Finished Baldur's Gate after 7 years

[The Tuffen]

Can't wait for KOTOR 2. Played (and completed) the original loads of times then foolishly lent it too a mate and havn't had it back .

Does any1 know when the release date is?

[frogbeastegg]

KOTOR2 is December for the US (recently confirmed) and February (speculation, according to the announcement PAL won't be this year) for the PAL version. The PC version is last of all. I can't remember where I saw the announcement on this subject, but it came from the horse's mouth.

[The Tuffen]

february. Thats a really long time. I want it now. Whats the setting this time? is it before or after the first game.

[frogbeastegg]

A few years after the first game. Apparantly you will find out what happened to your old party and character; you are even supposed to meet a few of them again. One of teh features they are making a lot of noise about is the way you can 'tell' the game what happened in your KOTOR game so this new one follows it up correctly. They haven't said how exactly this will work, but it is supposed to handle details like lightside/darkside endings, player character sex, dead characters.

[The Tuffen]

Cool. Can't wait for it.

edit: yay, jut checked the Game website and it says it will be out in Nov 04 for the xbox and Dec 04 for the PC

[Lehesu]

Part of NWNs problem for me is that I can't understand how "good" relative to each other each spell/skill/feat is. Coming from a Diablo 2 background, it is more than a little difficult to figure out how to emulate characters that I wish to "role-play". I want to play as a fighter with lots of dexterity, able to block and parry well, kind of like a fencer. A good comparison to this would be Raphael from Soul Calibur 2. However, I don't know the optimum combo of stats and starting feat/skills. Any advice in this?

[Papewaio]

go to the Bioware website... takes ages to load but it is a lot of good guides including a munchkin one which is interesting if you wish to avoid powergaming but at the same time it highlights what may be bad choices...

[The Wizard]

Ys, Baldur's Gate 2 is greatly improved - however, just as I burnt out in BG when I got to the city, in BG2, I lost motivation after coming out of the Underdark. Sometimes too much non-linearity came be a bad thing.

This is the main problem with Morrowind - so much freedom is given that the player is left bewildered and unknowing of what to do, and in a pretty bleak gameworld, that quickly stops one cold in one's tracks.

BG2 is undoubtedly one of the greatest games I ever played, and it will forever remain on that list of only 3-4 games.

Playing it through with a mage that started out pretty weak but grew into a very potent powerhouse that lended a huge hand in owning Irenicus' ass was a great experience, really enhanced by the amazing story, the amazing high-level battles, the character stronghold quests and the love plots. What a ride!

I still need to get Throne of Bhaal, which I'm gonna do right now!



~Wiz

[DisruptorX]

I still need to get Throne of Bhaal, which I'm gonna do right now!


~Wiz

You will be dissapointed. Compared to BG II, the expansion is uninspired and dull. Its a linear romp through boring locales without the cool villains of the original. You are better off not playing it.

[Soulflame]

You will be dissapointed. Compared to BG II, the expansion is uninspired and dull. Its a linear romp through boring locales without the cool villains of the original. You are better off not playing it.

I seriously hope you don't mean this. Throne of Bhaal was an excellent expansion IMO. It is a bit more linair, but the story is grand. You should definately put Sarevok in your party, he's sure to give some nice conversations. The city you start in is under siege, which is a new kind of thing as well.
Then there's the Watcher's Keep, although the final monster (won't tell you what it is ) is a bit weak without the patch made by some fans, it's definately nice to get through all levels in the Tower.

Really, it's pretty nice. As are BG1 (and TotSW) and BG2. BG1 is special to me because it got me into the RPG scene. My elder brother bought it, and I'd watch him play and play myself when I got home earlier from school. He never finished it (couldn't get past the last warband before Sarevok), but I finished it. He was really mad at me for that .
When BG2 came out, I bought it, and enjoyed it. (And after that IWD etc etc)

The original NWN was okay. The original campaign wasn't too good (too much hack 'n slash compared to BG), but SoU was nice, and HotU very nice. I finished the SoU-HotU campaign 3 times.
But NWN was basically made for multiplayer & custom content. So even if you dislike the OC, there is a lot more to discover.

Morrowind didn't have a multiplayer and was incrediably vast. Not to mention it got some quirks, like the max you could sell items for was extremely low (you had to mod it). I also spent 3 days finding a cave, which wasn't where they said it was (it was at the OTHER side of the mountain). And lastly, the skill system, although very original, was very bad. I run most of the time, to cover all the distances, but I soon was level 20 from all that jumping and running, with a lot of points in athletics and acrobatics. But then I got to face level 20 creatures as well.. and I simply couldn't win... except if I used the cheesy archery...
So I didn't like it very much, although the music was absolutely stunning and the graphics very nice as well, it just didn't catch me.

[rasoforos]

Playing the BG series i always get the feeling that they dont make games as they used to anymore. I ve literally played those games to exhaustion and BG II is still my favorite RPG by far... The character interaction and story line are so well made that you rarelly find them in another RPG. Really who hasnt been annoyed by Jan Jansen constatly talking and the following frustration by the fact that you do need a thief so you can only tollerate him :) Or the goodie-goodie Aerie or that arrogant pompous Anomen. Who doesnt love Boo and Minsk's crazy character that gave you courage through the bloomy underdark? The character dialogues...the romance with Viconia ;) .

Now for a comparisson. I ve played Morrowind , i ve played ALL morrowind , every mission and every add-on all 300 or so gameplay hours ( and messed up my semester since i didnt really attend lectures for a month and a half being a full time morrowind gamer). Morrowind is cool , morrowind is beautifull morrowing is fun to play but all this doesnt make it a better RPG than BG II. The nice and simple 2D approach of BG II allowed you to dedicate your concentration in the game itself and not to stupid bloody things that can fly on your head and go 'aaaargh!' from behind ( yes i still believe a good rpg should be BG or Fallout like...2D or isometric that is). Moreover the gameplay provided by the availability of a group of diverse characters is superior to the endless 'hack hack slash' of Morrowind and its lack of decent party making. As i said Morrowind is fun , its the best RPG is saw the year it was published but BG it isnt...

[71-hour Ahmed]

yes, what is it about the cliff racers in morrowwind? I've wiped out a large part of the ecosystem travelling from A to B due to their constant attacks...

[The Tuffen]

The Cliff rangers are annoying in morrowind. There is a mod that removes all of them.