Baldur's Gate 2 is dead (for me)

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Final Fantasy 7 is an excellent game, if you can get past the goofy dated graphics. One of the best stories of any game out there. Certainly one of the best scores, too.

 

in my humble opinion, only final fantasy 4 & 6 are worth the play, i find the others to be terrible crap

 

Hmm yeah. I've been playing the Baldur's gate series very often for the last 5 years, but I haven't lost much interest.

That might be because I end up remaking characters so much. I've completed Baldur's gate 1 just twice (F/T and Ranger), BGTutu once, TotSC never (only just got it), BG2 SoA twice (both solo - elven F/M/T and dwarven battlerager), never ToB. Pretty bad in 5 years hah

 

Heh. I'm not actually expecting to finish SOA with my under-statted, evil half-elf jester, let alone TOB. But I'll have fun along the way, testing strange and wonderful mods and weird strategies

Finished SOA just the once, six years ago, with an increasingly irrelevant single-classed human swashbuckler... not exactly the epitome of unbridled power.

 

id really like to try at least once to finish the entire saga with just my character alone, either a monk or a kensai, wrecking havoc evryplace i send him to, making him wear the best equipement and collecting the most powerful artifacts and weaponry ever, slaying dragons single handedly, gosh that would be pretty wild

but eventually i know it would just end up with me constantly ranting at him everytime he gets mind numbed/confused/imobilized and i d just be stressed out and go nuts in the long run

 

BG2 is only a game, however great and magnificient, you can stop playing or even uninstall it if you know everything and tried everything about the game. I thikn it would not be considered blasphemy, but I recommend you keep it installed on your system for the good old days.

@sikret

Uh I did not know that tactics and improved battles were incompatible. Well this can explain some queer things going in my game, but luckily I haven't seen any massive bug up to nowlus I have unisntalled some of the needless mods, and my game really relaxed now:it plays/loads a lot faster, and a few annoying glitches are also fixed.

 

Reading that first post by Death Rabbit made me feel like I could've written it myself. I've been like that for the last few months... I never really played through the whole saga with a single character, usually I'd just skip BG.

So I decided that this time I'd make an interesting character (a new Hethan, not a Skald, though). And I'm sticking to only 4 party members, including me. Had to make some painful decisions (and I'm really not sure if I'll be able to send Minsc away to get that old friend comes ToB), but it sounds promising. I'm doing it on BGT, without any experience fixer (yes, kinda overpowered for BG1, but to compensate, I installed some mods to increase the difficulty in BG2 - so all that extra levels will actually *have* to make a difference). I'm also trying the Accension mod for the first time, with all the improved enemies. I'm a bit afraid of Abazigal now, to be honest.

But you should note that I'm not TOO excited about it. Every time I start a game I think I'm missing out on something else and I fear I'll just not have the patience to replay it so many times to do all the things I'd like my charname to do. A shame, that.

Well there's always IWD2... hmm.

 

Yeah, I have a bit of BG fatigue too- I get bored having to do the same dungeons again, knowing how everything will happen. Only playing through mod characters has kept me interested in this game.

@Hethan the Skald:

I use Ascension and, to be honest, Abazigal isn't half as scary as he sounds. Can be tough, but at that point a multi-dragon battle isn't the suicidal move it was a while ago. Improved Sendai from Oversight on the other hand is a lady to be scared of. So much so I believe her to be overpowered in comparison to the other members of the Five. A shame really- she ends up either under-powered or over-powered depending on what you installed.

 

@Decados: hey that's good to know. Remembering the hard time I had the first time I fought Draconis (he's actually harder than Abazigal himself, isn't he?), I was afraid the Improved Abazigal would be impossible.

About Sendai: I don't know, I had a pretty hard time with her on the unmodded game (took me a good 5-6 reloads), I'm not sure I would call her underpowered. But then, I'm not exactly a great strategist. I have the oversight installer here, maybe I should give the improved version a try...

 

Oh you should play the Improved Sendai from Oversight on Insane difficulty! (her tactics and abilities vary greatly according to difficulty setting, and on insane she does not care about rules of the game, or the limitations of the engine, her only intention is kicking your butt! ) Then you will see if BG2 is boring or not. She is the most scary and powerful of the five!

Other Ascension battles are cool too, Improved Yaga-shura (or Improved Fire Giants in general from tactics AND Imp. battles mods) is a very epic and cool battle which you struggle for your life. Oh, and about Improved Fire Giants. (get it from tactics AND Improved Battles) I used the very wrong tactic, and a single of them slaughtered four of my party members permanently (massive damage, no ressurection is allowed, gone forever) within a minute, and I was playing on core difficulty!

 

Not everyone finds improving the difficulty increases the interest of the game.

 

I hit that same problem Death Rabbit, but every 2-6 months I play through BG again once or twice... or thrice, etc. haha .

It's my favorite game of all time. When I get bored with it I revive diablo2 and WC3. I'm also playing WoW right now, but I always find time for other things .

 

@ Hethan:

I'd get good at defeating her at the original difficulty before even trying Oversight's Sendai. She tore me apart the first few times I played against her until I got lucky and killed her.

@ Silverstar:

Your preferred game is more of a tactical challenge than a role-playing one!

 

@Decados:

Hey, I also try to RP with my character in game, a lot infact. But I do so love tactical challenges and vastly difficult battles introdcued by mods, and all those fresh air courtesy of NPC mods. My modded BG2 always fills me with joy and excitement. I seriously do not think I would be able to play a non-modded game ever. Even when on insane and soloing, I think it would come way tooo easy, and I am loathe to say this but, boring to me.