Still playing?!?!

Odd Gamer · Post by **Odd Gamer** » Sun May 11, 2008 9:09 pm

Well i picked up the old Baldur's gate box after comeing to find that i was missing something from all the newer games coming out. I rembered beating this game a number of times and somehow always find myself beating BG1 and 2 and IWD 2 every 2 to 1 1/2 years or so. Anyways i brough up the web and searched it out for mobs and found this here, and inless my computer lies to me, people are still discussing this game! Not that i discourage this, it was a great game and i am glad to see i am not the only one that though so.

Thrifalas · Post by **Thrifalas** » Mon May 12, 2008 1:08 am

I'm sorry to say, but we're all just Bioware bots programmed to give the best possible pre-programmed answer to your questions, as to give the illusion of people still playing to get more people into playing our ridiculously old games!

wise grimwald · Post by **wise grimwald** » Mon May 12, 2008 4:47 am

The mobs will be after you if you talk about them on the web.

Being serious, there are some pretty good mods around and some of us old fogies still prefer the old format. I certainly prefer it to NWN.

CFM · Post by **CFM** » Mon May 12, 2008 6:41 am

Here-here! Some of us middle-aged fogies still prefer the old format too.

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon May 12, 2008 7:30 am

Check out the mod sticky, and search on mods in this forum to find recommendations for stuff that makes the game even better. There are several modding communities that do excellent work.

Odd Gamer · Post by **Odd Gamer** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:37 am

Ehh sadly i am likely younger than the both of you then as i remember playing this game back in my first gaming years, which i started somewhere around 6 lol

Gral · Post by **Gral** » Thu May 22, 2008 6:54 am

Not just playing

Not just playing, but never played before.
Actually long time ago I played BG I, but BG II couldn't run on my 200MHz. In the meanwhile I haven't got time to play (yeah, it passed about 10 years after playing BG1), so probably I am going to start playing BG 2 and hopefully finish it during the next year (I sad I don't have time to play games).
So, the conclusion is this. I choose to spent my small amount of free time to play BG 2, but not some new RPG, because i think that BG series is one of the best game series ever.

Aran Linvail · Post by **Aran Linvail** » Thu May 22, 2008 11:43 pm

yup, this game really get's you still in the seat...
I still remember the first time i played it (i didn't yet have an internet connection, so it was spoiler free

): i remember being stuck in my seat, not wanting to let go until i had killed that evil bastard red dragon, and then finding out what treasures he had; killing dozens of undeads to save the city; cleaning that big BIG castle from trolls and yuanty (sp?) and, after i finished (my first char was a plain fighter duh!) what happened next....;saving/helping people, or even friends from a certain death; and of course, who can NOT like what minsc has to say about evil... and a fight between jh and ar for love.....it simply had way too much, of that which i had wanted for so long: the very possibility of getting into another world, and having the chance to live it.

I just love Baldur's Gate 2. I just hope someday i can get bg 1 and it's expansion to have the hole story, although i think i had the best part in advance

nd now, having played it through a lot of times, with diferent chars (still havent played several classes, and i intent to) with a lot of mods, i got to this opinion:
No big mod (TDD, UB, to say a few) will ever be even close to having such an impact on me, as my first vanilla Baldur's Gate 2 run did. I'ts just not possible. But, on the other hand, i have started to feel a real passion for npcs interactions mods, specially the ones which add a lots of ways to interact with the npc, and even getting to be "in love" with one; sorry, but i have to name it: Imoen Romance. when i got to meet this girls, i just couldn't buy having to take her as my sister, i mean come on... oops, well, that's for another topic

; and maybe mods like ascension and longer road, which gave a very interesting twist to the final portion of the saga, they really got my atention, to the point in which my latestToB plays have them added; and even then, i have a clean install of the game, just for those moments when i feel like reliving those first moments in that fantastic worlds...

woops, it seems i was really touched by the topic ...

Anyway, i hope this game's community never dissapears, 'cause that would be something to regret. The games just has too many ways to be enjoyed, so even if you are terribly needy in those spectacular 3d super fisics new games graphics, going back to Faerun and watching those very beautiful 2d paintings .. it's priceless.

Well, let's go to bed, it's 2.43 am! :speech:
Cheers!!!

sparky_kat · Post by **sparky_kat** » Sun May 25, 2008 5:23 pm

the baldur's gate saga will never die, and will be continued to be played thru the ages..... it's a cult classic!

Deadalready · Post by **Deadalready** » Mon May 26, 2008 2:44 am

I've been playing for years and still playing vanilla unmodded games surprisingly. It was only a year ago I think I found a copy of TOB too.

sonny · Post by **sonny** » Mon May 26, 2008 9:34 am

Well I'm playing it for the first time and I'm over 60 yrs old.

I can't remember when I've had this much fun alone. The day I caught my first fish might come close

I think BG was a super great game also, but since my game playing experience is limited and includes only older games, there's probably newer games that are real good also, but for now I'm having to much fun with the old ones to even worry about it:laugh:

Celacena · Post by **Celacena** » Fri May 30, 2008 3:42 am

Monsters

I had a difficult day at work and my wife was working overnight, so when I phoned her and had a gripe, she just said to me - "go and play 'monsters' to relax" - so I did. In BG, when you complete a mission, you get your financial and xp reward, rather reassuring compared to real life.

it is a great piece of immersive entertainment - different each time to some degree.

sonny · Post by **sonny** » Sat May 31, 2008 10:34 pm

Celacena wrote:I had a difficult day at work and my wife was working overnight, so when I phoned her and had a gripe, she just said to me - "go and play 'monsters' to relax" - so I did. In BG, when you complete a mission, you get your financial and xp reward, rather reassuring compared to real life.

it is a great piece of immersive entertainment - different each time to some degree.

Yea, and if things really go bad, you can always re-load and try gain.

Sometimes I wonder what real life would be like if we could "just re-load" Scary thought.:speech:

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat May 31, 2008 10:38 pm

Since this thread is starting to get into one- and two-line reactions and humor, I'm moving it to SYM.

Ferrick · Post by **Ferrick** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 2:35 pm

I think a big reason that BG1 and 2 are still going strong is because the RPG community is begging for more RPG gameplay that the series offers -- and yet gaming companies have yet to respond.

If they ever do come out with a BG3 and it is on par with the first two I believe the game will be a massive seller. I belong to a number of forums and I constantly read of people looking for games in the style of BG.

Aran Linvail · Post by **Aran Linvail** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:32 pm

Ferrick wrote:I think a big reason that BG1 and 2 are still going strong is because the RPG community is begging for more RPG gameplay that the series offers -- and yet gaming companies have yet to respond.

If they ever do come out with a BG3 and it is on par with the first two I believe the game will be a massive seller. I belong to a number of forums and I constantly read of people looking for games in the style of BG.

I couldn't agree more with you Ferrick; i still haven't given up the hope of actually seeing a BG 3

Ferrick · Post by **Ferrick** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:47 pm

Aran Linvail wrote:I couldn't agree more with you Ferrick; i still haven't given up the hope of actually seeing a BG 3

I think two big sticking points are the licensing of the game and also the fact that D&D is now changing to version 4 and everything that I have read and discussed it is essentially a brand new game. The mechanics are nothing we grew up with/are familiar with.

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 9:20 pm

Let's keep with a discussion of BG2's continuing fascination, please. We have a thread for the discussion of BG3 on the board, where anybody is welcome to post.

Moonbiter · Post by **Moonbiter** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 12:27 am

I don't think it's just BG2, but mostly anything by Black Isle and the rest of the gang, really. Fallout, Planescape: Torment, Baldur's Gate, they're all gaming classics. IMHO BG2 is still the most popular because it runs on modern machines, (hell, it even works flawlessly in Vista) and because it's a classic fantasy rpg containing the ever-popular archetypes of the genre. Finally, it's still popular because nothing even close to it has been released since then. Whoever sits on that gaming/engine license without doing anything about it, has to be the most demented bunch of lackwits in the gaming industry. If they put it out as open-source code, I'll bet we'd have at least one major expansion pack within six months. But nooooooooo.......