Baldur's Gate Beamdog's Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 Enhanced Editions

For me the highlight of the original intro was the blood trickling through the cobblestones and then the camera pulling back to the game title shot. It's telling that the new intro completely misses the boat on that and just has the giant blob-pool of blood spreading around the guy in a perfect circle.

Now you know where their budget went. Sounds like it didn't go into the coding...

 

Don't remember how to use that stuff sorry

Infinity games are the most stable games I ever had on my PC, and BG is the number one of most stable of them (unlike, say PST). I ran BG on Win 95, 98, XP, ME and now I easely run my BG from 10 years old CD or GoG version no problem on Windows 7. There is nothing to enhance!
I ran no-CDed infinity games with CDs copied onto hard-drive after re-installing Windows, and installing new Windows - just by updating regedit... but PST actually ran even without it.
The only game which is more stable than BG for me is probably Alpha Centauri, which just runs even from old folder no matter when, how, what system or mode you run Win in.

The fact that I had to install additional sound library to run BGEE and there are bugs in the game is mindblowing to me. I mean, you heard me - Infinitron says - NO IT COSTS 100 GP. I go and run GoG version of BG1 (a wonderful BG build by the way, GOGs BG just installs for few minutes and plays... out of the "box").

So why the in the Nine Hells... maybe the most important for them is BGEE running on PHONES, huh?
Grrr.

 

loving the new romances and graphical/story improvements...can't wait to see what they'll do to BG2.

 

I'd play flute with wildmage girl and orc, and roam new locations and search for items, but only with the old 800*600 UI. I hope modders will "fix that". Maybe I should already send a request.

 

The Orc: He sits in Friendly Arm Inn but does't join. After I talked to him, I went south, and somewhere inbetween Nashkel and Mines a random encounter occured, where you can get him.
The Monk: Nashkel in front of inn.
Is It Flute Time Yet?: Beregost, north of map. Edwin will comment on her, and he leaves when you get her.

 

I have had no issues running the game. What I like so far? The new UI and the new quest-log. I am liking the new companions as well. If you get all three and do their quests I read its about 12 hours of new content. The new spell animations are also pretty good. I would have liked them to add some more graphic options-the only option is full screen. Its a minor complaint.

I like the old intro better but that's also minor. The other cut scenes so far have looked pretty good.

I don't know if its worth $20 but its certainly worth some where in between the GOG price and its current $20. (Maybe $15)

I installed the BG2 Tweaks pack as its compatible and necessary.

 

Question: Did the enhance the old NPC too? Because otherwise, the difference between the old content and the new one will be pretty obvious. (also, my main problem with BG1 was how little the party develop compared to 2 :/)

 

^ the logic is: if you have new content, why bother with the old lol?

 

Gay romances of peace.

 

No, they didn't, and yes, the difference is pretty jarring. It's actually one of the areas in the original that could have used some enhancing, but apparently the various licensing parties (WotC and Bioware?) have forbidden them from touching the original content. Of course there's the BG1NPC mod, but writing in that is just horrible... not that Beamdog's efforts are much better from what I've seen so far.

 

Could you equip it though? In the original BG1 Ankheg plate was not usable by Druids either according to the tooltip, but you could equip it.

 

It's probably the only 100% ethos-approved armor in saga druids can wear. The others they can wear are red dragon and white dragon armor, although I always thought it was a bit too stretched by rules. Could just go with ankheg.

 

apparently this is a BG1 screenshot though (http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/5145/item-ankheg-armor-usable-by-druids-bug-or-no/p1)

 

It's BG2 screenshot. In my GoG BG1, there is no druid restriction.

Hmm, can there be different descriptions in secret stach plate and made in Beregost plate?
Fucking game does't know itself.

Also, I don't care, because by Druid Complete chitin armor can be worn by druids.

Just checked by IE. Yeah, in BG1 no restrictions, in BG2 they added druid there, but plate stayed the same. So it's probably a mistake when they transitioned items from BG1 to BG2.

...damn I'm really nitpicking this stuff. I need to relax, kill some moles.

 

The restriction on druids used to be against metal armour (2E PHB). They didn't type armour by light, medium, heavy back then there were just types of armour. Since ankheg plates and dragon scales somehow contain no metal :itsamystery: druids should be able to wear it. I recall the Infinity Engine games buggering some of that stuff up though, so I couldn't comment on the specifics of the in game stuff. (Plus seriously, fuck druids.)

 

Yet I bet he still forgot to memorize Protection from magical weapons.

 

Maybe Sarevok always carries a non-magical sword in his second slot.

 

At least Gorion doesn't charge Sarevok with his dagger anymore, right? Right?

 

He also doesn't unleash his barrage of magic missiles any more :declining:

 

No, he even casts mirror image and stoneskins (and prot-normal weapons actually) and continues to whack shit with da spells, and gets killed by animation which looked somewhat close to either Deathbringer Assault or that Instant Death epic skill from ToB, when Tomoko Dispells Magic him.

 

I'm surprised they didn't replace it with a shitty comic book cutscene (assuming they didn't of course...)