Baldur's Gate Let's DISCUSS Infinity Engine combat and Baldur's Gate with random noobs

[Excidium II]

I don't think I would talk about BG in general if I wanted to make a point about exploration in RPGs, though.

This pretty much sums up that topic. The exploration wasn't great, but it was one of the areas I kinda enjoyed. The maps sucked on an individual basis, but finding places with stuff was the sweet part.

That's the thing that makes the BG games good, there's just a a lot of varied stuff to visit, kill, loot. BG1 wilderness maps simply made the Sword Coast feel more like an actual region in the world as opposed to just a bunch of disconnected levels, they are shit individually but together form a coherent world map.

I look at that pic Sensuki linked few pages ago and can't help but think how much better the games would be if Bioware had used Fallout's world map design

 

[Doktor Best]

I grew up with german voice acting for baldurs gate. They fucking implented voice actors with saxon dialect (those people are usually disregarded by the rest of the nation because of it).

The result sounded like this:

https://youtu.be/_vs0eqBSe_4?t=95

You guys dont know how spoiled you are with english synchronization. On the plus side it forced me into learning english well enough so i can understand rpgs in their mother language.

 

[NotAGolfer]

I don't think I would talk about BG in general if I wanted to make a point about exploration in RPGs, though.

This pretty much sums up that topic. The exploration wasn't great, but it was one of the areas I kinda enjoyed. The maps sucked on an individual basis, but finding places with stuff was the sweet part.

That's the thing that makes the BG games good, there's just a a lot of varied stuff to visit, kill, loot. BG1 wilderness maps simply made the Sword Coast feel more like an actual region in the world as opposed to just a bunch of disconnected levels, they are shit individually but together form a coherent world map.

Yeah, take your coherent world map and stick it where the sun don't shine, m8.
Exploring wilderness areas in BG1 is a huge waste of time, it's neither fun nor rewarding (too few xp points to get there anyway, char builds in BG1 don't develop in a satisfying way, low level ADnD sucks balls). I know, I tried to replay that turd a couple of weeks ago and gave up in the middle of a long stream of meaningless, underwhelming "low key adventures" (aka fetch quests or go there kill this quests).
In my memory that game was much better than when actually trying to replay it. There is just soooo much filler, it's mind-boggling.
Sure, you can skip all that and go for the main story (which I like), but I made the mistake to install SCS so I had to grind all that shit to stand a chance (ok, could have cheesed too but I don't enjoy that either).

 

[Excidium II]

Did you even read my post mang. I agree they are shit

 

[NotAGolfer]

I know, but you seem to still want to validate their existence by saying that they were coherent as a whole.
Don't try that on one hand ... on the other hand bs here, this is Codex, we don't fag around (is this the correct translation for "herumschwuchteln", anyone?), we speak in absolutes.

I cannot for the life of me fathom how you can simultaneously claim that BG is boring whereas Genefore is interesting.

TB combat?
Just a guess.

 

[Excidium II]

I know, but you seem to still want to validate their existence by saying that they were coherent as a whole.

I just appreciate the attempt to have a world map instead of a bunch of disconnected zones :<

 

[ArchAngel]

Regardless, the voices are jarring and sound unprofessional. I'm not so much worried about whose fault it is, but it's a huge flaw in the game.

You seems to hate everything about this game.. admit it, you are here just to troll and flame bait.

 

[roshan]

you are here just to troll and flame bait.

That applies to 90% of the Codex.

 

[Goblino]

Sure I'm a troll. That explains my valid points about why I personally didn't enjoy baldurs gate.

 

[Surf Solar]

I grew up with german voice acting for baldurs gate. They fucking implented voice actors with saxon dialect (those people are usually disregarded by the rest of the nation because of it).

The result sounded like this:

https://youtu.be/_vs0eqBSe_4?t=95

You guys dont know how spoiled you are with english synchronization. On the plus side it forced me into learning english well enough so i can understand rpgs in their mother language.

Das war doch das Beste an der ganzen deutschen Uebersetzung! :D
Ich als Sachse bin froh in Spielen auch mal vertreten zu sein.

 

[Excidium II]

I grew up with german voice acting for baldurs gate. They fucking implented voice actors with saxon dialect (those people are usually disregarded by the rest of the nation because of it).

The result sounded like this:

https://youtu.be/_vs0eqBSe_4?t=95

You guys dont know how spoiled you are with english synchronization. On the plus side it forced me into learning english well enough so i can understand rpgs in their mother language.

Das war doch das Beste an der ganzen deutschen Uebersetzung! :D
Ich als Sachse bin froh in Spielen auch mal vertreten zu sein.

Just curious, did they translate thac0 in the german version?

 

[Surf Solar]

I grew up with german voice acting for baldurs gate. They fucking implented voice actors with saxon dialect (those people are usually disregarded by the rest of the nation because of it).

The result sounded like this:

https://youtu.be/_vs0eqBSe_4?t=95

You guys dont know how spoiled you are with english synchronization. On the plus side it forced me into learning english well enough so i can understand rpgs in their mother language.

Das war doch das Beste an der ganzen deutschen Uebersetzung! :D
Ich als Sachse bin froh in Spielen auch mal vertreten zu sein.

Just curious, did they translate thac0 in the german version?

Yep, it's called ETW0. "Erforderlicher Trefferwurf gegen Ruestungsklasse"

 

[Immortal]

Sure I'm a troll. That explains my valid points about why I personally didn't enjoy baldurs gate.

Your opinion sucks. I like mine better.

 

[Goblino]

I'm going to take that personally and insult you, fag.

 

[Volrath]

Baldur's Gate was shit guys, fuck anyone who thinks differently.

 

[SCO]

Baldur's Gate > Arcanum

 

[Animal]

Things that bugged me in BG1:

- Imoen's stupid banter
- Status effects on characters lasting for quite some time after the fights (makes for some boring looking at the screen - fortunately the game keeps running with alt+tab)
- Traveling inside an area takes quit some time (also improved by alt+tabbing, but with the pathing issues that can also be a problem)

None of the above were game breaking so...

Seal of approval by me! Surely got more enjoyment out of it than I got from PoE (which I played right before the BG run). PoE's epic verbosity really bored me to alt+f4 a lot ("Ohhh, I'm in a tower with a bell and the plains and shit." "Hey, were you paying attention? Answer!" - C'mon... Fuck that shit).

 

[ArchAngel]

Baldur's Gate > Arcanum

Baldur's Gate > Fallout

 

[roshan]

- Status effects on characters lasting for quite some time after the fights (makes for some boring looking at the screen - fortunately the game keeps running with alt+tab)

Sorry but fuck popamole games where status effects disappear as soon as combat ends. Pillars of Shitternity was an utter joke because of this, with poisons that somehow didn't do anything notable except vanish mysteriously.

You don't want to wait for those status effects to end - then try not to be affected by them in the first place by using appropriate counters.

 

[pippin]

-Imoen's banter in 1 is minimal, even with restoration patches. She was included almost at the end of the development process after all.
-I don't see any problem with this. Since you had many areas where enemies lurked in the dark, having this kind of status effects was perfect.
-You can change the frames per second in the cfg file to make the game go faster.

 

[Rake]

Baldur's Gate > Arcanum

Baldur's Gate > Fallout

Only if we are talking about BG2.
BG1 was meh

 

[ArchAngel]

Have you been asleep this whole topic? Multiple people said what they prefer in BG1 over BG2. So we can also say BG1 is better over other games.

 

[Rake]

Multiple people said what they prefer in BG1 over BG2..

And they are objectively wrong. And tasteless. And boring.

 

[ArchAngel]

Multiple people said what they prefer in BG1 over BG2..

And they are objectively wrong. And tasteless. And boring.

Yes, because you define what is objective

 

[Rake]

Obviously