Best way to play Baldur's Gate

[laclongquan]

Unless you know which to avoid, which you dont as that is your first game.

Casting "Detect traps" doesn't help?

If that is your first game, first run mage player would be too impressed with magic arrows, shocking burst, melf acid arrow etc spells to be making use of detect trap/alignment/evil etc kinda spells.

 

[bec de corbin]

There's a mod that removes the bgee companions if they bother you. I know there's something to be said for purity of experience but I always have trouble getting the original baldur's gate running, unfortunately.

 

[d1r]

There's a mod that removes the bgee companions if they bother you. I know there's something to be said for purity of experience but I always have trouble getting the original baldur's gate running, unfortunately.

Even the GoG versions? Sounds really strange.

 

[Elwro]

I don't think you can buy non-EE GoG versions anymore... [and yes, they ran perfectly on modern machines]

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[bec de corbin]

I don't think you can buy non-EE GoG versions anymore... [and yes, they ran perfectly on modern machines]

You get the original with EE if you buy on GoG, just like the other beamdog stuff. I might give the gog version of bg1 a try then to see if it works better

 

[Elwro]

Thanks for the info. I bought the non-EE GoG BG1 version years ago and it worked perfectly, even on Linux. The widescreen mod and Unfinished Business installed properly, too...

 

[A horse of course]

I just tried the old GoG version of BG1 and it worked fine out of the box aside from minor visual bugs with the fog of war and slight artifacting around some spell effects. Running through dxwnd fixed those, but to be honest it doesn't bother me anyway. The only mod I bothered installing is Unfinished Business and it's hardly essential. I know people regard the widescreen mods as mandatory, but personally I'm happier playing at the correct zoom level with the original UI, and just ignore the black bars at the side.

Maybe the remastered original background assets make BG2 EE worthwhile, but BG1 EE is definitely a no-no unless you absolutely cannot get BG1 working at all.

 

[d1r]

EE areas completely destroy immersion because of this shitty black void at the edges of the maps. Not recommended.

 

[A horse of course]

Minor point, but has anyone been able to get EAX working in BG1? I installed ALchemy (it's been a while), pointed it at the install directory and enabled, but the Environmental Audio option is still grayed out in options.

 

[ADULF HITLOR FAN KLUB]

EE areas completely destroy immersion because of this shitty black void at the edges of the maps. Not recommended.

I particularly despise the new cutscenes. They have no charm at all.

I wish the original assets were never lost and we got a Baldur's Gate HD instead. All of the stuff Beamdog added/changed in the EE is pretty much just trash.