Fixed.BG2 with tactics, scs II, item upgrade and ascension mods is absolutely one of the best RPG's combat wise. Encounter design is top notch and the spells and abilities are interesting. If it had bad combat it'd be a mediocre game like the rest of IE.
Combat in BG2 isn't even my favourite out of the Infinity engine games, for me that would be Icewind Dale 2.
Then you will love PoE
That doesn't really make sense. You can't have garbage systems and still have combat and magic "rock". It might be fair to say the systems were mediocre, and the range of abilities and equipment, as well as, of course, the encounter design, made the best out of those not-great systems. You can't make the best out of a truly garbage system though. For example, take BG2's abilities and encounter design, put them into Arcanum, and you still have a game with shit combat, because nothing is going to be able to redeem that system. BG2's system was good enough that something very fun could be made out of it.bg2 was a great game despite its combat and magic systems
bg2 was a great game because of its scope. in particular, its combat and magic rocked because of the range of abilities and equipment available. the systems themselves were garbage
Shevek said:But to say it was "great because of its combat" is a bit silly.
Dont lie faggot, i know you want a piece of anomen.The only reason I still play BG2 is because of it's combat and encounters.
What the hell kind of Anomen is that?Dont lie faggot, i know you want a piece of anomen.
Hes watching you.
Good combat? Ya, kinda. Great though? BG2 was a game that did many things well. But to say it was "great because of its combat" is a bit silly.
Very few RPGs have notably good combat actually.
ToEE and Wiz8 have mostly trash combat with just a handful of memorable encounters in a whole game. BG2 blows them right out of the water.Plenty of TB games have better combat overall (ToEE, Wiz8, etc). If you include TB games with RPG systems (JA2, etc), the list gets longer of games with better combat with BG2. If you limit yourself to RTwP, that significantly shortens the list since modern games (NWN1/2, DA, etc) all have less satisfying combat (for various reasons: camera angle, console centered design, etc). Still, I would argue other IE games actually have more numerous and better combat encounters (both IWD:HoW and IWD2). IWD2 also has moderately better combat systems as well.