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by Jerry Whorebach 10/03/2013, 1:10am PDT |
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The best part: creating an entire party of your own characters using the multiplayer trick, then setting off into the seemingly-endless wilderness in search of weird deep cut Monster Manual beasts to slay and individually-placed treasures to loot (how many different kinds of non-magical gemstones were there, each with handbook-accurate prices and descriptions?), uncovering every square inch of black fog from your automap along the way. I doubt I could tolerate the awful real-time combat anymore - especially now that I know how much better a more faithful adaptation of the AD&D ruleset could've been - but the first Baldur's Gate was pretty much everything fourteen-year-old me wanted out of a Fantasy Adventure Game. That first time I made it to the city itself, after taking days (a week?) to get there, exploring its map after map of houses and stores and pubs and guildhalls and mansions with hidden passages and dueling wizard's towers and a harbour with boardable ships and warehouses and SEWERS and eldritch ruins under the sewers and all of it deliberately crafted by human artists and designers, populated with unique NPCs and generously seeded with adventure hooks? Fucking magical.
The original Baldur's Gate is 99% of why I still read RPGnet. The other 1% is transsexual forum drama. O_O
[Random Baldur's Gate memory: the ersatz smurf village about three maps over from any location you might possibly have legitimate quest-related reasons to visit, populated by xvarts (you will never see a xvart in a game again, or probably even hear the word xvart in any other context) and their mystical protector, a cave bear. The xvarts were just minding their own business but they were still hostile like all monsters (monsters... I hate those guys!), so I slew them all and stole the magical +1 morning star from the back of the cave bear's cave. Papa smurf ran out and tried to lay a guilt trip on me for indiscriminately slaughtering his people but it wasn't terribly effective on account of he obviously had fewer hit points than a +1 morning star does in one swing.] |
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Games you skipped for dumb/idiosyncratic reasons by Jerry Whorebach 10/02/2013, 10:45pm PDT 
The Baldur's Gate series still makes me writhe in ambivalence. by fucking newbie 10/03/2013, 12:02am PDT
The reading was always the worst part of Baldur's Gate. by Jerry Whorebach 10/03/2013, 1:10am PDT
My problem was I got ahold of Torment first, and that skewed expectations foreve by fucking newbie 10/03/2013, 4:03am PDT
Re: The reading was always the worst part of Baldur's Gate. by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/03/2013, 9:12am PDT
You know you can use mods to play BG1 in the BG2 engine, right? In case it helps by fucking newbie 10/03/2013, 10:54am PDT
You know you can use mods to play BG1 in the BG2 engine, right? In case it helps by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/03/2013, 11:59am PDT
Torment by Cannibal Dave 10/04/2013, 5:30pm PDT
Whatever happened to fucking newbie? NT by Eury 05/12/2024, 9:37pm PDT
Got sick of your whining and left NT by back to sucking my cock! 05/13/2024, 2:40am PDT
Nobody here whines. You seem sad and lonely, tbh NT by Eury 05/13/2024, 11:54am PDT
He transitioned from newbie to oldfag by blackwater 05/13/2024, 10:35am PDT
only in that I used more swearing per post than a 4chan user by fucking newbie 05/13/2024, 11:31pm PDT
You are a valuable member of this forum. Thank you for reading. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/14/2024, 8:01am PDT
Arguably the dialogue writing in New Vegas rendered F3 unplayable. Not that it NT by was the only thing - fucking newbie 10/03/2013, 11:05am PDT
I was disappointed by the shift towards polished linearity in Baldur's Gate II. by Jerry Whorebach 10/04/2013, 3:58am PDT
I was disappointed by the shift towards polished linearity in Baldur's Gate II. by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/08/2013, 3:43pm PDT
I didn't give Unreal a chance because I was a Quake Man. by Fussbett 10/03/2013, 6:42am PDT
Hey Paul, what do you think about the Civilization series of games? NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/03/2013, 9:23am PDT
Brian, DON'T! NT by Stewie 10/03/2013, 9:24am PDT
I don't think about the Civilization series of games. I have never played them. NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 10/08/2013, 5:49pm PDT
And unlike Peter Griffin, I don't think 'bird' is the word. Grease is the word. NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 10/09/2013, 8:47pm PDT
As a fellow Quake partisan, I can confirm you made the right choice. by (Especially w/r/t Civilization.) 10/04/2013, 4:08am PDT
Anything Link / Zelda by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/03/2013, 9:22am PDT
Well, I fucked that up right quick. Delete my post above in response to yours pl NT by fucking newbie 10/03/2013, 10:59am PDT
edit function please! by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/03/2013, 12:09pm PDT
Make sure they're not talking about Enhanced Edition, which takes away the old f by eel & replaces it with a goatfuck. 10/03/2013, 3:09pm PDT
So that's what happened to my goat while you guys had it. Sick fucks. NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 10/09/2013, 8:49pm PDT
Quit trying to be funny, fatso. NT by Mysterio 10/09/2013, 10:43pm PDT
My AC reluctance reason by fabio 10/03/2013, 1:31pm PDT
Re: Games you skipped for dumb/idiosyncratic reasons by Entropy Stew 10/04/2013, 12:19pm PDT
I wasn't even aware of the virtual reality thing before playing the game by Eurotrash 10/04/2013, 9:15pm PDT
Re: I wasn't even aware of the virtual reality thing before playing the game by fabio 10/04/2013, 11:16pm PDT
I forgot there were that many. Plus loading. *cries a little* by Eurotrash 10/05/2013, 2:16am PDT
Re: I forgot there were that many. Plus loading. *cries a little* by Souffle of Pain 10/06/2013, 10:57am PDT
Another problem I had: did AC sequels improve the combat any? by Entropy Stew 10/07/2013, 11:17am PDT
Re: Another problem I had: did AC sequels improve the combat any? by fabio 10/07/2013, 9:44pm PDT
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