Baldur's Gate The Baldur's Gate Series Thread

[Fairfax]

Here is my 2 millionth view milestone write-up, just posted. I would encourage all of my "critics" to read it.

Sorry, the page you were looking for in this blog does not exist.

 

[ga♥]

You have to buy the Lilura GOLD™ subscription to read it, I am sorry.

Lilura why don't you buy a 2nd level domain (ex: www.rpgrenaissance.com) for 10 bucks a year on godaddy or elsewhere? Also, any opinion on Scroll of Taiwu?

 

[laclongquan]

The whole thing about paying to get information is also completely skewed. You have the thieves who treat you like a bitch. Then you have the evil vampires who treat you with some degree of respect. It doesn't even matter if it's insincere or not. They tell their price, which is more reasonable, and then they lay out a straightforward plan, as well as an opportunity to clean out the parasitic thieves guild from the city. You get to gib Gaelan Bayle and that sanctimonious nutsack Aran Linvail. That's cathartic. The vampires are going to turn on you but if you keep one step ahead there's no real problem. Two birds with one stone and all that. It makes sense. It's smart. It's not like there's any real consequences to your decision in any way. But, hey, it's the evil option. If BioWare had just made the thieves into someone that you could possibly trust and who treated you with respect instead of trying to blackmail you from the get-go, maybe the dynamic of the game would have been different.

I will point out that Bioware design in that case make sense because you have real trouble decide which to side. Choice and Consequence, biatches~ If the thieves are trusty and respectful it's no contest: human for the win. As it is "Kill the humans" have some possibility to be chosen. That is EVIL.

I'd rather play Icewind Dale 2 on fucking mute

It is the correct way to play IWD2. There's some things about its sounds and music that will absolutely break me out of gaming mood. I have my games aborted before I figure out the culprit. Mute the sounds and I can play it end on end, from insane run to HoF mode.

 

[Lilura]

nerd princess with an unhealthy fixation on IE games it is then.

My 102nd write-up: The Rules of Dual-Classing.

 

[Melcar]

My 102nd write-up: The Rules of Dual-Classing.

Hot.

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[octavius]

My 102nd write-up: The Rules of Dual-Classing.

Hot.

Hot movie thot dualed to nerd princess with an unhealthy fixation on IE games?

 

[octavius]

My 102nd write-up: The Rules of Dual-Classing.

Can you do a write-up about MPrilla's SuperScripts?
Are they as good as he claims?

 

[Jvegi]

Can you do a write up about something interesting?

 

[Lilura]

Can you do a write-up about MPrilla's SuperScripts?
Are they as good as he claims?

No and no.

Can you do a write up about something interesting?

No.

 

[Lilura]

Write-up no.103: THAC0 Lords: The Armor Piercers.

 

[Melcar]

That got me hard.

 

[Infinitron]

Infinity Engine backgrounds scaled up with machine learning: https://www.reddit.com/r/baldursgate/comments/aemu8u/upscaling_bg2s_assets_using_machine_learning/

Upscaling BG2's assets using Machine Learning

I'm experimenting with the dark powers of machine learning to upscale Infinity Engine assets:

Original - Scaled Up

Original - Scaled Up

Original - Scaled Up

There was no cherry picking - these are literally the only images I tried it with!

Using ESRGAN, more info here.

Feature for next version of BG:EE?

 

[Melcar]

They look like washed out turds.

 

[DayofBlow]

They look like washed out turds.

That's due to your browser and the jpg/png colors profiles, not the upscaling. The scaled up jpgs are darker if you open them in photoshop for example.

 

[laclongquan]

A game with HQ graphic details like that will bring your rig to knees.

As mine is weaker than average, I dont bother to try.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Write-up no.103: THAC0 Lords: The Armor Piercers.

Note: I'm not covering stacked Bard Songs; that's absurd.

Quitter

 

[Apostle Hand]

I have written part two of my BG2 EE walkthrough - you must gather your party before venturing forth

https://darksideofrpgs.blogspot.com/2019/01/baldurs-gate-2-ee-walkthrough-part-2.html

 

[Melcar]

I have written part two of my BG2 EE walkthrough - you must gather your party before venturing forth

https://darksideofrpgs.blogspot.com/2019/01/baldurs-gate-2-ee-walkthrough-part-2.html

Lilura will crush you.

 

[Lonely Vazdru]

It is somewhat weird of BG2 romance system that women are hitting up men first, instead the other way around, as it is in real world.

Hot men disapprove.

 

[Lacrymas]

It is somewhat weird of BG2 romance system that women are hitting up men first, instead the other way around, as it is in real world.

Hot men disapprove.

I have been offered money by women (and by men) for sex, let alone hit on me. And I'm not even that hot, I'm athletic, but I don't have a six-pack or whatever. It's pretty sad if someone hasn't been hit on. Besides, women are attracted to more than just visuals, if you are classy, smart and interesting, they will fall for you, even if you are a troglodyte.

 

[atalero]

I want to start a new game of BG 1 and 2, but don’t know if I should start with EE version 2.5, wait for 2.6, or stick with originals and mod.

I really like the work beamdog did with Icewind Dale EE. It remains the only IE game I beat, other than BG 1

Any advice?

 

[Stella Brando]

Now spell scribing failure, that's a ridiculous pain in the ass. A real kick in the balls when the prime loot is a spell scroll and it disappears into nothingness. Fucking fighters have it easy, imagine if their equipment acted like that.

Yeah, imagine if swords just broke apart in your hands - possibly due to some form of metal-weakening poison?

Like the same stuff the US government was shipping into Manhattan on September 10...

No one remembers poor Cernd.

Not to mention BG2's most memorable character: Black Ranger.​

 

[oldmanpaco]

Not to mention BG2's most memorable character: Black Ranger.​

I prefer to think of him as Black Ranger's Body.

 

[Lilura]

Lilura will crush you.

I punch up, not down. Besides, this is the sort of "commentary" the EEs deserve.

 

[Apostle Hand]

I want to start a new game of BG 1 and 2, but don’t know if I should start with EE version 2.5, wait for 2.6, or stick with originals and mod.

I really like the work beamdog did with Icewind Dale EE. It remains the only IE game I beat, other than BG 1

Any advice?

you can play EEs without worry