anybody play baldur's gate?

[Buttzilla]

anybody?

edit: just wondering if anybody lieks it and would recommend it. i like rpg ish kind of games w/ some good hack n slash action.

 

[datalink7]

One of the best RPG's ever created (both Baldurs Gate I & II).

 

[Feldenak]

Easily in the Top 10 rpgs of all time

 

[Nohr]

I've got Baldur's Gate II and it's expansion lying around, but I've never gotten around to playing it. Haven't played the original either.

 

[BigSmooth]

Originally posted by: datalink7
One of the best RPG's ever created (both Baldurs Gate I & II).

Agreed. Both games, particularly BGII, were extremely fun and engrossing. Played both all the way through with a group of friends.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Baldur's Gate has horrible graphics by today's standards. 640x480, and half of the screen is covered by the interface.

 

[DrNoobie]

The best series ever created.

EDIT: Haha, I've been sigged. First neochat, and now a sig. I have a feeling that quote is going to haunt me forever.

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
Baldur's Gate has horrible graphics by today's standards. 640x480, and half of the screen is covered by the interface.

It's not always about graphics.

 

[Whitecloak]

one of the best games ever created

 

[alkemyst]

BGII was great, Neverwinter Nights was great too.

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[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
Baldur's Gate has horrible graphics by today's standards. 640x480, and half of the screen is covered by the interface.

It's not always about graphics.

Yeah but it's painful to try to play it, at least on a 19" monitor. It would be great at 1280x960.

 

[datalink7]

I must say though, that a thread about great RPG's would be amiss if the best RPG ever wasn't mentioned. This being Planescape: Torment.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

i just started playing it around the first of the year and its good. I haven't finished it yet tho... granted its a long freaking game.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
Baldur's Gate has horrible graphics by today's standards. 640x480, and half of the screen is covered by the interface.

It's not always about graphics.

Yeah but it's painful to try to play it, at least on a 19" monitor. It would be great at 1280x960.

BG1 was 640X480. BG2 officially supported 800X600 and that could be overridden to bump it up to 1024X728.

1 had some issues, especially with travel. You spent a lot of time slogging through empty maps when moving from place to place. That and the resolution problem makes 1 a game only for the more hardcore. If you want you can skip one and just play 2 with the expansion. That will still offer a huge, long game and you won't feel like you've missed much.

If you like hack and slash, also play the Icewind Dale games. They were more combat oriented where BG is story-driven. The same resolution warning applies, IWD 1 was 640X480 only, but IWD 2 offered 800X600 officially supported with much higher resolutions possible by overriding it.

 

[zephyrprime]

1 had some issues, especially with travel. You spent a lot of time slogging through empty maps when moving from place to place.

Same here. I almost gave up playing because of that.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: zephyrprime

1 had some issues, especially with travel. You spent a lot of time slogging through empty maps when moving from place to place.

Same here. I almost gave up playing because of that.

agreed, but the points were you engage a head boss are really engaging. the quests are too numerous to count too.