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My experience with Baldurs Gate (1998) so far (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Start game.
Character creation.
Disappointed that goblin isn't an option.
Disappointed that class is linked to race but whatever it's an old game.
Can't decide between making my character a half-elf druid avenger or gnome thief.
Settle on druid avenger because playing as an eco-terrorist sounds fun.
Become disappointed that druids can only be true neutral.
I make my characters skin green and give them the old lady voice because fuck you game I wanted to make a goblin.
Walk into the Inn.
Insult every noble visiting the inn.
Leave.
Enter a house and get jumped by an assassin.
Die.
Lmao this game rules.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Eh they both have pacing issues imo BG1 should went to Baldurs Gate after the mines, the whole bandits in the cloakwood thing drags quite a bit and I think it's really telling that almost everyone skips that part of the story when talking about BG1. If you cut out that chapter and let the big city breathe a little bit more it would've been perfect. BG2 has a way too long intro dungeon that's true but I don't think that being in the big city immediately is wrong because it picks up from where BG1 kinda ends so to me it is more

Intro Area->Small Forest->Small towns->Big City->Intro Dungeon->Big City->Underdark->Hell

Also yeah I feel the same about 3 because I hear stuff like 200h playthrough and I just go "nope"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

fair, the spider forest shit was annoyingly long. i didnt mind the bandit camp bits. i liked the cloakwood mines too, really. but the fucking spider and ettercap infested forest you have to wade through to get to it... ugh.

but i also really enjoyed just exploring the mostly empty bits on the side, which were 100% plot-irrelevant little universes in themselves with just a few little quests.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

There are a lot of cool things out in the boonies, weird encounters, weird quests, weird items.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I enjoy the side adventures but sometimes you want to get through it faster and that part always drags for me even just splitting it into Bandit Camp->BG->Mine would be much better for pacing imo.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Also yeah I feel the same about 3 because I hear stuff like 200h playthrough and I just go "nope"

Ehhh you might get to 200 hours if you take your time and check everything. My playthrough looks like it'll be sub 100 hours