How do u guys feel about importing your old items

fishhead · Post by **fishhead** » Thu Jan 18, 2001 10:31 am

Just wondering. I have been fighting over the idea of importing my old items from bg1 to bg2 from the start. I just kinda feel guilty about it. Silly I know when ppl are hacking the game up like crazy and I am worried about importing legitimate items. How do you guys feel about importing your old stuff.

fishhead

Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Thu Jan 18, 2001 10:36 am

I did it Fishhead. I felt that it was a bit of a jip that a party so powerful was 'jumped' outside of BG then they sold your equipment. SInce there was little I could do to this story, I made something up myself. They sold it, but not *all* of it.

If you use the drop strategy you can only carry 1 persons inventroy anyway - so 5 have been stolen. Besides +2 weapons can be bought at the adventurers mart and +3 ones aren't that far away, so where's the harm? Many of the BG1 items are inferior but at least it helps you through the prison. Nad its nice to have 2 gauntlets of ogre power. That's how i rationalised it.

Osiris · Post by **Osiris** » Thu Jan 18, 2001 10:59 am

I thought it was a valid continuation from BG1 - I ported in my whole party. It doesn't quite fit with the story for a while, but I also felt it was agyp to lose all the gear you had to fight for in BG1.

If you feel really guilty about it don't do it

Nighthawk · Post by **Nighthawk** » Thu Jan 18, 2001 11:36 am

The only BG1 item I really missed (that I didn't get back anyway) was the Cloak of Balduran!

Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Thu Jan 18, 2001 11:40 am

You can buy the cloak from the bonus merchants.

PS I also made a pact with myself to dump the duplicate items when I found them later in the game (lied about the ogre gauntlets). Stupid eh? There so much magic there you don't need much more.

Waverly · Post by **Waverly** » Thu Jan 18, 2001 11:43 am

It's the shield of Balduran you can buy from the bonus merchant. This items exists for the expressed purpose of making the beholders a joke. Any item that allows you to send in a solo fighter of any level to simply stand in front of the enemy and taunt them to death is bit too powerful.

Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Thu Jan 18, 2001 11:48 am

Your right! Best import it then, -1AC and 25% magic resistance... mmm...

I don't know about the bonus merchants - it suck not getting them with the ordinary game and you feel cheated, but some of the stuff they sell is kind of un-balancing.

But anyone notice that if you're party is all there (i.e. not one guy with the shield) the beholders learn quickly and pound on those without miroring/shield etc. Sneaky so-and-so's.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Thu Jan 18, 2001 11:57 am

I don't think it's necessarily being cheated by not having the bonus merchants. It's one of the perks of either having the collector's edition, pre-ordering, or both. It's about time someone came up with a real reason for buying a collector's edition. Although you can download the bonus merchants now, so it's not that much of a perk anymore.

If you want cheated, you should have bought the collector's edition of Ultima 9. The big perk there was the soundtrack that was unavailable to anyone else. About 3 weeks after it came out, Origin began marketing a soundtrack for the game that had more songs than the one in the collector's edition.

Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Thu Jan 18, 2001 12:03 pm

I'm sorry but that really bites my crank.

I get DVD's and it p*sses me off when I buy the "ultimate special edition directors cut" only to find out that six weeks later there is an "platinum ultimate special edition directors cut" with 2 more deleted scenes in it. I'm not bothered about those extra scenes but I want the same thing everyone else gets for their money. Why should someone have a more 'definitive' version, indeed a lesser one (as with your U9 e.g.). Stupid marketting arseholes.

geh4th · Post by **geh4th** » Fri Jan 19, 2001 3:36 am

Of course, if you don't have the collector's edition you miss out on these shiny little "trading cards" with some of the NPC's on them....(best Minsc impression): OooooOOOooooohhhh......

(and you also get a cloth map of Amn)