Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gamer Gate II: HALT AND GO NO FURTHER LAYMEN

[Tacgnol]

Keldorn will happely tolerate all other evil companions (and even your char if he's evil), which is retarded.

Yep, Keldorn is surprisingly tolerant. He even has something of a friendship with Korgan which is somewhat amusing considering their polar opposite alignments and views of the world.

 

[ga♥]

I found Haeravon walktrough far superior.Otherwise, I also read walktrough while shitting.

Also, my inner munckinny autistic self disagree with some point, but i'm not sure we should listen to him in order to enjoy BG2

Care to develop ga♥ ?

What should I elaborate, dsimpson's guides are just better organized, better structured, and they are just... guides, not a playthrough report.
Moreover 99% of chance he just copied dsimpsons guided, even if he never mention it...

 

[Sarathiour]

What should I elaborate, dsimpson's guides are just better organized, better structured, and they are just... guides, not a playthrough report.
Moreover 99% of chance he just copied dsimpsons guided, even if he never mention it...

Hum what ? Structure tend to be pretty much the same on gamefaq, whatever the game. Playthrough report is a decent critic, but about copying it, his word count his nearly the double from dsimpson, and dsimpson guide is heavely edited by other people comment.
Moreover, he's just plain wrong on few thing, like how the fuck valygar got a better rating than edwin ?

 

[ga♥]

By copying I mean he used dsimpson's guides to write his long, prolix, full of superflous infos, playthrough reports, which are a clusterfuck to follow (but I did enjoy reading nonetheless).
And he doesn't even mention or thanks dsimpson.

And no the structure is not the same, for example dsimpson's Baldur's Gate 2 faq is divided for areas. Each area has its quests described, which is neat and functional.

Regarding Edwin and Valygar, he may be wrong, but the guide is still just better (or maybe he meant to compare apples to apples, so you shouldn't compare Edwin rating with Valygar's, but let's say Edwin's with Nalia's).

 

[Decado]

Dan Simpson had incredible output. He did several reviews for several long games, and I've never found anything missing from them. He must have spent an incredible amount of time on them, and for nothing -- it's not like anybody at GameFAQs was getting paid back in 2007 (or are getting paid now, for that matter).

 

[Fedora Master]

Good essay but fails to mention Ranger/Cleric cheese, sad!

 

[Twizman]

Good read, thanks.

 

[Decado]

Good essay but fails to mention Ranger/Cleric cheese, sad!

I never tried this. This is one of those builds that can allow you to solo the game, correct?

 

[Fedora Master]

Good essay but fails to mention Ranger/Cleric cheese, sad!

I never tried this. This is one of those builds that can allow you to solo the game, correct?

Between all cleric spells, all druid spells, dual wielding and ranger proficiencies... Yes.

 

[hell bovine]

Good essay but fails to mention Ranger/Cleric cheese, sad!

I never tried this. This is one of those builds that can allow you to solo the game, correct?

The trilogy has been soloed by most classes by now, I'd be surpised if there is anything left. Maybe one of the less interesting mage specializations.

 

[Sarathiour]

I never tried this. This is one of those builds that can allow you to solo the game, correct?

Well, you could technically finish the game solo with any class, but it's regarded as second strongest build, just behind all the variant of F/M

 

[ga♥]

solo best: F/M/T half-elf
regular party of 6 best: F/M gnome

 

[rusty_shackleford]

solo best: F/M/T half-elf
regular party of 6 best: F/M gnome

What makes half-elf better at being female/male/trannies?

 

[ga♥]

solo best: F/M/T half-elf
regular party of 6 best: F/M gnome

What makes half-elf better at being female/male/trannies?

It's powergamey but it's just the stats increase you get through BG1/BG2/TOB.
IIRC you can end up with 21 DEX, while with an elf you would be 22 dex, which doesn't increase AC so its useless (unless you want to solo using bows...)

 

[Jvegi]

There are some truly trash companions, like Haer'Dalis

Stopped reading. You're out of your mind. Or just ignorant.

 

[Decado]

There are some truly trash companions, like Haer'Dalis

Stopped reading. You're out of your mind. Or just ignorant.

Haer'Dalis fucking sucks. His kit sucks, his character sucks, and his voice acting is annoying.

ETA: There is no reason for his Kit, it is the most useless one in the game behind Avenger druids. Why take a bard, and then have a bard song that never improves with levels? It's fucking retarded. There is nothing he can do that a Swash can't do better, which is why there is a mod to change his class to Swash.

Face it, he fucking blows.

 

[Saldrone]

I still can't get over the fact Yoshimo was meant to be a permanent companion but play testers complained since that's means they couldn't get Imoen back

 

[Jvegi]

Face it, he fucking blows.

You blow. He's an arcane caster with fast level gain, making his remove magic consistantly effective. He can make himself immune to damage with arcane buffs, and once he gets Crom Fayer his damage and thac0 gets as decent as it needs to be.

Warrior dualed into a mage is broken in this game, and bards get most of the best parts of this broken combination, with fast leveling on top of that.

His kit and song are irrevelant. Lol.

Also, his dialogue happens to be top notch, and I would't say anything close to this about 90% of the writing in the game.

Loled at swash worship. Do you even scs?

 

[notpl]

First of all, Haer'Dalis will not be outclassed by *anyone* while using the Blade's two unique self-buffs - secondly, bards in 2e/bg2 are incredible because they're basically just full mages as well. With his faster level progression his spellcasting will be hellishly strong and only a few levels behind a real mage's in terms of progression. Haer'Dalis is basically a slightly weaker version of the kensai/mage that still gets to take epic bard song and use any item eventually. He can attack 4 times per round with maximized damage when necessary and then cast skull trap for more damage than a mage could right after.

 

[Yosharian]

Yeah Bards are pretty underrated

 

[Decado]

Face it, he fucking blows.

You blow.

Well, someone certainly blows. It's probably you, on Haer'Dalis, under his tiefling bedsheets. Don't forget to gargle afterwards.

He's an arcane caster with fast level gain, making his remove magic consistantly effective.

Maybe you heard of this guy named Keldorn, who dispels magic at twice his level and has the added bonus of not being a huge faggot.

Loled at swash worship. Do you even scs?

You mean, do I play a different game other than the one I reviewed? I said right in the review that I was not going to engage with retards who say things like "YEAH BUT IF YOU USE THIS MOD THEN YOUR CRITICISM DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!!" Yes, good job, touché, it's possible that if you use a mod that makes huge changes to the game, some of my criticisms don't apply. Congratulations, don't forget to pick up your Nobel prize on your way home from the gloryhole, you stupid dickhead.

Edit: The game is stuffed full of spellcasters. Gassing on about his spell-casting ability is just further proof that his kit is gay.

 

[Decado]

Yeah Bards are pretty underrated

My biggest complaint about Bards in BG2 is that there is precious little opportunity for them to do anything useful outside of combat, which from a role-playing perspective is where they shine.

 

[notpl]

That's represented by them getting the most elaborate and fun stronghold quest.

 

[Jvegi]

You mean, do I play a different game other than the one I reviewed? I said right in the review that I was not going to engage with retards who say things like "YEAH BUT IF YOU USE THIS MOD THEN YOUR CRITICISM DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!!" Yes, good job, touché, it's possible that if you use a mod that makes huge changes to the game, some of my criticisms don't apply.

Scs makes the game more difficult and forces you to engage with the systems beyond auto attacking, casting magic missile and drinking healing potions. The main change it does is punishing the classes and characters that are not up to snuff. It forces you to evaluate them in the harshest conditions.

In those conditions Haer Dalis can do much more than Keldorn and most of the spellcasters the game is stuffed with.

Yeah Bards are pretty underrated

My biggest complaint about Bards in BG2 is that there is precious little opportunity for them to do anything useful outside of combat, which from a role-playing perspective is where they shine.

I'm sorry, but what is there to do in this game outside of combat that is class dependent? Thieves can interact with the environment more than others, and that is it.

And I must repeat, his dialogue slaps. He can outwit and outcharm anyone in the game. And not be gay at all doing it.

 

[notpl]

I do think it's great that they wrote a companion who's just sort of a grating blowhard asshole. It's especially fantastic that he can potentially mog the pedos who try to romance Aerie if they don't get their flags set quickly enough. Cannot imagine how many losers got mindbroken by that back in the day.