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Baldur's Gate The Baldur's Gate Series Thread
- Thread starter Sunsetspawn
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Ehh, I like the Underdark.
Jedi Master Radek
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Underdark is the best part of second half of BG2, but the content before and after it is worse.
True, Brynnlaw is annoying for some reason, Sahaugin city is nothing special (tho the Observer was funny), and the Elf city is where BW evidently ran out of steam. I guess the finale of the guild war isn't half bad. Ofc you could spice things up by leaving some of the side quests for later, but IDK.
Jedi Master Radek
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It's because after Athkatla you expect cities to offer more side content. Brynnlaw is on the main path and does not offer more content than that city in the druid coven quest. It may have even offer less.
It's kinda fun if you try to clean the whole map without resting, interiors included.
Krivol
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Well, getting for Imoen ASAP should be your goal (so you should still have like a million quests to do after Underdark), but doing side quests with all that "Suldanesssssellllllarrrr is being looted! Save the world from Irenicus!" kind of ruining the atmosphere.
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Vampiress on my first playthrough. I think usually the thieves after that.
I *think* the original game release had the mace of disruption and the amulet of power exclusive to the thieves, but I forget.
He's also better written than that annoying Mary Sue.
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Let's not get carried away here. Beamdog writing sucks but Valygar isn't winning any awards either.
BruceVC
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I always select party members in all party based RPG on 3 metrics from most important to least important. They are
- Combat effectiveness and overall quest contribution
- Side quests related to NPC
- Romance arcs
So Hexxat was
- Combat effectiveness and combat contribution : Not bad, I liked her charm spell but her Thief role was duplicated by Vienxay who I always select and Hexxat lacked decent combat effectiveness
- Side quests related to NPC : I never completed her side quests so I dont know
- Romance arcs : I was very keen to explore this but then I found out she only Romances female characters
Why?
rusty_shackleford
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*do all the side content before getting imoen*
*wait nearly 30 years*
*cry about not having side content after rescuing imoen on an obscure website dedicated to CYOA gamebooks*
*wait nearly 30 years*
*cry about not having side content after rescuing imoen on an obscure website dedicated to CYOA gamebooks*
Krivol
Magister
It's your main quest and she is your sister in distress?
Relax, I played maybe once with rushing for her
.Average Manatee
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How will you experience all of the imoen romance content if you don't rush brynnlaw?
I still fail to care.
Zboj Lamignat
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Proper consideration for which party members to recruit in BG2:
1. Create a new multiplayer game.
2. Create 6 chars that you like, preferably experimenting with silly kits that you've never tried before.
3. Save the game and quit.
4. Copy the save file from MP to SP folder.
5. Run and play the game.
Beats uninstall mod that I would otherwise recommend.
EE even simplifies the process, making it worth it.
1. Create a new multiplayer game.
2. Create 6 chars that you like, preferably experimenting with silly kits that you've never tried before.
3. Save the game and quit.
4. Copy the save file from MP to SP folder.
5. Run and play the game.
Beats uninstall mod that I would otherwise recommend.
EE even simplifies the process, making it worth it.
BruceVC
Magister
Im a huge fan of Romance but Im not going to Romance Imoen, she is like my sister and I would prefer we just stay friends
rusty_shackleford
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neera is the best bg2 waifu anyways
BruceVC
Magister
I helped her with her quest in the Wild Forest but she isn't my type and also she never joined my party for extended periods
That romance is a meme
BruceVC
Magister
It is not popular, it just has a cult fanbase. It's an extremely weird, rapey autism mod (and thus, I have made the perfect lay up if anyone wants to smash that 15-year-old Grunker quote were I praise Saerilith Romance
)
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The romance is written so it doesn't matter how long you wait to get her. There's a bunch of romance content in the Underdark and then there's a pause until you go after Bodhi.
perfectslumbers
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I do all the side quests before rescuing Imoen because it's simply impossible to sit there running around solving mysteries in the sewer while some godlike ex-elf wizard performs experiments with the soul he stole from me.
Average Manatee
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It is not popular, it just has a cult fanbase. It's an extremely weird, rapey autism mod (and thus, I have made the perfect lay up if anyone wants to smash that 15-year-old Grunker quote were I praise Saerilith Romance
Imoen Romance mod is actually good since someone rewrote a lot of it and finished it. The starting part with the dreams is unfortunately still pretty cringe (though its supposed to be Bhaal's influence or some shit making up fake memories). I think all the rapey bits were removed.
Only downside to Imoen being the best waifu is that there's this weird ToB bit where out of nowhere she presents an ultimatum against never having kids for no reason other than she just doesn't like them. Feels like the author trying to somehow appease the moral guardians who are very offended at the mod they just spend 30 hours playing through.
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This is the most disappointing part of the mod. You go through all that effort and in the end you don't even get to have any inbred babies. What a downer.
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