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Ragg posted:The NWNs are bad except for Mask of the Betrayer, ToEE is ok if you're really into D&D 3.5 combat, but everything else is fairly bad about it, Arcanum has some cool setting and story stuff but absolutely garbage gamepla mask of the betrayer was loving awesome. would eat souls again
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why would you ever not eat all the souls you could? are you a vegetarian or something?
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I really enjoyed NWN1 when it came out, but I never beat the campaign. And I tried like 5-6 times, that poo poo just got old man. Also Falsum posted:Josh Sawyer is also good at CRPGs, and he seems to think things through, so he deserves the benefit of the doubt, IMO.
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SunAndSpring posted:I guess I'll have to be a wizard or a rogue because I'm one of those really retarded fuckers who get all upset if the AI companions do more damage than my character.
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Dwight Evans posted:neverwinter nights is good, just skip straight to the expansions
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I rerolled Sourceror because I knew that no matter how good my Mage was, he could never ever be as good as Edwin with his magical necklace.
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maev posted:I rerolled Sourceror because I knew that no matter how good my Mage was, he could never ever be as good as Edwin with his magical necklace. Thank you.
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Ragg posted:The NWNs are bad except for Mask of the Betrayer, ToEE is ok if you're really into D&D 3.5 combat, but everything else is fairly bad about it, Arcanum has some cool setting and story stuff but absolutely garbage gamepla The expansions for NWN1 were decent. e: Maybe I should actually read a thread before posting.
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Sombrerotron posted:Just Hordes of the Underdark, Shadows of Undrentide is dreadful (and I'm a big loving spineless BioWare apologist who actually completed the NWN OC more than once, so that's saying something) sou is way better than the oc, but still not very good
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I tried to install baldurs gate trilogy through wine, it was too hard with all the ~necessary~ mods
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01011001 posted:sou is way better than the oc, but still not very good
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Bored of the Underdark.
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Sombrerotron posted:As long as we are agreed that SoU is not worth playing every nwn is loving terrible mechanically and the writing is not terribly good in all but motb so i cant really recommend any except that one
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Aug 2, 2014 23:07
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Bring back rolling digital dice at character creation for an hour straight in an attempt to get 18 points for every stat
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Sombrerotron posted:Bring back rolling digital dice at character creation for an hour straight in an attempt to get 18 points for every stat Random stats and HP and anything else permanent are the worst things ever.
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If you're gonna play Baldur's Gate 1, make sure to turn cheats on so you can use Power Word; Ctrl+J. Seriously there's a lot of walking around in forests and grasslands and big loving cities while nothing happens, it's much more tolerable to just teleport everywhere.
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DoubleDonut posted:If you're gonna play Baldur's Gate 1, make sure to turn cheats on so you can use Power Word; Ctrl+J. Seriously there's a lot of walking around in forests and grasslands and big loving cities while nothing happens, it's much more tolerable to just teleport everywhere. Nice cheat avoiding random encounters and possibly breaking triggers? I dunno, it's a good idea. Also random encounters are hosed if you don't play original BG but playing without highlight is probably a nightmare.
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Ragg posted:Nice cheat avoiding random encounters and possibly breaking triggers? Man if you want to fight fifteen gnolls and/or that guy who says "So I kicked him in the head 'til he was dead!" eighty times over the course of the game be my guest, but I'm fine with skipping the tedium to play the actual game. (Also it only breaks triggers in really specific spots, by which I mean I played the whole game twice abusing the hell out of it and never broke anything)
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Ragg posted:Nice cheat avoiding random encounters and possibly breaking triggers? I dunno, it's a good idea. Also random encounters are hosed if you don't play original BG but playing without highlight is probably a nightmare.
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DoubleDonut posted:Man if you want to fight fifteen gnolls and/or that guy who says "So I kicked him in the head 'til he was dead!" eighty times over the course of the game be my guest, but I'm fine with skipping the tedium to play the actual game. The tedium is part of the actual game, which is why BG1 is bad.
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Ragg posted:Random stats and HP and anything else permanent are the worst things ever. Above all they're pointless because you can just save scum / reroll until you get the stats you want. This is why NWN2 gives you the highest hp you could have rolled on your hit dice when you level up.
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Ragg posted:Random stats and HP and anything else permanent are the worst things ever. it took me too long to realize this, but im glad i did because its true
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maev posted:I rerolled Sourceror because I knew that no matter how good my Mage was, he could never ever be as good as Edwin with his magical necklace. Running w/ a mage and a sorceror in your 6-man is the best. All the ultility you need + 8 fireballs a day.
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americong posted:I tried to install baldurs gate trilogy through wine, it was too hard with all the ~necessary~ mods Quite a few of those are unneccessary now that the Enchanced Edition™ has been released on steam.
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Your clinically retarded if you want to give Josh Sawyer "rope kid" any money after every Obsidian/Black Isle disaster over the past 20 years.
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They made a bunch of excellent CRPGs though.
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Pizzatime posted:and it still is BG 1 is an awesome D and D campaign that is ran by an obnoxious ubernerd that wont leave your basement... Seriously, who the gently caress thought it was fun to have the main PC be unressurectable and that you could end up with 1 hp on character creation.... What is also not fun is getting killed by a wolf over and over and over again
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Captain Gordon posted:BG 1 is an awesome D and D campaign that is ran by an obnoxious ubernerd that wont leave your basement... It's Bossfights all the way, BG was special like that, even in 2 you can open the wrong door 10 minutes in and oops tpk from a mage who can cast Gate.
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I got it installed and died to the dude in the house in the tutorial area
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Another BG1 protip: make a mage and cast Sleep on everything, it's insanely strong at low levels, which almost all of BG1 is. Ask me for more cool tips and hot tricks about BG1, a game which is not even nearly as good as BG2
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americong posted:I got it installed and died to the dude in the house in the tutorial area EDIT: DoubleDonut posted:Another BG1 protip: make a mage and cast Sleep on everything, it's insanely strong at low levels, which almost all of BG1 is.
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does bg have any sort of awesome endgame build sort of thing, or should I be instead looking for fun in the lowlevel hacky bullshit I can put together I'll be disappointed if it's something lame like pathfinder all-in-on-magic-missile mages e: except, magic missile mages are awesome in tabletop, but would be boring in a video game
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americong posted:looking for fun in the lowlevel hacky bullshit I can put together Herein lies your quest Minsc and Boo stand ready
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loving old people and their video games that expect me to think
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americong posted:does bg have any sort of awesome endgame build sort of thing, or should I be instead looking for fun in the lowlevel hacky bullshit I can put together Solo a dual-classed kensai/mage and watch that fucker destroy everything within seconds by the end of the series
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Sombrerotron posted:BG1 doesn't really let you get to a sufficiently high level, and doesn't throw enough magical items at you, to become an absurd murder monster at the end of the game; that's really BG2/ToB's forte I have the trilogy mod (amongst others) installed, will that interact weirdly with that specific suggestion
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americong posted:I have the trilogy mod (amongst others) installed, will that interact weirdly with that specific suggestion However I have used Baldur's Gate TuTu, which combines BG1's content with BG2's engine and mechanics, and it's perfectly fine to use BG2's kits and level up beyond BG1's level cap there so probably the same applies to the trilogy mod Regardless just knock yourself out doing weird and cool things (make a wild mage in BG1 and randomly cast spells just to see if something funny will happen), if things go wrong you can always reload or fix some stuff with Shadow Keeper probably EDIT: actually make a whole party of wild mages
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Sombrerotron posted:Dunno, never tried the trilogy mod as I understood there were some problems with it I saw wild mage in the char creation dialog and was tempted to try but I didn't have the stones
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