Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 2 is vastly overrated

[Dark Souls II]

Pillars of Eternity struck a perfect balance between the two.

Pillars of Eternity (I) is palatable only because they shamelessly ripped off the entire premise of BGI.

For the major part of the game you are a detective trying to solve a conspiracy and track down a mysterious villain that you know almost nothing about. It's a good, honest premise that almost makes you forget all of the numerous retarded aspects of PoE's donut steel OC setting.

 

[HumanTotemPole]

It's a well done D&D-flavoured theme park, with everything from the (monster) manual crammed into it and you as the main actor and center piece of the very universe around which hit all revolves.

Sums it up. A good game on the merits of the dungeon crawls and mage encounters but criticism of it as theme park over realised world is fair. Striking vignettes over a cohesive journey, very Bethesda-esque that way. You can practically smell the Coronet but Athkala has never felt like a cohesive location to me.

A lot of the doom that came to the genre was foreshadowed or came into being here. Romances, hefty baseline power levels hindering escalation of stakes, urgent central story beats undermined by prolonged meandering, the rise of the theme park world as above.

Often thought that the more developed NPC banter and relationship systems are a better fit for BG1's pace and style of exploration. Easier to imagine the interactions that aren't depicted when you're simulating longer travel distances. Plausible passage of time. No more catfights mid beholder nest or final boss fight delivery suite.

Shout to the NPCs for still being abstracted enough that there's room for your imagination to fill in the blanks. I'd be happy if voice acting hadn't gone any further in this type of game - very little filler.

 

[Froila]

Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale could be good games if they weren't Dungeons and Dragons. This system sucks for videogames.

The Gold Box games, IE games, Dark Sun games, ToEE disagree.
Now tell us about all those great cRPGs made by the superior RPG systems.

Realms of Arkania HD

 

[Decado]

Is the retard who started this thread still around?

 

[MerchantKing]

 

[ArchAngel]

Is the retard who started this thread still around?

with 28 posts total in 4 years probably not.

 

[MerchantKing]

Is the retard who started this thread still around?

with 28 posts total in 4 years probably not.

Probably switched back to his other alt

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Only a woman can be this petty, so I'm willing to believe Lilura is one. Even Scorpia, the original rpg tranny, knew how and when to bow down.

 

[Ol' Willy]

Only a woman can be this petty, so I'm willing to believe Lilura is one. Even Scorpia, the original rpg tranny, knew how and when to bow down.

I wonder what is 8.7 for the original, the fact that 95% of combat in the game is fighting trash mobs?

 

[MerchantKing]

Only a woman can be this petty, so I'm willing to believe Lilura is one. Even Scorpia, the original rpg tranny, knew how and when to bow down.

I wonder what is 8.7 for the original, the fact that 95% of combat in the game is fighting trash mobs?

I believe combat against trash mobs is what he's into. It's confirmed when you see his Swordflight ratings as that set of modules is also 95% trash mob fights.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Lilura has an inexplicable fondness for RTSRPGs, which unfortunately continues to impede her judgement of games.

 

[Melcar]

Lilura is hot.

 

[Ryzer]

Only a woman can be this petty, so I'm willing to believe Lilura is one. Even Scorpia, the original rpg tranny, knew how and when to bow down.

I wonder what is 8.7 for the original, the fact that 95% of combat in the game is fighting trash mobs?

You mean like in Underrail?