Minsc -> you mean Hardiness & Armor of faith?Humanoid_Taifun wrote...
Thirdly, powerwise the spell casters (not the bad guys) are at the top of the pyramid. Korgan may be able to put Mazzy down, but if Minsc is dressed properly, then Korgan's axes will only deal 15% damage. And that's just a level one cleric spell. Haer'Dalis (with no access to spells above level 6) won't take any damage at all from Korgan.
I would suggest you use either EasyTutu or BGT with the BG1 NPC mod and play BG1 before BG2.Cypher0020 wrote...
Should I play BG2 over BG1?
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Hardiness, Armor of Faith, Defender of Easthaven gives Minsc 85% against physical damage, no matter if it's a magical weapon or not, so switching weapons would not really do much good. The only thing that still does full damage (well, 75%) is elemental damage. And sure, there are weapons that deal such damage, but it's usually very low when compared to the normal weapon damage (an exception being FoA+5). And since very few enemies in the game have such weapons in the vanilla game, the 85% resistance are a very dependable bonus - especially when combined with the Cloak of Mirroring.virumor wrote...
Minsc -> you mean Hardiness & Armor of faith?
And if Korgan were smart, he'd just switch between normal & magical weapons.
G_Admiral_Thrawn wrote...
NWN had the potential to be so good, but somehow it just didn't live up to it's promise. NWN 2 was better, but it still suffered some of the same flaws. I get the feel that the devs were stung over criticism over the "power-gaminess" of BG2 and deliberately toned NWN down. No Cloaks, Staves, or Shields of Cheese, one metamagic feat per spell, things like that.
Modifié par BlackyBlack, 14 juillet 2010 - 10:15 .
Modifié par Seagloom, 14 juillet 2010 - 10:42 .
BlackyBlack wrote...
I get the feeling most of you love it mostly 'cos of nostalgia since it was your first RPG. I really doubt anyone that played KOTOR, ME or DAO first would say BG is better
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Modifié par Acharnae, 14 juillet 2010 - 10:58 .
Personally, i think that's the major charm when people talk about making a good old RPG. i expected that kind of game, not where it's a mess, but where you actually have to be present to succeed... there are very few games that demand that of you today, and that is why my shelf with BG, Icewind Dale and Fallout is treasured and cuddled like a baby.Humanoid_Taifun wrote...
Yes the complexity is probably a major part of it. But (and mostly because of the complexity) it is also aimed at a different playstyle, not really allowing for casual hopping into the world to cut down a couple of mobs, and then returning to the real world to do whatever you have to do.
Combat is as important as in ME or in DA:O but the game doesn't focus (only) on your ability to slaughter stuff - if you neglect the dialogue you will soon end up in a dead end (which in modern games is nearly unthinkable with their streamlined corridors and the instant transportation back once you've reached the primary MO).
In the first RPGs on the market you really had to have pen & paper at the ready to write down everything that you'd found out so far. Going back to a months old savegame without these notes was difficult even if you knew the game. BG has a very useful diary function and you can usually draw all important information from there in a matter of seconds; but it still feels awkward to start up an old save game.
[deleted an overly long wall of text with dozens of explanatory brackets and no reader-friendliness because you wouldn't have read it anyway and also because it wasn't necessarily entirely coherent]
I believe that this awkwardness marks a very important point of a good RPG for the simple reason that important information should be more than your current position in a dungeon.
[deleted the best argument I had, simply because the sheer magnificence of it's phrasing, the refined perfection that would have blown away Lewis Carroll (were he still alive), could have unfairly manipulated your defenseless minds into adapting my way of thinking]
correct. many would say that we put in on a too steep piedestal, but i personally think that this game nailed it spot on. it had all kinds of depths in any direction. some Battles were deep puzzles of magery. some dialogue could get you some special results if done just right. and the two best dungeons ever, Watchers Keep and Durlags tower... little pieces of art came together to make my best gaming experience.Acharnae wrote...
Well I've been cut off from the gaming
scene for some years now. But when I read that there was another RPG
game out from Bioware which claimed was the successor of BG, I checked
with concern my PC specs, realized it could easily handle it and the
very next day I went out and bought DAO and Awakenings.
It is a good
game. There's no question about it.
But BG simply combined a great
variety of things in their ideal proportion.
It was a great work of
art, as someone said, and the story was truely powerful. Like a very
well written book.
I've played RPGs before that and after. Still
none, in my opinion, has managed to capture the gist of so many things
as BG did.
Modifié par BomimoDK, 15 juillet 2010 - 12:35 .
BlackyBlack wrote...
I get the feeling most of you love it mostly 'cos of nostalgia since it was your first RPG. I really doubt anyone that played KOTOR, ME or DAO first would say BG is better
Did you even bother looking into what Dragon Age is, because what you described... i never saw in game at all. what plot did you play?dark-lauron wrote...
Nope, I really think Baldur's Gate is better than any other BioWare game.
KotOR : well, I hate Star Wars to begin with. How can I "like" a game in its universe... that's unknown.
Mass Effect : Nice game... but I don't really like space thingies...
Dragon Age : who are we kidding, its base is the same like Mass Effects' : Some race without "mind" follows the return of the "gods". You are chosen as an elite warrior throughout the whole game. You must take down a rogue ex-hero who turned to the bad side. You are at the end taken to the largest city in the game and the final battle takes place on a tower...
is this really better than BG? I don't think so.
BomimoDK wrote...
]Did you even bother looking into what Dragon Age is, because what you described... i never saw in game at all. what plot did you play?
Cypher0020 wrote...
ok......how hard is BG? Like...frustratingly hard...or rip hair out gonna snap the disk hard?? O_o
Modifié par cipher86, 15 juillet 2010 - 05:23 .
It's still an unfair comparison and also taking nothing into account that the games might have going for them.Khayness wrote...
"Some race without "mind" (Darkspawn) follows the return of the "gods" (Archdemon) You are
chosen as an elite warrior throughout the whole game. (Grey Warden) You must take down
a rogue ex-hero who turned to the bad side. (Loghain) You are at the end taken to
the largest city in the game and the final battle takes place on a
tower... (Fort Drakon in Denerim)"
That's why I said BASE not whole game.Humanoid_Taifun wrote...
It's still an unfair comparison and also taking nothing into account that the games might have going for them.Khayness wrote...
"Some race without "mind" (Darkspawn) follows the return of the "gods" (Archdemon) You are
chosen as an elite warrior throughout the whole game. (Grey Warden) You must take down
a rogue ex-hero who turned to the bad side. (Loghain) You are at the end taken to
the largest city in the game and the final battle takes place on a
tower... (Fort Drakon in Denerim)"
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