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[Mes]

Tell us a little bit about yourself! All optional of course. 

 

Name (real and/or what you'd like to be called here): 

Age:

Location:

Favorite Bioware game:

Random fact:

 

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Name (real and/or what you'd like to be called here): Anna is real, otherwise whatever you like 

Age: 27

Location: New Zealand (it's temporary)

Favorite Bioware game: DAO. It just holds a special place in my heart. 

Random fact: I love caviar. I just do. Little fish eggs. It's the best thing ever. 

 

[Tiina]

Name (real and/or what you'd like to be called here): Tiina is my real name

 

Age: 35

 

Location: Finland

 

Favorite Bioware game: Mass Effect series, definetly!

 

Random fact: Hmm...you could say i'm addicted to music, music is my drug

[Mes]

Welcome!! Mmmm ME... the series that made me love scifi and guns, hehe.

[kazumasoju]

Hi I'm violet and I like to make art :3

[Mes]

Hi I'm violet and I like to make art :3

 

Oooh is that avatar your work??

[kazumasoju]

Oooh is that avatar your work??

 

Oh nono this is from deviantart, I havent started my fan art yet & speaking of that  . . .

[Remmirath]

Greetings, all!

Name (real and/or what you'd like to be called here): Remmirath's fine, really. Rem's cool if you want a nickname. My real name is Morgan, but I prefer not to go by it online.

Age: 24.

Location: Michigan, USA.

Favorite Bioware game: Baldur's Gate, followed by Baldur's Gate II, followed by Dragon Age: Origins.

Random fact: Err, I'm an illustrator and stage combatant. (Randomness not working very well today, it seems. Too tired. Job will have to do.)

[Mes]

Greetings, all!

Name (real and/or what you'd like to be called here): Remmirath's fine, really. Rem's cool if you want a nickname. My real name is Morgan, but I prefer not to go by it online.

Age: 24.

Location: Michigan, USA.

Favorite Bioware game: Baldur's Gate, followed by Baldur's Gate II, followed by Dragon Age: Origins.

Random fact: Err, I'm an illustrator and stage combatant. (Randomness not working very well today, it seems. Too tired. Job will have to do.)

 

Welcome!! What's your favorite aspect of Baldur's Gate... and do you think it's aged well enough for someone like me to play it for the first time??

[Remmirath]

Welcome!! What's your favorite aspect of Baldur's Gate... and do you think it's aged well enough for someone like me to play it for the first time??

Thank you!

Well, there are many things I like about it. I'm not sure what my one favourite would be.

For one thing, I find that the older style of character creation with picking a portrait and all lends itself well to playing a wide variety of different characters over time, and I am fond of the fact that (albeit with claiming you're playing it multiplayer even if you aren't) you can make a full party of six characters. Replaying games with widely varied characters is important to me in an RPG.

I am also quite fond of the plot, and of the fact that it takes a single character (or several characters) from first level all the way to the mid-thirties by the end of the second game. I like direct sequels, and I like starting with low level characters and ending with very high level ones. Specifically about the first game, I like the rather large number of places there are to go and all the interesting little quests one can stumble on if you wander about.

Then there are all the things I miss about modern RPGs. The fact that party members can die and stay dead, the general difficulty level, the freedom to kill NPCs, and so forth. Some modern RPGs still have the bits of humour scattered liberally throughout them, but I think Baldur's Gate remains the king of that. I also love the dungeons, Durlag's Tower in the first game and Watcher's Keep in the second.

As for aging well... I'm a bit biased, but I honestly prefer the way it and other isometric RPGs of its time look to how almost all modern RPGs look, and I prefer the isometric style of RPGs in general. I do think it has aged well. If you have a widescreen monitor or a particularly large monitor, you would probably want to consider either a widscreen or resolution enhancing mod or getting the Enhanced Edition instead of the original (although, if you don't have a widescreen monitor, the Enhanced Edition won't look quite right). I certainly think they've held up much better than early full 3d games such as Neverwinter Nights or (unmodded) Morrowind.

[kvitter]

Name (real and/or what you'd like to be called here): Michaela is my real name and Kvitter is the name I mostly go by online.  

 

Age: 35

 

Location: Sweden

 

Favorite Bioware game: Mass Effect  

 

Random fact: Love to draw

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