What game are you wasting time on?

[NecroLord]

Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast.
Vanilla, no Enhanced Edition shit.
Current lineup is:
Me - Level 7 Fighter, Human Male.
Branwen - Level 7 Cleric of Tempus bae.
Minsc - Currently have him with Gauntlets of Dexterity and Composite longbow, he is pretty good overall.
Dynaheir - Invoker, she can fling fireballs and webs all over the place.
Imoen - I dualled her at level 5 Thief, made her into an Enchantress.
Coran - Currently has high Stealth skill and the Dagger of Venom for some nice, highly damaging backstabs. That poison can seriously fuck up enemy mages and anyone without a good Save vs. Death.

Currently at Chapter 5 in Baldur's Gate, doing quests and stuff. Getting equipped and ready for the awesome Durlag's Tower. Must not forget that there is an insane amount of traps there.

can you take a screenshot of the AI options in vanilla for me? i want to compare to ee

But that would be the same as GOG's version, isn't it? TOTSC is the version they used to sell.

Correct.
Unfortunately, I HAD to acquire the Enhanced Edition just to have access to the original game.

gamerguy What do you mean by "AI options"?

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast.
Vanilla, no Enhanced Edition shit.
Current lineup is:
Me - Level 7 Fighter, Human Male.
Branwen - Level 7 Cleric of Tempus bae.
Minsc - Currently have him with Gauntlets of Dexterity and Composite longbow, he is pretty good overall.
Dynaheir - Invoker, she can fling fireballs and webs all over the place.
Imoen - I dualled her at level 5 Thief, made her into an Enchantress.
Coran - Currently has high Stealth skill and the Dagger of Venom for some nice, highly damaging backstabs. That poison can seriously fuck up enemy mages and anyone without a good Save vs. Death.

Currently at Chapter 5 in Baldur's Gate, doing quests and stuff. Getting equipped and ready for the awesome Durlag's Tower. Must not forget that there is an insane amount of traps there.

can you take a screenshot of the AI options in vanilla for me? i want to compare to ee

But that would be the same as GOG's version, isn't it? TOTSC is the version they used to sell.

Correct.
Unfortunately, I HAD to acquire the Enhanced Edition just to have access to the original game.

gamerguy What do you mean by "AI options"?

He probably means the AI presets for your companions.

 

[gamerguy]

In the EE, the AI options for your party are the same for 1/2... but I don't remember if that was the case for my original CD of the game.


presets were more icewind dale style, BG has specific AI options


how did you play the game without using them? :p

 

[Machocruz]

Bought all the 40K Dawn of War games a couple years ago because I was going through a Warhammer phase...for about two days. Now I want to do a backlog clearing. I thought I'd start with something relatively quick to get through compared to the survivalcraft and open world games I've been playing lately, but man am I scrub at RTS and they are pretty exhausting to me at times. I've spent a couple hours on missions others can probably beat in 20 minutes because I play like a degenerate and retard, reloading when I feel I've lost too many units (frequent occurrence), and at that not making newer saves so that I'm wasting a whole bunch of time. I have a mental block about building too many units in the first place, I'm a minimalist at heart. Mission 3 was a meat grinder because of this, the enemy kept rolling out their tanks and I didn't have enough missile squads to deal with it. Then mission 4 really knocked me out of my minimalist tendency and taught me to build big and stop being precious about my troops. Sometimes you have to sacrifice a few squads and vehicles to keep the war machine burning.

Game is great though. Graphics are dated but battles still look cool as fuck. I'm a big fan of the resource point capture mechanic that Relic implemented in this and CoH, my favorite RTS so far. Game was not intended for newer (than the game, I got mine in 2009) monitors though, it plays in a small window surrounded by black borders. Supposedly the expansions fix this.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Game was not intended for newer (than the game, I got mine in 2009) monitors though, it plays in a small window surrounded by black borders. Supposedly the expansions fix this.

There's a widescreen mod floating around somewhere.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Bought all the 40K Dawn of War games a couple years ago because I was going through a Warhammer phase...for about two days. Now I want to do a backlog clearing. I thought I'd start with something relatively quick to get through compared to the survivalcraft and open world games I've been playing lately, but man am I scrub at RTS and they are pretty exhausting to me at times. I've spent a couple hours on missions others can probably beat in 20 minutes because I play like a degenerate and retard, reloading when I feel I've lost too many units (frequent occurrence), and at that not making newer saves so that I'm wasting a whole bunch of time. I have a mental block about building too many units in the first place, I'm a minimalist at heart. Mission 3 was a meat grinder because of this, the enemy kept rolling out their tanks and I didn't have enough missile squads to deal with it. Then mission 4 really knocked me out of my minimalist tendency and taught me to build big and stop being precious about my troops. Sometimes you have to sacrifice a few squads and vehicles to keep the war machine burning.

Sounds like Warhammer 40k alright!

 

[JDR13]

how did you play the game without using them? :p

I've played through all the Infinty Engine games and never once used AI presets.

 

[NecroLord]

how did you play the game without using them? :p

I've played through all the Infinty Engine games and never once used AI presets.

Never used any AI presets.
Manual control is always the way to go.

 

[BruceVC]

how did you play the game without using them? :p

I've played through all the Infinty Engine games and never once used AI presets.

Never used any AI presets.
Manual control is always the way to go.

Absolutely, this is not even a reasonable debate. AI in IE games is for the weak and people who dont want to utilize the D&D combat ruleset. It denies you a huge part of the fun in IE games which is different and exciting combat strategies and a myriad of choices in combat

Sometimes in some RPG AI makes sense like DA:I because the combat would become laborious and repetitive if you didn't utilize AI. But thats more the exception for party based RPG

 

[Kabas]

Arthurian Legends, another old-school/boomer/whatever FPS with a very satisfying to use medieval weapons. Played the demo a long time ago and was waiting for discount, i don't think this one was ever on a steam sale and frankly speaking it's not that expensive so decided to try it now. Absolutely adore the environments and graphics.

Also 'cause i am still in a Hack'n'Slash mood and i got a bit bored with my Diablo 2 necromancer decided to give a Torchlight 2 a proper try. I don't actually dislike the cartoony artsyle, played it a long ass time ago together with the first game but didn't finish either game.
Already got the drip

Starting on normal was a mistake methinks. I also never realised just how derivative this game feels until i actually tried D2. Will probably return to D2 and finish the 5th act with my necro at some point later.

 

[gamerguy]

I dunno... like I said... presets are an icewind dale thing.


...could you even pause your game in BG1 non-ee?... how did you micromanage your characters in real time?


and you can toggle AI with a single click anyway... sometimes I think this forum is full of shit

 

[octavius]

I have a feeling that gamerguy's profile picture is something he identifies as.

 

[gamerguy]

here comes the ad hominem and third person references instead of answering a simple question (because you don't actually know)


yep, definitely full of shit

 

[octavius]

Of course you could pause the game in original BG1. What do you think Real Time with Pause means?

 

[Modron]

It's just all so tiresome when the newest zoomer comes in with his retarded hot take that is just wrong and could have been answered by Google. Yes you could pause the original release of BG 1. Yes you could even forgo pausing if you were so autismed with marquee selection and long ass rounds where you really only attack once or twice, isn't exactly some modern 130 clicks a minute rts affair. You'll even see some smooth brains suggesting you kite enemies with one character and use ranged attacks to get past troublesome encounters from time to time.

 

[Average Manatee]

90% of fights in infinity games don't need more than simple micro (even with SCS), and I play at 60 FPS. So yeah, I use AI most of the time.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Started playing Splinter Cell - Chaos Theory, and after two levels I'm not very amused. First one was basically a tutorial ok let's forget that, but the second legit upsets me. You gotta find and kill a boss goon on a ship, but the boss goon doesn't spawn before you actually learn where he is, even though you can easily pass through his quarters while lurking about. This is lame and gay.

 

[Max Damage]

I remember Chaos Theory being meh, I guess it's good compared to what came after.

 

[Abu Antar]

Started playing Splinter Cell - Chaos Theory, and after two levels I'm not very amused. First one was basically a tutorial ok let's forget that, but the second legit upsets me. You gotta find and kill a boss goon on a ship, but the boss goon doesn't spawn before you actually learn where he is, even though you can easily pass through his quarters while lurking about. This is lame and gay.

Before that, he was taking a dump.

 

[Frank Capicoli]

Taking a break from STRANGER OF PARADISE. Like most Team Ninja games it's a very competent action game kneecapped in certain places by questionable design choices. Taking Epic! money for an exclusive launch didn't do it any favors either. The biggest problem it suffers from though is the loot/gear system that Team Ninja continues to recycle in their games. For basically all the way up to the post main story DLC managing gear is pointless, just press two buttons and wear the highest item level everything else sucks. That is until you reach the DLC where in Team Ninja fashion the difficulty ramps up and gear affects actually matter. Then it becomes a massive fatiguing grind.

 

[Morgoth]

Started playing Splinter Cell - Chaos Theory, and after two levels I'm not very amused. First one was basically a tutorial ok let's forget that, but the second legit upsets me. You gotta find and kill a boss goon on a ship, but the boss goon doesn't spawn before you actually learn where he is, even though you can easily pass through his quarters while lurking about. This is lame and gay.

First Splinter Cell is still the best. Heck, I even found PT more fun that CT.

 

[Pathfinder: Kingmaker]

 

[Ezekiel]

Someone in the RE4 thread said getting five stars in the original Mercenaries was challenging, which I don't agree with and which inspired me to record this.



Beating your high scores can be challenging, though.

 

[Caim]

Gaming on laser disc? My man.

 

[NecroLord]

Looks pretty sexy.