I’m trying to see some stuff in BG1 and 2 that I missed as I take another lap through the entire series, and I remember BG1 being a fairly easy, straight-forward game, but now that I’m replaying it, I remember that’s only the tail end of the game. Early in the game, when you’re stuck at level 1 for hours, lots of attacks just one-shot you, and it takes so long to get level 2.
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spankmonkey@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The original Neverwinter Nights after Baldur’s Gate 3.
NWN was fantastic for it’s time, loved the DM mode and online mods, but the clunky movement and walls of text without voiceovers just can’t compare.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
If you’re visiting BG1 via the Enhanced Edition it’s actually been changed a lot from the original game. One of the biggest differences is that summoning spells don’t scale in the number of minions you get the way they did in the original. I remember summoning great big walls of skeletons with Animate Dead and just having my entire party pelt the enemy with slings and arrows from relative safety. Can’t do that anymore!
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I think BG3 also does max HP for 5e which is higher than the edition(s) used for 1 & 2. Did 1 & 2 use random HP for first level as well?
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I don’t have an encyclopedic knowledge of 2e, but I think first level HP might be set in stone by class, and the Enhanced Editions of BG1 and 2 give you a max HP per level option, which doesn’t really help at level 1. Dynaheir keeps getting smoked with her mere 6HP, and she can’t get to level 2 fast enough.
Pronell@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yeah, 2nd edition d&d was far, far more brutal than 5e.
tal@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
I got through the original NWN multiple times, as well as various mods.
I got bored partway through BG3, never finished. Barely touched NWN 2.
CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I had started The Aielund Saga a couple of weeks ago. I never did finish the first time.
NWN is something I like to go back to, same with Titan Quest. I have newer games piling up
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I tried playing Baldur’s Gate 2 after a few full plays of BG3, and it was nearly unplayable.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I actually prefer walls of text these days. I find myself too impatient to sit through long, voice-acted diatribes. I can read 10 times faster than the voice actor can speak, so I just end up turning on subtitles and skipping most of the voice acting anyway.
I also just find that voice acting tends to compromise the amount of writing. They just won’t have the VA read a wall of text and instead they’ll cut it right down, removing tons of nuance. Voice also similarly compromises the amount of dialogue options available to the character. I have yet to see a voice acted game with the sheer breadth and depth of dialogue option choices as games like Planescape Torment or Fallout 2.