Baldur's Gate #BaldurGate: Siege of Dragonspear

[ArchAngel]

I see you all ask for good writing and hold Baldurs Gate as some kind of holy grail

no we dont

baldur's gate's writing is good because its fucking even the whole way through. it doesnt crash and burn with bizarre tone shifts and blatant real world politics shitting up the story like SoD. So many edgy faggots going "aw cmon u guize its just one npc i mean jeez"

Well BG1 doesnt really have "one NPC" that instantly outs themselves as a political mouthpiece. So lick my balls

No. I think we will let your dog continue doing that.

How do you know his dog lick his balls though?

It is pretty obvious he has some mental deficiency and obsessions with ball licking. Since only a dog would love a guy like him, only a dog can give him that ball licking he so likes.

Are you that butthurt that I called you out for having a pointless and childish hateboner for PoE that you have to have a tantrum in every thread I post? I remember being an edgy faggot too in middle school too, you'll get through it and realize that PoE was a really good game and that you're being a faggot eventually, son.

No buthurt here. I am just posting things as they are. Only butthurt people here is you and others like you that went all Holy Crusade again SoD. Even if it is only an imaginary one in your heads.

 

[Ezrite]

no we dont

baldur's gate's writing is good because its fucking even the whole way through. it doesnt crash and burn with bizarre tone shifts and blatant real world politics shitting up the story like SoD. So many edgy faggots going "aw cmon u guize its just one npc i mean jeez"

Well BG1 doesnt really have "one NPC" that instantly outs themselves as a political mouthpiece. So lick my balls

I am not pro SJW either, but Bioware is Bioware. They probably always had it in them.

Anyway, for that last comment, go fuck yourself

 

[varangos]

Aaa,so funny watching all the gamersgate newfags fighting each other over games they never played

So tell me,when gamersgate dies out what will you do with your empty lives?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Joined: Mar 27, 2016

 

[pippin]

Aaa,so funny watching all the gamersgate newfags fighting each other over games they never played

So tell me,when gamersgate dies out what will you do with your empty lives?

I dunno men, I'll probably have to download their version of the DnD anthology just for shit n giggles, even if I already have the games elsewhere. One can never be too careful.
Besides, it's still a p. bro service. Bought Dark Messiah of Might and Magic from them once. What sucks is that some of their direct download games have drm tacked on them.

 

[an Administrator]

When newfags bitch about newfaggotry....

 

[varangos]

I was here before you newfag

 

[Lilura]

There are eight romanceable companions in SoD. Such replayability!

wat?

Here:

Corwin (female Human) (for male and female CHARNAME)
Dorn (male Half-orc) (for male and female CHARNAME)
Glint (male Gnome) (for male CHARNAME)
Neera (female Human) (for male CHARNAME)
Rasaad (male Human) (for female CHARNAME)
Safana (female Human) (for male CHARNAME)
Viconia (female Drow) (for male CHARNAME)
Voghiln (male Human) (for female CHARNAME)

 

[Reinhardt]

Wait, so they did romance for Viconia too? Good thing i was girl and dodged.

 

[yes plz]

I stumbled into the Viconia stuff during my play through and it works more as a prelude to her BG2 romance than anything. It makes no sense, though -- by the end of it she's fairly warm towards CHARNAME but in BG2 she's rather hostile and nasty for the first half of her romance track. Really, most of the shit they added to bridge the gap between BG1 and 2 makes little sense when actually compared to what happens in BG2.

 

[Ezrite]

I stumbled into the Viconia stuff during my play through and it works more as a prelude to her BG2 romance than anything. It makes no sense, though -- by the end of it she's fairly warm towards CHARNAME but in BG2 she's rather hostile and nasty for the first half of her romance track. Really, most of the shit they added to bridge the gap between BG1 and 2 makes little sense when actually compared to what happens in BG2.

Yes, that is very true, this is why they should off tried to make their own spin off/branching instead. No one really speaks about Caelar Argent or her crusade in the second game so it do come off as really weird. Someone might pull the "But the captives was experimented on and had their memories altered". But that is only true for some of them. Edwin, Viconia, Rasaad, Neera, Dorn with others where not there to be effected and have their memories fucked.

 

[ArchAngel]

I stumbled into the Viconia stuff during my play through and it works more as a prelude to her BG2 romance than anything. It makes no sense, though -- by the end of it she's fairly warm towards CHARNAME but in BG2 she's rather hostile and nasty for the first half of her romance track. Really, most of the shit they added to bridge the gap between BG1 and 2 makes little sense when actually compared to what happens in BG2.

Well in bg2 she is abandoned by you and then caught and almost burned alive. That would make angry even normal human females.

 

[yes plz]

I stumbled into the Viconia stuff during my play through and it works more as a prelude to her BG2 romance than anything. It makes no sense, though -- by the end of it she's fairly warm towards CHARNAME but in BG2 she's rather hostile and nasty for the first half of her romance track. Really, most of the shit they added to bridge the gap between BG1 and 2 makes little sense when actually compared to what happens in BG2.

Well in bg2 she is abandoned by you and then caught and almost burned alive. That would make angry even normal human females.

Actually, she abandons you.

 

[Immortal]

I stumbled into the Viconia stuff during my play through and it works more as a prelude to her BG2 romance than anything. It makes no sense, though -- by the end of it she's fairly warm towards CHARNAME but in BG2 she's rather hostile and nasty for the first half of her romance track. Really, most of the shit they added to bridge the gap between BG1 and 2 makes little sense when actually compared to what happens in BG2.

Well in bg2 she is abandoned by you and then caught and almost burned alive. That would make angry even normal human females.

Actually, she abandons you.

They should of made a separate story that only involves charname and nobody else. Maybe tie in your -stock- companion group at the end.. but trying to have all those characters floating around in a meaningful way just totally breaks BG2 story wise.

 

[Mexi]

They need to lay off all the writers or make some serious changes in that department.I don't have a problem with the art or the music,they were pretty decent,sometimes even better than PoE ,but the writing was excruciating all around the board.I could literally smell that fat cunt Amber in almost every paragraph,especially when you talked with the wumin.They all felt so patronizing and always made some snide remark like they knew better than everyone else and somehow my NPC never had the option to say ''Just shut the fuck up already bitch,I get it,I suck alright''.


Fire her,fire Gaider and never look back.

HAHAHAHH!

Damn, that made me laugh something fierce.

 

[Excidium II]

Btw all the achievement percentages are really low, some goes for BG2. Numbers could be incorrect, or maybe they reset after the patch or something (assuming bg2 got the ui patch).

Or maybe people just dont play their games as infinitron said...

Which would be kinda sad and stupid at the same time.

I might be wrong but achievements were only added with patch 2.0. Only SoD achievements are relevant in this case.

 

[Ezrite]

I might be wrong but achievements were only added with patch 2.0. Only SoD achievements are relevant in this case.

Like all my achievements now in the Achievement box on Steam is from Dragonspear. Some as low as 0.04%.

 

[Metal Hurlant]

Some of the achievements that popped up for me are still sitting at 0%. For example, one of those achievements that popped up but still sitting at 0% is "I don't Care".

The difference between defeating the first boss 0.8% and the end boss 0.3%. Not sure what to take from that.

 

[Lilura]

I think ACHEEVMUNTZ will not be covered in my walkthrough.

I've covered 14 companions (massive spoilers):

Siege of Dragonspear - Companion Breakdown
(If your add-on/plug-in doesn't block the script, clicking a pic enters Light Box mode, where you can mouse-wheel through their charsheets and inventories).

ppl have complained of the lack of tanks ("We only have Minsc and Dorn comes too late!"), but they don't seem to understand that any companion with (f.e) Stoneskin, Ironskins and Mirror Image makes for a better sponge than mundanes.

 

[Metal Hurlant]

For me, it's going from many choices in the base game to a limited choice in SoD. You could pick up Ajantis, Khalid near the start, Kagain and Kivan at/near Beregost, and Minsc at Nashkel before you even get to the Nashkel Mines. You could also include Shar-Teel if you're lucky to survive her encounter but for arguments sake, I'll leave her out. And that's not including the multi-class Fighters. If you're going to include Dorn with SoD, then he's also at the Friendly Arm inn but I think he turns up later to join you.

And who do we have for SoD? One tank which is Minsc. And Dorn later on the same map when you meet up with Khalid. That's it.

What about Thieves? Imoen, Montaron, Safana, Coran before you get to Baldur's Gate and later Alora and Skie. In SoD, you have Safana and Glint.

I find it quite jarring that you're forced into taking companions that you may not have wanted and didn't have in your party to begin with. At the end of the game, some of those companions you did have left your party anyway and I don't see why they couldn't have included all the companions and have them leave your party for similar reasons.

 

[Siveon]

Khalid? Tank? Pffft.

Spoiler

I know that's not the point, but he was always the first to get his shit kicked in.

 

[Ezrite]

For me, it's going from many choices in the base game to a limited choice in SoD. You could pick up Ajantis, Khalid near the start, Kagain and Kivan at/near Beregost, and Minsc at Nashkel before you even get to the Nashkel Mines. You could also include Shar-Teel if you're lucky to survive her encounter but for arguments sake, I'll leave her out. And that's not including the multi-class Fighters. If you're going to include Dorn with SoD, then he's also at the Friendly Arm inn but I think he turns up later to join you.

And who do we have for SoD? One tank which is Minsc. And Dorn later on the same map when you meet up with Khalid. That's it.

What about Thieves? Imoen, Montaron, Safana, Coran before you get to Baldur's Gate and later Alora and Skie. In SoD, you have Safana and Glint.

I find it quite jarring that you're forced into taking companions that you may not have wanted and didn't have in your party to begin with. At the end of the game, some of those companions you did have left your party anyway and I don't see why they couldn't have included all the companions and have them leave your party for similar reasons.

That I have to agree with. The new companions was not enough to fill it up either. There was plenty more characters around they could have turned into companions. I mean, it was a fucking war camp.

 

[Metal Hurlant]

I took Khalid through everything in the base game and not once did his morale broke. He has the second highest hit points (after Kagain) of any of the NPCs. I gave him the Ogre Guantlets and he was there with Kagain up front taking it like a man. My other party members including my character didn't get a scratch. And Tiax is always fun.

Screen shot of me defeating Aec'Letec. He and Kagain tanked the demon hard. Core Rules.

Spoiler

 

[Lilura]

You don't even know what a tank is. Khalid and Charname can get -12 AC each EZ in the main campaign, but what is that compared to Mirror Image, Stoneskin and Ironskin (yes, Stoneskin and Ironskin are not in the vanilla OC, but they ARE in Siege).

You're both crybabies... they didn't include every companion because they added a shit load of content for the 14 or so they did include, which BG1 doesn't come close to.

And killing Aec-Lectic with Kagain is newbie stuff anyone can do. My Fighter/Mage tanked Drizzt one-on-one. Whoop-de-fuckin'-do.

 

[Reinhardt]

Screen shot of me defeating Aec'Letec. He and Kagain tanked the demon hard. Core Rules.

126 hp and not on front line? You have no honor - like a woman!