplay related. Building a party full of characters, equipping them, handling all the various encounters with them, and then just about the perfect sprinkling of dialog on top of the balls out action.

Makes me feel good every time I'm playing them and not many games can claim that, even other games I love. Sorta makes me wish I had the collector's edition for some of the extra crap just because I enjoy it, but the dumbass million CD folder for BG1 and BG2's spiral bound manual that could choke an elephant are good enough.

>>387824172
A low level ADnD 2e campaign

>>387824172
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRIw7VUCmpk

>>387834878
It's decent for a little while but in BG2 you scale into epic levels and become a serious badass but your transformations don't scale at all or stop scaling super early if they do. There are mods that make it better though.

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>>387828272

>>387838039
proper reactions when someone tries to make something lewd to your waifu

>>387838319
>Haer'Dalis begins hitting on Aerie
>Equip him with every cursed item I can find
>Kick him out of the party in the middle of the woods

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Is she the Saerileth equivalent for EE versions?

>>387838640
>in the middle of the woods
>not in the middle of the ship moments before before saiya-jin city

>>387838904
fucking lmao I never thought of that, if you tell him to stay there he's gone forever then?

>>387839024
Just send him far far away moments before the cut to the next scene (when the priestess tries to talk to you in sahuagin city) and he will be there forever.

I never roleplay anything but I like doing shit like that to characters I dislike.

>>387839887
lmao that's great, I'm 100% doing that next time around. Fuck Haer'Dalis and fuck his bird noises.

>>387824172
Getting one shotted by kobolds. Becoming very close to your quick load button. A great game with an even better sequel.

>>387840018
And some niggas take kind of shit to new levels

https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/43998/some-npcs-just-cant-take-a-joke

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>lockpick random door in bridge district
>get teleported to pic related

The fuck these guys are so strong. I think one of them is a lich and one is a vampire. Also a giant eye and a cleric maybe. This fight is bullshit.

Also r8 my party. MC is a mage.

>>387834878
Well, 3E wild shape has full casting, which makes a huge difference. But also, it's pretty much always going to be the case that vidya wild shape is shit compared to pen and paper since they aren't going to implement 100+ wild shape forms.

>>387840626
>hexxat
-5/10

>>387840626
I hate dwarves so I don't know anything about him. I think that an enhanced edition chick so I don't know anything about her. The rest are fine.

>>387832589
It works better with normal druid, you get 2 or 3 attacks instead of one

>>387840626
Yeah that's the Twisted Rune- there are a number of things hinting at some sort of undead/monster group secretly wielding influence on human society- there's them, that one guy "The Hidden", and that other group of Illithid in the Athkatla sewers. IMO they were working on something there and it had to be cut in the early stages so it never connected. You won't actually be able to go through the portal unless you have a rogue stone in your inventory. They're tough as nails but you get a pretty good staff if you win.

>>387840752
Korgan is probably the best pure fighter in the game (does Sarevok count?), if only because all the other martial classes can't take beyond 2 weapon proficiency stars and lose out on attacks per round in the lategame.

>>387840626
If you meet a talking golden skull, make sure to do what he says only after you've gained a shitload of experience.

>>387840626
The BG beholder model is really creepy.

That's one of the hardest fights in the base game, so if you're just wandering in there at like level 9-12, you're probably going to get your shit slapped. It's still easier than it should be though, since without mods, their high-level fighter has almost no equipment, and the rest are also notably under-equipped for being so experienced.

>>387840626
>>387841102
Buy protection from undead scrolls and use one on every character, in BG2 protection from undead makes them not react to you at all even if you start beating on them.

>>387841042
I generally choose people like 50/50 for personality and stats. BG isn't hard enough to require absolute minmaxing.

>>387840727
But she has pretty good stats and I like her storyline so far

>>387840887
I think I fought those illithids (The squid guys) in the sewer but I couldnt beat them yet so I left. They seem to kill my guys in just a few hits. After a few tries im doing better in this fight by summoning a bunch of skellies to hold off the enemy while I focus the lich. im determined to beat this now that I might get a good staff for my mage.

>>387841201
Yeah very true, he's my go-to guy if I need an evil meatshield but otherwise I try not to bring him because I did on my first play years ago.

>>387841293
It's kinda cheesy but if you inch forward just right you can aggro them one at a time. There's also a trick where you pause the game and talk to them right before they aggro to you and you can hold them in dialog mode and murder them before they can cast any protection spells. Those are pretty dirty tricks though. Any chance you grabbed the "Daystar"? That will melt most of those evils.

>>387841162
Beating liches with protection from undead scrolls is an inch off killing dragons with off-screen cloudkills. Sure, you'll easily win that way, but where's the sense of accomplishment?

>>387841454
And thief traps, can't forget those. It never occurred to me to do that until I read about it here.

>>387841293
If you're having problems with illithid you want to find some way to acquire psychic/psionic resistance or summon a bunch of losers and have them engage in melee. If an Illithid gets a solid attack off on someone in melee there's a chance they one-shot.

>>387840887
>IMO they were working on something there and it had to be cut in the early stages so it never connected.

Seems like it.

>EE Announced
>"Fucking great they maybe add new content or even restore and expand some cut content like thorgal words during de'arnise invasion, twisted rune, haerdalis and quanaris or the Hidden"
>Reality

Man, I remember being so hyped about that thing. Now I don't know if I should be happy that they didnt infect the core game or just mad about the quality of the new content.

>>387842049
Yeah it was a pretty major letdown for me too, at least we still have restored content patches. Knowing what we know now I don't trust Beamdog to finish cool things like that in a satisfying way.

>>387841201
Korgan's good personality-wise especially if you have Jan and Minsc. The banter with the three of them is pretty great, Minsc hates Jan and Jan annoys the shit out of Minsc, but Korgan loves the shit out of Jan because he enjoys his dumb stories. You get some situations where Minsc is getting pissy at Jan and Korgan's threatening bloody murder on Minsc because of it.

>>387842328
I've always enjoyed Korgan/Jan banter, I never thought to bring Minsc along too. I'm doing that RIGHT NOW, thank you anon.

>>387842328
Interesting. I've never used jan or korgan. I have a bias against stunty races.

>>387841445
I think Daystar was the longsword right? I put that in storage because none of my guys are Proficient in longswords.

>>387841734
When I go back im just going to try putting everyone on ranged weapons and send in a skeleton army. Skeletons seem pretty overpowered.


That was a close fight. Now the only problem is everyone is dead and I cant rest to revive them in here. I dont know if I can get back in if I leave. I new I should have bought that rod of ressurection

>>387842459
Jan is my favorite character in the game hands down. I 100% recommend playing through with him at least one time.

thinking about using haer'dalis this time
as far as i know Blades are a really solid class yet i see people constantly trashing him
what gives?

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>>387842523

Forgot pic

>>387842523
The daystar is a longsword but that's not what makes it great- it has a "once per rest" ability to cast a spell called "Sunray" which is a 7th level priest/druid spell. That spell does damage to all undead in a big radius per level of the user. So if you're level 12 or so you'll hit for 12d6 damage to EVERY undead on screen. This will one shot most chumps and bring bigger bads like liches well below half. Even if they make all their saves they still take the damage, they can't reduce it. What you gotta do it slap that into someone's quick weapon slot and then you can cast it from the bag icon on your bar at the bottom without having to actually equip it.

>>387842617
>>387842523
Yeah don't leave because then you'll never get back in. You might be able to pick up all of their gear and then res them after you leave though, I haven't ever tried that. Worst case scenario just re-load save or save edit a rod into your inventory.

>>387842523
It's generally worth keeping weapons like Daystar equipped in one of your quick weapon slots, even if you're never going to hit anyone with it. It has the ability to cast Sunray 1/day even if you're not directly wielding it, which creates an AoE dealing 1d6/level to undead and makes them save or just die.

Don't think you can get back into the room once you leave, so either you carry everything out with your main character and bring them back afterwards, but I doubt you have room.

>>387842565
Blades are good, people just don't like him being a pretentious poet or trying to fug Aerie.

>>387842565
I think the major thing is that he tries to cuck you and steal your GF if you're romancing Aerie, and like many BG2 characters his stats aren't great. They're not THE WORST (especially compared to some BG1 characters) and you don't really NEED to have a whole party of shit-kickers, but I'm always thinking about that when I'm determining my party comp. Bard rounds out unbalanced parties but they're not truly GREAT at anything, and so lategame he can't really do anything better than anyone else. Also he makes bird noises when you click him. As far as the class itself, Blade is fantastic through midgame BG2 but lategame the AC bonus from the defensive dance really isn't worth anything because everyone will just magically one shot you anyway.

>>387842774
>>387843002

I was able to revive them at a temple and they teleported to me alive. Doing hexxats starter quest gave me a bag that works like a bag of holding so luckily I could bring out all the gear. I havent actually been able to find a real bag of holding yet but im still only in chapter 3.

I feel like im doing way too many side quests early in the game without focusing on the main quest. I should really focus on saving imoen.

Didnt know about using item abilities even if I dont have the weapon equipped, that should be useful. Also holy shit that staff I got from this fight is amazing.

>>387843703
>I feel like im doing way too many side quests early in the game without focusing on the main quest. I should really focus on saving imoen.
That's a good thing actually. You get rail-roaded when you go to save Imoen.

>>387843703
Hexxat gets a lot of well deserved shit but giving you a bag of holding early on was a 5 star change IMO. Early game inventory management is interesting the first go around and a hassle every time thereafter. There are two chapters devoted to "finish every sidequest", one before you go save Imoen and one after. Typically the boss you just beat is for after, but good on you if you smashed it the first time around. You have no actual time obligation to go save Imoen, you could wait literally forever if you wanted to.

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Heya!

>>387844323
Is your character portrait Sam Jackson?

>>387835604

>I am so retarded I play a system designed for turn based combat in real time like a 6 year old kid trying to play soccer by picking the ball up with his hands because he doesn't understand the rules

I wanted to get into Baulders gate, but once I saw that the manual was like 150 pages long and filled with seemingly important information, I just lost all interest.

I can't remember that much shit.

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So hard to find decent folk nowadays.

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A decent WRPG, but BG2 is the best WRPG of all time.

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>>387828984
>when years later /v/ shows you the original picture they used for viconia

>>387844464
Looks like I got a bullseye.

>>387844725

>bullseye

That's nice, but we were playing tennis

>>387844671
I thought I knew all the terms but I can see they've added more.

>>387844671
Thank god they weren't allowed to touch the original character in the EE.

>>387824172
Gathering your party before venturing forth.

>>387844867
>>387844867
I think they add one or two per day

Has anybody feels like graphics in EE dumbed down?

I still resent SoD for retconning Safana into being a completely different person and making the ending make no sense by having you be a wanted criminal in the Sword Coast that's never mentioned in the sequel.

>>387844671
>demisexual

At this point these people are just testing us, right? Right?

>>387845262
>2017
>not being astrosexual

What, are you bigot or something?

>>387845262
That one isn't even new to me, what the hell is "Aroflux" or "Lithoromantic"? Attracted to air and stone?

>>387824172
You're in for one party member inexplicably standing around after you issue a move command.

>>387844871
I heard they did. I'm thinking about playing the game, but I was unsure as to use the EE or classic because of this. Are you sure they didn't added/changed much dialog of the original characters in the EE?

>>387844671
This picture is like a bait hand grenade, you can throw that into any CRPG thread and walk away and it will generate a ton of shit no matter what.

>it's another what am I in for/what should I expect thread where the OP never responds to anything because he's already playing the game
Why do you people flock to spoon feeding threads so eagerly?

>try to do a run as archer
>steamroll through 99 percent of the game because archers are op as shit
>get stuck on the werewolf boss that can only be hit by +3 weapons or whatever and I dont even think there are arrows in the game that can hit him

why the fuck is there a boss where only like 3 weapons in the game can actually hit?

>>387845240
>never mentioned in the sequel.

Even if I'm glad that SoD was a failure I'm kinda wish some items were imported, one of the npc or at least some connection besides two lines that nobody cares about.

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>>387824172
"I am a very large man with a very tiny giant hamster!"
"Swords and kill bad guys! Also I have a hamster!"
"Ask me about my HAMSTER!"
"That is very interesting. Also hamster."
"I don't care how annoyed you get with my hamster, you will never get rid of me because I am a Mary fucking Sue!"


"(hamster)"

>>387845720
I liked Eldoth, I wish they had dragged him into 2 somehow (as a Winston style easter egg)

>>387845673
potions of fire breathing.

>>387845673
It's kinda lame but "Melf's minute meteor" does guaranteed damage no matter what. It's gonna be 1 or 2 damage, but it WILL hurt them.

>>387829671
Nothing, though there were problems with bugs and such originally. Beamdog also made an expansion called Siege of Dragonspear that was full of SJW shit, but they have since learned their lesson.
There is literally nothing wrong with the EE.

>>387845484
There's added dialogues if you recruit the Beamdog NPCs, since they have banters with the BioWare ones. Otherwise I think it's unchanged, besides some actual restorations (i.e. a reference to a character that appears in the second game used an older version of his name, which BioWare changed by the time he actually appeared, the EE changes the BG1 dialogue to use the BG2 spelling.)

>>387845720
Something like 10 SoD items do transfer with you into BG2, though they aren't in the initial dungeon. It still feels divorced from the rest of the series though.

>>387846000
>Don't antagonize him inside his cage
>He doesn't ever get out and you never hear from him again
???

>>387845484
The originals NPCs are exactly the same with the same dialogues. So if you play a game with them you will not notice any change. BUT if you take one of the beamcuck's npc in the group then they have some banters with other npcs including the original ones. For some people those dialogues are out of character but I can't say anything about that since I usually play Good characters so Dorn/Hexxat are killed at sight and I find Neera very annoying (and I'm this guy >>387838904 so you can imagine what I do to Neera). I used Rasaad a couple of time but he is kinda boring so I dont really remember his banters with other characters.

>>387835604
I would be fine with RTWP if it was entertaining or felt good to use. It is neither of these things. It feels like your controls all have insane input lag and/or your characters sometimes just refuse to listen to you. And then, because everything is happening at once, the pause function exists as a bandaid fix so you can slow the action down enough to make sense of it and issue more laggy commands.

The only good use of RTWP I've ever seen in my life is FFXII, and most people would probably not call it that, they'd call it an ATB system or something.

how do i stop/prevent party members from in-fighting? im on my 2nd playthrough Jahira and Khalid moral fagged too hard and basically fucked my party.

>>387846000
>>387836802

>>387846000
does he look like chris perkins or is it just me

>>387842565
I blew up the last boss in a second with all his traps so hes alright in my book

>>387836802
disgusting

>>387846932
>It feels like your controls all have insane input lag and/or your characters sometimes just refuse to listen to you

Agree with that and it's very annoying indeed, specially if you try to do something immediately after an action, like drinking a potion, and you have to wait those fucking 5 seconds while your character it's just stand there. Even worse if you have to move it around to avoid being hit.

Still, I prefer rtwp to turns every day since after some hours turn-based systems usually start to annoy me with filler/grind/unskippable kind combat with low level enemies. Instead, in a game like Baldur you can just end a combat in seconds with a fireball and move on.

>>387843130
Doesnt he becomes good again after some HLAs?